The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-02-29
NORTHWESTERN DaIRYMEN,
Proceedings Of the Convention Of
tho Northwestern Dairymen's
Association at Mankato,
Minnesota.
Synopsis Of Addresses and Other Impor.
tant Information for Farmers.

Synopsis Of Addresses and Other Impor-
amt Information for Farmers.
Tho Northwestern Dairymen's Association
met at Mankato, Mimi, on Tuesday evening.
After music by the band Hon. NJ. j. Severance,
Judge Of the District Court eloauently
welcomed the delegates in behalf. of Man..ato,
extending the hospitality of the citizens. We
welcomed them because they sought the appli-I
cation of an intelligent system embracing the
observation of many states, to give new i'm
pulse to one department of agriculture the
great foundation stone that lies ut the very
basee all American industries and all endur-
ing prosperity. When the generous soil of
America, either from q misconecption of its
capacities, the3trne method of Its development
or climatic catastrophe, refuses to respond to
tho toll Of tho ~h1sbandmen, every FURNISHED
spindle must cease to hum; every hammer
must rest cold on its anvil, and tho white sails
Of commerce will mildew on tho shores of
every ocean.
propriate reply, giving statistics showing the
Importance of the banging business. He said
that q man who owns 1iO acres in Minnesota
has q competence, and a man who fails to sue
coed on this is probably a spoiled lawyeror
ShSt ~ uisj. YOU NuHt W suGCCGu uOlu4O niUQ
your young stock. In order to acquire a repu-
tation you must improve stock as horse-men
tdo. II Minnesota farmers'will feed as liberal
~ as in Wisconsin and Illinois it will greatly
improve stock. Two thousand car loads Of
bran and shorts were shipped from Minneapo-
dis last year to feed Illinois cattle. Do bust
ness as carefully as thinkers and railroad men
do theirs, and IN as careful business princi-
pies, and yon will speedily reach success.
President w. Hoard OF Fort Atkinson,
Wis ,;enlivered his annual address.
The address begins with a reference to the
growing Importance of agriculture and the
wondrous progress made therein OF late. The
demand OF the times is imperative for larger
Drained farmers. The necessity of employing
the mind as well as the hand in agricultural
operations WIS dwelt upon. The speaker then
said; The season of 1889 has proyed9a fairly
prosperous one for dairJn,en. Through the
extension of the gathered cream system, very
many new communities are brought ista line
and fhe milk of thousands of COWS rescued from
an ignominious fate. There is u largo class Of
farmers that view all this with alarm. They
have been waiting ten years for the dairy bus
mess to fail. They have been fearfllall the
tine that the business mGald be overdone, for
getting that if every man in the Northwest
could, by any chance, next season suddenly be-
come n skillflA dairyman,i it would not add one
cowto the present number. SkiHful care and
management would no doubt increase the pro-
ftableness of every cow brought under such
an Influence. It is about time the honest milk
was rescued from the .Posram makers
and Bascom vendors at crossroads,
and for the profit OF the
it But there will yet remain ignorance and
sloveniiness enough in the land for - long time
TO give Intelligence all the advantage it deserves.
The only phase of the diary business that .
oyor-done, and that continually, is the making
of poor butter and cheese. Yon have seen for
the last eighteen years a steady appreciation OF
the value pf our dairy goods. There is a prin-
ciplefn Eds, gentlemen. 1t teaches that cur
only salvation lies in upholdipg and increasing
the staItlnruOf excellence. Common farm but
ter has the same old look, the same smell, the
same abused, banged and disheartened appear.
ance thatathad twenty years ago, and it brings
about the same price. Skim cheese il the same
fraud on human digestion that it ever was
has the same discouraging effect on consump-
ton and depressing effect on price. 1t points
the safnpe ,old moral that it ever did s'Whai
God hath Joined together let no man put asnn-
der" The makers of fine goods need have TIC
fears of tho f.ture.
fP.oDUcT1os o 1888.
