The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-03-19

average Of 23s pounds apiece The amount of
grain fed was II tons bran ut cents, 31O2; 4
tons shorts at cents, 936; 200 bushels oats at
q cents, $56; total, $lM. The hay was about
about 16 per ton and the pasture about IS
apiecef for the season. Thus it cost $52l for 10
cows, or 81 per cow. He made 4,522 pounds
of butter, which at 261 cents per pound, netted
him u ,19S 81, or about $6aO7 per COW. Take
out the cost, and it leaves an average profit on
Col McGlincy said that there sre wonderful
possibilities before Minnesota in the way of
dairy products, and he thought that Minnesota
cows were going to surprise the world. He
and Mr.. johnson favored coloring the butter.
W. D. Hoard said that this very coloring was
what lost Iowa the grand sweepstakes prize At
tailed the system used at New Orleans in judg-
ing The contest finally narrowed down to
Iowa and Minnesota and Iowa lost because it
was three points off in color. When gentlemen
sneer at color, they sheer at God Almighty,
for he has colored everything. If you make
butter for the market, color Tho basis Of but
ter coloring is a harmless bean grown in South
America.
paper was read from Col. Stevens in favor
Of stall -feeding, and he cited the case of Mr..
Smith of Wisconsin, who succeeded excellent
~ by stall feeding concentration. Mr.. Moftitt
of Iowa, also bears testimony to the same re-
profitaoly support more COWS than is general
~ believed by following this system Of con-
oentration. Fifteen can b. kept on ten acres
by this system. Mr. Hoard followed in favor of
concentration citing the interest of large farm
At Little Falls N. Y, and instances in his own
experience. One farm grew thirty eight tons
Of green fodder to the acre, and another kept
500 cows to 100 acres of land
Gen. W. G. Le DUO spoke on minnesota as .
Dairy State" Maintaining that soil, climate
and everything is in our favor. All animals,
the COW included, will develop better here
than anywhere else.
Col. M'Gllncy, being called to discuss "Silos,"
said: ''Silos are not needed in Minnesota They
are only needed where land is poor and scarce.
Here every feed can be raised. A silo is q hole
IN the ground to keep green fodder. What do
you want of it? Ensilage is simply COW kraut"
He discussed the subject at length, declaring
that this country would have no need for eDsi-
lage and silOs for years to come.
O. G. Gregg of Marshall read paper on
Minnesota and its Dairies" He drew a COM
parison between butter making in Vermont or
Minnesota In Minnesota, if one acre in hun
dred IS untillable, tits the exception. During the
hot summer our COWS are exposed on the open
Here we use windmills. The great difference 10
just here. There they use COW to turn grass
into butter Here we use q COW to turn grain
INTO butter A farmer here must be grain
raiser, not a herder. To cultivate the land as
he he should will occupy him night and day: He
ing to do about the dairy? Here comes the
problem of winter dairy: Your COWS are
fresh in the fall and you have abundant time
for the dairy. To make dairy in Minnesota
. success man must be willing to work. Tho
farmers here thirk they can work for six months
and then be idle for six. It's bad mistake. II
you're going to succeed as dailyman here you
must make up yonr mind to work continuous
". That does away with the idleness and dew
il Of discomfort and unrest in the winter. Tho
first point then is work. The second is warm
barns. A man that sits around warm stove
while the northwest wind is frittering the flesh
from the bones OF his cattle has not q whit Of
sympathy in his nature, or ia incapable of un-
And any man that expects to get
milk and butter from COW thus unprotected
IL q fool God hasn't male that kind Of
= COW yet, and he never will: Now about
ment barn, all right But most Of us poor
farmers can't afford it. He then detailed the
method of constructing simple shed of inch
pine and 2x4. In such q one, matched and
battcned on the inside, have
KEPT COWS IN THE COOLEST WEATHER.
freezing point The cost is very little. Don't
turn your cows out into the cold wind A COW
In milk is very sensitive to cold. Next, keep
your COWS clean. Use barn platform, and
use straw for them
Now, as to tho result of my winter dairy.
Milking twenty-fo cows, I have received
s ses to =: zoo during the past year: During
that with forty cows there the farm will bring
$1,000 from milk and butter. I cultivate 100
scres and cut hay outside Of it I figure that
one man, one team, ten COWS and forty acres Of
R1owe sd+.;d land T., is the proper proportion
work grow oats chiefly and some
wheat for feed It should be fed ground and
dry. have mill here in Fairibanlt-a wind
mill-for grinding and 1t pays for itself overy
year: ! have ten-foot wheel 1t grindes
about six sacks of ground feed IN hour in an
average wind You just shut the door and lot
it grind out itself. I would advise q twelve
foot wheel for the ordinary farmer
W. D. Hoard endorsed Mr. Grigg's remarks
about caring for the comfort of the cow
W. D. Hoard read lengthy paper, the same
one which he delivered at the meeting Of the
wisconsin, n Dairymen's association At Arcadia,
general purpose" COW, as entertained by .
majority Of farmers and dairymen, is q delu-
sion and the greatest obstacle to the spread of
sound ides Of breeding. have no breed to
advocate, but will give my idea Of true
dn,sy COW ".. The sneral purpose COW pro-
worth $50 if we'll made and ~ by general
farmer The average cheese yield is 800 pounds
worth. say $50 Does this pay? An ordinary
general purpose farmer will buy . COW on size
and flesh, No reputable breeder dare mix pur-
poses in breeding, and the idea of = dairy COW
strict construction Of the law Of eredity can any
certainty Of result be obtained in good animal
Specific purpose gives us al our we'll estab-
lshed breeds. Look at the contrast: The
general purpose COW yields 800 pounds cheese
. year or milk flow of :, coo pounds about $50
bred COW in the world yields $50 pounds Of
butter in 3O3 days, Of Sc pounds in = week.
Leavitt read paper on the improved cattle
for dairy purposes. He said:
Not more than three fourths of the COWS in
the country to- day pay for their keeping. Tho
ton are the Jersey and Holstein. The
former is . good little COW, but will
not stand the cold winters q well a.
the other breed 1t is not good COW for
beef nor cheese; simply for butter. The dol
stein is carefully bred COW of over a thousand
years. 1t has been introduced in this country
recently and is becoming very popular. The
Holstein stands the winters well, and is the
best mich COW in the world 1t is also good
butter and cheese cow and good meat SOW.
Prof. D. r. MGinnis of Mortified read
paper on the natural adaptability of Minnneso-
t. for stock and eaid:
Minnesota is the most fertile country in tho
itation. The annual amount of rainfall is
from twenty to thirty inches, and the temper
ature evaporates fast enough for the needs of
fertility. There can be found no more favored
country for man, beast and plarts.
Where the field is best there will the cattle
be best, and Minnesota can produce the best
cattle in the world, and Minnesota soon will
take rank IS the foremost dairy state in the
world
Col r. p McGlincy delivered an address en-.
titled "Gleaninss by the Wayside:"
He spoke Of the triumphs scored by Mime
sofa dairies at New Orleans in the past Min
neso:a has also cleaned wonderfully we'll at .
national fair at New York, when, almost un-
known as state, Minnesota took the first prize
for ornamental butter.
Make good butter and you need fear no conf
petition in any market In the last four years
| have noticed more Improvement in butter in
this state than anywhere else in the Union.
This because of tn, necessity of Minncsotians
turning from wheat to the cow, and there is
nothing on earth that will raise mortgage
ron the farm like The COW, + coss not q