The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-05

Secretary z. L. Danforth, Of the
Minnesota commission TO the Omaha
exposition, brought a place of news
home with him from the exposition
city that viii be source Of delight TO
the dairymen of Minnesota. 1t was, IN
effect, that the dairymen OF TINS state
had taken everything in sight a the
exposition last month, securing first
second, third and fourth prizes III the
competitive dairy exhibits. This left
little more than consolation prizes for
the exhibitors from other states anu the
record made is one Of which Minnesota
d6irymen may be justly proud.
The exhibits were large ana extensive
and were from Iowa, Nebraska, Kan
eas, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, South
Dakota and Minnesota. A representa-
tive and competent committee Of
judges passed on the relative merits Of
the different exhibits and had but little
trouble in coming to the conclusion
that Minnesota was entitled TO carry
Oft the first four prizes and be known in
the future as the banner dairy state of
the Northwest.
This distinction win mean much for
dairy interests in this state. Buyers
from all over the East and South We're
present watching with considerable
interest the exhibits and their compare
tive excellence, and the acknowledged
superiority Of the Minnesota product
cannot help but open up large Held
IN the future in Eastern and Southern
markets. The Omaha exhibits ought,
according To con petent judges, to swell
the sales Of Minnesota dairy products at
least fourfold. The dairymen have
"done themselves proud" and Will I'M
dOubtedly reap the benefits.
1N.r Co. II 40 t.A- a. ~ no
sofa exhibits in every way are excellent
and before the exposition closes many
more prizes viii be credited to this
state.
Edwin c. Powell had the following
item in Q recent issue of the Rural New
Yorker:
have always been a lover of the Ayrshire
cow and a great believer in her under GER
tain conditions. Farmers and stock breeders
OF AmCrc1 have Yet 10 learn that each breed
Of cattle differs from every other breed, and
that in certain localities, and under certain
conditions. it is the best. But no breed Of
cattle is superior to every other breed in
every place: for instance, the small York
shire pig With q turned-up nose would soon
starye in the Southern woods, where the
raZOr-bac.l lhIives.
Ayrshire cows as a breed, have the best
dairy type OF any Of our dairy breeds Pick
ing out a. hanhaZard 100 cows of Ayrshires,
Jerseys GUernseys and HOlsteins, one viii
find a larger proportion of the Ayrshires that
carry the double wedge shape so much de-
sired while in perfect, square udders, they
Gus fault Is short teaJs, and the next is
coarseneSs Of horns, to which a small per-
Centage are prone.
In bleak localities where the w,Hrer at
times is severe, where pasturage il Tcanty
and poor, and where the surface Is rough
and billy. the Ayrshire finds her stronghold.
Under these conditions, she cannot be sur
passed by any other breed. In such place,
she viii produce more milk and more butter
from the food that grows on given area
than either the Holstein or the Jersey The
climate and character of New England are
exactly suited to the needs Of the Ayrshres
and the only reason that more of them are
net found there is because so few Scotch
people have settled on the farms.
Ayrshire milk tests from 3.S to 4 per cent
of butter fat. and is the perfection of milk
for drinking. It is not SO rich as Jersey
Yaids and people Of weak constitutions.
At a recent meeting of the Guernsey
Breeders association, in Moorestown
y. J., George Abbott, one Of the MEM
bers, was asked to give an account of
visit to the Fairfield Farms dairy.
Bis description Of the dairy and the
methOds employed there was exceed
ingly interesting. About 400 COWS are
kept in two barns. The COWS are clean
ed at least three times per day: are
treated with tuberculin; mixers, four
Numbered daily; use specially con-
srucred buckets; hands and nails must
be carefully cleaned; are inspected as
milking progresses, to see that they
continue so. Milk is taken to the bot
Ting establishment overhead on wires,
four tOIty-quart cans at a time, where
it Is allowed to tr.ckle over a mammoth
Star cooler. MIX is sold for II cents a
quart, and has very good keeping
qualities, the aim being to reduce to
the greatest extent possible the num-
Der Of bacteria-200, 600 to 1000, 900 be-
ing the usual number found in a cubic
centimeter of milk handled in the ordi-
navy manner. They say they reduce
these to 10000.
practical Suggestions in Dairy and
Creamery Management" is the title Of
a pamphlet just issued by Iowa's dairy
commissioner Hon. L. S. Gates. 1t in
CluGes the dairy laws of Iowa and maps
showing The location OF every creamery,
skim station and cheese factory in
Iowa. These maps reveal that the
dairy interest is strongest in North
eastern Iowa.
Reports from railroad companies
show shipments last year as follows:
Pounds Pounds
CEickasaw 49,, IL tones ............44 3 96S
Clayton ......... 4S4 ,635 Dubuque .... 397 056
Butler .......... 49, 24 Blackhawk 80. 348 11S
Fayette ~ Linn 800 154
1t further appears that Iowa last
year exported 83,6200S1 pounds of but
ter, valued at $13,963 680.17 that the
creameries numbered 773, skim sta
tons lis, cheese factories 76. and COWS
1918. The value of the factories is
placed at $2,6SS,149, and the number
OF patrons S7,349.
In view Of the Importance the dairy
interest of Iowa has attained a cOpv
of the commissioners pamphlet should
be in the hands Of every farmer in the
state. He declares that, by careful
and capable mana cement, 10 per cent,
or 81 100000 may be added to the value
Of the product in a single year. Prob
ably this years product will exceed in
value all the gold the KIondike has
produced the past year.
A writer in the Michigan Farmer
who Is evidently an ardent believer in
cooperative creameries, sizes up the
situation in an interesting manner. He
says:
The advantages OF a rightly constructed
properly managed, cooperative creamery are
so plainly evident that the day cannot be
FAR distant when ii will be as much a matter
OF wonder to see farmers wife making her
own butter ii Is now to see one spinning
her own yarn or making homespun clothing
for her children. Not on-y is the saving
OF labor point to be considered-as the
small amount Of labor employed at the fac
tory relieves hundred women from a dis
agreeable and considerable part of their
housework-but the enormous vase that
usually accompanies the making OF butter at
home is matter that enters largely into
the question. Furthermore the fact that the
uniformly good qualify of creamery butter
vii command price above dairy butter.
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