The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-19
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MINNESOTA BUTTERMAINE RS LOOK
TO SEPTEMBER SCORING AT
OMAHA HOPEFULLY
THEY WILL HAVE MORE TIME

the Scoring Is Done - Some
Think There Were Not Judges
Enough at the State Fair.
Wednesday there will be another
scoring Of butter at the Omaha expo
sition. and this time Minnesota is TO
be even better represented than at the
August scoring, and Supt. Harris is
confident that the showing will be bel
ter although it would seem that that
is hardly possible, since Minnesota
captured everything in sight in August.
Supt. Harris thinks, however, that the
quality of the butter, owing TO the
more favorable weather and change
I'm the rules, will be better and the scor-
ing will be higher.
The change in the rules will give the
butterma kers a chance. At the August
scoring they were allowed but sixty
hours in which to prepare eXhlplls
after receiving their notices, and then
but five days remained before the
scoring. Under the change, they were
allowed 100 hours to prepare the eX-
hibits, and ten days will have elapsed
before the scoring. This has allowed
plenty of time. and is the principal rea-
son that Supt. Harris has for believing
that the butter will be of better quail
ity.
There will be between forty and fifty
exhibitors at this scoring, including
the creameries at Window, Blue Earth
City. Wells, Lindstrom, Traverse, st.
Martin. Owatonna, Albert Lea, Fair
mont, Alpha, Big Lake, Sleepy Eye,
GAINESVILLE, Spring Grove, OWanna,
Pratt St BOniface, Rochester, Nor
rfstown, Mankato, st. Cloud, st.
Charles, Skyberg, Lafayette, Litchfield,
Medford, WacOnia, Young America,
Amboy, Webster and Sacred Heart.
The number of exhibitors is quite an
increase over the number that had
butter at the August scoring. The eX-
hibits have been received at the colo
storage Of the Minnesota Butter ana
Cheese company during the past week,
and yesterday were forwarded to Oma-
ha in a special refrigerator car.
Some little dissatisfaction has been
expressed by the creamery men Of the
state over the manner in which the
Minnesota State Fair association con-
ducts its dairy exhibit. One of the
principal creamery men, in speaking
of the matter, said: The buttermak-
ers are almost unanimous in the idea
that the prizes offered by the fair as
ISOLATION should be for the butter of
the state of Minnesota exclusively. 1t
is not that they desire to freeze out
competition from other states, but, if
the fair association wants to let other
states in, then they think that a sep
arate class might be established for
that purpose. Minnesota is not an old
state in the making of butter, and it
hardly seems just that she should be
asked to compete with the creamery
men of other states who have had long
er and wider experience, at least not
for a few years yet.
This is one of the points that has
aroused dissatisfaction, and another is
the manner in which the scoring is
done. Minnesota dairymen ship al
most exclusively to New York, and yet
the association sent to Boston for a
man to do the scoring. There is not
a question but what the scoring was
done in fair and impartial manner,
but it goes without saying that a man
familiar with the butter received at
the Boston markets is not capable of
judging butter prepared for market
ing at another point.
The butter received a the New York
and Boston markets is far from iden-
teal, and it seems but just and proper
that man familiar with Minnesota
butter should be employed to do the
scoring. There is also a decided opin-
len that the task is far too great for
one man. No one man on earth can
test twenty tubs of butter prepared
for exhibition purposes and then state
correctly which is the best. 1t strikes
US all that in future the scoring should
be done by three men, two judges and
referee"
In connection with the October scor-
ms Of butter at the exposition, the
cheesemakers will be given a chance.
and will be asked to send in their nrud-
0cts for competitive scoring This
viii be in charge Of Supt. Harris, as are
abe butter exhibits, and. about Oct I
Re Will send instructions to all the
3heesemakeTs in the state. 1t is ex-
Vected that Minnesota cheese will make
IS good showing as has Minnesota
butter
tomorrow the executive board Of the
@atiOnal Dairymen's association will
&oid meeting in Omaha Supt. Har-
rs left for Omaha yesterday and will
be present at the meeting. 1t is ex-
Yected that matters of Importance will
be taken up and discussed.
j. G. Evans, in a paper read before
the Farmers institute in Kansas, dis
cussed the subject, 1.-The Farmers
Dairy Cow" drawing a distinction be-
tween the farmer who makes dairying
a speciality and the one who regards
II as branch of general farming. He
eaid:
My connection with the creamery
business for the last few years has
been such as to bring me into per
GENIAL conversation with many farmers
Who have said they would like to have
more stock to feed, but could hardly
Keep a COW year just to raise a calf
and to so on the market as long as
the prices We're generally so high that
[he chance for realizing a profit was
Sery uncertain. And this class of cat
sie are generally unsatisfactory, while
they could keep a few COWS to raise
what they wanted for the feed lot and
realize something from the cow be-
sides, they would like to do so.
And now, to solve this problem. comes
the creamery, and although it may be
a little foreign to the subject in hand
L want to say word just here for the
creamery. 1t comes to us as our friend
and not as an enemy. No wide-awake
intelligent creameryman but what rec
ognlZes the closely allied interests be-
tween the producer of milk and tha
manufacturer Of butter; and he is AL
ways on the alert to protect the in
Ieresus OF his patrons, for upon them.
depends his success or failure And no
up~to-date creameryman but what will
say to you today that he would prefer
to be paying 20 cents per pound for
butter fat rather than Is if the market
would justify 1T.
From an experience of eight or fen
Years, my ideal COW for the general
farmer is one that will give milk for
at least ten months of the wear nro-
ducing In that time 5000 to 1000 mounds
of milk that will test at least 4 nor
cent butter fat, and as much more in
quality as good feeding and manage
ment can induce her to do. She should