The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-08
that is developing rapidly, and from
the light already gained, l place h

the light already gained, l place the
Value of cheese made within our am, ooo
state In 1855 at ......:......'' so"'oo"
Value OF 81 o. $40 lbs. of buffers n ooo
Value Of II $4,000 quarts of milk
sold In ST. Paul and Minneapolis oo
aiue OF milk used and sold through ,oo ooo
- an mo calves nj $40 each 3,6OO, UU0
Total value produced In 1885 ~l4'Sli.Soo
Add to this the value OF 4OO'ooo cows N ooo oo
Making a grand total value Of. SASH oo
For the purpose of comparison, let us
glance at the wheat interest:
= The Commissioner of agriculture es-
timated the wheat crop of Minnesota
for the year 1885 to be 80 ,OOO,OOO bushels;
al 20 cents per bushel this would amount
to only SIS ,2O0,OOO.
If the dairy interest increases In value
hereafter as rapidly as it has in the
past, in ten years it will represent more
Than double the wheat interest. The
dairy business of Minnesota Is so close
ly connected with the raising OF cattle
and hogs that any check which 1t might
receive would result disasterously to our
stock interest. Destroy the dairy IN
terest of the state, and we could not
proiitably raise beef and pork.
So closely are the two industries al
lied that il would not he improper to
combine the two figures representing
our beef and pork products with those
of the dairy. But such combination Is
not necessary to prove that To day the
most profitable and leading industry of this
state is dairying. 1t Is u business nat is
growing rapidly. Our brethren in the
Northern portion of the state, alter
struggling Tor years with poor crops and
10 \ prices, are now turning their atten-
ton 10 dairying as u means OF financial
salvation. Improved stock is being in
T.. oduced throughout the state 10y pub
lie spirited men.
One instance deserves particular no.
tice. | refer to the efforts of j. j. Hill
who has imported and given to the
farmers of minnesota lou full-blooded
bulls. Such acts AS these are Commen-
dable and deserve recognition. This
great and growing industry which now
extends over the entire state, this source
of revenue towards which the hard
worked and impoverished grain-grow-
er is now turning his attention with the
hope OF being able to pay oil his mort
cages and secure u home for himself
and family; this DAIRY business which is
the foundation Of successful farming, Is
now threatened with serious disaster,
if not complete annlhilation, by the
manufacture and sale, rs butter and
cheese, OF adulterated compounds OF tai
low. hogs lard, cotton-seed oil, soda,
potash, mineral ACIDS, glue soap, mould,
skins, bacteria, tapeworm, eLnDryoS,
trIchinae, eIc, I'll $3.50 ingredients have
ali been found in butterIne and olemar-
garine.
These vile products are not made
within the state of Minnesota, but III
Chicago and Kansas City, by u set OF un-
princIpled scoundrels VINO have made
themselves immensely rich by defraud-
my the public. The trade generally
know the fraudulent nature Of the
goods, but nearly all unsuspecting con-
uIner are made TO believe they are
eating genuine butter. Last year, prior
to the passage of our anti-butterine law,
Minnesota consumed over 1000, OO0 lbs.
of butterine. The effect of the impor-
tation Of so large an amount nearly
closed til, market to poor dairy butter,
and reduced the price of good dairy
and creamery butter from three to five
cents per pound. Our present law is
not all we could desire, but the best
that could be perfected ut the time.
Many of our legislators were not IN
formed regarding the importance of the
dairy interest, nor the magnitude Of the
butterine trade. speak from personal
knowledge, having spent six months at
the Capitol in trying TO secure the pas
sage of our present law which went in
10 force April LIST. Yet imperfect as the
law is in some respects, the general eff
feet has been good. There has been
but Il small amount of butterine brought
INTO the state this winter. All classes
of dairy goods have been sold at good
prices. Commission men report their
stock reduced to the minimum, when
at this time last year their stores were
filled with unsaleabie goods caused by
the sale of butterine. l have talked
with reliable commission men, and thew
agree with me in the estimate that the
butter sold in this state since the pas
sage of the anti-butterine law, has
brought Owes 500, 600 more than it
would had there been no law, and no
officers to enforce it.
In other words the amount of the
dairy interests of this state are $500, 600
in excess of what they would have been
without the law. The manufacturers
of butterine Tor ''stock yards cream
ery,") are rich, but they are not salts
fled. They cast covetous glances at the
dairy trade of our cities and have de-
termined if possible to break down the
legal barriers that keep them I'M
der restraint.
Thus far the bogus butter men have
not been as successful as they could
have wished, but they have millions OF
money and are most INSCRIPTIONS in
the use of it. The dairymen of this
State must present a solid front in or
der to thwart the schemes of these rob.
bers; see that no man goes to congress
or to the State legislature without his
pledge in writing to stand loyalty to the
cause of healthy dairy products, and to
vote for the passage of the strongest
anti-butterine law which can be en-
forced. ] have faith in the men who
settled this country. and who have la
bored most assiduously to better inn
prove her rich domain and TO build up
her varied industries. | do not believe
that men who nave faced the Indian in
his murderous raids, who have had the
courage, the patience and endurance to
withstand the hardships of a pioneer
life, who starved out and outlived the
~grasshopper, and finally after continued
years of hard labor, overcame all OBJ
sticles i'm the way of securing a comfort
able home for themselves and families
1 do not believe that these same
sturdy pioneers, if united and ready te
defend their homes and their rights,
that there will be found enough Judases
in this state to rende imperative the
law to prevent the selling of this vile
health destroying compound to our
wives, and children.