The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-02-21
GREAT Dairy Fair.

We are indebted TO the american Dd'ry'
man for a full report Of President Moul'
toms very instructive and suggestive ad'
dress at the recent annual meeting oil the
International Dairy Fair Association. The
Tho American dairy industry is advancing
with rapid strides, and while much is due
IN soil and climate and individual indus
FRY, more is due to associated effort, which
bas developed better methods, instructed
producers and established q generous
rivalry, the results Of which have been
seen in the great fairs of the Dairy Fair
Association, in an improved article and a
greater demand. But We are not yet able
to supply the demand for good butter and
cheese; great home and foreign markets
await q wider practice and a'higher devel'
op,nent OF this industry.
Having in view the largest measure oil
success the President OF the Association
hasadyised, and the Association has agreed'
to hold u great dairy fs!!r at New York
within the present year. The time is OPP
FORTUNE, because it is now nearly four years
since the last great fair was held. The
place is well chosen because 'all roads lead
10 Rome" and within two. hundred miles o.
New York are more fine cattle than are tc
be found in any equal area in the world
The breeders OF fine stock in Eastern Penn
sylyania, New York and New England are,
for the most part, mon Of large means
with whom the industry lisa pastime more
than q m~oney.making venture. In thai
section are found the $4,000 bulls and
high-priced mich cows OF which our FAR
mers read but rarely see.
II is intended that the fair shall include
stock, implements and methods-oyery'
thing relating to the butter and cheese in
dustry. 1t is hoped TO include every State
in which butter and cheese making are
practiced to any considerable extent. Sew
ersl features OF the project will be better
understood by a brief extract from Presi'
dent Moulton's address:
With the use OF Ice and the adoption OF en-
silage, grass Is q non.essential, as against the
aid lnsory that grass and wafer were the
prime factors for dairying. Minnesota,
which Is but Just being developed In connec-
ton with dairying, Is alone capable OF pro
ducing almost our present production OF but
tar and cheese. The product can be doubled
and ,rebled In all the States ! have mention
ed: and Kentucky, Northern Virginia,
West Virginia, Northern Tennessee Northern
Missouri, Kansas and Dakota can produce as
GOOD butter as New York. With the means
/ have indicated we should, therefore, export
many times the amount OF butter We do snd
with the perfect system OF inland aud ocean
transportation, which enables tue shipment
OF the product from the armer's door TO the
consumers home In London In relrtg'
orators, we have all the needed ia.
c%iltties. ! propose q fair that shall
bring together the producers oil the world
for ali examination Of the products from
all sections, the discussion Of the methods By
which they are produced, the breeds OF cattle
supplying the milk, their care and food, The
systems OF handling milk and manulactur.
ing butter and cheese, tbs implements and
machinery used, the handling oft he product
aud practical illustrations on the grounds OF
the manufacturers. l would have discus.
sions by the ablest mel in America and
Europe of daily topics. general agriculture
and cattle breeding A meeting OF such q
character would be OF the utmost interest
and value, and Of inestimable benefit In It's
results.
Great In attractiyeness and interest as these
features OF the proposed Fair appear to ME, !
have 10 suggest an additional one that would
at least equal the others, both in interest and
i'm 1t Ia u cattle show, to embrace
the best representatives OF different breeds,
and that should surpass in quality aud char:
acter anything OF the kind ever witnessed.
There Is an opportunity to do this at this
time, and In this city such as never existed
before.
Nr. Moulton is among the ablest cham
pions Of ensilage, which he regards as an
almost indispensable adjunct to successful
dairy farming. 1t will BIO observed that
West Virginia is counted among the States
particularly adapted to this industry. The
date Of the lair has not yet been an
nounced, but there is sufficient time for
West Virginia to make her preparations,
that she may be seen to good advantage at
the fair.