Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-02-06
n1lno,. Stat. Dalrym.u.. Convention.

Illinois State Dairymen's Convention.
The annual meeting of the Illinois
State Dairymen's Association was held
in the city of Freeport, January to
3. The attendance was much better
than the average, and was thoroughly
representative. The program had been
well-prepared, and sufficient time was
left after the papers for discussion,
which is a feature to be fostered.
The president of the association, Jo-
seph Newman, in his annual address.
called attention to the fact that the
association had been organized for 27
years. He said its growth had been
largely in the northern part of the
state. The industry of dairying had
not developed much in the central and
southern parts of the state for the
reason that men could not be found
who would milk. The only hope to
popularize the business was to invent
milking machine that would do the
work required of it. Just now dairy
men were not making much money on
account of the high price Of feed. but
this condition would change. One
great cause of the low price of butter
compared with other farm products Is
the sale of oleomargarine for butter.
Walter R. Kinney, president of the
state farmers institute, read paper
on the education of the sons and
daughters of the farmers. He urged
that agriculture be taught in the public
schools 1tor
Prof. E. H. Harrington of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin delivered an IL
lustrated lecture on the Patrons
Cow" He showed the tremendous
losses sustained by our farmers on
account of keeping cows that never
yield profits.
w. R. Hostetter spoke on farm but
ter-making. He said that in his town
only rs per cent Of the farm-made
amount is passable, but the rest has
to be thrown into a barrel to go to
the process-butter factories. On this
last butter the merchants lose money.
The greatest cause of poor butter is
lack of necessary appliances.
Oscar Err of the University of llli-
nois spoke on the different methods
of cream raising. He said that dilu-
ton separators were being sold all
ern portion, and that farmers should
be warned against buying them.
F. A. Leighton of Iowa talked on
creamery buttermaking as seen by the
travelling salesman. The observations
OF the statesmen were to the effect that
some OF the places where butter Is
made are very dirty and that change
to cleanliness is the only way at pres
ent of improving the product
Prof. Mckay of the Iowa Agricultur-
al College sent a paper on starters.
He declared that if starters were gen.
orally used the whole level of butter
quality would be raised.
Dewitt Goodrich of Wisconsin
talked on the Pan-American dairy
tests and pointed out the lessons to
be learned from those tests. One of
the principal things learned was that
the composite test is very reliable.
A. E. Thompson spoke on creamery
buttermaking. He declared one of the
most important requisites to be good
| starter.
M. S. Campbell told how to feed a
/ dairy herd to make money. At the
| present time he is feeding silage, Glow
er hay and oat straw. He had found
it necessary to discontinue the feeding
of oats on account of the very high
price asked for them. In November
he has fed 500 worth of oats and
| S22 worth of other feed to eleven
cows His profits for the month had
been only S11.35. He had then dropped
the oats and increased the silage and
clover hay and his profits for Decem-
Der had been S65. Some of the dairy
men present expressed doubt about
Mr.. Campbell being able to keep up
| the milk-fow on such ration. Others
declared that he could do it only with
silage, and that without silage he
could not possibly keep up his milk
flow or the condition of his cows with
out the feeding of grain.
Euclid N. Cobb (Buff Jersey gave
an interesting talk on his silo. He
the fact that every dairyman should
have a silo, even if renter. He said
that he himself would not attempt to
run a dairy without silo.
| E. NJ. Wentworth spoke on some OF
the causes for the decline of dairying
in Iowa The principal one he be-
| lieved to be the constant tendency OF
the farmers to turn from dairying to
beef producing.
| The election of directors resulted in
the following: Joseph Newman, John
Stewart, ]. R. Biddulph, Geo. H. Cur
Ter, R. R. Murphy Irwin Nowlan, F.
A. Carr Joseph Newman was elected
| president and ]. R. Biddulph, vice.
president The other officers are
elected by the directors. The first
prize for creamery butter went to F.
R. Wolf. Dakota, Illinois. First on
dairy butter was taken by F. S. Du-
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