1900 
THE CONNECTICUT DAIRYMEN’S 
ASSOCIATION. 
NOTES FROM TTTEIR ANNUAL MEETING. 
The nineteenth annual convention of 
the Connecticut Dairymen’s Association 
was held at Hartford, January 17-18. 
The attendance and interest shown by 
the live questioning of the speakers, and 
the spirited discussions of the papers, 
would make it the best meeting in the 
history of the Association. The hall was 
filled at nearly every session. The 
amount of butter on exhibition was 
greater than ever before, and there were 
more attractive market displays than 
usual. The average butter score was 
lower than usual, the highest in the 
creamery class being 98. After the ad¬ 
dress of welcome by Mayor Preston, and 
the response by President Noble, the 
first paper was read by Z. A. Gilbert, 
of Maine, agricultural editor of Maine 
Farmer, and president of Turner Cream¬ 
ery, the subject being the creamery, its 
duties and obligations to the patrons. 
Mr. Gilbert contended for the co-opera¬ 
tive creamery, as against the proprie¬ 
tary, in that the co-operative returned 
everything to the patrons. They are 
more closely interested in the creamery, 
ai it is tlieir business, and wherein they 
fell short the profit fell short. The 
owner of the proprietary creamery must 
look too largely to his own interests, a3 
his pocket must be filled, regardless of 
the failures. He is less liable to shut 
out poor cream, as the more butter he 
makes the larger his commission, and 
there are more patrons of the class who 
say: “I don’t care what kind of cream 
I send, so long as the creamery takes it.” 
Another point was that in the proprie¬ 
tary creamery you are not always sure 
to get full returns. Although in co¬ 
operative creameries there is likely to be 
some quarreling and jealousy, still it is 
better to have that than other plans, as 
it is said that too often “proprietary 
creameries are run on the stealing plan, 
while co-operative creameries run on 
the quarreling plan.” 
Mr. Gilbert said that unlike any other 
style of manufacturing, owing to certain 
conditions, the small creameries could 
make butter at less cost than the larger 
ones. The nearer the cream to the 
creamery the better; less cost of collect¬ 
ing cream, it comes in much better con¬ 
dition, always sweet, less liable to con¬ 
tain impurities, and it is easier to keep 
the dairies of the patrons under better 
supervision. At the Turner creamery 
the cream all comes from within four 
miles, and all of it is within two hours 
of the creamery. As it comes to the 
creamery it is weighed, and then, by one 
continuous process, which is so auto¬ 
matic that it requires only the attention 
of the weigher, it passes first to the Pas¬ 
teurizer, from here to the separator, and 
the cream flows over the cooler, then to 
the ripening tank. The advantage of 
separator and Pasteurizer are that all 
unfavorable germs are destroyed, and 
the Pasteurizer heats the cream so that 
better separation takes place. By get¬ 
ting a thick cream it is churned at a 
lower temperature (52 degrees), and a 
much more uniform quality obtained, 
also a better or more complete churning. 
Of course, this cream requires a starter, 
and a little larger quantity of it, and by 
using a good starter the best possible 
quality and flavor are produced. Since 
the opening of this creamery, about 14 
months ago, there has not been a single 
complaint as to quality, nor a mess of 
“off” butter. 
Major Alvord, of the Dairy Division, 
Department of Agriculture, followed 
with an address, telling how the De¬ 
partment is endeavoring to build up a 
market in Europe for our butter. He 
said that nearly all efforts had been in 
one city. A favorable impression had 
been made, when a dealer shipped two 
cars of “process” butter, and knocked 
out that market for American butter. 
He said that he thought we were in more 
danger from “process” butter than from 
oleomargarine, and that Secretary Wil¬ 
son was in favor of having all export 
dairy products placed under inspection, 
similar to beef products, which would 
guarantee the quality and prevent fraud. 
Prof. Beach, Dairy Instructor at Con¬ 
necticut Agricultural College, gave a 
talk on Profitable Cows, illustrated by 
paintings of cows from the College herd. 
He emphasized the individuality of cows 
as against breed or feeding. There are 
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good cows In all breeds and likewise 
poor—yea, very poor—in all breeds. 
The difference of cost in keeping cows 
at the College, where accurate records 
were kept, showed that the range in cost 
of feed seldom went much over $10, 
while the net profit varied from cows 
kept at a loss to a profit of $40. He 
advocated the use of the scales and rec¬ 
ord of every milking, and the complete 
cost of keeping accurate record of 25 
cows is only $10 per year, and Babcock- 
testing once a month about $5 more, but 
the knowledge gained by the practice 
of these two would be worth much more 
than the cost. He said that we want to 
make more money out of our cows, in 
order that we may have more of life’s 
luxuries. We must study the individual 
cow and learn the characteristics of the 
true dairy type. 
Wednesday evening, Geo. H. Merwin 
gave one of the most forceful and profit¬ 
able papers on Dairying Remote from 
Markets. There is a large territory, five, 
10 to 20 miles from market, and he 
Showed and,exemplified by his own ex¬ 
perience the chance there is on these 
farms to raise calves and heifers for new, 
milch cows for the retail milk dairymanJ 
They require little or no grain, save 
what may be homegrown, will consume 
all the coarse fodders raised on the farm, 
and do not require any hired help. They 
turn the unsalable products into cash. 
It is always a cash business, as a new 
milch cow always means cash. The 
buyer comes to the seller, and as soon 
as it is known that he has new milch 
cows, buyers will Aock from every direc¬ 
tion. Contracts can be made with retail 
milkmen to take all their calves, and 
one can either induce the dairyman to 
keep a dairy type of sire, or it may pay 
to furnish him one, as it costs no more 
to raise the $50 to $75 cow than the $30 
to $40 animal. The seller must be hon¬ 
est, strictly honest, in his dealings, and 
customers once gained are his best ad¬ 
vertisements, as they can depend on 
what he says. This style of farming 
can be done on a farm with cheaper 
buildings, and such farms, often with 
good land, can be bought cheaply, so 
that one can get into this business with¬ 
out the great amount of capital required 
to run so many modern farms. A $1,200 
farm can be so managed as to turn off a 
cow a week on the average, which will 
bring in an income of from $1,800 to 
$3,000 per year, with a net income of 
$800 to $2,000. h. g. M. 
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