Morris tribune., 1922-06-09
DONNELLY STAGES BIG
COMMUNITY SPIRIT DAY
Large Crowd Attend Interesting
Talks and Demonstrations for
Furthering Dairy Interests

1--WE d11ASIS anu businessmen
Community Spirit Day de luxe on
Wednesday of this week. Ideal wealth
er and an overflowing crowd of nearly
thousand produced one of the most
successful get-together in the his
tory of the town. There was some
thing of interest going on all of the
time from the opening band selec-
tions in the morning until the con-
clusion of the big dance in. the even
ing.
Capable speakers on dairy subjects
were present and produced a lot of
valuable information for the dairy
farmer. Sports in the afternoon
proved an attractive feature for the
children and the picnic dinner at noon
gave those present chance to visit
with their neighbor between the
speaking courses of the morning and
afternoon.
At 1890 o'clock in the morning
the program of the day was opened
with selection by the Kongsvinger
band, a musical organization of ex-
ceptional abilities. Following this
the Hon. Arnold 'Cornie' WaIlan of
Glenwood did some entertaining,
whistling and also some jokes that
did not fall flat but produced some
real mirth among those present.
WATSON SPEAKS
Three important points in the care
of dairy cattle were brought out by
L. V. Watson, head of the dairy ex-
tension bureau at the University of
Minnesota, in a talk on the feeding
and care of dairy cattle, which he
gave following the entertainer. He
emphasized that the farmer must
have good cattle to feed, which is
only thru the keeping of good pure
bred herd sires; good silage and good
clover or alfalfa hay. He cited the
lack of feeding value of wild hay and
corn fodder. He maintained that
corn silage is natural substitute for
pasture, that it is necessary for a
COW to have succulent food such as
silage in order to consume and digest
as much feed as is necessary for a
dairy cow if she is going to be high
great value of soy beans as a farm
grown substitute for oil meal. Fol-
lowing Mr. Watson's talk the band
gave some more music and a picnic
dinner was eaten.
STATE ORGANIZATION LAUDED
A short band concert opened the
afternoon activities after which Cor
ME again entertained with some
Norwegian stories that made a de-
cided hit with those gathered. T.
G. Stitts, county agent of Meeker
county gave talk on the Minnesota
Cooperative creameries in which he
showed very plainly that the cream
cry association Of the state is helping
the Minnesota dairyman in five dis
tinct ways. In the first place ac-
cording to Mr.. Stitts, it saves freight
on butter by shipping in carload lots;
secondly, by getting a higher score
of butter and thus a higher price by
shipping direct rather than by local
freight which necessitates stopovers
and re-loading; third, the association
assures local creameries of the grade
and weight which they actually have
by having representative located on
the New York market; fourth,
through field man for the IL differ
ent districts of Minnesota a uniform
quality of butter is produced; and
fifth, through the office of the Min
nesota Cooperative creamery associ-
alton it is possible for the local
creamery to purchase supplies and
machinery at greatly reduced prices.
Mr.. Stitts further emphasized the
fact that the future of the Minnesota
Cooperative Creamery association
depends on it's maintaining of high
quality of butter and eggs and that
it is impossible for any butter maker
or any creamery association to put
the quality of butter on the New
York market that should represent
the Minnesota Cooperative Cream
cry association unless the farmer de-
livers a good quality of cream to the
local creamery. He mentioned that
as long as farmers insist on bringing
in cream that is so old that it has
whiskers and so strong that it blows
the cover off the can, Minnesota can
not be able to demand high price
for butter.
DEMONSTRATION GIVEN
Allen w. Edison, county agent OF
Stevens county was the concluding
speaker on the program and gave an
excellent stock Judging demonstra-
tion with three COWS from the Stein.
fort and =. Engquist farm. He EN-.
phasized the good and poor qualities
Of the. dairy cow and the necessity
of keeping cows with large capac-
tiles for handling rough feeds.
Foot races, small sports tug-ofrwa1
and other events closed the Afternoon
program, In the evening a big dance