St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-10
Thirteenth Annual Conven-
tion Of the State Dairy
mems Association.
The Body Warmly Welcomed
to Glencoe by Hon. E.
A. Child.
Pure Milk and Fair Dealing
the Desire of North Star
Farmers.
Many Of the Prominent Dairy
men Of the Stat
Present
Special 10 the Globe.


GLENCOE, Nov. 9.-The thirteenth
annual convention of the Minnesota
State Dalrymen's association is being
held in Glencoe to-day and will continue
until Thursday evening. The meeting
was called to order at 2:30 p. m. by the
president. j. I. Ames. of Northfield.
Rev. A. A. Tebbets. of Glencoe, offered
prayer, followed bv Hon. E. A. Child,
WHO delivered an address of welcome on
behalf of the citizens of this village.
Secretary Frank ID. Holmes responded
on behalf of the association. He said
the dairymen did not desire to hide their
light under bushel. 1t cost less to
make good butter than it did to make
grease or packing stock; the better the
quality of the butter put on the market
the more would be consumed; mer-
chants, bankers, lawyers, doctors, ey-
erybody, was interested in good butter.
a cow would pay off a mortgage quicker
than 60-cent wheat. There was always
room for the best in any market. The
presidents address reviewed the past
and prophesed the future of dairying
in Minnesota. There were many abuses
in the milk trade that ought to be cor
rected. Producers and consumers were
both Interested in pure milk and fair
dealing.
The War on Bogus Butter
and adulterated milk must be carried
to victory. DR.. William Dickson. vet
erinary surgeon for farm Institutes,
delivered an address upon "The Diges-
tive OrgaDS of Ruminants." Other papers
We're read and the convention adjourned
until 1880 a. M. tomorrow. Among
the prominent dairymen and institute
workers already here are F. ID. Holmes
and wife. of Owatonna: Theodore
Louis, Of Wisconsin; j. Ii. Monrad, of
Chicago; Col. William Littler, secretary
of the National Butter. Cheese and Egg
Association of the United States; Dairy
Commissioner Ives, of st. Paul; Hon.
lam Dickson, of Lfrchfield; G. l..
Gahrielsoh, of Iowa, and many others.
The meeting promises to be one of the
most profitable ever held. The organ
lZatiOn of the association thirteen
years ago came in response to general de-
mand for information regarding the more
improved methods of making butter and
cheese, handling milk, breeding, select
ing and feeding stock. The work of the
association had been of much benefit to
all those engaged in the dairy industry.
Merchants and dealers in the localities
where the former conventions have been
held affirm that they have found
A Marked Improvement
in the quality of butter following the
dairy meeting. The thought or inspira-
stion which started the farmers institutes
that have done and are still doing so
much for ths, betterment of aprlcuItura
grew out of the MankatO dairv conven-
ton of 1888. Among those prominentin
the conventions of the past have been
Hon. Ii. E. Hoard, Gov. w. ID. Hoard,
William Fowler, G. JudsOn and Aid.
E. q. Potter. The Importance and
value of these dairy conventions will
be better appreciated when we con-
/ slider the fact that the butter pro-
duced in Minnesota each year is de-
preciated in value more than $3.50, 900 by
[ negligence, careleSSneSS or ignorance
/ in the handling of the milk, cream and
butter. The best dairy butter always
/ finds a ready market at double the price
iof the average article that passes
through the country. Every pound of
poor butter that is thrown on the mar
ket ''bears" down the price of good but
ter. An experienced dairyman says:
sit is to our interest to shut out of the
market every. pound of poor butter. The
poor stuff is offered cheap. People buy
it because it is cheap and then cannot
eat it, it is so poor; thus depreciating
the price and curtailing consumption"
j. A. Sinclair, of Martin county, is
superintendent of the exhibit. There
is good attendance. and the local COM
mittee has made excellent arrange
mentS for the accommodation of visitors.