The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-31
BY HARRY BALTUFF
Official Reporter Minneapolis Produce


Official Reporter Minneapolis Produce
Exchange.
Minnesota has great reason to be
proud of the giant strides, made by the
dairy interest within the past few
years. Its marvellous advancement in
general way is largely due to the
reputation earned as the s'bread and
butter state.' That alliterative ap
pellation has been well earned, not only
by it's vast output, but by the excel
lence Of the product.
The reputation of Minnesota butter
makers is known the world over, they
having captured first prizes at nearly
all the competitive contests for several
decades past. "..s
It is noticeable fact that in those
parts of the state where the dairy in,
terests have been most fully developed
the greatest wealth in dollars and cents
is shown. People in these sections have
in no wise felt the setbacks that have
come to those tillers of the soil who
have depended upon a single crop, and
whose success or failure has been de-
pendable upon that years conditions.
The farmer who has given his atten
ton to dairy interests has been the bet
greatest productive capacity, and has
had steady income the year round,
while his farm has increased in value
and fertility.
Always a Demand.
The making Of butter is one of those
few items that never seem to feel the
| influence Of an overproduction. The
great concentration of people at
the cities, drawing from the country,
has caused the ,consumptive demand to
| 1ro0r FOE 4o hor 4ln Lott
largement of the production, and aver
| age prices on the best grades of. butter
are higher than a few years ago. I'm
proved methods of handling milk and
cream have changed conditions that
formerly prevailed. It is within the
m emory of most dealers in butter when
the great bulk of the production was
! OF low grade quality, and it was dur
ing those years that the dairy inter-
ests Jagged, as the market price Of
| low-grade butter was so small as to-
| offer no particular inducements to the
farmer to market his goods.
But the advent of the creamery and
the hand separator revolutionized con-
ditions, and the industry that had so
long lain dormant sprang into life and
energy and became one Of the most
important parts of, the farm life.
Great Growth Annually.
Figures are dry to the average read
the when The Fact IS aRea
into consideration that the natural in
crease in the manufacture OF butter in
Minnesota averages about 100000
pounds year, and that about 2S,000,000
pounds more are being made a season
than in 1900, the fact is impressed upon
hot No 1oir
terests, in their quiet way, are making
a grand record for the state, and one Of
which its people should be extremely
proud. 1t also means that the dairy in
fterests are as. yet comparatively in their
infancy. There are thousands Of acres
particularly adaptable, to the raising Of
cattle. 10 people coming from the east,
from those sections where the dairy in
seeming prodigacy will ohi forth tn
western farmers use a large section of
land for the feeding Of a seemingly
small number Of head Of cattle is mat
dairyman, who is now a citizen Of this
state, made the remark a few days ago
that the average forty acres Of land
now feeding seven head Of cattle would
be increased to twenty head by more
closely following the methods of cult
'aVAoA Atluo caUoV1uVSlS AeCtoodi IL vAS
east by the high price of land. With
this increase on the land already de-
voted to dairying, and the addition OF
the thousands Of acres Of tillable land
not as yet used, the wealth Of the flu
ture in dairying in Minnesota can moi
safely be expressed in figures.
According to the reports Of the state
dairy and food commissioner, about 25.
900 head Of mich cattle are added eacf
year to the butter producing facilities
of the state, furnishing milk to the
creameries. In these figures are not
included the cows whose milk is made
into the grades known as dairy butter