The Worthington advance., 1901-03-01
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The ninth annual meeting OF the Ma
stional Creamery Butter Makers. Assoc.
seiation was called 20 order at 81 Paul BY
sPresident George E. Haskell, OF Lincoln,
Neb,. with 1.5oo delegates present.
81 Governor Van SAINT welcomed the dele
gates on behalf OF the state, May,o,lr1
Smith on behalf of the city of st. Paul.
and President H "a. .Boardnnan on behalf
of the st. Paul Commercial Club. Re-
sponse was made by j. O. Boardman for
the delegates. The afternoon session was
occupied with the president Is address. the
report Of the secretary. suddendorf. and
the appointment Of committees. #
The parade, which was the big feature
Of the day. formed at Rice park, and
was headed by a platoon Of mounted
police and the Minnesota state band. 81 81 b
The judges Of the parade were Major
Alvord. Of Washington, ID. c., who il,
connected with the dairy division, in the
department Of agriculture; j. Van Smith,
aof st. Louis, and ]. r. Harris, OF Chi
All concede that the convention has
been the best ever held In the history
Of the Organization. It viii be some
weeks before the meeting Of the next
convention IL decided upon. II weather Is
taken into consideration. Kansas City
will get the next convention. The repre-
T sentatives Of that city are using Ct Paul
weather as one of the arguments favor
ing their city. -
+ Former Governor Hoard, Of Wisconsin.
+ delivered an address, filing the place of
Secretary Wilson of the department OF
agriculture, who was unable to be pres
ent. Governor Hoard dwelt upon the
wonderful progress in butter-making in
the United States during, the past twenty
years. the invention Of new machinery
and the perfection of creamertes He
wanted to impress the minds of the but
termakers that their zeal in perfecting
the creamery should not allow them to
forget the interest of the cows which
were most important. The man who is
an expert at caring for the cows is of
more importance to the industry than the
man who is an expert at operating
creamery. According to creamery sta
tistics. it requires more milk to make a
pound Of butter than 1t did five years
ago. He advocated the employment of
experts who would instruct the dairymen
in the art Of raising cattle and post them
in milk sanitation " ..,..
Minnesota secures the highest award
on butter exhibit and three medals out
of four at the national buttermakers'
convention. 3
Kansas won the silk banner for the
highest average. The sunflower state had
twenty-ntne entries in the exhibit with
an average of 89.A per cent Minnesota
was close second with s939 per cent.
Minnesota sent 263 entries from cream
cries OF every class while the twenty
nine from Kansas undoubtedly came
from the best creameries in the state.
which makes the small defeat Of Min
nesota in this particular look more like
q victory. ..-
For separator" butter, the gold medal
went to e. o. Quenvold. of Owatonna,
Minn., whose score was 81: the silver
medal to c. H. Jensen. Of Bernadotte;
Minn., who scored 96h. For gathered
cream" butter the gold medal went to
w. c. Noble, Of South Waterford, Me-.
score, 81; the silver medal to M. Mag
nusson, of Bee. Minn.. score, 90N. Only
Mr.. Magnusson had previously obtained
medal. This is his third successive sill
yer medal for "gathered cream" butter.
He secured one at Lincoln. and one at
Sioux Falls. i.~
The silver cups went to Marvin Pow
ers, of Corley. Iowa, score, 9411k; r. sor-
enson. Of Utica. Wis. score. 931k: F. E.
Barrett. Of Union, ILL.,, SO: o. L. Distad,
OF De Smet, s. D., 50; William ". Beach,
Of Charlotte, w., 931k
Although other states competed, state
averages were announced for eight states
only. Kansas led with 1914 per cent.
Then followed Minnesota. second. 89.s9
per cent; Illinois third, 1874; Iowa fourth.
1924; Wisconsin fifth, 1918; Michigan
sixth. 1896; South Dakota seventh, S6.9
and Vermont eighth, 86.35.
All scores were low, the lowest made
during the nine years of the associations 8
history. The average score was low this
year on account of the large number of
entries. The cause of the low score
made by the higher scoring tubs is not
clear to the judges. One of them re-
turned the explanation that the week
In which the butter was made presented
extraordinary drawbacks in weather.
The National Creamery and Buttermak-
ers' Association reelected George E..
Haskell president at last evenings ses-
sion by acclamation. Mr.. Haskell did
not consent to become a candidate for
his old position until late in the after
noon. J. p. Nissley. Of Topeka. Kan.
floor Of the convention. vice-President
Leland Griffin, OF De 5met, &. D., and
E. Sudendorf, of Elgin, ILL.,, secretary and
treasurer. were elected without oppose
The last morning was given over to an
examination by the delegates Of the dis
plays of butter at butter hall and the
auctioning of Of the same, The sci tubs
$11S 900. and the bidding for the same was
Moore & Co.. Of Chicago, for 10 cents q
$a2, 600. This money goes into the treas
ury of the association and will be used
convention. >'@ =, = :
The full share of honors fell to Min.
nesota In the butter contest as first an
nounced, but g subsequent announcement
Of complimentary scores during the day
the case of tubs received too late for
classified tion, and one tub from the aE-
ricultural college at Ames, Iowa, entered
not in competition, but for a compliment.
tary score. The scoring was S8, and,
while not competitive, somewhat took the
shine - of the Minnesota showing. which
The resolutions contained an unoualt-
fled demand that the Grout bill be put
to q vote and passed. - II N. it,e7 q
President Boardman, Of the Commercial
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