THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 95 
846 
NEW YORK STATE DAIRYMEN’S 
ASSOCIATION. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-FIBST AN¬ 
NUAL CONVENTION. 
The twenty-first annual convention of 
the New York State Dairymen’s Asso¬ 
ciation was held at Cortland, December 
8 and 9. Those who have attended these 
meetings for years, declare that this 
was the most successful convention ever 
held. At the meeting of the directors, 
it was decided that the association should 
be continued, and that they would ask 
the next legislature for an appropriation. 
It will be remembered that the bill pro¬ 
viding tor their appropriation last win¬ 
ter was vetoed by Governor Black. It is 
hoped that, by this time, he will have 
come to think more favorably of the 
work of the association, and grant the 
appropriation. 
The convention was called to order 
Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock by 
President Van Slyke. Mr. John S. Shat- 
tuck, of Norwich, one of the older mem¬ 
bers of the association, said : “ We used 
to think that good butter could not be 
made west of Orange County, but now 
the greater part of our supply comes 
from the Far West. It is our business to 
produce and put upon the market what 
somebody’s taste demands. We cannot 
afford to compete with the cheap grades 
of butter which are manufactured and 
shipped to our markets in large quanti¬ 
ties, but we must make a superior arti¬ 
cle which will be what somebody’s taste 
demands. Many of our farmers are 
selling milk to-day, and we frequently 
find those who think that they can sell 
anything because some people will buy 
it. This may be true for a time, but 
soon there will come a reaction which 
will tell upon the whole market. Our 
farm dairies, after all that has been said 
about improvement, will not average as 
well to-day in the production of milk as 
they did 20 years ago. I ask Mr. George 
A. Smith if this statement is not cor¬ 
rect ” Mr. Smith said “ Lbelieve you are 
correct. We are selling the fertility 
off our farms by the quart or by the 
pound. Our pastures used to produce 
good feed all summer ; they do not do it 
now. We should encourage the use of 
dairy products. Farmers themselves 
should consume more of the products of 
the dairy. Some say : 1 We sell our milk 
and cannot have cream.’ This should 
not be so. The farmer’s family should 
first be supplied with the products of 
the dairy.” 
Mr. R. A. Pearson, assistant chief of 
the Dairy Division, Washington, D. C., 
described briefly a fraud which has re¬ 
cently been patented, which purports to 
make two pounds of butter from one 
pound of butter and one pound of cream. 
The formula is stated to be as follows : 
Take one pound of butter and one pound 
of cream, put into a churn which will 
allow free entrance of the air, bring to 
a temperature of 70 degrees, and churn 
it. They found at the Department of 
Agriculture that, by following out this 
method, they could produce something 
which resembles butter. The extra 
weight, however, is made up of casein 
and moisture; the butter lacks grain 
and keeping qualities. By using very 
rich cream, they found that they could 
get an article which would analyze 76 
per cent fat. In another test where 
lower grade cream was used, the butter 
tested between 60 and 70 per cent fat. 
Mr. Pearson stated that the advantages 
of making butter in this way are hard to 
discover. It has less fat, more water, 
more casein and albuminoids, and had 
entirely lost its grain. A sample was 
sent to an expert in New York who had 
no knowledge whatever of how it was 
made, and he reported that it was fit 
only for the lowest sort of baker’s trade. 
Dr. W. H. Jordan, Director of the 
Geneva Station, said that he came to the 
convention last year with his head full 
of an idea, that he presented his idea to 
the convention, that they expressed 
their opinion of it, and that he put that 
expression of opinion before the as¬ 
sembly. As a result, they are now com¬ 
pleting at Geneva one of the finest dairy 
buildings in the country, and one of 
which the State may well be proud. He 
thanked the convention for their aid in 
this matter, and promised that an effort 
would be made at the New York State 
Experiment Station to solve some of 
these perplexing questions relating to 
the dairy industry. 
A paper was read which had been 
prepared by Mr. George T. Powell, 
treasurer of the association, on the sub¬ 
ject, Future Value of our Dairy Products. 
Mr. Powell believes that, owing to the 
fact that large areas of our country are 
having their dairy industries developed, 
the price for dairy products in the future, 
as a rule, will run low. In the great 
West, when the price of wheat was high, 
but little attention was devoted to the 
dairy industry. As the price of wheat 
fell, the dairy industry was developed. 
In the future, the amount of dairy 
products manufactured in the West will 
depend somewhat upon the price of 
wheat. Not only is the West one of our 
competitors, but the Southern States as 
well are establishing dairy schools and 
holding dairy conventions, and soon we 
may have a formidable rival in the 
South. 
