Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-16
FLINT ASKS 7.
LUMlB|E|RM n
CO-0P u ! J J!
Says Better t'l,e:,: Housing Of Cat
tie Would al Improve Quail
ity Of. Butter I,

Fargo, N. D., Feb. 16.-Showing
the vast extent of the dairy business
in North Dakota and also the posi-
n:hNN OF improvement. rs Robert F.
Flint appeared before the fifteenth an
u. ~ ,n@l~n CT the North Dakota
Lumbermen's association here today,
asking their cooperation with local
ORGANIZATIONS in the betterment OF the
dairy industry. ! M, n 4.
We are producing and marketing
in North Dakota4at the present time
between twelve and fifteen million
pounds Of butter fat per annum," Mr..
Flint told. the. members of the con-
vention, and EACH succeeding year
shows a marked i~ncrease. This but
ter fat is produced on approximately
fifty thousand FARMS We are all in
tt. oaLeu in seeing the dairymen Of the
state make q greater, profit. There
are Two means through which this
may be brought about, first, reducing
the relative cost Of productions; Sec
ond, increasing the relative value of
the dairy products sold. The spreAd
of the price 81 butter between the
higher and lower grades is on q COM
parable Percentage basis with that
between the prices Of wheat Of a Civ
en- variety. or lumber. For instance,
butter grading 92Swas quoted Febru-
airy 9 on the Chicago market by the
U. s. bureau Of markets as worth
SIN cents, while that grading 81 On
the same market the same date was
quoted as 2shs cents, a spread tof over
that Of the lower. 1t has fire.
quently been stated during the recent
years that the North Dakota dairy
man receives. materially less for his
b%utterfat than do the farmers Of Min.
nespta, and such statements have been
made without n Qualification.
Cream Gould He Better.
Gas a matter of fact, the quality
of butter made from North Dakota
cream is not of the highest quality by
Q wider margin than is pleasant to
contemplate The price it brings on
the market is in proportion to the
quality, of course, and this is one Of
the chief causes for the difference in
value returned to the farmers Of
North Dakota. There are other fac
tors involved, but they are not per-
tinent to the purpose of my present
discussion. The chief reason our but
ter is not of the higher quality is be-
cause the cream from which it is
In -. IL ~. ..n.I t.rAil high quall,y.
THE cream is not properly cooled
n held at a sufficiently low tempera-
ture during. the summe months. More
tina 80 per cent Of the cream mar
keted in North Dakotaais produced
during four summer months, June,
July, August and September. BAG
terra develop, which d~eteriorate the
quality OF the ream rapidly under
normal conditions and Temperatures.
For. instance, milk held twentt-four
hours at a temperature Of fifty de-
grees, wiilSincsSasesin bacteria eoft1nt
but five dmes;; while that held at q
Temperature of seventy degrees wtll
increase seven hundred and fifty
times.
~ Need Better Equfpment-
Comparatively few farmers in
North Dakota are SO equipped that
that they can conveniently reduce the
cream to a temperature of fifty de-
grees and hold it at such a tempera-
ture until sold Mr.. Flint then ex-
planned the cooperation he desired
from the lumber men of the state in
helping to introduce a fairly standard
cooling equipment and concluded:
The real purpose, Iof course, of such
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