Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-26
THEY MAKE OUR BUTTER
Congress of Dairymen Assembled to Discuss
Their Work.
Interesting Discussion OF Various
Topics Important I'm the Butter
and Cheese Industry.

o'clock this morning In the library Of the
Agricultural Department. The number
present was limited, as the session will ex-
tend over several days, and many dele
gates will arrive to attend later meetings.
when the practical routine work Of the
gathering is reached. There were present
at the session today the following dele
gates:
H. j. Wing, representing the agricultural
experiment station at Experiment, Ca; z.
L. Gabrilson. New Hampton. Iowa; D. p.
Ashburn. Gibbon, Neb; H. NJ. Arms.
Springfield. VT; George w. Mcclure. Tren-
ton, N. j.; E: Lee Goss, Somerset, Va; R.
B. Chaffin. Richmond, Va; George NJ. Whit
taker. Boston, Mass; Congressman e. j.
Hainer of Nebraska, Congressman ]. c.
Sibley of Pennsylvania. w. B. Hawkins,
Conn; r. E. Bullard, Salem, Ohio; George
E. Manchester, Winstead, Conn; A. R.
Eastman, Waterville, N. Y; c. H. Water
house. Windsor, VT; J. R. Dodge, Wash
ington; D. E. Salmon, Washington; D. p
Bennett, Wisconsin.
Mr.. A. c. True, director of the Expert
ment Station Record, welcomed the asso-
citation to Washington and the department.
on part of Secretary Morton, who was
unable to be present. Mr.. True said moth
ing promised more for the dairy industry
than the organized attention of dairymen
| to their own interests, as was shown in
worlds fair in 1893.
Master the Details.
Mr.. D. P. Ashburn of Nebraska, secre-
tary of the association, responded in q
speech in which he urged that the neces-
sity 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 as
genuine butter products. We are now out
sold by many other countries; even Den
mark sells twenty-four times as much but
ter to England as we do. Mr.. Ashburn
stated that butter products of a high class
are not today produced in the United States
in excess of the legitimate demand and
carnot be until the fraudulent kinds are
driven out of market, when. he predicted.
there will be quick reaction and good
butter may he had in sufficient quantity
and at reasonable prices.
The Dairy Kindergarten.
He also urged that our dairymen should
welcome 'the dairy kindergarten-should
learn and adopt all the latest improved
methods of production and keep abreast of
the times. This kindergarten work it should
be the duty of the National Dairy Congress
to promote. According to statistics the an
nual average production of butter is 13O
pounds per COW. which sells at an average
cf 12i2 cents a pound. This reveals the
startling fact that much of the product Is
sold for less than actual cost, for, while
the quality is poor and the quantity insult
ficient per COW there can be no profit. Yet
there are thousands. Of idairymoffA all over
average of go pounds a yeaF per COW. and
many dairies show 400 pounds per COW and
3Uo-pound averages are common. The OBJ
ject should be, he said, to make dairying
study, weed out the poor stock and then
sell abroad after meeting the home de-
mand.
Making Cheese.
President H. j. Arms Of Vermont made
brief impromptu address emphasizing
the Importance of the work undertaken by
the association, and assuring the delegates
that their work would meet with co-opera-
ton from the Department Of Agriculture
and all allied interests. He said We could
make as good butter as any people on
earth, although the average might look
low. But We need always to keep the
whole line of effort up as high as possible.
In cheese making We were behind. Canada
far surpassed us. In Canada the workman
took his bread and cheese to his daily
task, and was as well fed our laborer
with his bread and meat. He urged that
the cheese interest had need of fostering
care and greater encouragement on every
side.
order of business was adopted. and COM
mittees on credentials resolutions and ac-
counts were appointed as follows:
Credentials-Robert A. Potter, Bristol,
Conn; d. p. Ashburn. Gibson, Neb.; E.
Lee Goss. Somersat, Va.
Resolutions-George M. Whitaker, Bos-
ton, Mass; George w. MCGUIRE Trenton,
N. j.; w. B. Hawkins, Lexington. KY.
Accounts-R. b. Chaffin, Richmond, Va;
George E. Manchester, Winsted, Conn: r.
Z. Billiard, Salem, o.
Address by Prof. Dabney.
Assistant Secretary Dabney was intro
duced. and speaking for the department
said the Secre tary was disposed to do all
that lay in his power to promote the in
dustry they represented. He said there
had been limitations. heretofore, in the ap-
propriations available for the work in
Volved, but that was remembered in the
new appropriation bill. What policy would
control in the work before the department
in this line he could not say 1t would be
practical yet scientific and In full alliance
with the dairymen of the country.
There was disposition in some sections
to cavil at the work Of the scientific farmer
and only the other day q member of Con-
gress had told him by no means did he
want the departments bulletin on barn
yard manure to be sent to his constituents,
for they laughed at 1t and it did him no
good. Yet in no branch of the farming
had SO much been accomplished for the
farmer by scientific research as in this one
of dairyng. He predicted that the care
constantly richer farm and safer bank ac-
count and more Independent status in
his community.
The subject Of the place for holding the
next meeting was brought up by Mr.. Wing
OF Georgia. who renewed the invitation
sent by Gov. Northen last year to have the
dairy congress meet in Atlanta during the
exposition. and he coupled with 1t the in
ducement of free transportation. Mr..
Wing said dairying in the south was in Its
infancy, but he would like to show the
people Of the north what a favored region
there is in the mountain country from
Macon. Ga, northward. He had been able
to Craze his stock on barley and rye all
winter, except for three days, when there
was sleet storm. and he had cut green
food for them all winter, except for about
three weeks. Everywhere was an 1bund-
ance of pure water, one of the first condi-
tons for good butter making.
What Virginia Can Do.
Mr.. Chaffin of Richmond said he would
take pleasure in demonstrating to the gen
tlemen present before the meetings were
over that in the favored climate of Virginia
with her rich soil it was possible to pro-