St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-29
Profitable Interchanges Of Opinion by the
Butter and Oheesemakers Of the
State of Wisconsin.
A Resolution Looking to the Holding of a
Northwestern Exposition of Dairy
Cattle and Products.
Two Clever Railroad Ticket Forg ers
Captured-Doings OF the Range
men at Denver.
The Deed of a Wisconsin Lunatic--
Congressman Rankin Buried--A
Boiler Explosion.
Rutter and cheesemaker..

Special to the Globe
RIcHLANp CENTRE, Wis, Jan. 2S.-
The third days session Of the Wisconsin
Dairymen's convention opened with large
attendance. The first question was in ref
erence to making cheese on Sunday. Mr..
Brown said they required the patrons to
care for the Sunday milk and when the
milk was bad it was sent home. 1t was
generally inferred that the matter should
be settled by each eheesemaker for himself.
John Gould of Ohio discussed the question
of cheap feed or silOs and ensilage
He described the silo, and said that in a
small section of Ohio dairy farmers were
feeding ensilage, and they were able TO
make milk cheaply and change from sum-
mer dairying when milk is worth about so
rents per 100 pounds to winter dairying
when milk is worth from 81. % to SI.50 per
100 pounds. From ensilage corn fodder as
field corn is grown. The cheapness of
this feed will enable farmers to produce
cheaper and still have larger profits. 1t
will also enable them TO carry more stock
Oh their farms than can now be done. En-
Bilage fodder yields from twenty-five to
forty tons per acre. and should be cut about
the time the ears begin to glaze over. The
farmers on the prairies could ensilage COM
mon grass. rye, oats. or corn fodder, when
fed alone Fifty pounds of
ENsILAGE
per day per COW is sufficient To this may
be added little bran or meal. This feed
makes both milk and flesh, and the milk is
of good quality, making good butter and
cheese. j. A. Smith of Wisconsin read
paper on the value of farmers Institutes
and their relation to dairymen. He gave
6 al, -
which fifteen or twenty have been held and
as many more are To be held
before the winter closes In the discussions
in these meetings new ideas and thoughts
have been dropped which have set farmers
TO thinking and experimenting for them
selves, and especially in the matter of feed
ing stock. Hiram Smith OF Wisconsin read
paper on successful dairy farming, in
which he urged common sense well applied.
He stated he began farming fourteen years
ago with forty-five COWS Oh 200 acres of
land. His was dairy farm with but few
facilities for doing the work, and with few
comforts for the cows. but he found that he
must change his system or become bankrupt
The change consisted in providing warm
barns for winter and cool barns for summer
with an abundance of pure water and have
his cows give the largest flow of milk when
dairy products are highest,
FEEDING LITERALLY
all the cows could digest, and saving and
applying all the manure to the land posi-
BILE. The true system was to ascertain how
much butter per acre he could produce.
When he began he made forty pounds per
acre, while last year he produced sixty-two
pounds per acre. Prof. Henry of the Wis
consin university lectured on the value of
corn stalks as feed ration for producing
milk, and demonstrated the value of this
heretofore-neglected food, which was a
surprise to those who have never noted the
value of the stalks. AT the university farm
he found it required $500 pounds of corn
stalks. 514 pounds of corn meal and ZIG
pounds of wheat bran to produce 100
pounds of butter. When feeding mixed
hay it requires 1,34S pounds of hay, 500
pounds. of corn meal and 700 pounds of
wheat bran to make 100 pounds of butter
The usual resolutions were presented.
among them % criticism of the action of the
Illinois state board of agriculture in regard
to butterine, and one looking to the holding
of all exposition of dairy cattle and dairy
products at some accessible point in the
Northwest, to be under the management OF
Western dairy organizations. The associa-
tioG adjourned in the evening, after prof
table three days' meeting.