Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-02-15
|SILO CONSTRUCTION IS
TOPIC OF Interest At
DA|RYMEN'S Convention
Announcement of Winners of Butter Score
Trophies to Occur Tonight
Many Prominent Speakers Address State
Dairymen at Mandan

PROGRAM, THURSDAY, FEB. Is.
Evening Session, 800 p. N.
Music galore.
Announcement of Butter Scores.
Presentation Of Trophies and Re.
marks by D. E. Willard, N. P. Ry.
Co.
Chalk Talk-Minneapolis Journals
Celebrated Cartoonlst, Bart.
FEBRUARY Is.
Morning Session 1000 A. N.
Grading Cream and Paying Accord
ing to Quality-E. A. Greenwood,
Marion. N. D.
Up-To-Date butter Making Methods
%. A. Storvick, Federal Creamery
Expert, Albert Lea, Minnesota.
Alfalfa, Queen of Plants''-L. r.
Waldron. Superintendent Dickinson
Experimental Station, Dickinson. N.
D.
Afternoon Session, 1:3o p. N.
Breeding Dairy Cattle-Thomas
Shaw, Associate Edieor, Dakota Far.
mer st. Anthony Park. Minnesota.
Selection Of Dairy Stock-F. W
Merrill, Federal Dairyman, Grafton,
North Dakota.
Evening Session. 7:ao p. N.
Pastures for North Dakota-Thom.
as Shaw.
Address-Joel G. Winkjer.. Dairy
and Food Commissioner, St. Paul,
Minnesota:
Adjournment.
Special to The Tribune
MANDAN, N. D., Feb. 15.-Mandar
Is host today to hundreds of dairy
men from every section Of North Da
kota who are In attendance at the
annual convention of the State Dairy
mems Convention, which will con
tinue for two days. Many meh pro
minently identified with the dairy in.
dustry in all parts Of the country are
also here and will take an active
part in the program which promises
to result in untold benefit to the
dairymen Of the state and the farm
ers who make their homes upon the
fertile prairies Of North Dakota that
are bounded on the east by the great
bend Of the Missouri river.
Many NotabIes Present.
Among the prominent men in at.
tendance today are Governor Burke,
Commissioner of Agriculture Gil
breath and Dairy Commissioner Rob
ctr F. Flint, as we'll as scores OF
dairy experts and others who will
participate in the two days program
Opening Session.
The morning session of the asso.
citation opened in the opera house un.
der thes most aus2icious circumstan.
ces. The convention was packed
when A. M. Packard, president Of the
city commission. in words ringing
with the gladness of welcame. Off.
cially welcomed the visitors to the
city and turned over to the dairymen
the keys of the city.
His remarks were couched in terms
Of a clear perception of the aims of
the assembled dairvmen. and also
showed that the people of the city on
the west bank of the Missouri and
Of the entire state were in harmony
with every effort these men are put
ting forth to better the product, the
of production and the con-
dition Of the farmer and stockmen,
He showed that the great change in
Iowa, where dairying supplanted the
growing Of cereals. pointed to the
change which is at present in pro-
gress in North Dakota.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Packards
address. Prof. Martin of the Agricul-
tural college, responded in fitting
terms to the welcome, and also gave
the assembled people a. chance to
peep into the book of plans for the
coming years work as outlined by the
foremost dairymen of the age. He
also thanked the people of Mandan
Tor their generous preparations to
make this event the red letter conven-
lion Of the association.
Creamery Management.
Important Points in Creamery
was the topic chosen
bv Frank D. Currier Secretary of the
Dafrymen's Association.
He summed up the attributes of the
lp-to-date creamery man and also
he conditions which must surround
he creamery to produce the best re-
'ults. The man who attempts to
manage q creamery must have a well
lefined idea Of what constitutes the
to be imposed upon the
'atrons in order to bring about the
,est results. He must also be an
and introduce in the homes
Il his patrons the ideas which pro-
luce results, and make for better sur-
oundings Of the creamery, and the