St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-18
MINNESOTA DAIRY AHEAD.

On Sunday the G o contained a
cut of the silver statue, representing a
creamery operator standing beside his
vat of cream holding and examining a
cream test tube, that was award
ed to a dairy company of this
city, at the convention of the
National Butter Makers associa-
ton, held at Cedar Rapids, 10. It's
weight is, SO 1-3 pounds of solid silver,
and its value is $500. The butter en-
tered by this firm tested 97S2 out of a
possible 100.
The award has attracted more at
tention in the East than it has here in
the West, possibly because here we
have been accustomed so long to eX-
cellent butter from our creameries and
because, in the East, they have come
to depend on the West for their butter,
and being fastidious as to- it's quail
ity, and made uneasy by the wide
spread of tuberculosis among their
cows, they look eagerly for regions
producing butter Of high grade and
exempt from the suspicion of Infection
with the dread disease. The New York
Times says, editorially, that this cap
ture of the prize by the Minnesota
dairymen is not wholly without inter-
est to health authorities who are striv-
ing to purify the herds or this coun-
try. A few weeks ago the state vet
erinarian of Illinois declared that so
per cent of the COWS in the famous
On the other hand, the sanitary au-
thorities in Minnesota have made no
table progress in the work of eradicat-
ing bovine tuberculosis and protecting
consumers of dairy products. The
people of the Twin Cities realize the
Importance Of this sanitary work, and
it is fitting that the first prize should
be won by the owners of a dairy situat-
ed where such sanitary regulations
concerning dairy products are en-
forced"
Westward the star of butter as we'll
as empire takes it's way. Thirty years
ago Goshen" butter was king of the
markets everywhere. More butter firk-
ins carried the Orange county brand
than were made in the whole state of
New York. The reputation won by the
butter makers of that county was ex-
plotted by other makers who did not
scruple to affix the brand to their
make. The result was inevitable in
the decline Of the reputation of Goshen
butter and its final disappearance 1t
is singular that in the movement west
ward, the dairy districts of neither
Ohio, Indiana nor Illinois established
regulations that made their butter in
demand outside the localities of it's
manufacture, and that the jump should
have been made from Orange county.
New York, to Delaware county, Iowa.
But the fame of the latter county was
soon eclipsed by that of the Elgin dis
trict, which, until now, has held the
palm which passes, by the award of
the National association, to Minnesota.
1t was in no slightly contested field
that Minnesota carried off the prize.
Over five hundred dairies entered their
exhibits in the lists. The competitors
came from Maine and California, COW
ering the intermediate territory. In
such field merit only could win, and
Minnesota has cause to congratulate
herself that one of her dairies carries
off this splendid prize, valuable more in
the standing it will give to our butter
than for it's intrinsic value What the
Milton company has done others can
do. If equal care is used in inspection
of the dairies from which the cream
comes; in the manipulation of the deli
cate product, so sensible to injurious
surroundings; and in the employment
of skillful and experienced butter MAX
ers, the dairies of the state can make
Minnesota butter king of the markets.