The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-02-11


to the dairy system rather than the
: Col. T. D. Curtiss OF Syracuse, n. r,
read q paper, How to make the best
butter" which was of especial value
coming from one of tho greatest dairy
students in the country.
C. L. Smith discovered upon the
unsatisfactory status of tho butter in.
dustry, and shought that ignorance
was more responsible for it than the
counterfeit goods.
At the evening session Prof. Porter of
the state university described the expert
mental farms. Mr.. Smith read q
paper upon Things l did not find in
the report of the Dairy Commissioner, :"
Mr.. Hoard enlivened the occasion with
most mir bful stories. and Jules Loln-
bard with songs that charmed indie
scribably.
THIRD DAY.
At the morning session q financial
report was presented showing receipts
for 1885, $663.21, expenditures 1885,
IS. balance $2O4.66. The following
officers were elected: President w.
Fowler, Newport; secretary, R. e. judi
son, Harrington; treasurer, j. E.
Putnam, Big Lake. Resolutions were
passed in favor of a Northwestern
stock show. and thanking the citizens
for their hospitality, petitioning the
legislature for an annual appropriation
of $500, and also denouncing the
course of the Illinois state board of
agriculture in the management of the
stock and dairymens show at Chicago.
The committees on premiums report
the following awards:
Creamery Butter-F. D. Holmes,
Owatonna, first; G. Kearns, Austin,
second; I. E. Starks, Alden, third.
Dairy Butter-M. j. Myers & Co.,
Wells, first; Mrs. V. C. Holmes, Owa-
tonna, second; H. E. Nelson, Albert
Lea, third; f. A. Rice. Fipestone,
fourth.
Roll and Print-Mrs. N. c. Holmes,
first; F. u. Holmes, second; Mrs. L. B.
McKinstry of Winnebago City, third;
G. Kearns, fourth.
Granulated Butter-F. D. Holmes,
first
Ornament Designs-F. D. Holmes,
first.
Factory Cheese-R. B. Williams.
Lansing, first; A. F. Jones, Morris
town, second.
Dairy Cheese-E. A. Rice, fist; F.
u. 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 to j. M. Myers & Co.
w. D. Hoard of Fl. Atkinson do
livered a ringing address upon "A
profit"
''In an experience of thirty years
devoted to a study of dairy ques-
tons. dairy economy and dairy
profit" the speaker said, II have az
rived at the solid conclusion that there
are, in the main, two classes of men en-
gagged in dairying. The first always
make money; the second never do, ex-
cept when prices rule high. The frs.
are commercial dairymen, not mere
COW farmers. The second class are the:
direct opposites of these men. You
can't sell them a dollars worth of
knowled &c for 50 cents, and by reason
of their low, fal>e estimate they haven't
the so cents. So much for the man
factor in the problem. The first thing
to 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 received than of cost of pro-
duction. Few dairymen study this
problem in any but a crude way. Nine
out of ten will tell you the hired help
in the chief item of cost.
Among the leading expenses of
common or Improbable dairy farm
ing are Q) the cost of farming a half
productive soil in half-productive
way in the raising of food for COWS;
~ the cost of keeping two COWS to do
the work of one-you have heard from
another speaker that there is a
difference of so to 100 per cent. in the
butter return of different COWS; (3)
tho cost of poor shelter. TO lessen
this last cost in Minnesota does not
require an outlay of capital 50 much as
OF good, hard COW sense. A great
many farmers do not know what is
good water for mich COWS. Slough
water creates bad, fermentive milk.
Cold water and cold exposure for two
hours to get it cost Mr.. Ames, as you
have heard. 5000. az The cost of
refusing to feed literally, if Mt all. and
that, too, of the right kind of food for
milk production. Your. hay must
be green and succulent. No form
of the grass plant will produce as
much milk as grass that is short, sweet
and succulent.
Instead of cutting two good crops
from ten acres, the average farmer
prefers to cut one poor one from TWEEN
ty acres. With the succulent food
there Is less expense of bodily force in
digestion. 1t has been shown that
three tons ofsweet ensilagc is the equal
for milk production of one ton of swee,
hay, yet the ensilage contains 9O(
pounds less of solid matter than the
hay. All this talk calls for three spe.
cific changes; first, in the ideas of the
farmer himself as to what constitutes
sound dairy practice; second, change
in the idea of what a dairy COW is and
what she is for. Too many think SHE
is for the purpose of raising a steer
and, as consequence they get stee,
results. The men who make tho most
money IN dairying regard her as the
mother of another COW that, if possible
shall be better than herself.
r. C. Judso1 spoke upon the mill
register, O. c. Gregg upon farm econo
mics.
In the evening closing banquet wa,
given IN the rink, in which some siz
hundred citizens of Albert Lea joineC
the members of the Association. w
ID. Hood presided as toast-master. tt
the toast Albert Lea, Hon. E. C. Stacey
responded. and Hon, E. Nj. Emery t
"A Jersey COW in a Holstein hide,
"Freeborn County," Hon. j. l.. Gibbs
THE Dairy Interests of Freeborr
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