The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-03-27
BUTTER COSTS CAN
BE- REDUCED Gets.
Cow Expert Made Enlighten-
ing Talk to ESQ Dairy
Farmers Tuesday
OUTLOOK FAVORABLE
Insists There Is No Real
Cause for Pessimism-
Hogs Necessary

For nearly three hours Tuesday
afternoon G. M. Cow NAM Long,
OF the Blue Valley Creamery In
stitute informally talked to and
discussed How to Save Money in
Producing Cream" with $50 dairy
men attending the meeting held on
the second floor of the Blue Valley
Creamery in this city. Mr.. Long
unquestionably knows his COW. He
stated to the Herald editor that the
Sank Centre meeting was one of
the most interesting he had held,
and he has covered SO states carrv-
ing on this educational campaign
sponsored by the Blue Valley In
stitute.
He said there was no real reason
for pessimism on the dairy farm.
Data had been checked covering a
75-year period, he insisted that ev-
cry butter price depression had
been followed by higher price. lie
said possibly the butter price may
have reached its peak but there
was no reason why butter should
not eventually go back to at least
as high a price as before the last
slump started.
The speaker said there were sew
eral reasons why the butter price
was down at this time. The but
ter consumption by the American
people decreased per cent last
year, amounting to about 25,OOO,OOO
pounds on the total product. There
was also about 2 per cent more
butter produced last year than in
the previous year accounting for
another 25,O00,000 pounds. The
amount of butter in storage at this
time, according to Mr.. Long was
about 100000 pounds. He touch
ed lightly on the question of oleo-
margarine and said that the vol
ume had increased about 10000 900
pounds in 1929. He called atten-
ton to the fact that the increased
population of the country each year
required about 100000 additional
pounds of butter.
The Importance of feeding each
COW every day an amount of grain
strictly in proportion to the amount
, of milk she gave the day before,
was stressed.
Mr.. Long stated that with good
milk making feeds the cost of but
terfat production may readily be
cut nine cents per pound on the
average farm. This has been prov
en- by records kept by the institute
~ n,ao1 l.s-
erage saving in feed cost was made
by weighing the milk of each COW
and feeding her grain at the rate
of one pound of grain to each 211R
to 3 pounds of milk, according to
her breed and the kind of hay and
> other roughage fed. It takes only
> one-half minute per cow to weight
and record the milk.
"The cow, the sow and the hen,"
> said Mr.. Long, "are to the farming
industry what the motors are to
giant tri-motored airplane. Any one
of them will keep the ship afioat,
any two will enable it to make some
, progress, but it takes all three to
make the most speed ahead and to
weather the storms.
"While it is not often that all
2 three of the branches of dairy
farming bring the maximum pro-
4 fits in the same year, it is even
more infrequent that all three bring
I the minimum profits at the same
time.
1.-TWO years ago, the hog engine
E was not hitting on all cylinders,
!. and today the dairy motor seems
, to have ignition trouble or too
1 much carbon. But these are fail
ings common to the machine and
usually adjust themselves in a
short time"
I There are about 100000 cows
1 on the farms of the country giving
milk, and Mr.. Long suggested that,
in view of the present overproduc-
ton of dairy products, farmers inn
mediately begin to weed out the
! 100000 of these cows which, he
; said, are not producing enough to
pay for their keep but whose pro-
: duction tends to keep butterfat
prices down.
"There is nothing on the horizon
: that should cause the dairy farmer
ALARM" said Mr.. Long. "Of all
animals, the COW is the cheapest
4 producer of human food and her
products are absolutely necessary
: to the health and well-being of
mankind. With skim-milk to pro-
duce poultry and pork at profitable
prices which now seem evident, the
: good prices of veal calves, discarded
! cows and surplus dairy cows, it
!. !, would seem that the cow, the SOW
: and the hen farmer is in a fair
way to make as much money in
1880 as he has in past years"
MEETING TONIGHT