The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-24


That One Minnesota Dairyman
VIII Garry OF First Prize for the
season-ResuIts Thus Far Indi-
cate an Easy Victory for the
North Star State.
The fifth and final scoring of butter
| at the Omaha exposition is scheduled
| to take place tomorrow. Minnesota
will not be so we'll represented as at
| the first four scorings, and it is prob
| able that this will be true Of all other
! states. This is owing to the fact that
| those competitors that have heretofore
fallen below So points Will stand little
chance of winning any of the prizes
| for the entire series of exhibits. At
| the close of this scoring the scores Of all
| that have had exhibits at every scor-
ing will be totaled, and to the highest
| VIII be awarded the first prize in both
creamery and dairy classes. 1t is hard
! ly probable that any exhibitor from
outside this state can score sufficient
! points at this final scoring to Wrest the
! prize from Minnesota dairymen in
either class. Christ Hansen, Of Young
| America, and S. P. Bork. Of Steele
! Center, are leading, and the general
| impression is that the first prize in the
creamery class will go to one Of these
At the close of the fourth scoring
| Minnesota was away in the lead in the
| number of points scored by her dairy
men as whole, and the members of
! the dairy and food commission and 9TH
! ers interested in dairy matters are
| IN hope that the high scores that have
been made in the first four scorings
will be repeated in the final, and this
will insure this state the first prize for
q q CT
OF the $500 biennial reports printed
at the direction of the Minnesota state
dairy and food commission there are
but forty left in the hands of the COM
mission. The CALI for the report has
been great, and for several weeks the
commission has been answering re-
quests only in cases where it was as
sured that the best results would be
obtained in sending out reports. 1t is
the opinion of the members of the COM
mission that this great-call for the re-
ports is the best evidence of the inter-
est taken in Minnesota dairy matters,
not only in this state, but all over the
country, as the requests for the reports
have come from everywhere.
The members of the state dairy and
food commission are preparing to make
war on the SO-called milk preserVatives
with which the market has been flood
ed during the past year. At the next
session of the legislature a law will be
introduced forbidding the use of preser-
vatives, and it is the hope Of the COM
mission that it will be passed, and it
Is believed that all members Of the
legislature will see the necessity of
such action when the reasons of the
commission are made known to them
Assistant Commissioner Lawrence, in
speaking of the matter few days ago,
said:
IF milk is properly handled there is
no need of treating it that way. If it
is put in clean cans, poured back and
forth a few times to aerate it, cooled of
Its animal heat by standing the cans in
tubs of water or springs, it will keep
as long as it ought to, even in sultry
weather. Our forty-nine dairy rules,
of which we are just sending out an
other $4,000 copies, tell all about that
I'VE have had a lot of these prepa-
rations analysed, and. while none of
them are necessary, some of them are
nischievous. They have borax and
acids and don't know what all.
Besides, where they are used it is
often left to a hired man who doesn't
know anything about the preparations
and will put in about so much, be-
cause some one has told him so, not
even reading the directions, perhaps.
We strongly advise dairymen and con-
sumers not to have anything to do
with any of them.
"Of course, it Is proper enough when
milk has to be saved for a number of
days for a composite test. That is diff
ferent. But milk intended for con-
sumption on the table or in creamer-
les ought not to have any artificial
mixture. In cheese factories the pre-
sentative compounds change the char
1tO nq
right, doesn't separate as it should,
and one or two patches of milk that
has been treated might upset the prod
uct Of whole factory. The same way
with butter-one farmer bringing in
milk that was not right would queer
the flavor Of the days output-and it
is flavor that counts most
TT Is because the dairymen of Min
nesota observe the rules Of correct
dairying so generally that the product
is so uniformly good, getting wonder
fully even scoring at Omaha, scarcely
specimen below 3d. One or two
careless patrons would destroy the
whole creamery. The result shows
splendid intelligence and vigilance all
over the state.
Doctors realize more and more the
Importance of pure milk Sometimes
a delicate child cannot even drink pure
milk Unfortunately. We have known
cases where a life was saved by what
seems the fastidious adoption Of the
milk from one COW, trying the milk
from one after another until one was
found that the child could digest, and
sticking to that The doctors fire.
quently come to the department for
analysis and suggestions. And those
that have looked into it will confirm
the opinion of our chemists that the
preservatives may be mischievous ad-
ditions to the milk. That is something
about which people cannot be too care
full"
A recent issue of the Breeders Ca
zette contained the following interest
ing article from the pen of Prof. Thorn
as Shaw:
The sacrifice of the dual-purpose COW
during recent years is one of the great
est mistakes of American farming.
That at least is my judgment And
the wholesale way in which she has
been sacrificed is altogether regretta-
BILE. 1t Is on q par with the burning
of the mighty forests that were once
the pride and the glory of this land
i'll former days. 1t is akin to the sac
rifice of fertility that is yet going on
In the West in a way so wholesale
that it should fill the mind of the
thoughtful observer with solicitude for
the future. And the preachers Of the
gospel Of the special-purpose dairy
COW are very largely responsible for
the sacrifice Of the dual-purpose COW.
They more than anybody else are
chargeable with poisoning the minds
Of the unsuspecting farmers with the
delusion Of their teachings, and they
more than anybody else must bear the
stigma of the great check which has
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