The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-27

Week Among the Dairies and
State.
The banner won by the Minnesota but
termakers at the National Buttermak-
ers' convention, at Sioux Falls, is now
part Of the Office decorations in Mai.
Bowlers Office at the capitol. The dairy
men Of the state have seen fit to place
the banner in Maj. Bowlers keeping,
and In the future it will have a promi-
nent place In his office, except possibly
when 1t accompanies the dairymen to a
convention. 1t is a very handsome af-
fair, made up of heavy velvet and silk
corded with gold braid about the edges.
The words National Buttermakers'
Association" and Sioux Falls Conyen-
ton. are embroidered in heavy yellow
letters at the top and bottom, and the
center piece represents a model country
creamery, and is done in oils.
Maj. Bowler is quite as proud of the
banner as the dairymen of the state are,
and there is just cause for all to be proud
when it is known that it was won by
Minnesota in competition with every
butter-producing state in the country.
During the past few days a number of
dairy inspectors have attended meetings
in different parts of the state. Tomor-
row a meeting of the Delano Creamery
association Is to be held, and among the
speakers will be Assistant Dairy Com
missioner White and Prof. Hacker. 1t
is the intention of Commissioner White
to personally attend as many of the
dairymen's meetings as he can.
Dairymen are making an effort before
the Illinois legislature to secure the adop-
ton of bill creating pure food COM
missioner, charged among other duties
with the enforcement of the anti-color
law. This law, which has now been
adopted by thirty-one states, provides
that oleo shall not be colored in imitation
of butter, but may be sold in its natural
color. 1t is a reasonable, sensible, logical
provision for the protection of the con-
sumer and producer of real butter, and
If enforced would meet the conditions ad-
mirably. Unfortunately this law is openly
defled by the manufacturers Of butterine,
and will likely remain dead letter unless
a dairy and pure food commissioner is
provided for by the legislature who will
set in motion the machinery for its en-
forcement.- Gazette.
Buttermaker Charles Swanson, who has
been connected with the Grove City
creamery, has severed his connection with
that institution and will this week take
charge of the creamery at Clara City. He
is somewhat skeptical as to the success
of the creamery there, as the stockhold-
ers have decided to skim their milk at
home and deliver, nothing but cream to
the creamery, thus doing away with the
ODorat tt0n of the bo 7,1o
may work, but it is feared that the
product from the cream thus gathered
may not take rank with that of the other
creameries.
At recent meeting of the Farmers
institute in Pine county, Dairyman Fla
ten gave an interesting talk on the feed
ing question. He said in part: Equal
gains are made by calves on ten pounds
of skim milk plus some fiaxseed meal
and eight pounds of whole milk The flax
seed, of course, is much cheaper than
butter fat. A calf dropped in the fall
goes onto grass off milk and gets no set
back. The cow herself gets new start
on grass just as her flow diminishes, so
can be kept milking longer. If we allow
milk to cool before feeding the calf, this
Is unnatural and disarranges it's diges-
ton. The first milk is loosening and
needed by the calf, and cannot be re-
placed Dy milk from another, II only
slightly fresh COW. Do not feed over a
quart or a quart and half at a time to
young calf" He described two calves
fed at the station very regularly, the
milk at proper temperature, ETC. They
sometimes gained two pounds a day. and
yet, when weighing over 400 pounds, a
half-pailful each was the most milk he
ever fed them at one time. Keep the
dairy calf thrifty but not fat like the
beef one. Begin with a teaspoonful only
of faXseed meal, and gradually increase
amount, according to bowels.
Among the creameries Of the state none
are meeting with greater success than
the farmers creamery at Elgin, Of which
| Charles Necker Is president The asso-
| citation has just received a consignment
| of 2,500 tubs, and are increasing their
| business every week. Farmers who prom
| ised to furnish six to nine cows are doub-
| ling the number, while others who hest
! tated to go into the scheme when first
proposed are now falling in line They
| receive $1,000 pounds Of milk every other
| day at the present time, which he believes
will be doubled this summer. The cream
! cry is now paying to the farmers eigh-
! teen and one-half cents for their cream,
besides paying into the sinking fund one
| and one-fourth cents, making the actual
| price paid for cream nineteen and three
| fourths cents. 1t is believed that the
| creamery will pay for itself in two years
and a half through the sinking fund. Last
| year the association received one-half