St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-25


but to make it such required the introduc-
ton of class of cows other than the aver
age of the United States, that only produced
$50 pounds per year. To make dairying
profitable it was necessary to have COWS
that would give 600 or 700 pounds year.
He then paid glowing tribute to President
j. j. Hill of the Manitoba road, whom, he
said, had done more than anyone else to
improve the condition and quality OF the
stock in the Northwest.
Hon. W. ID. Hoard was then introduced
by the president, who said that MI. Hoard
would now chip in. The manner in which
Mr.. Hoard Clipped in paralyzed the audi
ence again and again. He said the trouble
with dairying was that the majority OF peo-
pie were warped" and prejudiced in their
ideas of the way to make butter. They
were determined to make butter just as they
pleased, and wanted to cram their product
down the resisting throatS of the poor
American people. Dairying is an art of it
self and an intellectual pursuit. God raised
wheat, but
NAN MADE BUTTER.
He had heard it asked: ''Why do you
hold these dairymen's conventions?" 1t
was this meeting together and rubbing our
ideas against one another that gave us en-
larged views of how to produce good butter,
and dairying was progressive science.
There were many things to learn, and un-
less people became as little children and
willing to learn, they could in no wise enter
the kingdom of the cow. At the close OF
his remarks Mr.. Hoard was warmly ap-
plauded. The secretary then read the fol-
lowing:
Resolved, That the secretary of this asso-
citation be requested to telegraph j. j. H1ll
president of the St. Paul, Minneapolis Man
itoba railroad, and say to him that the asso-
citation sends greeting. and ask, as still fur
thur favor that he favor US with his presence
tomorrow.
The resolution was adopted by a rising
vote, with which the morning session
closed.
The afternoon session began at p. m.
The first in the order Of exercises was the
report Of the committee on program, Gen.
Laduc,-- chairman. Maj. A. P. McKinstrie
made the first address, his topic being Prac-
tical Dairying. Practical dairying in Min
nesota dated only four or five years back.
Prior to that butter was made, but it usu-
ally sold for what buyers were pleased to
give for it. which was quite generally
AN INFERIOR PRICE.
There were certain principles that were
necessary to the production of first rate
quality of butter, and the best private
dairieS, as well as the creameries, followed
them. He had the fortune, or miSfOr-
tune, to manage seven creameries. The
farmers gathered their own cream and his
teams drew it to the creameries, farmers
being paid so much pound for their cream,
according to its value. He shipped to New
York city, and it =....ssiiiistiiy cost him 3
per pound freight. A number
of interesting questions were propounded
and answered by the speaker. In
his experience he received about three
fourths of pound per cow.
The second speaker was Mr.. G. F. Dex-
ter of Chicago, his topic being: Organiza-
ton for the Promotion of Special Interests.
After an elaborate apology, rich with wit
and humor, Mr.. Dexter read a very excel
called upon to tell what he knew about
Butterine. His experience was rich, rare
and racy, the verdict which he gave being
that it was impossible to detect the finer
grades of oleomargerine or butterine from
pert himself, he had been frequently de-
to
DETECT THE SPURIOUS
from the genuine at all times. He ex-
pressed it as.his own opinion thai an abso-
lutely prohibitory law was impossible, on
account of the inability to detect the article
in all cases. Mr.. Dexter thought that the
dairymen of the Northwest would be COM
PEELED to face the manufacture and sale of the
spurious article will their only recourse, be-
ing law (which would regulate the sale of
the article for just what it was. The pro-
cess of its manufacture was reducing the
component parts to fluid by
heat, which was afterwards granulated
Manufacturers used 80 per cent. of the best
creamery butter in their manufacture of the
spurious article.
MI. J. B. Powers, land commissioner of
the st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba
Railroad company, was next introduced
who proceeded to relate his own practical
experience with his herd of stock. He pre-
faced his remarks by saying he was re-
minded to-day Of what Gen. Hazen once
said of the Red river valley. He termed it
a wild, inhospitable region where nothing
but wheat could be grown. In May, 1884,
he weighed his stock carefully and weighed
them again in the fall. Their average gain
in 1S5 days, on
NOTHING BUT NATIVE. GRASS,
was $50 pounds, while several were $780,
Nov. ne began feeding his stock an aver
age each Of fifteen pounds of hay and one
and One-half pounds of ground oats, the
whole costing about 3 cents per head per
day, and they gained one pound per head per
day, the stock having the run of the oats
and straw ricks, sheltered from the wind.
Desiring to place himself in the position of
the farmer who had only common
scrub cattle and was not able to buy better
and must feed just such feed as he raised,
he put up six head of native cattle. He
fed them what hay they would eat and five
quarts of ground feed composed of wheat,
barley, oats and corn. Their gain per day
was two and One-half pounds and the cost
eleven cents per day. He also experimental
with sheep. They cost him $1.27 per head
for their care. His experience with
hogs and also with horses showed
him that stock not only could be
safely but proftably raised in this section
His remarks were full of interest through
out. He thought
THE GREAT WRONG
was committed in palming off upon the peo-
pie for the best creamery butter this spur
ious and unhealthy article. 1t was labelled
creamery butter" andwas sold as such. In
his own case, as commissioner of Mime
sofa, he had already prepared cases which
would come before the grand jury this fall
The commissioner was attending to adulter-
ated milk, which he proposed to push to its
total extinction. Considerable desultory
talk followed, touching upon various topics
of interest.
W. c. Rice, state dairy commissioner,
was called upon to follow Mr.. Dexter. In
his remarks on butterine and other spurious
products Mr.. Rice gave it as his opinion
that the people could enforce laws against
its manufacture. Because New York and
Illinois did not do it that was no reason
why we in Minnesota could not. He could
tell the difference between the pure and the