Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-06-26

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Question. What advantage has the
Dent corn over the Flint?
Answer. n think it gives more fod-1
der sss .s s...s.5s
| z. x. SLATER. .s IL
Mr.. e. K. Slater, state dairy com
missioner of Minnesota, spoke IN part
as follows:
Before proceeding / wish to state
my position SO that you will know who
am and what am doing. am
farmer, was born on a farm and
raised on a farm, and so you see Z
am more or less acquainted with farm
ing, that is, the practical end of it,
| and if I ever get enough money am
going back on a farm to live. My
wife was also a farmer and had never
left the farm until / took her away.
| She used to milk cows on the farm
and often times when 1 went to see
her found her in the COW barn milk
ing, and ! tell you gentlemen don't
know of any better place in the
world to woo a girl than in a COW
barn. t&s& ~. PIX s'S5<g >a
After leaving the farm went into
creamery and worked and later on
ran ascreamery for several years in
southern Minnesota. @...
My talk, however, will be on the
dairying business from the standpoint
of the manufacturer.
want to first call your attention for
a few moments to the dairying bust
ness as it is carried on in the state of
Minnesota and to give you little idea
of how dairying is done in Minnesota
and what it has done for our state. s
In my department we do about the
same work only on little larger
scale, as Prof. Ladd of Fargo, the
food inspector does and also Mr.. Flint.
your dairy commissioner. We do
what they both do. We employ %
people in that department and have
eight deputies on. the road nearly all
of the time, and I cannot see how
these men of your state accomplish
so much with the facilities they have,
and want to tell you that if you are
ever in position to put more power
In these mems hands, do it, for they
can do you a whole lot of good. l
don't believe that there is food com.
missioner or a dairy commissioner in
the United States that does their
work with as little assistance as
these two men of your state do. OF
course in your state your dairy com.
missioner has not as much work to
look after as in Minnesota as mine is
more of dairying state. I don't
mean by that that North Dakota is
not dairy state. It ic only it is not
fully developed. 49,
! l am going to give you just a few
| figures of the comparison of the dairy
interests of the two states. I will not
burden you with statistics 1 merely
want to give you a little estimate. In
Minnesota we. produced between 60
and IS million pounds of dairy prod
uets last year. According to bull
letin issued by your commissioner of
agriculture the dairy produces of
North Dakota were something over
four million pounds, We had from Is
to 20 times as much. From these
| figures you can see that the dairy
productions of Minnesota have done a
great deal for the prosperity of the
farmers. Down in Freedom county,
which is perhaps the best dairy coun-
ty in the state, they tell the story that
when a farmer goes into a bank in
| that section and wants to borrow
money the banker always puts this
question to him: ''How many COWS
/ have you?" If he has a number of
COWS he can usually borrow all the
money he wants at 6 per cent with
practically no security except his note.
But if he does not keep any cows and
simply raises grain the banker usually
politely tells him to step out and get
a good signer on his note before he
can let him have any money. This
reminds me of a story that Mr.. Nc
Connel, the former dairy commission
er of Minnesota, told me once. He
went to call on the buttermaker whose
butter had taken the first prize at the
Paris exposition to get some informa-
ton and incidentally he talked with
some Of the farmers in that vicinity.
One Of them told him how before the
creamery came he used to make lit
tie butter and trade it off for groceries
and calico and he didn't seem to be
getting along just right, could not
save any money and always had to-
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