St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-05
our Dairy Interests.

Our Dairy Interests.
Special to the Globe.
ALBERT LEA, Feb. AT this morn
ing's session of the Minnesota Dairymen
association the following officers were
elected:
William Fowler, Newport, president: X. Q.
Judson Pennington, secretary; John u. Put
nam. RIG Lake treasurer. all reelected. 4.
q. Potter of Minneapolis; A. G. Spaulding
of Mapleton. and T. j. Schrieber OF Moor
head were elected vice presidents Z. Parker,
of Newport; Frank Clifford of Shakopee. and
J. S. Ames of Mortified, executive commit
tee.
Treasurer John E. Putnam announced
balance in the treasury of S2O4.66. w. d.
Hoard of Fort Atkinson, Wis. spoke on
How to Make Money at Dairying in Hard
Times. He said:
In an experience Of thirty years devoted to a
study Of dairy questions, dairy economy and
dairy profits. / have arrived at the solid con-
clusion that there are. in the main, two
classes of men engaged in dairying. The first
always make money; the second never do ex-
cept when prices rule high. The first are
commercial dairymen not mere COW farmers
The second class are the direct opposites of
these men. You can't sell them dollars
worth of knowledge for 80 cents, and by
reason of their low, false estimates, they
haven't the 80 cents. So much for the man
IN tue pTODlem. Inc QrSL thing
10 consider concerning profit is cost
The man who makes the least money
in dairying is the man who wastes his forces
the most. 1t is less question of prices re-
ceived than of cost of production. Few dairy
men study this problem in any but a crude
way. Nine out of ten will tell you the hired
help is the chief item of cost Among the
leading expenses of common OF Improbable
dairy farming are u) the cost of farming a
half-productive soil in half-productive way
in the raising of food for the COWS; (2) the
cost OF keeping two COWS to do the work OF
one-you have heard from another speaker
that there is difference of 80 to 100 per cent.
in the butter return of different COWS; % the
cost of
POOR SHELTER.
To lessen the last cost i'm Minnesota does not
require an outlay of capital so much as of
good, hard COW sense. A great many farm
ers did not know what is good water for mich
COWS. Slough water creates a bad, fer
incentive milk. Cold water and cold exposure
for two hours TO get il cost, Mr.. Ames. as you
have heard, $500; a. the cost of refusing
10 feed literally If at all, and that too of the
right kind of food for milk production. No
form of the grass plant will produce as much
milk as grass that is short, sweet and succu-
lent. Instead of cutting two good crops from
ten acres the average farmer prefers to cut
one poor one from twenty acres. With the
slcculent food there is less expense of bodily
force in digestion. 1t has been shown that
three tons of sweet ensilage is the equal for
milk production OF one ton of sweet hay, yet
the ensilage contains 900 pounds less of solid
matter than the hay. All this talk calls for
three specific changes; first, in the ideas of
the farmer himself as TO what constitutes
sound dairy practice; second. change il the
idea of what dairy COW is and what she is
for. Too many think she is for the purpose
of raising d steer, and, as a consequence,
they get steer results. The men who make
the most money in darying regard her as the
mother of another cow that, IL possible, shall
be better than herself.
Resolutions were adopted thanking the
citizens for their hospitality; the State Ag-
ricultural society for making provisions for
dairy exhibits; petitiOning the legislature
for an annual appropriation of $500, and
emphatically c0ndemning the course Of the
ILLINOIS STATE BOARD
of agriculture in the management of the
fat stock and dairy show at Chicago, hav-
ing convinced every intelligent dairyman it
is thoroughly committed TO the interest OF
counterfeit butter The resolutions also
expressed sympathy for the project of
permanent dairy and stock show at some
place in the Northwest as set forth in the
Wisconsin Dairymen's association in the
late convention, and pledged Minnesota to
be well represented at such show.
Secretary r. G. Judson spoke this after
noon on The Milk Register.
The following premiums were awarded:
Creamery Butter-F. d. Holmes, Owatonna.
first; G. Kearns Austin, second; l. E. Starks,
Alden, third.
Dairy Butter-M. J. Myers & Co.. Wells
first; Mrs. V. @. Holmes, Owatonna second;
H. E. Nelson. Albert Lea, third; L. A. Rice
Pipestone, fourth.
Roll and Print-Mrs. N. G. Holmes. first; F.
ID. Holmes, second; Mrs. l.. b. McKinstry, of |
Winnebago City, third; G. Kearns, fourth.
GRADUATED Butter-F. d. Holmes. first.
Ornament Designs-F. d. Holmes, first.
Factory Cheese. b. Williams, Lansing, |
first: A. T. Jones, Morristown, second.
Dairy Cheese-E. A. Rice, first: f. d. |
Holmes. second.
Best Essay on the Manufacture OF DAIRY |
Butter-C. l.. Hill, Albert Lea.
The special premium offered by the State |
Holstein Breeders association was awarded !
10 Nj. J. Myers g. Co.
OTHER PROCEEDINGS.
Mr.. Gregg of Marshall gave a general
talk upon dairying. He cumbated the idea
If ersilage, except on small farms. where
he land is valuable. He thought that per-
laps little of it might be good, but was
aot sure of even this. On motion of Mr.
MeKinstry the president was requested to
appoint committee of three TO meet with
the officers of the state agricultural society
and see that the dairy interests are properly
recognized in the distribution of premium
money. On motion of Mr.. Howard the
committee was instructed to ask for pro
rata premium to be offered on butter. The
Intention of this is to give the average dairy
arIner chance for a premium. The as
ISOLATION adjourned at 8 O'Clock for the BAN
auet, which was held this evening.