Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-03-25
The Farmers Institute.
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ignoring the requirements of this
law men lose years of time in
achieving their aim. Form and
type is everything for purpose.
The lesson Mr.. Hoard tries to i'm
press is that the dairyman needs the
true dairy COW and the stock-raiser
the beef breed. He would not have
either party fooled by methods not
based on truly scientific principles.
He gave much good advice about
treatment, feeding and watering the
dairy COW. He said what few per-
sons know: that a good COW in milk
needs three times as much water
per day as the fattening steer of the
same weight. A chill decreases milk
secretion. The water for cows should
be warmed. He c1uncelled the dairy
men TO work their cows in the win
ter when butter was high. On the
state farm, for II cents a day for
food for each COW, a grade Short
horn, a grade Jersey and a pure Jer-
sey earned "a cents, 45 cents and SO
cents a day, in the order named.
Maj. Alvord had through selection
and higher breeding raised the av-
erage of his cows from 200 TO $50
pounds of butter, and is still trying
TO make even a better record.
Mr.. Phillips stated the Waukesha
herd of Capt. Enos had ten out of
thirty-fve heifers and cows that
yearly yielded 800 pounds each.
SHEEP sBANDRY-CHEEsE MAKING
In a paper on sheep husbandry,
Mr.. \. Jewell gave his experience
with flock of forty Cotswolds that
averaged l34 pounds of wool each.
He had raised fiber q inches long.
The ewes averaged lamb and a
half each. He sold the lambs when
ten weeks old for IS, but he did not
tell how many the flock produced.
The older sheep he sold at from 81
to $3.50 per hundred pounds, each
weighing about 100 pounds. He
thought he could keep ten sheep on
the same amount of food that COW
would eat
Other sheep raisers in the audi
ence did not quite agree with him
on the last point. They believed that
100 pounds of sheep required as
much as 100 pounds of COW. Wolves
and dogs made great inroads on
sheep husbandry. The former cut
the throats of the sheep and de-
voured the hams, aad the latter de-
voured any part they got hold of
! first.
Mr.. r. 5. Jones advocated cheese
making, especially in warm months
as better disposition of the milk
than butter-making. Aside from this
point, he advocated the keeping Of
dairy COWS as means of develop
ing the dairymen in Intelligence aud
humanity. 1t may tax all his efforts
and thoughts, yet he has ample OPP
portunlties to improve the breed of
his stock and the means and meth
DDS of feeding it.
The points as to general grade of
cheese from each 100 pounds Of
milk whether to sell the milk or
have cheese made by the pound
which was most profitable to make
from the milk, butter or cheese
were discussed by the authors of the
/ paper, w. d. Hoard, j. a. Smith,
and others The chief dairy bust
uess of this section is butter-making
on the farm, and of gathering cream.
One gentleman said that he consid-
cred it good proof that dairying
benefited the farm, as Mr. Jones
had claimed, when it was well
known that the dairy farm of Hiram
Smith was feeding about one COW
on each TWO acres of land. They
were doing no such farming in Iowa
county, and still he believed they
had more natural grassland than in
I Sheboygan county, as they have the
true bluegrass region of southwest
ern Wisconsin and northwest llli-
nois.
James Spensley said he used grade
Shorthorns for the dairy, and could
raise good calves on sklm-milk. lie
makes butter on the farm-modern
method-and sells 1T in Chicago.
The institutes at this point was
favored with most excellent music,
both vocal and instrumental, under
the skiIlful leadership Of Prof.
Blakney.
TAXES AND OTHER TOPICS.
At the evening session Hon. J. w.
Rewey spoke 10y urgent request on
! the assessment and collection of
taxes. lie was a member of the
/ late assembly and chairman of the
committee or that subject, and so
had made the matter a special study,
and evidently has a clear business
brain to aid him to reach clear con
clusious The complaint of high
taxes 4 nearly always made, and is