St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-20

tanned. To those who feel an interest in
these matters, and there are but few who
do not, the lecture will not only be enter
tanning but will be found to contain sugges-
tons worthy of constant study in connec-
ton with any system of public improve
ment that the city may determine to adopt.
MINNESOTA'S DAIRY INTERESTS.
The people of Minnesota will always re-
member with pride the splendid exhibit
made by their state at the New Orleans eX-
position. 1t was no small thing for a young
state, with its resources only partially de-
veloped, to enter into competition in an eX-
hibit of its products with not only its older
sister states, but in fact with all the import
ant nations of the world. And then to re-
turn crowned with list of premiums
awarded in every department in which she
was a competitor was a triumph such as
has never been gained in the history of
similar contests. There was no department
in the exposition where Minnesota shOne to
more conspicuous advantage than that ia
which her dairy products were displayed:
Minnesota butter and cheese are now IA
nous, and the natural impulse of our people
will be to take advantage of the eXtraOr
binary advertisement these products have
received by at once organizing the dairy in
tereSt and devOting more attention to
systematic building up of an industry upon
which our future prosperity largely depends,
and one which is compelled for all time to
come to share the honor and profit of wheat
raising. Heretofore interest in dairy
farming has been almost exclusively con-
fined to the southern and middle portions
of the state. In Northern Minnesota is a
large area of country which pOsS esses
equally as good conditions for successful
dairy farming as the more southern pOr-
tons of the state enjoy. Yet the industry
in that section has been almost entirely
overlooked or neglected. What is wanted
is to stimulate every section of the state to
a realization of the Importance of devoting
more attention to this branch of farming.
As soon as our people are fully aroused to
proper knowledge of the Importance OF
dairy farming the time will have come when
Minnesota butter and cheese will occupy
the same place in the dairy markets of the
world that Minnesota hard wheat now
does in the grain markets. Nature has
generously provided us with conditions for
the successful production of these articles
that forever forbid competition from other
sections.
1t is therefore matter of congratulatiOn
that the Dairymen's association has Sc
lected the town of Moorhead as the place of
its next meeting. There is a peculiar fit
ness in the location from the fact that it is
the center of large and fertile section in
the northern part of the state, where the
dairy interest is yet in comparative infancy.
The association, which convenes in ses-
sion at Moorhead next Wednesday, will be
a wonderful stimulus to the young and
growing industry in that section. 1t will
be the most important and perhaps the
most generally attended meeting Of our
state dairymen that has ever been held.
Coming, as it does, Immediately after the
grand victory achieved by Minnesota dairy
men at New Orleans. they will come up to
the association with an interest in their
work and an ambition for extending and
charging the sphere of their peculiar in
dustry which they have never experienced
before.
In this connection it would be proper to
refer to the Iaudable interest which Presi-
dent HILL of the Manitoba road has dis
played in the dairy business along the line
of his road. In this particular Mr.. HILL
has set an example of public spirit
and generosity that is not only worthy of
the highest commentator, but is one that
other gentlemen of wealth who are de-
voted to development of the states re-
sources would do. well to initiate.
At heavy expense to himself
Mr.. HILL has selected, purchased
and imported number of bulls with the
design of stocking the country along the
line of the Manitoba road with the best
breeds of dairy cattle. Mr.. Hills plan is
to distribute his bulls among the different
counties on the line of the road in proper
ton to the number of farmers who are will
ing to give attention to dairy products, at
the same time having due regard to the
adaptability of the various sections to dairy
purposes The bulls are let out to some
careful and responsible farmer, upon the
terms that the person is to take the bull for
a specified number of years-saY two, three
or five years-and is to handle him for the
public benefit. That is. the farmer who
takes the animal obligateS himself not to
have more than ten of his own cows served
by the bull from the LIST day of May to the
1st day of October. He is to permit his
neighbors to bring their COWS during that
time, and have them served at rate not
exceeding 81 for each service. At the eX-
piration of the time specified in the con-
tract, the farmer, in whose charge the bull
has been placed, becomes the absolute
owner of the animal without any charge
from MI. HILL. In this way Mr.. HILL
expects to have within four or five years the
entire country along the line of his road
well stocked with the finest dairy cattle in
the world, and the section through which
his road passes will be one of the most noted
dairy regions in the world. Last year Mr..
HILL imported thirty-six bulls. This year
he has imported los, and he says he now
has at least 1, 900 applications for them. 1t
is only those states which have such public
spirited men, who have the intelligence to
understand the wants of the community and
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