Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-11-28
DAERYING IN MINNESOTA.
Eighth Annual Meeting offthe A1innesot

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held at Austin, Mower county, last week tn
attendance was not very large, but the pro
ceedings were of interest to farmer
generally. Mr., L. n A. Pierce gave til
address of welcome. Vice President O.. G
Gregg Of Marshall who presided Responded
| and proceeded to make the opening address o
Minnesota as a. Dairy State" He especial,
favored winter dairying, We must cease t
| raise gram exclusively for sale in the markets
and turn it into dairy products We are yet t
produce the bulk Of dairy products IN THU
country. We have only begun to push oul
products into sight Let us keep up with the
ever increasing demand for better dairy pro.
dncts, and arrange our darying SO as to take
the best advantage Of the great markets. ]
believe winter dairying to be one Of the great
opportunities of prosperity to the Minnesota
farmer.
ssour Dairy Markets. was the subject of dis
cussion Mr. A. P McKinstry he said: Last
spring we organized the Mankato exchange,
aud it has been great success We have sold
over 500, 900 worth OF butter over the board,
and we have done better in that market than
we could do in New York. We have good buy
ers there near home, getting quick relnittances
and avoiding commissions and freights.
Our creamery products rate in New York. as
q rule as ''Western extra" As soon as Min
nesOta can demonstrate to other markets the
quality and quantity of our goods, buyers will
freely come in here and take all our products
To consign to distant commission men is, to q
certain extent, to place ourselves at their nler-
cy.
Mr.. 7. Mower of Cedar Rapids believed the
nearest home market was the best market
1t is better to have butter merchants than
the present commission men ssnMen who oWn
the butter will work hard to get a good price
for it. Agents will never take the same trou-
bic to get the best prices IF men are butter
merchants the market will never get over
stocked. The best plan for a creamery is On
the cooperative principle Most of the Elgin
creameries run on this plan. It interests every
patron. Every patron is detective on his
neighbors to see that they sell good milk We
are agolng to have butter tests as to the purity
and value Of milk, to tell how much fat and
how much water there is in milk.
Mr.. O. C, Gregg, vice President, said: My
experience Inns been that home markets are
best. / say, don't consign to any city agent or
grocer, sud leave it for him to sell at his dis
cretioh. Have some distinct understanding az
TO lisslts of price before You ship It you con-
sign at all, conslgn to d commission man. /
osn do better making my own sales in the great
markets than to have much to do with conf
mission men,
Secretary Rice said: 1t is only question
Of time when the dairy markets
will be overstocked unless we widen
in some way the consumption. In 1880 all av-
erage OF AL ounce of butter day was eaten in
this country. In Southern countries less but
tel is used than in the North. l think we can
make a market IN the South. Mr. Marvin q
few days ago sold $4,000 pounds Of butter in
the New Orleans market We ought also to
pay more attention to the Western market
Illinois is nearer to New York than Minnesota.
but there is great field to the vest Of us;
On the topic, 1.-THE Dairy in Diver
Exclusive dairying is not a good rule
for the average farmer Dairylng should
be prominent aud lead with it every line
OF profitable farming. Diversified farming is
county, where dairy has been introduced, more
wheat is raised per acre than ever. For sue
cessful diarying pastures should be pernla-
nent: you must build up permanent sod :;
this takes several years. Changing pastures
every year is a grave mistake The speaker
then explained fully the method of making
permanent pastures. c. +. Marvin followed
on the Minnesota dairy and New Or
leans Exposition" Our dairy products
stand to-day with superior reputa-
ton. An important question is how
shall we show to the world what wonderfully
fine dairy goods Minnesota can produce? Five
years ago Minnesota was wheat state and
everybody said dairying would not pay here
But within four years our dairy interests have
grown over 800 per cent Thi1ty-six to forty
million pounds OF dairy produce is Minnesota
record this year with a value Of 500 0O0
Every creamery and dairyman in the state has
personal responsibility to advertise our i'm
mense dairy products. This il one of our
great resources.
Mr. A. P. Mckinstry read a paper on s'The
Progress Of the Dairy Interest in Minnesota
giving statistics which are familiar. If the re-
turns OF butter made are approximately correct
the product in four years has Increased four
fold, and the increase in the value of the
amount sold has at least doubled in price The
Increase in the number OF cows used for diary
purposes has doubled in the same time, and
this has been done in the face OF d heavy de-
heifers He advocated winter dairy
ing, and said 1 believe it is possible to
make our stables SO warm and vet we'll ventil-
ated that they will not freeze, and so comfort
able and convenient that the COWS could stay in
them for days without privation I know by
experiment that there is difference of 20 per
cent between dairy SO handled and one that
has to go outside the barn for water during
cold weather. have found that COW will
drink forty pounds more water in day than a
steer of the same weight, and on nearly the
same feed and that she will drink very much
more water if it be given to her two or three
times during the day IN the barn than if turned
loose in the yard to drink, and among
COWS the heaviest mixers are the
heaviest drinkers. He said he had found
it is hard toascertain just the amount and
the kind of food necessary and profitable as
ration for e. dairy COW. Prices OF different
kinds of grain will govern and require changes,
but this year have adopted the following for
mula for dairy Of twenty five ii milk: $50
lbs bran, 100 lbs ground oats, 100 lbs corn
meal, SO lbs oil meal. This, mixed together,
will give about thirteen quarts TO each COW per
day, and with oats at Ii cents. corn - cents,
bran 50, and oil meal $23, will cost not far
reasonably fresh in milk that will not make a
pound of putter per day, will not pay for her
keeping. Get her as fat as you can and let the
butcher have her. He spoke of the
necessity Of reducing the cost of col.
lecting the cream Will those that sell
will do So they will BEE a larger price paid for
cream and happier creamery men
Secretary Rice said cream at II cents to-day
is good deal better than wheat at IS cents. /
have farm of 800 acres in Olmstead county,
1850 Of which is properly my stock farm: Dur
ing the past twelve months have MIXED II
COWS, s Of them heifers, II half grade Jerseys
and sold the cream at the Rochester creamery.
The cream alone has paid all the expenses OF
running the whole 800 acres and something
over. These expenses include the harvesting,
threshing and binding of l40 acres of wheat
which is left as clear profit.
Vice President Q. G. Gregg OF Marshall runs
a wintar dairy. He will milk thirty COWS this
winter; COWS are fresh in the fall. The grain
raised in summer on the farm is ground and
fed to these COWS during the winter months,
and thus converted into fresh butter for win
ter use. The calves are raised in the winter
most successfully.
The peculiar benefits Of this method are
summed up as follows:
First--Butter made when butter brings good
price. 9@''
Second-Winter weather is favorable to cows
in milk, and to the keeping and making OF
dairy products. sE.7ss
Tbird-Calves are raised when time can be
given to them, and are at an age to be turned
out to grass when spring comes.
xFourth-The laborers of the farmers are
given continuous work, and the farmer by the