River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26
Dairy Farmers of the N orthwest
in Mass Convention.

The Nineteenth Annual Meeting of
the Northwestern Dairymen's
Association, held at Algona, Iowa,
March 1914, was an immense and en-
thusiastic gathering of some five hun
bred delegates from Iowa, Illinois,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska and
Dakota. A number of ladies engaged
in practical dairy work, who were
present from other states, and throngs
of people from Kossuth county, adj
ed interest to the Convention.
AS shown by the President address
the dairying business has made Won
derful advancement, and is now rap
idly gaining favor among the best
educated classes. More young men,
college graduates-men of a high de-
gree of talent-are now entering this
work than ever before. Many of tn e
north western farmers are tired of the
uncertainty in wheat crops, and find
in dairying far more sure and lu-
crative return for their labor. Aud
the whole record of the Convention
overwhelmingly proved that men of
intellectual power, men of great en-
ergy, and men with strong love for
homes and their country, are leading
in this scientific dairying to-day. The
verdict Of the great majority of the
Convention was That the general
purpose cow" and the unscientific
butter and cheese makers, are every
where being put at a discount; that
| the dairy COW is now queen, and grass
| is king, in the interests of the north
western farmer. The one great cause
| of alarm is the almost incredible ex-
tent to which oleomar garine is man
ufactured and sold to unsuspecting
consumers. The Association unspar4
| ingly denounced this business as
! fraudulent and intolerable, and united
in asking the Legislatures of all the
States represented to take decisive
action to suppress the iniquitOus
traffic. The wonder seems to be that
the farmers are the slowest to act in
| in self protection against such Duls-
ness. Professional men and consum
ers, are eager TO aid in suppressing
! the manufacture of this fraudulent
article.
The discussions of practical meth
DDS and results in dairy farming, were
intensely interesting. Full reports of
proceedings and discussions can be
procured soon from the Secretary, at
Elgin, Ill, for nominal price. The
subject of dairy cows invariably
awakened lively discussion. A num-
Der of the most prominent members
maintained that the Jersey is best for
butter, the Holstein for large flow of
milk and for cheese, and the Her
! ford and Short Horn for beef.
A grand banquet, attended by over
! five hundred people, was the occasion
of more music, mirth, sociability and
eloquence, than has ever before been
known in the history of northwestern
farming,
At the butter exhibit, Minnesota
won The palm. Mrs. A. P. McKinstry,
of Winnebago, taking the sweepstaKe
premium, and also one other. Mrs.
v. G. Homes. OF owatonna, was
awarded a duplicate premium for or
namented butter, and Walter Booth,
of Bassett, Iowa. took the premium
for best butter sailed with Higgins
salt.
The officers are as before: Pres
! ident, W.D. Hoard. Ft. Atkinson, Wis
consin; Vice President, A. P. Mchin-
stry, Winnehego, Mimi; Secretary,
II. p. Mckinney, Elgin, Illinois;
Treasurer, Fl. B. Surfer, DeKalab,
| Illinois.