The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-12-18
THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.
Interesting Facts Presented
at the Convention by SUI
perintendent, McConnelt.


At the state dairy convention, held
in st. Paul this week, Dairy Commits
sioner Mcconnell read paper on
present and Prospective Dalrying in
Minnesota" After declaring that the
advantage of diversified farming that
the agrlculturist of Minnesota can
possibly find no more convincing argu-
ment than the rapid growth of the
dairy industry of the state, Commits
sioner Mcconnell said:
'The great iron heel of concentrated
capital, like hungry wolf, stands in
ambush by the roadside to leap upon
the most profitable industry in our
broad state. In our 700 cooperative
and proprietary creameries there is an
investment of about 50, $780, 900. There
are 800, 900 COWS in our state and only
about ore half OF them contribute milk
to our creameries, which produce ST.
600, 900 pounds of prize-winning butter,
for which the Minnesota dairy farmers
receive apout $4,000, 900. If all the
milk produced in the state found it's
way to the creameries, the grand total
of our dairy product would reach, in
round numbers S25.000,0oO AS farm
ers, let us take no uncertain step.
GET RID OF NON.PAYING COWS.
'Isn't it about time We locate some
of the things that threaten to retard
the growth of our dairy industry
The basis of profitable dairying is the
COW and the man behind her. There
are alarge number of non. paying COWS
in our herds that should find their
way to the butchers shambles. They
are cutting down the average of our
COWS, in fact, they are losing money
for their owners. This is not only
discouraging but unbusinesslike. All
concede that intelligent dairying pays.
The Importance of having a good COW,
properly fed and cared for, is of vital
Importance. The fact that the aver
age product OF Minnesota's dairy COWS
has doubled in the last ten years
speaks volumes for our dairy pros
poets. Dairying enables the farmer to
distribute the work of the farm more
evenly throughout the year.
minnesota erected and equipped
more than 100 new creameries during
the past two years, and about twenty
five new cheese factories. The in
crease of dairy products has been
about twenty per cent. We believe
that we are on the threshold of at least
decade of the most prosperous dairy
ing our state has ever known. There
is not the slightest possibility of over
doing the industry.
DRIVING OUT oLEo-MARGARINE.
"The driving from our state and
country of that worst of fraudS-Oleo-
margarine-wills surely add to cents
to every pound of our butter. The
coming to our shores Of thousands ,oi
lihth II oAUo Will require HUI . DuoeCi
The higa grade of our product will in
Crease the amount consumed per CAPT
It'd. The increase in population has
been less than four per cent. The
coming of the silo, soiling crops, and
other milk-producing foods will enable
Us to keep twice as many COWS as we
do now.
II think without doubt, Minnesota
has made, and is making, the most re-
markable progress of any state in the
Union. We believe it possible for the
dairy products of our state to reach
a grand total of $50, 900, 600 or $50, 600, =
900 annually