The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-15
CHEESE PRODUCT GREATER
MINNESOTA IS TAKING MORE
INTEREST IN 1T
Legislation Against Fraudulent
Articles Has Helped In Advancing
This Branch of the farmers In
dustry--Creamerie Still Get the
Bulk of the MILK. However, on
Account of the Reliable Market.

dustry--Creamer Still Get the
Bulk of the MILK. However, on
Account of the Reliable Market.
The cheese industry Of Minnesota is
just now in very fiourishing condi-
ton. 1t is a matter of record that it
does not increase in the proportion that
the creamery interests do, but there
are many causes for this. In the first
place, cheese factories operate only
about six months of the year, and then
they have to contend with filled and
skim cheese that has been placed on
the market and sold under fancy
brands as full cream" at reduced
price. These things have tended to
discourage manufacturers to certain
extent. Many farmers prefer to sell
their milk to a creamery, owing to the
fact that they have a market for the
entire year, and also because they have
the SKINNED milk returned to them,
and 1t is of great value, especially
where the farmer raises his calves and
hogs.
Despite these drawbacks, the indus
try is in such shape at the present
writing as to call forth only the most
encouraging expressions from those
most interested in it's promotion
The cheese made in Minnesota is of
excellent quality and texture, and is
of quite uniform color. Minnesota ira lie
demands. a soft, light-colored cheese,
and manufacturers are doing their best
to produce cheese. in keeping with
the tastes of the Northwestern people,
The departure of Mr.. Frink, former
ly resident manager of the B. F. Fargo
supply house of this city, is a matter
OF deep regret to all interested in the
creamery business. Mr.. Frink leaves
to accept a position in a larger field of
usefulness, and he takes with him the
good wishes of the trade in the North
west.
Grin Douglass, of Boston, will score
the butter at the Minnesota state fair
Sept. DO. Mr.. Douglass is not. a
stranger to the dairymen Of the state,
and they have confidence i'm his integ-
rity and ability Exhibitors may be
assured that the scoring will be done
honestly and fairly
The last eight years has witnessed
wonderful growth In the Guernsey cat
tie interest. There are 1890 Guern-
seys entered on the books of the Amer
lean Guernsey Cattle club, over one
third of which have been added since
the worlds fair year. There are 161
members in the club, or rather that is
the number Of the membership certif-
ieateS issued.
These cattle are deservedly popular,
and a registered Guernsey sire, crossed
on a herd of native cows, never fails to
leave in his offspring clear evidence of
his prepoItency.
The introduction of the Swedish sys-
tenn of cream raising in this country in
1876 was an important event in Amer
lean butter making. Until then it was
generally understood that the milk
should be set in shallow pans stand
forty-eigiht hours and never be allowed
to get very cold. The Swedish system
is just opposite in each feature. First,
the milk is set In deep cans; second,
it need not stand longer than from one
milking to the next, at the longest
third, it's temperature should be quick
ly reduced to forty-hve degrees or, be-
low.
Some one has remarked, in sub
stance, that in the year of our LORD
1r00 we will have the new farmer
When the artist gets snap shot al
him, he will be busy setting nitrogen
traps, cultivating bacteria or hunting
for nodules; armed with a compound
pencil may sketch him on tour
awheel, with breaker, glass rod and q
bundle of blue litmus paper-looking
for acidity in the soil.
Legurninosea will be his watchword
and his conversations will be Of lime
and clover, chemicals and cultivation
nutrients, rations and calorics, butter
fat, starters and ripenerS, the bacteria
of the dairy, the root cellar, insect
cides, fungicides, snuts, scabs, blight
and the ke.-Northwestern Agricul-
turist.
Among the outlets for butter which
the war has made, that furnished by
the navy department is not inconsid-
cradle. A recent contract was for 121,
600 pounds, to be packed in hermeticai-
ly sealed three-pound cans, these be-
ing in turn packed in cases containing
tWenty-four cans.
Prof Troop, of the Indiana expert
ment station, recently lost a COW of
the kind that we wish were more
numerous in the dairy herds of the
country. She was credited with giving
in one month 200 pounds of milk, test
ing 5.8 per cent butter fat, at twelve
years Of age, which is equal to 23a
pounds of butter fat per day. In one
year by actual test she placed to her
credit $130, after deducting from the
gross income $55 for feed and care
1t seems that the unfortunate diff
Guilty in connection with the butter ex-
hibit from this state at Omaha did
not prevent some of our perseverine
buttermakerS from getting there The
showing was not large from any state
but Minnesota. was only second to Kan
sas in the number of packages, and
the sample from the state scoring high
est was 961s, by P. J. Rosenau, Of Mer-
iden. There is no reason why there
should not be a good exhibit for the
next three months, and a showing
made of what the state can do in a
butter contest
One of the great drawbacks in dairy
ing Is the difficulty of securing honest
faithful help. There is generally nc
complaint to make so far as pecuniary
matters are concerned, but there IS
honesty in another direction to be con.
sidered. The majority of milkmen are
neither strict nor particular in the
performance Of their work when the
employers eye is not upon them. There
are but very few people who can find
pleasure in milking number of COWS
morning and night, month in and
month out, yet 1t must be done with
the most perfect regularity and thor
oughness. The udder must be emptied
to the last drop, and if this is not done
every time the supply will be likely to
fall short every time. Nature, finding
that more milk has been produced than
is taken from the udder, will abstain
from producing so much milk and de-
vote the food to the production of fat
or muscle.
Ii there is any one part of the farm
mat is neglected in the summer time
Wnen the rush of harvesting takes I'm