Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1874 — The Indianapolis Butter Convention. [ARTICLE]

The Indianapolis Butter Convention.

■ In a little less .than four weeks a very important convention is to be held at Indianapolis'. It is one in which butter makers, butter dealers., and butterconsumers are interested. We refer to the second meeting of the Manufacturers of, and Dealers in Factory -and Creaiit ■’ cry Butter. This society was organized at W'is., on the 3d of last March, and adjourned to meet at Indianapolis on the 17th of June. We learn from various sources that deep interest is. taken in the forthcoming meeting, and that the attendance is be very large. The Buttpr and Cheese i Exchange of New York and the ! Produce Exchange of Philadelphia phavc-taken action in ird to this I movement; and .promise to aid all I th’ey can in the effort to advance ' dairy science. Probably in. no : branch of industry has there beenI a greater waste through ignorance ! than in the science of btttter-mak-i in”'. From this cause alone millI E> ; ioirs~of dollars are lost every year . ; by American and Canadian butter- j makers, and any society designed j to aid in preventing this sacrifice! cannot receive too much eucotir- ; agement. Mr. Daniil W. Dake,! of Beloit, President of the associ- ' ation, as we have before announced, has offered §1,600 in eleven prizes for essays on butter manufacture ; and the merit of these essavs is to be decided on at the Indiana Convention. They will no doubt draw ont some of the best! talent in the country, and their publ.ica j lion must give a new impetus, to - tire branch of industry of which they will treat. — ••Inter Ocean. Some people say that a fruit year follows heavy snows in April.— Appearances now seem as though*] the rule would be good this season, 4 at least, and people ought to make .preparation to Save as much of the crop as possible;