Omaha daily bee., 1898-12-22
BRIGHT FUTURE FOR DIARIES
Everything for Their Development is Found
in This State.
BUTTER MAKERS ARE IN ANNUAL SESSION
Production in East Decreasing BE.
cause IL Does Not Pay farmers
Low Prices of Grain Argu-
ment for Nebraska.


FREMONT, Neb., Dec. 21.-(Special)-
The fourteenth annual convention Of the
Nebraska Creamery association held Its
first session last evening at Masonic hall.
in the absence Of the president, George A.
Haskell Of Lincoln, S. C.. Bassett Of Gibbon
presided The session was opened with
prayer by Rev. w. H. Buss of Fremont,
after which F. Grant sang. Hon. ]. G.
Cleland then, In behalf of the city author
tiles and citizens generally, extended to
the visitors the freedom Of the city. Gov
ernor- elect Poynter, who was on the pro-
gram for a response, was not present, owing
TO other business, and w. w. Marple OF
Lincoln responded.
The address of President Haskell was
read by Mr.. Marple Mr.. Haskell stated
that the dairy industry in Nebraska had
| made satisfactory progress during the year
1898. Up to December 20 articles Of in
corporation OF forty-six creameres had
been filed, the capital stock Of these COM
panies aggregating $2SS, 400. Should this in
crease in the organization of new creamer-
| les continue 1t would not be long before
| the entire farming district Of the state would
be accessible to them. Mr.. Haskell referred
| to the fact that the metropolitan newspa-
pers Of the state had become awakened to
the value and importance OF the industry
and had done much to bring before the peo-
! pie knowledge Of the benefits derived from
it. He considered Nebraska the best To-
Gated dairy state and saw no reason why 1t
| could not successfully compete In that
| business with Illinois, Wisconsin and New
| York.
In the way OF recommendations Mr. Has
| kell thought 1t best that the association
| urge the appointment Of a special officer,
| whose duty 1t shall be to look after the
| enforcement Of so-called dairy acts. The
| law, as 1t now stands Is satisfactory to the
| dairymen Of the state, but it is not en-
| forced. In both Omaha and Lincoln guam
! titles Of oleomargarine are sold, contrary
to the law. He also advocated the enact
| ment of a national law against oleomar-
garine owing to the present conflict Of laws
OF the various states. A larger attendance
at the meetings OF the association would
be had. Mr.. Haskell added, If the date Of
meeting were changed
Discuss Practical Matters.
The dairymen spent most Of the time to-
| day discussing practical matters connected
| with the management of creameries, the
questions considered being how to interest
the farmers and retain their patronage. The
first paper was by Charles Harding Of Nor
| folk on the Management OF Swimming Sta
| tions" The principal difficulty in managing
| such stations he said was in getting the
farmers to bring their milk. Up to JURY
1 this is an easy task, but when they have
their corn to plow and haying and other
| farm work to attend to they do not like to
| take the time to milk the cows and the
| creameries cannot get the milk they want.
A prominent authority has said, Mr.. Hard
| ing added, that the difficult problem of. the
| creamery was to get the farmer to see that
his interest and that of the creamery were
identical. The actual cost Of production Of
1880, 900 pounds Of butter at a welf man
aged creamery was cents per pound, while
100000 could be made at an actual cost
OF but IN cents. Further discussion. fol-
lowed on the value Of pasteurized SKINNED
milk as feed for calves, which developed
considerable difference Of opinion.
| F. w. Edmunds Of Greeley, Neb., spoke on
Nebraska as a dairy state. He said that
| the production of butter in the east was
diminishing because the farmers found it
more profitable to sell their stock than to
pay the high prices necessary for grain and
feed to keep them in the best shape for
dairy purposes. Wisconsin, Illinois and
Minnesota, he thought. had reached their
limit in the production Of butter. Nebraska
with cheaper corn and grain could easily
compete with them, and all that was needed
| was to get the farmers to keep cows for
the milk and not for stock purposes.
Nebraska Rich in Resources.
| fine exhibit Of butter, cheese and cream
| cry supplies is open for public inspection In
the lower floor Of the Biles block and is
| attracting much attention. There are ex-
hibits of butter from a large number OF
| Nebraska creameries, as we'll as from farm
dairies and Of quality to convince the
most skepucal that Nebraska butter cannot
be beaten The butter and cheese will be
scored by competent Judges and the results
| announced tomorrow. Dairymen who have
examined it are confident that 1t will score
| as high, II not higher than the famous Min
nesota butter which received so many award =
| at the exposition last summer. s. C. Bas-
| set Of Gibbon, who was connected with the
| dairy exhibit of the exposition, stated this
morning that he wished to reply to some
OF the criticisms on the butter awards at
the exposition. He said the awards were
| correctly rendered and that the judges did
not know what butter they were testing, alr
tubs or packages being numbered and par
ticular pains being taken to mix up other
butter with that from Minnesota The rea-
son why Nebraska Jared SO poorly was be-
| Cdusc ltS UutleT was uOI Sulppeu III BOOQ
shape some Of 1t reaching Omaha already
spoiled and because so little, comparatively,
| was sent.
Experiments by Lyons.
This afternoon Prof. Lyons Of the State
university experiment station detailed the
result OF series Of experiments with diff
ferent kinds Of forage plants showing
which was the most valuable for pasturing
the pastures being one-ifth OF an acre
each and one COW pastured on each. Sorg-
hum made the best pasturage and cows
pastured on alfalfa produced the most milk
S. c. Bassett of Gibbon spoke on dairy leg
islation. He said the only new law needed
was one providing for dairy commits
sioner. AS the constitution would not per-
NIT such an office, he wanted to have the
governor made commissioner with power
to appoint a secretary. To pay the salary OF
commissioner and provide money to en-
force the dairy acts would require. he es-
timated, $4,000 for the next two years, for
its enforcement would meet with tre-