The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-19
HIGHER STANDARD
 FOR DAIRY PRODUCTS
CONSUMERS SHOULD AID IN SE-
 CURING IT.


 Premises Tidy and Then Invite Cus-
 toners to Make Visits of Inspection.
 Hartford, Jan. 17.-An appeal for higher standard of milk, butter and cream was the keynote of the address made at the annual convention of the Connecticut Dairymen's convention here to-day by President H. O.Daniels of Middletown He saidin part:
 When H. o. Averill, state cattle commissioner, submitted the report of sounded this very potent dairy truth Consumers who are paying less than eight cents aquart for milk during the stabling season for cows may rest as sured that they are doing little or nothing to encourage the improve ment of the conditions surrounding the production of sanitary milk
 Every word of this sentence I be- lieve to be absolutely true. You who take pride in furnishing a strictly first class sanitary dairy milk, as I know every man of you does, how long can you continue the high stan- dard you have chosen without you get fair remuneration for your work? Ether one of two things must take place. The price of milk must be made renunerative according to the quality of the product, or else less la bor must be employed, less time used on each individual COW, grooming her and keeping her neat and clean, for time is money whether it is your own or hired labor.
 "No, let us not lower our standard, but rather let us raise is still higher Let us make our milk and cream and butter pure and clean, of the very highest excellence, and believe in all cases when this is done your patrons will appreciate it and become ready to meet your price Advertise the fact that you are producing your dairy products along these lines. Invite your patrons to inspect your herds, system, stables and conditions at all times and it will resclt in much profit to you.
 Milk is the first demand of the in- fant, the last refuge of the invalid, and you dairymen of Connecticut are a part of this great necessary system The time has gone by for careless or. unstudied methods. The present calls for all that is best in the man. The time has gone by for careless or un- studied methods. The present calls for all that is best in the man. The time demands pure dairy food. Our privilege Is to meet this demand which takes us out of the old ruts of habit and places us in a position to stand the equal of any profession on earth to-day"
 Secretary schwink, in his report, urged the members to take strong interest in the dairy exhibit of the state at the Jamestown exposition this year. He said the work of the com- mission should be encouraged in every way He pointed out that Connecticut ranks third in the number of cows per square mile, and that it came second in the average production per COW in the United States.
 The treasurer's report showed a bal ance on hand at the end of the fiscal year of $655 or twice as much as the preceding yeas.
 First awards in the butter exhibit were made as follows:
 Creamery-J. H. Crowley, Canton; private dairy-Oscar Stevens, Middle town; unsalted-Richard c. Wilcox, Guilford granulated-Aspetuck Val ley Creamery Go.
 Cheese-F. L. Ives, West Goshen; Daniels Bros, Middletown; Mrs. Cyrus Coe, Middletown.
 Governor Woodruff will address the convention this afternoon and the ses- sion will close with the election of off, cers.
 THE VALUE OF CLOVER.
 At Wednesday evenings session T. B Terry of Hudson, O., spoke on "What I Did and How l Did It" his talk receiving more close attention than any other address of the session. What he did was to buy run down farm in Hudson in 1870, moving on it with his wife and being as poor as the farm. The most important thing he added to it was a mortgage of $4,700 at seven per cent, and he had an old horse a few tools and nine cows, kept practically out of doors. The land was so run down that he could not raise weeds on it. Without knowing anything about the adyisability of 1t he sowed field with clover. It grew and two years later ploughed it up for corn. Not having manure enough he used what he had on the land near the | Aho o1O cy0t of It. The same year, in his ignor- ance. he rented five-acre field of a neighbor and plowed and narrowed it, rolled and narrowed it and then gave 1t more rolling and narrowing while Che neighbors laughed at him. He sowed it to Hungarian grass and got a bumper crop which netted him seven ty dollars.
 Thus, to begin with, he learned the value of clover on the one hand and tillage on the other. He needed more manure and the clover was furnishing that. therefore the mediate thing was to raise more clover. Being, luckily too poor to buy fertilizers, he bent his efforts to save what was produced in the barnyard. The first year his wife helped him load what little hay the place produced; the first and second | years it was hard work to meet the interest money and the taxes, and the clothing of the couple was only kept together by a miracle. In twelve years the mortgage was gone, the farm was producing two hundred and fifty bush els of potatoes to the acre against for- ty the first year. It had from thirty | AAno. Ae 4l, irt,- niorlnt l,,, Shals nf 1nhaat