Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870 [PAGE 400]

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386 is not generally clean, nor does it amalgamate with the butter or cheese fully. I have heretofore recommended the Liverpool salt of Ashton's brand. I am glad to be able to say that we now have an American salt which I consider quite as good or better. The New York Factory and Excelsior brands analyze as well as the Ashton, and are finer ground. There is no section where there is not room for improvement in the manufacture of this article, but especially here, where, as yet, the business is in its infancy, and facilities for doing it to advantage are not found on every farm. I wish I could impress upon the small dairyman of the northwest the. great truth, that he who is engaged in the manufacture of poor butter or cheese, is in a very BAD business, and he who is producing a good article of either is pursuing the highest agricultural attainment. I have often had reason to remark that the western farmers, who have good butter to sell, get on well without going in debt to the stores, and come out in the fall without having a debt to pay out of their corn and wheat crops; and those who do not make butter to sell through the summer, often contract a debt at that time which it is often difficult to meet. The present and future prospects of the dairy interests of the west were spoken of in my address at Elgin. The satisfactory trade of the last year, I think, has fully borne out some of my predictions, and looming up in the future I think I see the fulfillment of others. When we reflect upon the greatness and importance of this interest—upon its rapid growth during the last ten years—the increasing population of the country—the new settlements springing up so rapidly in the west—the large mining interests, gradually increasing, and the wants of such a population for our dairy products—the favor with which our shipments have been received on the Pacific coast, and the ever active and improving energy of the men engaged in this branch of our national industry, who can doubt continued success ? The household word of the American people, and especially of the western people, is "Excelsior," higher, onward. Values may change—markets for a time may afford small encouragement, but these are but ripples on the surface of the great stream which will continue to flow on to its destination, which is sure to be victory— success. Let us all give strong hearts and steady hands to the work we have, and prosperity will reign in all our borders.

DISCUSSION.

Mr. KING was asked what kind of a cooler he would prefer. KING—The best cooler I have seen is a sheet of zinc, corrugated like a wash board, but with the ogees larger, and so arranged that whilst the milk runs down one side of the zinc, cold water runs down the other in fine streams. LAWRENCE—Dairying is one of the leading interests, especially here, though good butter may be made a good deal farther south. It is important to remember that anything given the cows affects the taste of the milk, I have used the milk-cooler mentioned by