The sun., 1894-01-25
DAIRYING IN MINNESOTA
ANNUAL REPORT OF DAIRY COM
MISSIONER ANDERSON.
He Thinks Pasteurixed MIX should
Now be Dema manded-Statistics Re-
gardinE the Dairy Interest OF the
North Star State.

st, Paul, Jan. 23.-Dairy Commissioner
Anderson to-day received the advance
sheets of his annual report to the gov
ernor. Enclosed with it Is the report of
Deputy Commissioner Graham, j.. Is.
Williams, cheese inspector, and the chem
lists of the department. The report is
complete in all the departments, and con-
tains much useful information of general
interest to the people who purchase and
use the goods under the inspection of the
department. 1t is complete review of
the work for the past year, and makes
number of recommendations for the
future. Among other things the commits
sioner says that the laws of Minnesota
regulating the sale of milk are very
good as far as they go, but they do not
go far enough. They are enacted more
for establishing standard of richness
than anything else. He recommends, now
that this has been accomplished, that the
laws be so amended as to provide for the
PasteuriZation of all milk offered for
sale in order that all bacteria or disease
germs may be destroyed. The term
Pasteurization comes from DIR. Pasteur,
the French scientist. 1t consists of heat
ing milk to temperature of 70 or 80
degrees centigrade Q5S to 17G degrees
FahrenheiD and then rapidly cooling. 1t
is claimed that typhoid germs are de-
stroyed ut So to SO degrees, vaccine at
60, pneumonia at IS to 60 and tuber-
culcsis at 50, but to destroy the latter
the heat must be kept up for half an
hour or longer, while for the others
very short time is necessary. In Sweden
and Denmark they have big stations for
Pasteurizing milk, and all milk sold must
soosn
Anderson says that the time is coming
when either this process or sterilization
must be adopted in this country.
The report shows the number of sam
plea of milk inspected between Aug. l,
1892, and Dec /, 1893, was 2,644. This
includes milk sent in on trains to the
cities, but not that inspected at dairies
and cheese factories. A comparison be-
tween the milk standard of this state
and those of Massachusetts,, Michigan,
New York, New Jersey, Vermont and
Wisconsin is made, and the Minnesota
standards for butter fat is shown to be
much higher than any of the others.
Assistant Commissioner Graham also
submits n report giving much information
regarding the dairying interests of the
state. According to this the number of
creameries in operation in Minnesota in
1893 was pol; number of cows, 527 ,424;
pounds of butter made in creameries,
19,916, 300, valued at $3,924,61O.
The following table shows an estimate
of all the dairy interests of the state:
210 creameries at $500 each. 525,OOO
At skim stations at $1,000
each ~:................. 47,00O
$1,000 ........s....... 44,OOO
20 cheese factories at $780,. 5000
6,O00,O00 milch cows at $40. 12,OOO,OOO
100000 lbs butter at 21c.. 3,99O,OW
100000 Tbs butter at 15c... 1,O5O,OOO
100000 lbs butter at 1Oc.. 100000
100000 lbs cheese at &c.. 10000
Total. al................ Sis, ,s52, 900
Farmers selling milk to cream L.
f7fffk
cries s...3.t.5.'.s.as @o1OOS
Separators in Minnesota fac
tories. .........- 23O
Separators used on farms. 200