The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-12

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September, thus getting three crops
from one acre In twelve months. /
find soiling more profitable than graz
ing for cattle by walking " g the.
fields in wet weather do much damage,
to say nothing OF the general waste of
manure. I am now carrying nearly
500 head of COWS, heifers, calves, work
mules, brood mares and colts on four
hundred acres of cultivated land, but
only by soiling can this be done. Labor
In the South is cheap and our people
will welcome our Northern and West
ern friends to come and make their
home in old Virginia, regardless of
politics or religion, where the farmer
can do out door work practically twelve
months in the year without being
frozen in winter, o burnt up in sum-
mer.
George M. Whitaker, editor of the
New England Former, and Dairy Com
missioner of Massachusetts, read a paper
on the milk supply of large cities, Civ
ing statistics of the immense quantities
OF milk consumed. An important con-
sideration in the milk business is the
quality of milk. Mr.. Whitaker stated
that the ideal way of selling milk
would be on quality, high grade milk
commanding the highest price. The
care Of milk at the farm requires much
attention. Milk drawn by clean men,
in a clean barn from clean COWS, into
clean utensils and then properly cooled
will keep much longer than other milk.
The sanitary phase of the question is
also important. Milk is a medium for
transmission of disease germs. With
the present tuberculosis agitation this
phase of the subject deserves emphatic
attention.
The speaker concluded with a de-
scription of the methods of doing the
milk business in Boston, where it is
bought by middlemen, who transport
thong distances in special refrigerator
cars and sell it in the city to peddlars.
Mr.. Wing, of Georgia, read a paper
showing the natural advantages of his
State for the dairy business. Congress
man - made a brief speech TO the
Association on the need of support
from dairymen for the oleomargarine
bill now pending in Congress. He
asked the Association tO call on Speaker
Crisp in a body and urge him to give
the bill its chance this session.
A constitution was then adopted
making the name of the organization
the National Dairy Congress, to be
composed Of one or more delegates
from each State Dairy Association,
Experiment Station and State Depart
ment of Agriculture, or dairy bureau,
each State to have one vote in the meet
ing Of the Congress
Upon motion of Mr.. Potter, of Con
necticut, an amendment to the by laws
was adopted providing that dairymen
from all parts of the country may be
eligible to honorary membership upon
the payment of a fee Of $40.
Mr. Goss, of Virginia, suggested that
legislation against coloring oleomar
garine would go far toward preventing
the sale of fraudulent butter. No one
would think of eating the white clear
talloW if it were not disguised by the
yellow coloring matter mixed with it,
and which itself is a fraud to begin
with.
MI. Gabrielson said this was the law
to day in Iowa. Oleo could not be col
ored there. 1t must be sold clean and
white and as a result it was hardly
sold at all.
MI. Ashburn declared this was likely
to be the use in Nebraska. A bill has
just passed the legislature there making
it impossible to put any shade of color
ing matter in oleo, or even to have the
coloring matter en- hand.
MI. Walker, of Virginia, said this
oleO fraud was the worst blow ever
struck at the average farmer.
Mr.. Whitaker brought up the matter
of renovated butter, which was q
product almost as bad as oleo. This
product was sold under labels, was
generally bad, and the cleo people,
taking up this line of goods, and by
expatiating on its bad qualities made
capital for their own.
The Congress then adjourned to go
to the Capitol and urge upon Speaker
Crisp the Importance of giving the oleo
bill consideration this session.
The following officers were elected
for the ensuing term: President, Fl M.
| Arms, Of Vermont, V~ice-President. A.