The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-02-23

We clip from the Nashville Ban
ner correspondents report the follows
ing anent the dairy convention last
week in Jackson. 1t is brief, clear
synopsis of some of the principal feat
ules Of the meeting:
The "colonels," the "majors," the
"csptains" and the "honorables" of
Middle and West Tennessee and the
farmers" of Iowa, Illinois, Wiscon-
sin and Indiana met together and were
happy. Mr. Wauzer, of Wisconsin,
said they came down to spy out the
country and learn more Of the bust
ness, social nature and habits of the
southern people. Henry Wallace,
editor of the Iowa Homestead, said
his people came down twenty years
ago SO, 900 strong, and he wanted to
see if we had changed our manners
towards strangers since then. He
thinks we have. He said he never
spoke to so many democrats before in
his life; but the interests of the re-
publican farmers OF Iowa and the dem.
oeratic farmers of Tennessee were
identical. His entire speech, AS were
every other speech he made. bub5led
over with wit and wisdom, and was
heartily received by his southern
hearers. He puts things in this wise:
"Grass means the best butter in the
world, grass means the best beef in
the world, grass means the happiest
homes and most intelligent people in
the world. Not cotton, but grass is
king!"
And then the quiet, sledge.hammer
facts of Mr.. b. f. Cockrill and Col.
A. S. Colyar would please and inter-
est. And there was the rich and
practical suggestions of Sampson, the
creamery" man, and the great big
practical ideas of Farmer Coffin, the
railroad commissioner of Iowa, and
the clear cut and pointed speeches of
Stevens, of Illinois.
Other practical farmers of the great
northwest was there and heard. Nor
must it be supposed that our own
Middle and West Tennesseans were
silent all the while. Several of them
spoke, and their speeches were both
elegant and full-full of desire for
more light, and expressions of hope to
see Tennessee put herself in line with
the very front of the grand sisterhood
of states.
One leading idea-in fact the lead =
ing idea-the theology and creed of
the entire conventiOn-can he ex.
pressed n one word, and that work is
"grass !" The ideal of happiness and
home is, to the northwestern farmer,
all conferred in grass and COWS. And
the facts and figures and pictures they
gave US all went far to convince the
West Tennessee farmers that COTTON
must CO." and that his financial and
moral and intellectual salvation is in
grass and cows. Mr.. Sampson--and
all of them-said they made butter
from May to November, while we
could make it all the year round, and
we are near the southern market,
which they consider the best. But"
said MIR. Sampson, "the grandest ar
gument in favor of dairy farming is
the improvement of the human spirit.
1t is the most refining and elevating
of all vocations and most conducive
to the highest type of moral and in
tellectual culture"
Another feature was the fact that
only one "resolve" and one "move'
was offered. Probably the most re.
markable event of the whole conven.
tion-thc one straDgest to southern
ears and eyes-was the reading NJ an
essay on DAIRY Farming and the
! Home" by Miss Carrie c. Coffin It