The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-03-01
THE. BUTERMAKERS.
they Hold Most Successful Convention
atrSt. Paul. Minnesota Comes Out
With Flying COlors.


President George e. Haskell. of Lincoln,
Neb.. with $500 delegates present.
Governor Van SAINT welcomed the dele
gates on behalf of the state. Mayor
Smith on behalf of the city of st. Paul,
and President III. A. Boardman on behalf
of the st. Paul Commercial Club. Re-
Spouse was made by j. G. Boardman for
the delegates. The afternoon session was
occupied with the presidents 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.
The judges of the parade were Major
Alvord. of Washington, D. c.. who is
connected with the dairy division in the
department of agriculture; J. Van Smith,
of ST. Louis. and ]. F. Harris, of Chi
cago Minnesota took first prize.
All concede that the convention has
been the best ever held in the history
Of the organization. 1t will be some
weeks before the meeting of the next
convention is decided upon. If weather is
taken into consideration, Kansas City
will get the next convention. The repre-
sentatives of that city are using st. Paul
weather as one of the arguments favor
ing their city
Former Governor Hoard, of Wisconsin,
delivered an address, filling 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 creameries. 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 a
creamery. According to creamery sta
tistics, it requires more milk to make a
pound of butter than it 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
butter exhibit and three medals out
of four at the national buttermakers'
convention.
hdHSdS won the SILK banner the
highest average. The sunf1ower state had
twenty-nne entries in the exhibit with
an average of 1914 per cent. Minnesota
was a close second with 1898 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
to-
a victory.
For separator butter, the gold medal
went to e. o. Quenvold, of Owatonna,
Mimi, whose score was 81; the silver
medal to c. H. Jensen, of Bernadotte,
Mimi, who scored 9615. 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. Mimi. score. 9OA. Only
Mr. Magnusson had previously obtained
a medal. This is his third successive sill
yer medal for gathered cream" butter.
He secured one at Lincoln, and one at
Sioux Falls
The silver cups went to Marvin Pow
ers, of Corley. Iowa, score, 941a; r. Sor-
enson, of Utica Wis, score, 931s; F. e.
Barrett, Of Union, ILL.,, SO: o. L. Distad,
of De Smet. S. D., SO; William v. Beach,
of Charlotte, VT. 93lS.
Although other states competed, state
averages were announced for eight states
only. Kansas led with 1914 per cent.
Then followed Minnesota. second, 1898
per cent; Illinois third. 1894; Iowa fourth,
SS.24: Wisconsin fifth, 1913; Michigan
sixth, 1896; South Dakota seventh, sc. 80,
and Vermont eighth, S635.
All scores were low, the lowest made
during the nine years of the associations
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 K.
Haskell president at last evenings ses-
sion by reclamation. Mr. Haskell did
not consent to become candidate for
noon. ]. E. Nissey, of Topeka. Kan,
who was the only avowed candidate up
to that time. Withdrew his name on the
Leland Griffin. of DE Smet. S. D., and
Il. Sudendorf, of Elgin, Ill. secretary and
treasurer. were elected without Opposi-
ton.
The last morning was given over to an
examination by the delegates of the dis
plays of butter at butter hall and the
auctioning off of the same. The S21 tubs
of butter entered amounted to about
$11S,000, and the bidding for the same was
lively. 1t was finally knocked down to
Moore & Co. of Chicago for 10 cents a
pound. realizing the association about
$32, 900. This money goes into the treas
ury of the association and will be used
for premiums and expenses at the next
convention.
The full share of honors fell to Min
nesota in the butter contest as first an
nounced, but a subsequent announcement
of complimentary scores during the day
gave Iowa a slight lead. This was in
the case of tubs received too late. for
classification, and one tub from the ag-
ricultural college at Ames, Iowa. entered
not in competition. but for compliment
tary score. The scoring was 49, and
while not competitive, somewhat took the
shine off the Minnesota showing, which
was g.
The resolutions contained an unqual
fed demand that the Grout bill be put
to a vote and passed
President Boardman. of the Commercial
Club. on behalf of the club. presented
to President George f. Haskell and Sec
rotary e. Sundendorf of the buttern1ak-
ers' association. handsome grass Irvine
chairs as memento of st. Paul indus
tries.
JUST BEYOND OUR BORDERS.