The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-12-01
DAIRY ASSOCIATION.
Fifth Annual Meeting OF the
State Dairy Association
at Higginsville.
PROCEEDINGS or THE MEETING.

The Dairymen OF Missouri Are Maxim.
Their Association q Success, a.
This Meeting Will Testify.
H~igginsville entertained the butter
and cheese makers of Missouri thi,
week, and Higginsville did it royalty
The citizens Of that city are always OF
the lookout for some convention, ant
when they getj One-and they nearI,
always get what they go after, thsy
throw wide their doors and make III,
guests feel at home, so to speak.
There are five creameries i'm thi.
county. They are all n~ourishing, ant
turn out from 1000 to 5000 pounds Of
butter each week. This butter on the
market brings from Ie to Is cents PEI
pound and finds ready sale.
There are about one hundred dairie:
In Missouri. The state association rep
resents 1851 mich cows, valued a,
$l3 1855, 40. Missouri is the sixth dairy
state in the Union, and Lafayette the
first county in Missouri.
The meetings at H~igginsville wert
held in the courthouse. His honor
Mayor Swartz, delivered a pleasing and
an eloquent welcome address to the del
egates, to which President Patterson, OF
Kirksville, responded.
Secretary Levi Chubbuck read his an.
nual report, which was full of statistics
and very instructive. 1t covered well
the entire ground Of the work of the
past year.
or the second days proceedings, the
Kansas City Times contains the follow
ing:
This was German Day." out OF
compliment to and for the special bene-
ht OF about $50 German farmers who are
the steady patrons of the creameries at
ConcOrdia, twelve miles south Of Hig-
other points. The German district
around Concordia and Higginsville il
one Of the richest and most highly cul-
tivated In Central Missouri. Three
years ago . creamery was started in that
district with only seventeen farmers who
would bring milk regularly, or even ir-
regularly. Now the three creameries
mentioned above have Q large regular
patronage from the farmers. For in
stance, the creamery at Alma makes on
an average of 100 pounds of butter a
week, equal to at least 1000 pounds q
year, and pays nearly seyenty-five reeu-
lar patrons cash for milk and cream.
The Conc0rdia creamery, during the ten
months ending November /, 1894, bought
q total Of 1,6S5, 507 pounds Of milk, for
which was paid to the farmers Sill ,232 in
cash. From this milk was made IL
0S7 pounds OF butter. The creamery
which Q the Bsbcock test to decide
the butter value Of milk. has paid from
Ut cents to 70 cents per pound for but
ter rat. The lowest amount of butter
made was in February-4,991 pounds 4;
the highest amount in last October, s.
Us pounds. The creamery started
three years ago. As will be 9 from
the list OF names given below, there was
Q largo representation to-day from every
dairy and creamery district in the sur
rounding country"
Mr.. Charles Mustfedt, Of Kirksville,
delivered . speech in German, and other
German speeches were made.
In the creamery class the following
samples Of butter were ON exhibition to
compete for prizes: MAYHEM cream.
cry, 6O-pound package; Corder cream
cry, 25 pounds; Adams Il Son, Chilli
Gothic, Is pounds; Concordia creamery,
25 pounds; Alma, IS pounds ; Center
view. 60 pounds; Sweet Springs, two
packages, 25 and GU pounds; Helena
creamery, 25 pounds; Star creamery.
st. Joseph, IS pounds; Cook s. Sons,
Maysville, s5 pounds; Thomas N.
Moore, Amity, Is pounds.
Dairy Class-Mrs. Henry Robins,
MAYHEM, 5-pound package; IL. T. Dit
mer, Concordia. 8 pounds; II. C. Best,
Golden City. Fred leffman, OF Cor
der, Mrs. Asbury, of HigginsvilIe. p.
E. Aver, Of Higginsyille, Mrs. Mas
terson, Of st. Joseph, each one 5-pound
package; John Patterson, of Kirksville,
two 2s-pound packages; G. w. Hayden.
st. Paul, Mo-, one 25-pound package.
Cheese-Kidder Cheese factory. Kid
der, four lO-pound Young America.
The committee to examine butter and
award premiums consisted of W. N.
Tivy. Of st. Louis; A. NJ. Chamberlain.
Of Waterloo. Ia, and W. r Goodrode,
Of Chicago. The awards were as fol-
For the best of creamery butter,
drst premium. MAYHEM creamery,
prize, $l2; Cordsr creamery, s.; Alma
creamery, -; Adams q Son, Chilli
81; Star creamery. st. Joseph,
81; Sweet Springs creamery, So; Hell
ena Creamery company. s..
MAYHEM creamery also gets the gold
medal offered by Wells, Richardson s
Co., valued at 800.
Sweet Springs also gets the Elgin
Dairy butter, first premium, Mrs. T.
of Lexington, Mo-, SIS; also
The food steamer offered by the Kros-
mey & Ritter Manufacturing company /;
also a pro rata premium Of 81.
Second premium, II. e. Best, Golden
City, John Patterson, Kirksviile, a SIS
De Laval separator and $25 worth of
butter tubs offered by the Creamery
Package Manufacturing company, of
City, Mo-. IL. N. Dittmar. Con-
a pro rata premium; l.. w.
Hayden, st. Paul. pro rata premium ;
Mrs. Asbury, Of Hi2ginsville, pro rata
premium; F. Lehman, of Corder, p.
E. Ayers, Of Higginsyille, Mrs. +.
Of Lexington, all pro rata pre-
The Kidder cheese factory, of Kider,
Mo-, received the first premium of $40
Tor the best cheese.
After the award of premiums j. w.
Of Alma, read a paper on ''The
Relation Of the Farmer to the Cream
At the Wednesday session, among other
matters before the Missouri
State Dairymsn's association was: First,
The committee on awards announced the
names of prize winners, also the "oficial
score" IN dairy products. The score of
points out Of . possible 100 on butter of
two grades, will be of special interest to
all butter-makers and was as follows:
Creamery butter-Points scored by May
view creamery, 81 2-S; Corder, IS 2-3;
Alma, So; Concordia, n 20; all located in