Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-02-28
N0RTHHESTERN DAIgYHEN.
Frcceedrigs Of the Convention of
the Northwestern Dairymen,s
Association at Mankatc,
Minnesota


II The w Dazrvr1euS Aseoc1&1h0a
4 met at Mankato, MINI, on Tuesday evening
After music by the band HON IL j. Seye-Ssssss
Judge OF the District Cours eloquentis
+ welcomed the delegates IN hsaflalf of MsnkaNo
extending the hospitality OF the citizens. W.
welcomed them because they sought the appii'
cation Of an intelligent system embracing tne
observation of MANY states, to give = Q Inn
pulse to one department OF agriculture the
great foundation stone that lies at the very
b6ge Of all american industries and all endrr-
ing prosperity When the generous soil OF
Araeriea, either from q misconception of it's
canacities, the true method of ifs development
or climatic catastrophe, refuses to respond 70
the toll of the husbandmen. every FURNISHED
spindle must cease to hum; eFory hammer
must rest cold ON It's anvil, and the white sails
OF commerce viii miidew On the shores OF
every ocean.
The secretary, r. p McGlissy made an APP
propriaae reply, giving statistics showing the
importance of the dangling business He sand
that q man who OWNS 100 acres IN Minnesota
| has a competence, and q man who fails 20 sue
ceed ON this is probably q spoiled lawyer or
clergyman. II you want TO succeed hold on to
your young stock. In order TO acquire u repu-
tation you must improve stock as herse-Inen
do. If Minnesota farmers viii feed as liberal
" as in Wisconsin and Illinois ii viii greatly
improve stock Two thousand ear loads of
bran and shorts were shipped from Minneapo-
Lis last year to feed Illinois cattle. Do bust
ness as carefully as thinkers and railroad men
do theirs, and ON as careful business pYinei-
pies, and you viii speedily reach success.
President W. D. Hoard Of Fort Atkinson,
Wis, enlivered his annrtal address.
The address begins with q reference 10 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 was dwelt upon. The speaker then
said; The season Of 1883 has proved q fairly
prosperous one for ~dairymen. Through the
extension of the gathered cream system, very
many new communities are brought into line
and the milk OF thousands of COWS rescued from
an i~gliominious fate. There is a large class Of
farmers that view all this with alarm. They
have been waiting ten years for the dairy bus
mess to fail They have neen fearful all the
time that the business would be overaone, for
getting that IL every man in the Northwest
could, by any chance, next season suddaisiy be-
come a sklliful dalryman, it would not add one
cow to the present number. Sklllful care and
management would no doubt increase the pro-
fitabieness OF every cow brought under such
an influence 1t in about time the honest milk
was rescued from the POgram makers
and Bascom vendors at crossroads.
and for the profit OF the
country given q fair show for what there IL IN
it Bur there viii yet remain Ignorance and
sl~ovenLiness enough IN the land fer 4 long time
10 give intelligence all the advantage it observes.
- H. LeAL- III
eyer-done, and that continually, is the making
OF poor butter and cheese You have seen for
the last eighteen years a steady appreciation OF
the value Of our dairy goods. There is q prln-
ciple in this, gentlemen. 1t teaches thar our
only salvation hes in upholding and increasing
The standard of excellence. Common farm but
ter has the same old lock. the same smell. the
same abused, banged and disheartened appear
ance that 1t had twenty years ago, and itbTings
about the sailae price. Skim cheese il the same
fraud on human digestion that it ever was
has the same discouraging effect ON consump-
tion and depressing effect on price. II points
the same old moral that it ever did aWhat
God hath joined together let no man pus asun-
der Ih makers of fine goods need have no
fears of the future.
PRODUCTION FOR 1858.
1t Is a curious and instructive fact as shown
by the Inst census, that the ratio Of increase IN
cows is considerably less than that Of popula-
aon. This may account in a measure for the
fact that the demand for dairy products has
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 usGHp the place Of the honest product
OF the cow. Left toa natural condition of
things the dairyman need have no fears of the
lack of q remuaerative market In the future.
He should remember, however, that il he al
lows himself to be driven from the field, either
through bis supIneness. or lack of conformity
90 ttiis market demand for exceIlenee, he does.
not deserve any better fate. In 1880 the State
of Minnesota contained 1854 cows. Her IN
the rate OF II 1-l0per cent annuaIly Measured
by the same rate OF Increase the state would
have IN 1883 315,56T d AL
lowing that the product OF each COW was worth
SO, the gross product would reach the sum Of
Slal44,S4a Iowa contained in 1850 854,IS7
the previous decade had been I3 t-19 per cent.
This ratio would give the State in 1851 fS9a, $50
cows, whose earnings at So each would reach
The sum of s41 ,645,sg0 Illinois contained in
1850 S65,g13 cows. The annual percentage Of
iIcreass had been onlyS1-2pc cent Applying
this ratio size would have in 1888 g5a.ss4 esws.
whose average earnings would amount ta So,
ass, Loo. Wisconsin contained IN 1850 47S.310
cows. Her annual percentage OF increase had
been 5l2 per cent, which ratio applied Tor
1883 would give her $500 At S:5 each their
earnings would represent s19,505, $50 The
gross earnings OF all the COWS OF these four
northwestern states for 1893, reaches the enor-
nous uza of s10T, $50 TO BY this it can readi-
ly be seen, gentlemen, that the interest Won
represent has reached a magnitude tEat calls
Tor the very wiseat administration The time
he's come when 80 great mn 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.
MIsTAKEs.
A general survey Of the question disclcses
not only much that encourages us, but also
very many mistakes. Ii seems to be : very
difficult task to reach a large proportion OF the
milk producers OF the northwest and get them
TO adopt TIE standard ideas of the day indairy-