The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-10-30
Danish and American D.irylne.

CONDENSED from Farmers Review
stenosraphic report of Illinois State
Dairymen's convcntion.)
]. II. Monrad said, in substance:
hope will be able to assist the dairy
men of Illinois, not only by reducing
the sale of fraudulent products, but
also by taking part in the educational
work. While Elgin creamery men may
think we need no more dairy educa-
ton, l must say that l differ with
them, and ! even believe that further
education is needed in the Elgin dis
trlct as well as in other parts of the
state. We have some very dirty
creameries. Every creamery should
be clean and neat enough to be an
object lesson. This state of things
must come before we can 90 out from
the creameries and preach cleanliness
to the patrons.
want to say to the milk producers
that whether the creamery be run by
the farmers or by an individual own
er, they will have to cooperate better
than they have done in the past.
heard one man say that he did not
care whether his milk was good or
bad, as he always got the same pay
for it. Even in Denmark they have
the same trouble with the farmers,
who do not deliver the milk in as good
condition as it should be.
1t is a rather remarkable fact that,
though the Babcock test was original
ed in this country, the Danes were the
first to form associations for its use.
In 1895 the first Danish test associa-
ton started up. 1t consisted Of thir-
teen farmers that thought it was too
much trouble to test their own cows,
SO they formed an association and
hired a young man from an agricul-
tural college to do the work for them.
He went from farm to farm testing
the cows. He weighed and tested the
milk of each COW and made report
on it. The farmers soon found that
their cows were making butter at very
diverse costs. The best COW was max
ing butter at cost of 15.1 cents per
pound, and the poorest was making
butter at a cost of 1855 cents per
pound.
1 Q.-Why did you give away the
4 secret that the Danes 80 not fur
nish clean milk, when we have been
holding them up as models?
Am Denmark nearly all the
I creameries get their milk in good
enough condition to pasteurize. If to-
day we were to order pasteurization in
our American creameries l do not be-
lieve that more than 80 per cent could
do it properly on account of the dirt
in the milk and cream. think the
Danes are little ahead of us in
cleanliness.
Q.--Is not the Danish butter con-
sidered the best butter in the world?
Ayes, sir.
Q.-Can dirty milk and sloppy ways
make such good butter?
A.-The milk is not so dirty as il
is here, and they pasteurize very gen
orally. But most of the advancement
in Denmark has been in the cream
cries, rather than on the farms. a
Danish officer, in a recent report, said
that now the creameries had done all
that could possibly be done with the
milk they had, and that henceforth
improvement in butter-making must
be by farmers bringing better milk.
Q.-Is it not true that the Danes sell
their best butter and eat the poorest
themselves7
A.-The Danes import good dea
Of cheap butter even American but.
ter. They also eat butterine and ever
, lard favored little. In Denmark al
butterine has to be sold in oval pack
ages. Now If we had that law her,
} we would not need any other law
They are allowed to color their but
! terine, but not in imitation of butter
: the color is a very pale one.
. Prof. Henry.-Those Danish farmers
buy corn in Illinois; feed it in Den
{ mark and make butter from it tina
has to be sent to London to compel,
with American butter.
Q.-What became of that COW tina
made butter at Is cents a pound?
) Mr. Monrad.-She went to the butch
4 er pretty quick.
Prof Henry.-The Danes wer,
smart enough to find that kind of /
4 COW, but some of our farmers hav
q similar cows aud have not yet foun
. 1t out.
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