The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-20

pleasant to you as 7 am sure it will be
profitable to Our people
minnesota takes front rank in butter
productS having 5S2 creameries and sixty
cheese factories. The above creameries
are supplied with milk from 331 ,512 cows
pe produclng e,, S72 1929 pounds of milk per
1I1i 1d3 o95 9pl. Inc butter therefrom being A.
w 933 pounds. OF this there were sold to
patrons, 3,l6l, 223 pounds; to others not
StIpped, 3t(,3l5 pounds; to points within
IN cte state 3,O227A pounds; shipped out
oL the state, 36150,37j pounds. There
was paid to patrons, $6959, ,9l4.55 The
operating expenses were $3.50, 1885. The
fO 6Eerage ,;df9. price e. PAID per hundred pounds
lat liza cents. The total number of
creamery patrons in this state is 4O,lS9 /
IN ne average salary paid buttermakers is
While the dairy industry has reached
the proportion mentioned above. it Is
YET IN ITS infancy, for with the growth
OF the state it will correspondingIv in.f
crease. for diversified farming PAYS the
nest, and the check coming with regular
lty, as it does from this source not only
urles of lite to the farmers home. be-
sides, 1t saves the marketing OF the grain
py Ieeolng 1t to the stock and also saves
farm
The new process of butter-making is a
decided Improvement over the old. as
many man can testify who as bow
has churned and chuTned and chrrned
Dy the hour, wondering why the butteE
would meyer come
Gent!eInen, let rue assure YOU that ms
best efforts shall be directed toward nro
noting and encouraging the butter in
terests OF the state and nation. and
VIII, personally and officially do all I
can to prevent adulterated goods coming
into contact with the genuine article;
our DAIRY commissioner will enforce the
laws, and if more stringent ones are
needed our legislature now in session
VIII pass them, Tor the agriCultu1iStS
have never asked in vain for legislation
at their hands.
Hutter men-eXcuse -me-better mon
never visited in Minnesota, and none are
moro welcome than you are today! You
Will now be welcomed by the mayor
the best mayor that st. Paul has at tha
present time, to the best citV in the
Union. (Applausc)
Mayor Smith was warmly greeted. by
the convention as he came forward He
said in part:
1t affords me exceptional pleasure to
welcome to our city at this time the
pioneers in an industry the future of
winch is big in results and of great
Importance to the state as well as to
the nation.
When the mind reverts to the marveI-
Gus Gus progress which has been made in all
LIIe ISqulrSIIeIiIS 10 IIdLeTTdI wedTUH anu
happiness IN this land during the last
half century, it is impossible not to re-
JoIce that one has played a part how
ever insignificant, in the advancement Of
that wonderful period. I can well re-
member as long as sixty years ago when
the spinning wheel, the loom and the
oId-IaSnlQned stone churn We're a part
of the household equipment of every log
cabin in. the state of Indiana. 1t seems
as if it has required but a few years
to work out the miracles of human prog
ress which have produced the marVeIs
of human ingenuity and the increase of
human comforts which have taken place
in the interval.
Associated with the life of every one
of us there is always some incident or
condition which, throughout our mature
days, we continue to identify with the
experiences of our bOyhood The mem
ories of childhood are ever Illuminated
by a dominant recollection The great
figure which looms up in my mind as [
revert to the scenes of a happy boyhood
on the banks of the Ohio. is invariably
the figure of a wonderouS stone churn
with it's wooden dasher upon which the
appearance of the little Jumps of butter
was to me source of unlimited joy as
in the sweet and bliSsful hours of mid
day, with the birds and the butterflies,
the squirrel and the chipmunk whisper
ing to me TO join them in their gamboIs,
I toiled in agony of spirit if not of body
at that dasher, occasionally seeking the
aid of Surreptitious dash of hot water
to hasten the long delayed moment when
the wooden paddle would be called into
requistion What joy attended the mo-
ment when, the butter being securely
packed in a tin pail. with a cloth wrung
out in cold water placed on top of it, it
was fastened to the dripping bucket and