River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-02-21
NORTHWESTERN DlIRYMEN.
Proceedings of the Convention of
the Northwestern Dairymen's
Association at Mankato,
Minnesota
Synopsis OF Addresses and Other Inpor-
tant Information for Farmers.


met 1T Mankato, Mimi, on Tuesday evening.
After music by the band Hon. NJ ]. Severance,
| Judge Of the District Court eloquently
welcomed the delegates in behalf Of Mankato,
extending the hospitality of the citizens. We
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 40 the very
base Of oil American industries and all endur-
| ing prosperity When the generous soil Of
America, either from q misconceptlon Of Its
capacities, the true method ef its development
or climatic catastrophe refuses To respond 70
| the toll of the husbandInen, every FURNISHED
spindle must cease to hum; every hamper
| must rest cold on its anvil, and the white salis
of commerce will mildew on the sh res Of
| every ocean.
/ The secretary, r. 2. McGliney made an APP
propriate reply giving statistics showing the
importance of the dangling business he said
that man who owns 100 acres Ill Minnesota
has competence, and man who fails to sue
coed on this is probably spoiled lawyer or
clergyman If you want to succeed hold on to
your young stock. Iii order to acquire repu-
| tation you must improve stock as horse mon
do If Minnesota farmers will feed as liberal
| ~ as in Wisconsin and Illinois 1t viii greatly
| improve stock, Two thousand ear loads Of
| bran and shorts were shipped from Minneapo-
| lis last year to feed Illinois cattle. Do busi-
| ness as carefully as thinkers and railroad men
do theirs, and on AZ careful business prinei-
| pies, and you will speedily reach success.
President w. ID. Hoard Of Fort Atkinson,
| Wis, enliyered his annual address.
The address begins with o 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 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 syst 9n, very
many new communities are brought into line
and the milk of thousands of cows rescued from
an ignominious fate. There is 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 been fearful all the
time that the business would be oYerdOne, for
getting that if every man III the Northwest
could, by any chance, next season suddenly be-
| &C ne a skillful dalryman 1t would not add one
COW TO the present number Sklllful care and
management would no doubt increase the pro-
/ fitableness of every COW brought under such
| an influence. 1t is about time the honest milk
was rescued from the Pogram makers
and Baseom vendors at crossroads
| and for the profit Of the
| country given fair show for what there is in
| it But there viii yet remain ignorance and
sloyenliness enough ID the land for long time
to give intelligence all the advantage it deserves
The only phase of the diary business that IL
over-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 a prin-
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 came smell the
same abused, banged and dishcartened appear
ance that it had twcnty years ago, and It brings
about the same price Skim cheeseIs 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 same old moral that it ever did What
God hath joined together let no man put asun-
DER The makers of fine goods need have no
fears of the future.
PRODUCTION FOR 1888.
It is curious and instructive fact as shown
by the last census that tile ratio of increase III
cows is considerably less than that of popula-
ton. This may account in a measure for the
fact that the demand for dairy products has
been for 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 rsurp the place Of the honest product
of the COW. Left to a natural condition of
things the dairyman need have no fears of the
lack of q reInunerative market in the future.
He should remember, however, that If he al
lows himself to be driven from the field, either
through his supineness, or lack OF conformity
to the market demand for excellence, he does
not deserve any better fate. In 1880 the State
of Minnesota contained 2i3,542 cows. Her IN
crease for the ten years previous had been at
the rate of Y l-f0per cent annually Measured
by the same rate Of increase the state would
have in 1888 375.567 COWS Al
lowing that the product Of each COW was worth
S35 the gross product would reach tho sRIn Of
S131 44. SIS. Iowa contained in 1880 S54, lSf
cows. Her annual percentage q increase Tor
the previous decade had been IL l-l0 per cont
This ratio would give the State III 1881 fs9 $50
cows, whose earnings at So each Would reach
the sum of Sal, 645, SO Illinois contained IN
1880 S65, 913 cows The annual percentage Of
increase had been only 3 i-2 per cent Applying
this ratio she would have IN 1883 BOT, S33 COWS,
whose average earnings would amount to s32,-
4s9, 155. Wisconsin contained III 1880 1880
cows. Her annual percentage OF increase mad
been 5 l-2 per cent which ratio applied for
1888 would give her 551 80 At SO each their
earnings would represent S1g,535. so The
gross earnings Of all the cows of these four
northwestern states for 1852 reaches the enor-
nous sum Of SIU7, $50 To by this il can readi-
" be seen, gentlemen, that the interest yOu
represent has reached magnitu Q that calls
for the very wisest administration The tlmo
ceive all the aid that special education can give
Futher, it should be fostered and protected by
the legislation of these states.
