The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-02-28
8aeRTHWEST TERN DAIRYiI]EI,
Rroceedings Of the Convention of
the Northwestern Dairymen.s &
Association at 1Eankato.
minnesota. Ss

u ells9: MoTtnWestexnO airymens6
Association at nEankato,
minnesota. Il
Synopsta Of Addresses ana Other rmpor.
!yiS tant Information for Ear1nara. s.ssss
The Northwestern Daisymen's Association
met at Mankato, MINI, on Tuesday evening.
After music by the band Hon. NJ. ]. Severence.
Judge Of the District Court eloquently:
welcomed the delegates in behalf Of Manaato,
extending the hospitality OF the citizens. I'VE
welcomed them because they, sought the appli-
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 at the very
base Of all American industries and all endur-.
ing prosperity Whom the generous soil Of
America, either from q misconception Of its
capacities, the true method of its Development
or climatic catastrophe, refuses to respond to
tho toll of the husbandmen, every FURNISHED
spindle must cease to hum; every hammer
must rest cold on its anvil, and the white sails
of commerce will mildew on the shores Of
every ocean + Sc 5 iss d Isl RE An
The secretary, R. P. McGlincy made an ap-
propriate reply, giving statistics showing the
Importance Of the dangling business He said
that q man who owns 100 acres in Minnesota
has competence, and man who fails to sue
coed on this is probably q spoiled lawyer or
clergyman. If you want to succeed hold on to
your young stock In order to acquire repu-
tation you must improve stock as horse-men
do. 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 AIinneapo-'
Lis last year to feed Illinois cattle. Do buh- !?
ness as carefully as thinkers and railroad men
do theirs, and on as careful business princi-
President W. D. Hoard, OF Fort Atkinson,
Wis, enlivered his annual address. l55
The address begins with q reference to the
growing importance Of agriculture and the
wondrous progress made therein of late. s 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 was dwelt upon. The speaker then
said; The season Of 1888 has proved fairly
prosperous one for dairymen. Through the
extension Of the gathered cream system very.
many new communities are brought ints line
and the milk Of Thousands Of cows rescued from
an ignominious fate. There is a large GLASS Of
farmers that view all this with alarm They,
have been waiting ten years for the dairy bus
mess to fail They have beon fearful an the
time that the business would be overdone, for
getting that il every man in the Northwest
could, by any chance, next season suddenly be-
come skillful dairyman, it would not add one
COW to the present number. killful care and
management would no doubt increase the pro-
an influence. It is about time the honest milk,
was rescued from the Pogram makers
and Bascom vendors at crossroads,
and for the profit of SiS the
country given fair show for what there is in
sloyenliness enough in the land for q long time
give intelligence oil the advantage it deserves.
The only phase Of the diary business TINT is
over done, and that continually, is the Masking
Of poor butter and cheese. You have seen for
the Inst eighteen years steady appreciation Of
ciple in this, gentlemen It teaches that our
only salvation, lies in upholding and increasing
the standard of excellence. Common farm but
ter has the same old look, the same smell, the
same abused, banged and disheartened appear
ance that it had twenty years ago, and brings
about the same price. Skim cheese is the same
fraud on human digestion that it ever wac
has the same discouraging effect on consump-
ton and depressing effect on prico: It points
the same old moral that it ever did. ssWhat
der. y The makers Of fine goods need have no
fears Of the fixture. $s5
PRODUCTION ron 1858, !.
It ia curious and instructive fact "a shown
by the last ceEsus, that the ratio ~ increase In
cows is considerably Less than That Of poprlla-
ton. This may account in . measure for the
fact that the demand for dairy products has
been for q number Of years greater than the
Isuppiy. The same fact affords also q good
| guarantee Of the future stability of business,
/ providing that bogus compounds are not al
lowed TO usurp the place Of the honest product
| Of the cow Left to natural condition of
things the dairyman need have no fears Of the
lack of o remunerative market IN the future
he should remember, however, that if he al
lows himself to be driven from the field, either
| throngh his supineness, or lsek of conformity
10 the market demand for excellence, he docs
not deserve any better fate. In 1889 the State
OF Minnesota contained 275, 545 cows. Her in
crease for the ton years previous had been at
the rate Of IL Ito per cent annually Measured
by the same rate OF increase the state would
lowing that the product Of each COW was worth
435, the gross product would reach the sum of
$13, 144,8 45 lows contained in 1880 S54,IS7
COVE Her annual percentage Of increase for
the previous decade had been 10 ITO per cent
This ratio would give the State in 1881 1882
the sum Of al, 645, 870. Illinois contained in
1880 1856, 913 cowas The annual percentage of
increase had been only 8 10 per cent Applying
this ratio she would have in 1888 $50, S33 COWS,
489, 155. Wisconsin contained in 1880 47S,3
cows. Her annual percentage Of increase had
been 5 1-2 per cent, which ratio applied for
1883 would give her So, $40. At $35 each their
earningsS would represent $l9, so, $50 The
gross earnings Of an the cows Of these four
| northwestern states for 1883, reaches the enor-
nous sum Of $107, SS5, no BY this it can readi-
| Iy be seen, gentlemen, that the interest you
represent has reached magnitude that calls
| for the very wisest administration The time
has come when 80 great an interest should re-
eeiye all the aid that special education cangiYe.
| Euther; it should be fostared and projected by
the legislation Of these states. 81 4
| a.! $3.50 RusrAKRs 32i IN L
a general survey Of the question discloses
i not only much that encourages us Sbut also
very many mistakes. It seems to be very
difficult task to reach large proportion Of the
miH producers OF the northwest and got them
to adopt the standard ideas Of the day in dairy
| ing. They are not dairymen; they have but
little real pride in the business, and what is
worse, they will e1pend neither money nor time
to learn better. Not one ina hundred OF the
patrons Of the cheese factories and creameries
ton: Butvery few of them read such papers
| as devote especial attention to this subject
They do not seem to care whether they succeed
well or ID At the business. The speaker then
contrasted the methods employed by intelligent
da,rymen and those q the minimizing mass;
operation After tribute to g. G. Fairlamb;
the founder Of the gathered cream system, Mr..
Hoard closed with thanks to the press for its
publications regarding the dairy1nen.
COMMITTEES $sS5
President Hoard appointed the following
Butter and Cheese Hiram Smith, shebo,y,-s
| gan Falls, Wia::; B. W. Hurtz, Elgin, IL Fl.
Mower, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 4 III !,gEF3f
Nominations-D.W w. Curtis, Ft Atkinson
Wis. D. B. Vosbury, Richmond, ri. :P. az
Truman, Independence, Iowa; & g. Huntingz
| ton Window, MINI 3 q Rose, Mankato. IL
Resolutions r. Dexter, Chicago III ;C W.
fThOTnpeonS5 Wells MINI q n TSr,ho dsfy,f1 q