The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-21
BUTTER AND CHEESE MAKERS
CREAMERY MEN OF THE STATE
HAVE BUSY TIMES
Four Cooperative Institutions
Opened in Different Parts of the
State Last Week-Farmers Are
Becoming Interested Through
the Efforts of the State Organic
ers-Rules Adopted.

Becoming Interested Through
the Efforts of the State Organic
| ers-Rules Adopted.
The last week has been an especial
| ly busy one among the creamery men
! of the state
-Four cooperative creameries were
opened in different parts of the state,
and the corps of creamery organizers
| put In a busy week on the Great North
ern road north of st. Cloud, interest
| ing the farmers in the subject of CO.
operative creamerieS and cheese facto-
| ries.
A creamery was opened at Roscoe
this week which cost the farmers of
the vicinity $4,000. This is one Of the
most complete creameries in the state.
Creameries costing from $4,000 to $4,000
were also organized at Fairfax, Zum-
brota and Ottawa, MINI.
The state dairy and food commits
sioners issued Saturday pure
food certificate" to new cheese fac
| tory recently organized at Benedict,
MINI. Benedict and vicinity furnish
excellent support to the new enter
prise, owing to the number of mich
cows imported during the last few
years.
The corps of creamery organizers,
consisting of Prof Paul Coffman, Of
| the department of animal husbandry
Of the North Dakota agricultural
| school,; Robert Crickmore, Of the State
| Dairymen's association, and G. l..
| Smith, Of the state dairy and food
department, held two very successful
| meetings at Breckenridge and Camp
| bell.
In addition to these, addresses were
| delivered by local agriculturists in
| terested in the project. Despite the
continued bad weather, large crowd
Of farmers attended both meetings,
| and everything indicated that, when
the corps left, a creamery would be
| organized In the near future.
| The enterprise was left in the hands
| of competent local creamery men.
AT Campbell the organizers met with
| equally good success, and at the other
towns along the Great Northern they
were well received.
Were it not for the unqualified sue
cess which has attended the efforts of
the corps in this direction, the dates
would have been Cancelled, and they
would have returned to their homes,
as the weather was greatly detrimen-
| tai to the work of organizing, as the
farmers could not get into town.
The first part Of this week the corps
will make Moose Lake and Barnum,
|
the Chicago & Northwestern railway,
| west of Winona.
Pasteurized milk, like all new depart
ures, will require some time to intro
duce. There can be no doubt as to
the desirability of pasteurized milk in
| the cities, and even in the country
where the farmers do not take
| proper care of their cows.
| ]. A. Lawrence, assistant state GARY
and food commissioner, stated Satur-
| day that the merits of pasteurized milk
went without saying. 1t was greatly
| superior to a large proportion of the
milk which floods the city market.
| 1t could not be said of pasteuriZed
milk that it was superior to the per-
! lection Of cows milk But that being
difficult to secure the pasteurized prod
uct promised to become very popular
| With the people.
A new creamery is being erected at
| EStelline, N. D.
| Minnesota now has 700 cooperative
creameries and cheese factories within
| her boundaries. 1t is especially inter
esting to note the progress in this state
when compared with other states. The
! industry is quite young in Minnesota
| the first creamery having been built
but few years ago. In South Dakota
the creamery interests are also making
| rapid strides. Less than six years ago
the first creamery was organized in
| South Dakota by Minnesota man, S.
S. Gibbs. Since then frequent meet
| tngs held by organizers in farming
| communities have resulted in cream
cries being dotted all over THE south
| ern part of the state.
| There is room for a well organized
creamery in every good-sized town in
! the state. The farmers are just be-
| ginning to awake to the Importance and
profit of the industry. Since wheat
raising in this state has in many sec
| tons turned out to be improbable,
many will turn their attention to dairy
| ing.
There is every reason to believe that
| the next annual convention Of the Ma
tional Butter Makers association will
be held in Sioux Falls. S. D. The mat
ter was left in the hands of the execu-
| tive committee, of which j. B. Will
liams, of the dairy and food department
| of this state, was a member. Sioux
Falls seemed to be the choice Of the
| last convention.
| The following set Of fifty-one rules
| prepared by the dairy and food de-
partment, is now in the printers hands
| and will be sent to every creamery
and licensed dealer in the state:
Read current dairy literature and keep post
! ed ideas.
| Observe and enforce the utmost cleanliness
| about the cattle their attendants, the
stable, the dairy, and all utensils.
! A person suffering from any disease.
who has been exposed to contagious
| disease must remain away from the cows
! and the milk.
! Keep dairy cattle in room or building by
| themselves. 1t is preferable to have no
cellar below and storage loft above
Stables should be we'll ventilated. lighted
and drained; should have tight floors and
walls and be plainly constructed.
Never use musty or dirty litter.
Allow strong smelling material in the
stable for any length Of time. Store the
| manure under outside the
stable and remove 1t to a distance as
| often as practicable.
| Whitewash the stable once or twice a year;
use land plaster in the manure cutters
daily.
Use no dry. dusty feed just previous to
milking; if fodder is dusty, sprinkle it be-
fore 1t is fed.
] Clean and thoroughly air the stable before
| -milking.
Keep the stable and dairy room in good
| condition; fresh air and clean.
| Promptly remove from the herd any animal
suspected of being in bad health, and re-
| ject her milk. Never add an animal to
the herd until certain 1t is free from
| Do not cows faster than comforta-
BILE walk while the way to place of
milking orzfeeding. No savage dogs.
| Never allow the cows to be excited by nard
| driving, abuse, loud talking, or unneces-
sary disturbance; do not expose them to