The annual address of the president 
was delivered by Dr. Van Slyke. He 
chose for his subject, Twenty-one Years. 
His address was mainly historical, and 
dealt with the organization of the as¬ 
sociation, of its growth and of the work 
it has accomplished. Of the original 160 
names enrolled as members, there now 
remain but three, viz , Mr. B. D. Gilbert, 
Mr. Jesse Owen and Prof. I. P. Roberts. 
He believes that the work of the associa¬ 
tion should be broadened and made of 
practical aid to representative dairy 
farmers, to creameries, buttermakers, 
milk stations, boards of trade, to all who 
are investigating at our experiment sta¬ 
tions, and to manufacturers of dairy im¬ 
plements and supplies. He said that 
the thanks of the association were due 
to Mr. F. E. Dawley, Director of Farm¬ 
ers’ Institutes, by whose aid the conven¬ 
tion was held. 
An interesting letter was read from 
Commissioner of Agriculture Hon. C. A. 
Weiting. He requested that the conven¬ 
tion give an expression of opinion with 
reference to the protection of the New 
York State brands. Other States are 
manufacturing an inferior product, and 
are marking it as New York goods. The 
only remedy for this is National legisla¬ 
tion, and the convention unanimously 
passed a resolution calling upon Con¬ 
gress, and especially upon the New York 
members of Congress, to use their influ¬ 
ence in passing a law which will afford 
protection to the dairy products of New 
York. 
Soiling was the subject of a paper read 
by Mr. F. S. Peer. The soiling system 
is the salvation of the dairy farmer. In 
no other way can so much stock be kept 
upon a limited area as by the practice of 
the system of soiling. We are gradually 
coming into this practice, having learned 
what can be produced from an acre of 
land where corn is raised for the silo. 
As the silo has now come to occupy a 
place upon nearly every dairy farm, so 
the system of soiling is bound to come 
sooner or later. Many now practice a 
system of partial soiling, but they should 
not stop here, they should go on and 
reap the full benefits from the system. 
Ensilage has come into such general use 
because manufacturers of machinery 
have advertised their goods, and have 
preached long and loud upon the merits 
of ensilage. Soiling costs nothing in the 
way of machinery ; there is nothing new 
or startling about it, and for this rea¬ 
son, it has been slow in attracting at¬ 
tention. Under a system of pasturing, 
five acres per cow are required ; under a 
system of soiling, one acre per cow is 
sufficient. Thirty-five full-grown cows 
have, by a system of soiling, been kept 
on 30 acres, and the production of the 
cows nearly doubled. The Islands of 
Jersey and Guernsey have but 7,000 to 
10,000 acres of farm land, and in 1893, 
had 11,891 cows and 2,443 horses. If 
they had to pasture and cut hay, many 
of their animals would have to be killed. 
Cows prefer soiling to pasture every 
time, should be fed in the stable five 
times a day, and water should not be 
kept constantly before them. Among 
the best crops for soiling purposes were 
mentioned rye, oats and peas, Alfalfa 
and corn. 
Prof. I. P. Roberts read an interesting 
and valuable paper on the subject, For¬ 
age Crops and Winter Dairying. He be¬ 
lieves that corn is preeminently the 
American forage crop, and that nothing 
can compare with it. In a field of 18 
acres of corn grown at Cornell University 
this year, the average yield per acre was 
14 tons of green material containing 123 
bushels of ear corn. No other crop 
which we grow has a value for feeding 
purposes to compare with this. The silo 
furnishes a convenient and suitable 
means for storing this material, and of 
all silos, the tub silo is best. 
Prof. H. H. Wing, of Cornell Univer¬ 
sity, gave a most valuable talk about 
Some Things Learned in Europe. Those 
countries of Europe which contain most 
of interest in the dairy line are Great 
Britain, Denmark, France, Holland and 
Switzerland. We have heard more about 
Denmark and her butter and her hold on 
the English market. We have come to 
believe that there is something good in 
Denmark. They make a butter there 
with which it is utterly impossible for 
any one to compete. It is of a uniformly 
good quality, averages high, and has 
not so great a variance as here. The 
dairies are uniformly well-kept. While 
there are poor dairies and careless dairy¬ 
men, they are not so numerous as in 
this country. What has given Danish 
butter its reputation ? There are two 
or three forces which have done this ; 
(Continued on next page.) 
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The parents wish them 
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