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and patriotic 6opo for The future Of We i'm
p1ore a men to take note Of Tho cloud which "a raing
sa san aspe 81 dis IL lareaonas b' me-
Tho address waa received with repeated bursts
of applause Tie best Of feeling prevailed, and
all was in perfect harmony.
-, WISCONSIN. i
JEprEnsoN COUNTY (w1s.) AGRICULTURAL ooSvEy-
' Special Dfspaeeh to Ths Chicago Tribune.
Fonr ATKINSON, Wis, Jan. GA two-daye'
Convention, undor tho auspices OF the Jefferson
County Agricultural socety, commenced it's sos
aions to-day at noon at this place. e. WI
Burchard Of this village, delivered tho address
s. Favill, Of Lake Mills. President Of the
Northwestern Dairymen's Association. delivered
an address on dairying, .e1aborasing, the two.
propositions: that he had meyer known q COM
naunity to get permanently wealthy by
raising grain: tor sale In the mar-
kot,-although individuals might, land that he
had never known community or m Individual
who intelligently conducted dairylng or atook-
raising who failed to do veil. Good cows, and
good oare, and close personal attention were re-
garded aa osaential to succesa.,
Dairying WAS further discussed at length, both
Raynor, also Of Lake Mills, ia d well-wrtten
paper, gasc knowledge, patience, practice, and
perseverance, as the qualifications necessary to
| successful dairyman. IN answer to questions
he said the average receipts per COW for milk
taken to cheeae-faotory a Ind varied
| with = him from $50. to S5o.. Last
o Il eight months, value ae Of butter nude botore
aud after the cheego-lnaking season Was addition
al. Ho feeds only grass whom pasture is good
! Feeds aowed corn, and likes It, when pasture
fails. Most Of the winter he feeds nothing but
hay, but gives bran with little meal, fed wet
before calying and until cows aro turned to
III. Favill had ono COW which in ton months
last year gavo milk enough to make 200 pounds
! Of choose. This would ba about 1000 pounda Of
milk, worth about 800 delivorcd at factory.
Mr Perkins ttnght there e.; Wy n., moro pfoit IN
milking butter. -Ha made his butter into one
| pounds Of butter. and aont to Chicago commits
eion merchants, receiving from 26 to 10 cents
pr poand, and you'd next year set moro. 10
| saved tho time necessary to draw milk to tho
foctory, and had Tho aluna-milk to feed to calves
q oases ss" wore cited in te county as follows One
contract for butter from large herd this winter
per COW last year from . butter dairy; 1,7o91
mado from nine cows, 1,5oo OF which sold at ~
Mr: Tavi11 explained that thoro waa no doubt
was more profitable than cheoso-makiug but
few could make this kind OF butter. There was
but q limited demand Tor ''gllt-edge butter.
II all the milk produced IN JeRorson County
alone was u1ado Into frst-claas butter 1t would
clog the Chicago market for. 40 cont butter
hloRt farmers had not facilities for making good
butter; whou they wore doing vol with choose
"a q. s q. Morrow S' said thero was no danger OF
enough Of iirst-class butter being mado for Romo
years to como to glut tho market for It.
Ho gave an instance of@a daIryman In
Central Wisconsin, with no special facilities, Who
sella all hs butter, from about thirty COVE, much
Of it In Madison, at 80 contB not; Of another
who received 40 cents in Chicago. and to otho'
;. similar instances. Ono-halt tho butter made T.
per pound net. At such price it would NOT pay
1t required eleven pounds, on an average, tt
make . pound Of choese. Milk tor this pur,
p6ae had netted the producora l cent 2. pound
be nude, under favorable circumstances, ii
factories Or large .daislaa from twonty to twenty
tive pounds Of milk say twenty-tllfeo pound
averaged It cost twice a8 much to mako apouna o
butter as one OF cheoae. The comparative prof
its could be determined by comparison Of price
. recaypd.. - ..
". b, Hoard aaid ho had aesn butter from
81, 25, s5, 81 conta. according to quality. Fron
extended observation III 1870, he estimated th
, difference between the price received for to
butter madam tho country in 1870, and tll
| w
tainod by somo dairymon In tho country ut $40,
| 600.
r FRUIT CULTURE.
Mr. stumm Of Waterloo, gaye tho preference
, | to Wilson's Albany among RtrawborrloH for gen
3 oral culture next Ever Prolific. Tho profit
from one acre Of Wilson's Albany, when hll til
labor WAS hired, would be 500 or more. He ne
plants inspiring Ii inches apart in lows SO fec
apart. Cultiyntes we'll first aeaHon mulohe
r lightly with straw for winter, gives no cnltivu
tion after first year, and sets q new bed evor
y three years. Of raspberrien, no recommend
Q Daviaon'a Thombors, o few Doolittle, and tn
0 Miami. or Mammoth Cuator among the binc
:, varioties; tho Philadelphia among tue red. 30
y Should DO Itch, 6ota In rows 6 feet apart
!, pinoos top of at height Of IS inches. thus sa'
! ing trellisoa, and getting better berries.
j, Measra. Hoard and Morrow spoke briefly {
: apple-oulturo, pointing out the owls OF lawn
! too many ya1iefios, most Of them unadaptea
tho climate. Tho varieties commanded wei
: Yetofaki, Red Astrachan, Duchess OF oldenburt
4 st. Lawrence, Fameuso, ,Goldon Rambo Norther
Spy, Tolman Sweet, and Walhrldga and PeWR1
keo, III promising.
! EVENING SESSION.
The lall was lenaoly packed. Music by
10 braeB-band aud glee-cluD with organ accom-
(. paniment, WIS provided.
Ia In the absence OF the speaker expected, g.
2 Morrow, editor OF the Western Farmer, gave a
10 extemporaneous addreaa, pointing oNs some
It tue principles necessary to success in farmlnl
70 some oauseB OF failure. and some Of the dange
n | in thu fnknra