Mower County transcript., 1904-06-29
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fIlnnesota Exhibitors Receive Highest
seord'''s for Batter ! Y Y Best IS show y
ing Ever Made by States.

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ing Ever Made by States.
We referred last week to the great
victory OF Minnesota at the St. Louis
exposition. In the finest display of
butter ever made Minnesota was award
ed the highest scoring of any state at
the competitive exhibition in the dairy
department at the Worlds Fair. Ex-
hibitorsf from the state received the
highest. scoring not only in creamery
and print butter, but also in the dairy
article. The highest average score is
awarded to MINES ola. With 100
possible points, three samples of Min
nesota butter We're gi> Ell 98115 point.
Two were given 9G points and large
number 971a. This shows the high
grade of butter exhibited. Superiority
is evidenced by the fact that not
another state in the Union scored 98115
points on single sample. The result of
the test was occasion of general surprise
and many state commissioners were
considerably chagrined at the complete
landslide for Minnesota, but none dis
pute our signal victory.
The Exhibition in general was the
finest ever lnadf and the keen competi-
tiOn gives Minnesota more credit. In
the entire display, 355 samples scored
96 and better, and 80 scored 95 and
better. More than half of those scoring
80 and better were Minnesota products.
This shows that victory was not alone,
as to individuals, but was general.
The five individual exhibitors who
received the highest marking were: M.
'Songergard, Hutchinson, 9815; w. F
Stahman, Loretta, 981a; L. Karson.
Darwin, 9815; L. b. Anderson, Albert
Lea, 98A; H. H. Jensen, Clark's Grove,
984; all of Minnesota. Other honors
were scattered widespread over the
Gopher state and represent many diff
1cItut COuuGl0S.
Merit alone ruled in the contest. The
judges were ignorant of the producer of
the article and were gentlemen who are
Acknowledgements authori itieszon dairy
products. They were John Mittelstaadt
of the A. H. Barber company, Chicago;
P. o. White, New York; Orrin Douglas
Boston. The scale used by the judges
was: Flavor As per cent, texture and
grain 25, color Is, salt 10, general ap-
pearance 5. So excellent was the
general quality of Minnesota products
that to no special feature can victory
be laid. The judges pronounced the
display the finest large butter display
ever made and spoke in the highest
praise Of the exhibits. They gave credit
for the excellency of the Minnesota
product and the reason for the com.
plete victory to the fact that the state
was most particular in butter making,
and that the state dairy and food de-
partment thoroughly inspected the
creameries and gave explicit instruc-
tions regarding butter manufacture
where it was needed.
Such a complete victory for Mime
sofa gives it the claim to being the
finest buttermaking state in the
country, and every effort will be made
to maintain the record in the three tests
which will follow. Other state COM
missioners are determined to win.
laurels away from Minnesota and tile
result will be an even finer butter diA-
playa the next contest in July than
this one.
w. w. p. Mcconnell, state dairy and
food commissioner, who returned from
St. Louis Wednesday says that some of
the other states formed a combination
to defeat Minnesota and that had not
the butter of the North Star state been
so vastly superior to the products Of
the states in the pool, they might have
been able to count Minnesota out.
The combination worked this way,
says Mr.. McConnell: The states that
planned to "do up Minnesota" got to-
gether and adopted regulation that
the grand prize should 60 to the state
which had the highest percentage of
tubs of butter above 95. This rule
worked to the disadvantage of Mime
sofa, says Mr.. sMcC Connell, because the
North Star state had sent a large mum ]
Der of entries, nearly twice as many as
any other state. Under this rule Min:
nesota, not having a select lot of butter
as the other states had, might have the
highest average and still lose the prize,
which was based on the percentage Of
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