Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-10
MINNESOTA DAIRYn1EN.

in the chair. There was large at
tendance of delegates and visitors who
listened with interest to the address OF
welcome from Mayor A. c. Wedge of
Albert Lea.
The reply on behalf of the Assooia-
ton had been assigned to W. d. Hoard
of Fort Atkinson, but as he was detain-
ed by snow bound train, Hon. d. +.
Myers, of the Farmers Advocate and
Northwestern Stockman, St. Paul. was
called upon and very gracefully &C.
knowledged the Mayors welcome and
proceeded to speak of the necessity and
Importance of farmers meetings and
their opportunity, by discussions and
experiences, to alliance in general and
technical knowledge. He stated that
there are less cattle in pro-
portion to population to-day than
there were twenty years ago, and only
about IL, 900, 900 in the whole country
devoted to the dairy interests, and ex-
pressed the belief that much of the
present stage of development is due to
the intimate relation of the people of
their country with the COW and encour-
aged an enlarged cultivation of this
most estimable acquaintance.
Col. J. II. Stevens of Minneapolis
then addressed the convention upon the
superior quality of Minnesota butter
lands, which he averred embraces the
entire state, prairies, woodlands, hills
and valleys from the reason that upon
Minnesota soil may be grown the most
valuable grasses for the butter-maker.
After this prelude the speaker went
somewhat into details regarding meth
ods of butter making, packing and the
feeding of COWS, throwing out many
important and useful hints. An an
imated discussion followed the address.
participated in by Col. Curtiss, H. C.
Howard, A. c. Spaulding, ID. E. Ryan,
President Fowler, NJ. Pickett and
others.
The announcement OF the standing
committees concluded the session:
Resolutions-W. u. Howard, A. G.
Spaulding, j. G. Lombard.
Awards-C. F. Dexter, T. D. Curtiss,
A. &. Pattee.
Programme-Maj. M. ]. Myers, J. l..
Gibbs, A. c. Wedge.
At the evening session there was a
large audience, and after song, Frank
u. Holmes read an essay on butter,
which called general debate, re-
garding the false forms of butter, but
terine and oleomargarine, which were
denounced as great frauds which
should be put under great restrictions
to keep them crippling and crushing
an important and noble industry. A
paper upon curing hay was read by
Hon. J. T. Ames of Northield, which
closed the business of the day.
THE SECOND DAY.
There was largely increased at
tendance during the second day of the
convention and the interest was con-
siderably heightened. The first speaker
was A. P. McKinstry of Winnebago
City, who grouped a symposium of
practical suggestions under the head of
s'Give Us Something Fresh.'' In the
discussion which followed w. d. Hoard,
State Dairy Commissioner Rice and
Frank B. Holmes took a prominent
part.
Mr.. McKinstry estimated the cost of
feed for a cow at ten cents day, or
about $36 year. There was gen.
eral agreement that COWS should not
be let out in the severe cold of winter
or given cold water to drink, but rather
water deprived of its icy chill. The use
of stanchels in the stables was treated
as barbarity.
The Present and Future of Dairying
was the topic of an interesting and .
structive paper by Hon. Fl. c. Howard
of Minneapolis, Assistant State Dairy
Commissioner. After pointing out the
advantages possessed by Minnesota as
a dairy state, the unrivalled climate,
the readiness of the soil to produce
clover, blue grass and all grasses
in luxurious abundance, and at less
cost than in the East, he submitted the
proposition that large number of
butter makers in the state need to be
educated up to Il higher standard, as
only one fourth of the butter made in
the state is line, one fourth good, and
the balance of all grades, colors and
conditions, so that Il half the product
of 1885, sixteen million pounds sold for
only ten cents because of its poor
quality, realizing only $1,000. 600, il
would, If of the first class have brought
twice that amount. From 1880 to
1885 the number of COWS increased from
268,777 to 10000; 2l,5O1, 900 pounds
of butter were made in 1881, and in
1885 the product was 80, 600, 600 pounds,
an increase of nearly so per cent. Mr..
Howard closed his paper with tho fol-
lowing:
'At present there is no market
for our butter outside the state. The
cause of this is that in Chicago and
other cities mixture of tallow, lard.
acids and worms; known in the trade
as oleomargarine and butterine, but
sold to the public as genuine butter,
has become SO large. that the sale OF
these goods has virtually closed the
demand for our butter in the states
where they have no law to suppress
the sale Of such counterteits. While
this state of affairs results in
our financial injury, it has
much more serious effect on the af-
ficted consumers, who eat this
compound of grease, colorcd to repre-.
sent butter, which by the evidence of
the most learned professors in the
land, contains bacteria and other FORM
of animal life of highly dangerous
character to the consumer. The prin-
cipal Ingredient of butterine belt
lard, the profits are large. and the cap
italist has no scruples, but seeks the
best paying investment. One hundred
pounds of stockyard grease, doctored
and deodorized with acids, salted and
coIored to represent butter, can be
placed on the market at half the cost
Of genuine butter. Chicago now daily
produces more butterine than Wiscop-
sin, Iowa and Minnesota combined
produce pounds of butter, and the sale
Of this compound forces an equal
amount of genuine butter OF from the
market. In 1884 there were 100000
pounds of butte.ine sold in this state,
every pound being shipped here from
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