The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-08-27
A CREAMERY PICNIC
Between Four and Five Hundred Peo.
pie Gather at @. H. UgIem's
Grove in Greenbush.
Speeches, Husic and Ball Game
Among the Attractions Pro-
vided for the Visitors.

The annual picnic of the West
Branch Creamery association at
Uglem's beautiful grove in Greenbush
last Sunday was a highly enjoyable
affair. A more perfect day could not
have been made to order. It is
estimated that between four and five
hundred people were on the grounds
during the day. Mr.. o. 81. Uglem was
master of ceremonies introduced the
speakers, jollied the married ladies,
and was all attention to numerous
good-looking maidens present. The
band from Long Siding discoursed
sweet music at intervals and elected
rounds of applause from the listeners.
There was well-stocked stand
where all sorts of fruit. candies. ice
cream and temperance beverages could
be obtained. and it was literally
patronized.
In the forenoon I. O. Dybevick
and 81. b. Goetsch of the state dairy
and food department, delivered brief
but instructive and interesting talks
on dairying and how to obtain the
best results from COWS. Both speakers
strongly urged the farmers to stand
loyalty by their cooperative cream
cries.
After the speaking groups of pic
nickers seated themselves under shady
trees and partook of good things that
the wives and daughters had provided.
It was the good fortune of the q Mon
reporter and his pard to get "seats''
at Mrs. Robert Shaw's table and, it
is needless to add, we Jared sumptu-
ously.
Dinner over Mr.. Uglem introduced
Edward K. Slater, the best dairy COM
missioner the state has ever had, who
delivered short but pointed talk,
full of splendid advice. Mr.. Slater
was born and raised on a farm and
courted his wife in milk barn hence
he claimed that he could speak from
experience. He urged the farmers to
take good care of their milk COWS
provide them with comfortable quar-
tiers summer and winter. Elaborate
and costly barns were not necessary,
neither was it desirable to invest in
high-priced full-blooded dairy cattle
the common grade COW was all right
it she was properly fed and cared for,
provided she was a fair mixer. Some
COWS were fit for beef only and we're
unfit for dairy purposes. The average
farmer did not know how to care for
high-priced dairy COWS. Only expert
dairymen could obtain the best results
from full-blood dairy animals. He
was addressing men and women who
were engaged in diversified farming
and with whom dairying was a side
issue-a good side issue. Mr.. Slater
impressed upon his hearers the fact
that while corn was the best fat pro-
Queer it did not make milk. He
recommended ground oats and bran
as the proper feed to produce milk.
Mr.. Slater closed with an appeal for
the cooperative creameries.
A game of baseball between the
Long Siding and Germany mines at
tracted large crowd to the meadow
west OF the grove for couple of
hours in the afternoon. The young
lady adherents of both clubs rooted
hard for their favorites. At the close
the score stood four to eighteen in
favor of the Long Siding boys.
May the West Branch Creamery as
ISOLATION have many more such
pleasant picnics as that of last Sun
day.
Hon. T. III. Horton Visits Princeton.