Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-02-27

! not only much that encourages but also very
many Mistakes 1t seems to be veryssdifficult
TASK 10 reach large proportion of the milk
| producers of the northwest and get them to
adopt the standard ideas of the day in dairy
ing. 'Ihey are not dairymen; they have but
| little real pride in the business and what is
worse, they will expend neither money nor
| time to learn better. Not one in a hundred of
| the patrons of the cheese factories and cream
cries OF the northwest ever attend dairy con-
Ventlon. But very few of them read such pa
pers as devote especial attention to this sub
| Ject. They do not seem to care whether they
| succeed well or i'll at the business.
Of truth it is hard to leaven such lump.
Compare the results per COW of the great mass
| OF dalrymen with what is obtained by such
men as Hon. Hiram Smith, N. Morley, r. s.
| Houston, Chas. r. Beach and the Flack Bros,
| of Wis, III. B. Gurler, G. G. Buell., T.. j. J.
Oatman, G. j.. Lord, Of illinois, together with
hundreds of others in these states and in Iowa
and Minnesota, all eagerly pressing to the
front
What is the lesson that the comparison teach
es? 1t is THIsl The men whose names have
mentioned are making their COWS earn from $40
to 800 for the season. The great mass are
apparently satisfied if they get $40 or less.
Yet the seventy dollar men will spend twice the
time and money to attend conventions, to read,
study and compare that the other class will.
Inns Is the first grand mistake from whose pro-
Inc IONS are bred all others. The seventy
dollar men feed literally, the other do not.
The first breed for the milk pail and churn;
the latter do not; the first provide themselves
with the very best dairy appliances they can
procure-the latter say sit don't pay" and
there they remain. The first provide their
herds with early cut hay, full of succulence
and good results-the latter, never. The first
see to 1t that their COWS have pure water-the
latter wonder what COW can want of water,
any way and particularly pure water. The first
provide convenient, we'll ventilated barns-the
laft do ~ Pr, hat
is. The first will keep up the flow of milk in
their COWS by extra feed during the droughts
OF summer when prices are low, IN order that
they may have abundant yield in autumn when
prices are high-the latter hold the feed cent
to close to their eve that they cannot see the
milk dollar The first class, in word, are
ambitious of being dairymen IN the most pro-
life sense of the word. They take pride in
their business, in keeping posted in ii and their
splendid success attests their superior wisdom.
A very serious mistake is the lack of cooper
alton on the part of milk producers-another,
In going along year after year without testing
the individual proftableness of their COWS.
All these are the errors of an ignorant and
Improbable practice. There is better way,
and all intelligent men in the business pursue
it. l have tried in these remarks to divide
truth from error as best L can, and to stimulate
thought, rather than please the ear and fatter
vanity.
1 cannot close without uttering few brief
words In tribute to the memory of gentleman
now dead, to whose genius and labors the
farmers of the northwest owe debt of graft
tude which they will never be able to repay.
/ allude to the late G. @. Fairlamb, the
founder of the gathered cream system of but
ter making. 1t was his fertile brain, his pa
tlent hand and inventive purpose, that in a
great measure placed the scattered farmers of
these northwestern prairies on nearly an equal
footing with the older and more favored dairy
districts His labors have added immeasur-
ably to the health of the northwest. Although
possessed of frail health, his enthusiasm in
demonstrating the pIacticabiity Of his ideas,
was unbounded, and he continued to work for
the success of the gathered cream system, even
after approaching death was visible to his own
eyes. He added another instance to the long
line of thinkers and inventors, whose ideas and
west and the whole country, new encourage
ment and hope.
The convention Of this association held in
this city year ago. was one of the largest and
most beneficial in its results of any like con-
vention in the history of the United States.
In all of the discussions there was con-
spicuous absence of personal vanity and
marked sngleness of purpose to accomplish
the greatest good possible. Let us work in the
same spirit this year.
/ desire on behalf of the association to eX-
press its sincere acknowledgements to the en-
tire press of the northwest, for the marked
courtesy which has been displayed in publish
ing, free of charge, the announcement of its
conventions, together with full and accurate
reports of the same. The progress of dairying
owes more to the press than to any other one
agency in society.