1t lisa curious and instructive fact as shown
by the last census, that the ratio ~. increase in
cows is considerably less than That of popnla.
ton. This may account in q measure for the
fact that the demand for dairy products hns
been for Q number of years greater than the
supply. The same fact affords also a good
guarantee of the future stability of business,
providing that bogus compounds are not al
lowed to 4usflp the place of the honest prodnct
OF the oow. Loft to a natural condition of
things tho dairyman need have no fears of the
lack of q renlnerative market in tie future.
He should remember, however, that if he al
lows himself to be driven from the. field, either
through his snpi,eness, or lack of conformity
TO the market demand for excellence, he does
not deserve any better fate. In 1880 the State
of Minnesota contained 275, 545 COWS. Her in
crease for, the ten years previous had been nj
the rate of IL LILO per cent annually. Measured
by thea5aine rate of increase the statefwould
have in 1888 So, 587 COWS. AL
sS5, the gross product would reach the gum of
S13,l44,Sf5 Iowa contained in 1850 So, 1877
cows. Her annual percentage of increase for
the previous decade had been IL LILO per cent.
COWS, whose earnings Mt Ss5 each would reach
the sum of $41 ,645.S70. Illinois contained in
1850 85, 9l3 COWS. The annual percentage of
increase had been only31-aper cent Applying
this ratio she would have in 1883 956, s33 COWS,
whose average earnings would amount, to S32, :
4S9,l55. Wisconsin contained in 1880 AIS, SIC
COWS. Her M percentageaof:increase had
been 519 per cent, which ratio applied for
1883 you'd give her 557,3l0 At 1856 each, their
earnings would represent $lA,505, $50. The
gross earnings of al the cows Of these -four
northwestern states for 1883, reaches the enor-
nous sum Of S101, SS5, TO. BY this it can readi-
lly be seen, gentlemen, that the interest you
represent has reached q magnitude that calls
tNSOk bho Wy WAoSSbd ADMINISTRATION. Inc llIllG
has come whom 40 great an interest should re-
ceive all the aid that special education can give.
Euther, it should,be fostered and protected by
the legislation Of these states.
MsTAKEs.
A general survey, Of the question tiscloses
not only much that encourages us, but also
very many mistakes. It seems to be o very
dahcnlt task to reach n large proportion Of the
milk producers of the northwest and get them
TO adopt the standard ideas of the day indairy-
ing; They are not dairymen; they have hut
little real pride in the business, and what is
worse, they will expend neither money nor time
to learn better. Not ono in a hundred of the
patrons of the cheese factories and creamaries
OF the Northwest ever atsend a dairy c0nyen.
ton. But very few Of them read such papers
as devote especial attention to this subject.
They do not seem to care whether they succeed
we'll "a ill at the business. The speaker Their
contrasted the methods employed byintelligens
dairynaen and those Of tho unthinking mass.
operation. After a tributet to 9. @. Fairlamb,
the founder of the gathered cream system, Mr..
Hoard csosed with thanks to the press for its
publications regarding the dairymen.
COMMITTEES.
President Hoard appointed the following
committees:
Butter and C~heeseAHiram Smith, sheboy-
gan Falls, Wis. H. w. Hurtz, Elgin, III. +.
Mower, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Nominations D. w. Curtis, TT Atkinson,
Wis. J. 3. Vosbury, Richmand, H.; 7. G.
ton Window, Mimi r. Fl. Rose, Mankato.
Resolutions-C. +. Dexter, Chicago Ill. G. W.
Thompson, Wells, MINI. J. g. Lombard, Chi
cage, LII. r. G. Judson, Pennington, MINI.
C. 4. Beach, Whitewater, Wis:
'bago CITY, Miln.; Loyejoy johnson, Stillman
Valley, Ill. W. 4. Green, Milford, Wisconsin.
Dairy and Farm Halplements-A.D D. Le Land,
Shebo,ygan Falls, Wis i NJ, Potter, Ele Claire
d. @, Curtis q Rocky Run, Wis. read a
paper on the subject Of s.Eutter Making BY