MISTAKES
A general survey Of the question discloses
not only much that encourages us, but also
very many mistakes It seems to be q very
difficult task to reach large proportion of the
milk producers of the northwest and get them
to adopt the standard ideas OF the day III dairy
ing. They are not dairynen; they have but
little real pride in the business, and what Is
worse they will eSpend neither money nor time
to learn better, Not one in a hundred Of the
patrons of the cheese factories and ereameries
Of the Northwest ever attend dairy cOnyen-
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
well on i'll at the business The speaker then
eontrasted the methods employed by intelligent
dairymen and those of the minimizing mass.
very serious mistake was the lack OF CO.
operation. After tribute to G. {. FaLrlamb,
the founder Of the gathered cream system, MI.
Hoard closed with thanks to the press for its
publications regarding the dairymen.
COMMITTEES.
President Hoard appointed the following
Butter and Cheese Hiram Smith, sheboy-
gan Falls, Wis. II. w Hurtz, Elgin III. r.
Mower Cedar Rapids Iowa
Nominations ID. W. Curtis, Ft Atkinson,
Wis J. b. yosbury, Richmond Ill ?. G.
Truman, Independence, Iowa; u. z. hunting
ton Window, MINI r. IL Rose, Mankato.
Resolutions-C. F. Dexter, Chicago,Iu. 10. ".
Thompson. Wells, Mimi. j. G. Lombard, Chi
.
G. r. Beach, Whitewater, Wis.
Ways and Means--A z. Mckinstry, Winnie
bago City, Mimi. Loveioy johnson, 6tIiiman
Valley, III. W. s. Green, Milford, Wisconsin.
Dairy and Farm Implements-A. d. lie Land,
Sheboygan Falls, Wis. L. NJ. Potter, Elo Clare
Ill ;G D. Holiness Owatonna, MINI.
T. G. Curtis Of Rocky Run, Wis read %
paperon the subject of 'sButter Making by
private dairymen,
His farm, twelve years ago, WAS yeIy much
1..A., t1sa
that time, III debt by raising wheat he be-
gun to raise sheep, but did not make the bus
mess a success and finally was driven INTO
dairying At first made fair butter and could
take premiums at home fairs but when he
sent his butter to Milwaukee it did not COM
mand the highest price. The chairman Of
this convention was the individual whose val
liable advice enabled MN 10 become good
butter maker and a successful dalIynan. MI
Curtis spoke of the difference between cream
cry and diary butter The first - the product
If s factory with all necessary
inlproy aments and appliances, and to this fact
he atriputed its superiority In making but
ter one trouble liesin the conceitof the makers,
good COWS well MIXED, well fed and kindly
cared for Pure air and proper temperature
absolute are necessities for excellent butter
impurities absorbed in private farm dwellings,
are INJURIOUS The milk sh0uld be cooled to
sixty degrees in five hours. Milk heats quick
" and eools slowly; II gals. milk
cooled from 90 - 60, lose one pint
One hundred pounds of milk contains one
pound more sugar than butter Sweet cream
makes good butter. bat does not keep TO
give the granting qua .ltY a small degree Of ac-
cjdifv is necessary; too much destroys II Sol
idity is iInportan lin packing and neafnees IS
one Of the best points to be attained Inc
sneaker recommended the use of Higgin's salt
Could see no advantage in sailing in BRINE
Uses a little more than pound OF salt 70 sew
enteen pounds of butter de tCartlsl takes