The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-06-16
Danish and American D.,ry,nr.

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Danish and American DaIrylnE.
CONDENSED from Farmers. Review
Topographic report Of Illinois State
Dairymen's c%onvention.)
]. H. Monrad said, in substance:
hope I 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 I differ with
them, and l even believe that further
education is needed in the Elgin dis
trict as we'll 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 go out from
the creameries and preach cleanliness
to the patrons.
I want to say to the milk producers
that whether the creamery be run by
the farmers or by ar 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 IS 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. It 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 a report
on 1t. The farmers soon found that
their COW were making butter at very
diverse costs. The best COW was max
Ing butter at a cost Of ISL cents per
sound, and the poorest al making
butter at a cost of 1875 cents per
pound.
Q.-Why did you give way the
secret that the Danes do not fur
nish clean milk, when we have. been
holding them up as models?
Am Denmark nearly all the
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. l think the
Danes are a little ahead of us in
cleanliness.
els 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 it
is here, and they p%asteurize 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
themselves?
A.-The Danes import a good deal
of cheap butter, even American but
ter. They also eat butterine and wen
lard favored a little. In Denmark all
butterine has to be sold in oval pack
ages. Now If we had that law here
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 1t that
has to be sent to London to compete
with American butter.
Q.-What became of that COW that
NiL14 OustSA a. 80 S0Al5 q QOuA0: p
Mr.. Mcnrad.-She went to the butch
er pretty quick.
Prof. Henry.-The Danes were
smart enough to find that kind of a
COW, but some Of our farmers have
similar cows and have not yet found
1t out.
Cattle Supplies.
Probably no one can figure accu-
vately the condition of the future cat
tie market. All attempts to find out
the available supplies have SO far been
based on estimates, which are more or
less good guesses. Opposing factors
have been at work that affect the
situation quite seriously. In the first
place the consumption of meat has
been increased by the better business
of the country. This has caused a
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