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

Ne&
The Butter makers and Milk Sellers Well
Repressnted-Many Prominent Farm
ers Talk-Oficers Elected
c rrespondence of the Progressive Farmer.
WASHINGTON, D. O., March 2
The second annual meeting of the
National Dairy Congress was held on
Tuesday and Wednesday of this week
in the library of the Department of
Agriculture. The meeting was called
to order by President H. M. Arms, of
Springfield, Vermont, with Mr.. d. P.
Ashburn, of Nebraska, as Secretary.
The other officers of the organization
are: Vice President, J. T. Hickman, OF
Experimental Station, Ohio, and l. @.
Gabrilson, of New Hampshire, Iowa.
These four cheers constitute the Execu-
tive Committee.
The session was opened by M A. Q.
True, Director of the Experimental
Station records, who welcomed the
delegates TO Washington and the De-
partmant Of Agriculture on the part of
Secretary Morton, who was unable to
be present.
Mr.. True said nothing promised more
for for the dairy industry than the
organized attention of dairymen to
their own interests as was shown in
the results OF the Dairy Congress at
the Worlds Fair. Mr.. D. P. Ashburn,
the Secretary of the Association, re
sponded in a speech in which he urged
that the necessity upon the American
farmer at this time was to master the
details of dairying and then prevent by
legislation the sale at home or abroad
of the cheap, fraudulent limitations now
sold in foreign markets rs genuine but
ter products. We are now outsoid by
many other countries; even Denmark
sells twenty four times as much butter
in England as we do. The butter
products Of a high class n not to day
produced in the United States in ex-
cess of the legitimate demand, and can
not be until the fraudulent kinds are
driven out of the market, when, he
predicted, there will be a quick reac-
ton and good butter may be had in
sufficient quantity and at reasonable
prices.
Mr.. Ashburn then urged that our
dairymen should welcome the dairy
kindergarten, should learn and adopt
all the latest improved methods of pro
duction, and keep abreast OF the times.
1t should be the duty Of the National
Dairy Congress to promote kindergar-
ten work.
According to statistics, the annual
average production of butter is $50
pounds per COW, which sells at an aver
age Of 124 cents a pound. This reveals
the startling fact, that much Of the
product is sold at less than actual cost,
for, while the quality is poor, and the
quantity is insufficient per cow, there
can be no profit
Yet there are thousands of dairymen
all over the United States who get 25
cents for an average OF 23O pounds q
year per COW, and many diaries show
400 pounds per COW and 800 pounds
averages are common. The object
should be to make dairying a study,
weed out the poor stock, and then sell
abroad after meeting the home demand.
President II. J. Arms, of Vermont,
made a brief impromptu address, en-
phasizing the ignorance OF the work
undertaken by the Association, and as
surfing the delegates that their work
would meet with CO operation from the
Department of Agriculture and all
allied interests. He said he could make
as good butter as any people on earth,
although the average might be low.
In cheese making we we're behind.
Canada far surpassed US. In Canada
the workman took his bread and
cheese to his daily task, and was ss
we'll fed as our laborer with his bread
and meat. He urged that the cheese
interests had need of greater encourage
ment On every side.
Onmotion of Mr.. Gabrielson, of Iowa,