The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-25
CAN NOT EXHIBIT BUTTER
MINNESOTA PRODUCERS CAN
NOT COMPETE AT OMAHA

They Can Not Get the Required Re.
frfserator Facilities for Shipping
the Product to the Trans-Missis.
sipDi Show, Much to Their DIsap.
Observation-Disclosures VIII No,
Be In the July Scoring.
Despite the fact that the Minnesota
commission Is making strenuous eff.
forts to collect another dairy exhibit
there is probability that Minnesota
will have no representation of dairy
products at the Omaha exposition.
Two weeks ago, just after the Mime
sofa exhibit had been sold, the superin
tendent OF dairy exhibits at Omaha
Issued call to all the states for dairy
exhibits. The creamery men in Min.
nesota were mailed circular which
instructed that all exhibits be sent di
rect to Omaha.
InaSmuch as there is no refrigerator
service between ST. Paul and Omaha
the butter cannot be transported dur.
ing this warm weather without being
spoiled, unless it is centralized in st
Paul and special refrigerator service
arranged fer
The call issued by the exhibition au.
-. o.oo gives saturday as the
last day when exhibits to come in IN.
DER the July scoring will be received.
mere Will be no exhibit this month
and, unless there is considerable re.
VlVal of interest in the matter. Min.
nesota will not be represented at any
time
The circular which instructed the dj.
rect Shipment to Omaha was sent out
by the exposition authorities without
knowing anything of the existing con.
olt1ons. 1t was the intention of the
commission to have the butter shipped
y ST Paul and sent at one time to
Omaha in a special fast refrigerator
car. Since the Omaha people have for
the second time put their foot in it. the
pest that the creamery men cam do is
to let it go at that. =
Men in the butter trade with nrac-
t,cal turn are just a little perplexed
as 10 why the government is making
such strenuous efforts to introduce our
butter into foreign markets. where
butter brings less than it does at home
exporters have long since dropped
western separator extras for the SIM
PIE PIE reason that foreign markets will
warrant paying only 1917 to 16 cents for
them: However, there will be no harm
IN giving some Of the best English
markets a Taste of some Western hut
Ter, SO they may understand that tha
klnd that has been exported hereto-
lore is not Western creamery goods.
me only butter that the West can
an ora 10 export is store butter
which is taken in trade by the country
ana village stores, shipped to COM
merclai centers where it is sorted. re-
worked and goes into the market IN
der the name of ladies'" and ia not
calculated to give our butter a very
hlgh standing in foreign markets. Den
marx sells her best butter and keeps
tne poor grades at home for domestic
consumption, while the people in the
states as rule eat the good hutteT
ana leave the poorer grades for ex-
port: 1t may be a good plan to give
foreigners a taste Of good butter or
tney VIII know where to get it when
they will feel able to pay as much
OF more for 1t than our people.
II is reported that the Albert Lea
u.eaHeTy is pasteurizing skim milk
Win exhaust steam. There was con.
Siderable complaint on the part of pa.
irons, 1T is said, that the. calves and
pigs TED on unpasteurized skim milk
were not doing as well as they should
On account OF bowel and stomach
troubles caused by milk souring.
IL was this circumstance which led
g. ~. White, manager Of the creamery
TO try. pasteurizing skim milk for feed,
hi purposes: The results have been
nlshly satisfactory. The milk keens
longer and is readily digested nv Tho
young animals.
1he report about to be issued bv the
state dairy and food commission show,
an increase of over 200 creameries dir
ing the last eighteen months. Those
recorded on the list include only those
plants Which are run by steam and
nave regularly employed butter MAX
er.
mis- being an increase of nearly SO
per cent is certainly most remark
able showing for so short a. period
The butter market will do,,h+loss
snow considerable f1rmness during this
week, ana there is promise that its gen
eral tendency will be upward.
There are also indications of a. shrink
age OF output in nearly all creamery
districts, and prices are taking an up-
ward turn in spite of the efforts OF
SPECTATORS and dealers to get all their
supply for cold storage at lower fienres
Ihere are evidences Of considera BILE
manipulation of the butter marked
and that quotations are purposely mad
lower than the figures at which the
sales were actually made warrant.
IL mas been said that every tub of
butter sold of late with Elgin quota.
lions as basis went for about half a
cent per pound less than it was worth
In the market.
During the summer months dairy
butter in many rural districts brings
very low prices, and is often a drug in
the local market; whereas good cheese
would find ready market at a re-
muneratiVe price, besides supplying
ones own table daily with what is now
only an occasional luxury for the farm
table. The rural creamery men are fast
realizing the profit and utility of max
Ing cheese during the warm weather
A Creamery built with great splurge
and at great expense, and declinins
rapidly into bankruptcy, is one of the
things which gives agriculture In gen
eral and the dairy business in particu-
lar backset. Do not build a cream
cry on grand scale, but rather follow
the more practical lines laid down bv
your neighboring localities, where the
dairy COW is a continual source of
profit to the patrons of the creamery
If the plant is built at the right time
and upon the proper basis, it makes a
cash market for the dairy products. re-
Heves the farmer Of the labor butter
making, and very often is great edu-
Gator in the way Of showing the best
methods of feeding and Of handling the
cream and milk.
Dairy business, while young I'm Min
nesota, Is no longer in it's infancy. 1t
has developed so far that its methods
have become well defined, and it now
has a place among the permanent
means Of promoting wealth and civil
ization Of mankind. Cows have always
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