Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-30
OMAHA hub OF DAIRY TRADE
Object Of National Creamery Mems
Meeting in This City.
PLANS TO MAKE COW DO MORE
Prof. Mckay of Ames College Points
out the Necessity OF Bringing
Up VOIume of MIX
Produced.

One hdhdred Nebraska, Illinois. Iowa,
Missouri and Minnesota creamery men met
at the Paxton hotel yesterday afternoon to
secure member for the National Creamery
Butter Manufacturers association. just or
ganized. AS a result Of the first meeting
In Omaha over sixty members were Sc
cured, being the officers and managers OF
creameries of all classes. After adjourn
ment last night the officers and many
prominent creamery men left on a late
train for st. Paul, where a district meeting
is to be held and more members secured.
The object and policies of the association
were outlined by Prof. George L. Mckay,
secretary OF the national association, whit
was the first speaker at the meeting
Wednesday afternoon. He told Of The oh
jects Of the national association, reading
first from the newly framed constitution,
which says:
Whereas, The dairy industry, from the
raw material to the consumer of its prod
uct, comprises many parts, covers a large
territory, presents many difficult problems
to be solved;
Whereas. II has grown wonderfully in
quantity, quality, value, variety Of products
and uses, and within itself promises still
greater growth:
Whereas, In order to bring about this
growth to the fullest extent there must
be a thorough understanding and co-opera-
ton between the three great interests in
volved in handling this Industry, to wit:
The producer. Manufactured and consumer.
First-The producer must be encouraged
to the largest possible production of the
highest possible quality by means of the
largest possible remuneration.
S~econd-The manufactured must address
himself to the problem OF handling the
production as it practically comes to him
along the lines Of the highest science; along
the lines of the greatest economy, santa
ton, purity.
NO Chance for Combine.
Prof. Mckay explained at length that
there was no possibility of the association
being a trust nor a combine" and said
that IL there was any possibility of finan-
cial affairs coming directly into the as
ISOLATION, he would not be identified with
the movement as he would be satisfied to
remain in educational work as the dean Of
the dairy department of the Iowa Agricul-
tural college.
IF you make a better grade OK butter
you will increase the consumption" said
Prof. Mckay. Here we have been work
ing for years at the mouth of the stream,
as we might say. The big creameries have
perfect plants from a mechanical point of
view. they employ expert and skilled work.
men, but the raw material is not what it
ought to be.
o. - want 10 tell you lldl Wneu the dNeTS
age COW in Denmark produces go pounds
Of butter annually and the average COW In
America only produces half that amount,
something is wrong with the cows in
America, Da4rying has been a side line too
long. 1t is a profitable business. 1t con-
serves the fertility of the SOIL. something
we are beginning to realize that we must
look out for. Producing a ton of butter
from a farm takes about one-fourteenth as
much from the soil as producing a ton Of
wheat"
Prof. Mckay told Of the plan to send out
| bulletins. from -]AaTef4aes -ef~ the~NstioRAl
AssoctatisHsof pery Autter Manufac-
turers In Chicago. These will be sent di-
rect to producers, telling the farmers and
dairymen the best kinds Of food, the most
sanitary and healthy stables and giving
them the best Information obtainable from
the United States and the state departments
OF agriculture.
Must Have Special Rooms.
I'VE have got to get away from this thing
OF having milk and cream sold at butcher
shops and grocery stores" he said. I'VE
have TO get special rooms in which to sell
and handl this milk and cream after 1t is
on the market and we must have the milk
and cream kept clean at It's original source.
Farmers keep a few cows. They hate to
milk them themselves and the hired man
won't milk them. The cows are neglected.
The milk is contaminated. II is exposed to
filth from the time II leaves the warm
udder Of the COW until it comes to your
creameries, being hauled in dirty wagons,
kept for a time in filthy and unsanitary
! pals and unwashed cans.
A these things the Gamer men must
work to eliminate and increase the quality
OF American butter and make dairying a
business instead of a side line. We must do
It If we have to secure laws which will
make these sanitary conditions compul-