The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-26

Minnesota is proving the banner state
In the dairy department at the Trans
Mississippi exposition. While there
may be other states in which there
are as many creameries as in Mime
sofa. the butter-maklng men evidently
do not care to enter their wares in COM
petition with those of the North Star
state At the August scoring Of but
ter about thirty Minnesota creameries
competed. At the September scoring
there were fifty-two tubs of butter
sent In by forty creamer.es. There
were exhibits in from Kansas, Iowa,
Nebraska, Wisconsin, South Dakota,
Illinois and Michigan, and these seven
states exhibited all told, fifty-seven
tubs Of butter, so that the state Of Min
nesOta alone was represented by al
most as many exhibitors as the other
seven states. The number Of exhibitors
from each state was as follows:
Minnesota q. .4)tWisconsin e. $500.
Kansas q. ..........22 South Dakota l
Iowa O.. .............l9, Illinois O.. ...........
Nebraska. ... ....10l Michigan e. .........
The names of the Minnesota exhibit
Ors and the scores made by each Will
be published in this column next week.
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American agricultural societies, dur
ing 1886, began an important series of
tests TO determine the relative capacity
of our dairy breeds for butter produc-
ton. These tests have continued every
year until the present year They are
still continuing. The chief breeds COM
pating have been the Jersey and Hol-
stein-Friesian. Other breeds have
competed only to q very limited extent.
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ural advantages have been on the side
of the Jersey as compared with the
HOlstein- Friesian TIE Jersey has been
in process of acclimatiOn much longer
than the Holstein-FTiesian, and has
had more than double the number Of
registered COWS to draw from. There
IS probably no more just way or show
ing the comparative merits Of these
two breeds than by giving the result Of
the tests These tests were made by
the authorities Of S6Venty-three fairs
and societies. The time occupied in
making them was 1872 days, thirty-three
of which were occupied in testing for
butter and ninety-nine for butter fat
These figures include a credit Of four
days for the test at the New York
state fair in 1894. Leading Jerseys were
tested for butter tWenty-eight days and
produced 45199 pounds, an average Of
1914 pounds a day per cow Leading
ter thirty-One days and produced 61.755
pounds, an average of 1892 pounds a
day per COW. This is a yield per COW
of over % per cent more than the yield
per COW of the Jerseys.
For butter fat the Jerseys were test
ed seVenty-thTee days, and produced
105.5C5 pounds, an average Of 1445
pounds a day per COW. The HOlstein-
Friesiaus were tested for butter fat
ninety-six days and produced 1851
pounds, an average of 1.704 pounds a
day per cow. This IS a yield per COW
&C about IS per cent more than the
yield re- COW OF tha jerseys.
Changing butter fat to its equivalent
Of butter. eth b. the rule Of the
American Assoc alton of Agricultural
Colleges and Experiment Stations, or
by the rule of the Columbian eXpOsl-
ton, accepted by the stein-Fr, eslan
association, ard adGipg the amounts
produced in the butter tests, SHOWS
the average daily yield in butter Of
leading FClsteir- Friesi9rs during the
whole period to BE- about 1912 per cent
more than the average daily yield Of
lading Jerseys.
Minnesota dairymen during the past
week have been receiving copies of the
following notice sent out by J. c. Daily,
secretary of the iowa State Dairy as
ISOLATION:
The next annual meeting Of the
Iowa state Dairy association will be
held at Waterloo, To-, Nov. /, and 3.
All the local committees have been
appointed, and extensive preparations
are being made to give the visiting
dairymen a hearty welcome.
Large delegations are expected to
be in attendance from Chicago, New
York, Boston and other distributing
points of the East.
The management has prepared an
interesting and instructive programme,
which will be carried out in Brown S
opera house, and a large and we'll ap-
pointed hall has been secured for ma
chinery and butter exhibits.
"WateriOO has started the premium
fund with a cash donation of $780,
Good dairymen always aim to have
good forage crops provided to replace
grass when the pastures fail either in
midsummer or later. What each dairy
man should do cannot be made sub
ject to precise definition, for circum-
stances vary so that what would be
best for one might not be practicable
for another at all. The best all round
prescription for such cases, however.
Is the sio. It comes nearest fitting ev-
erybody's circumstances in the West
Some one notes, for the encoura ge-
too-that butter Auctuates less in price
than any other farm product; that il
brought living price when corn and
oats were drug at 10 cents a bushel,
and that L. brings about the same
price when they bring three times 1O
cents. Stability in the price Of a prod
uct, if it IS a living price, means safety
to the industry. -.
The National PrOvisioner notes q
rumOr that all the packing houses that
formerly made oleOmaTgarine, but quit
the business in the face of adverse leg
islatiOn. have rcinstalled their~machin-
cry and contracted for supplies in or
der to resume business. If this is So
no mercy should be shown them.
1t is gravely stated by an Eastern
paper that there are a large number
OF farmers who have good herds OF
choice cows and who nevertheless use
large quantities of condensed milk. II
may be so, but it does not look prob
able or reasonable.
DR.. Van Stockhausen, of Leipsic
says that the upright churn with the
dasher gives the best results. This is
far from being the prevailing belief
among American dairymen, who al
most unanimously regard the dash
churn as a back number
Assessors returns compiled bv the
secretary Of the state board Of agri.
culture indicate that the dairy infer.
ests of Kansas have been in a very
healthy and prosperous condition dur.
ing the past year The butter made
In families and factories is reported as