Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-02-16

! TX AbtE anu lutlF happiness
| in this world. He advised both old and
young to be careful of their health, and
as this life was short to make the best of
it. Be especially careful of the health of
the wife and mother.
Mrs. NJ. Z. Warner, then read a paper
on Farmers and Farmers Wives, which
awakened considerable enthusiasm. She
would advise both men and women not to
seek after gold to bring pleasure, for it
does not. She told a very pretty legend
of person seeking after gold, and then
showed the evils that befel him, She said
woman held the would in her palm and
noble woman is Zone of the noblest works
of God"
DR.. j. w. Vance being absent, Hon. ii.
Q. Adams addressed the meeting He
gave them some figures showing the rela-
tive value of the dairy produce in Wis
ccnsin for the past forty years.
He said that to get good rich milk, and
lots of it, required good feeding and
warm shelter. He advised them to warm
the water they gave 10 their cows. The
reason for this was to increase the flow
of milk; for if the COWS are given ice cold
water, it requires heat to make that ice
water OF the same temperament as the
blood of the animal and it therefore takes
animal heat and vitality and
lessons the flow of milk. He advised
them to keep the cows in the barn in
cold weBther; there is no need of letting
a COW out to hump her back ON the shady
side of a barb-wire fence to make her
hardy. 1t has been proven that the best
| results from the dairy have been whore
the cows are kept in the barn in cold
weather and given warm water.
Considerable discussion followed on
the value of the thoroughbred dairy COW
ans was ably conducted by those inter
ested.
The convention adjourned until Thurs
day morning at 8 O'Clock.
THURSDAYS SESSION.
On Thursday morning at 8 o'clock the
! state farmers convention reassembled in
the capitol lin the assembly cAamber),
and the first paper delivered was that of
Mrs. NJ E. Warner, of Fox Lake. Her
theme was Farmers and Farmers Wives"
She presented very interesting land
many said) true picture of the two
along down through life.
Then followed Hon. w. II. Morrison,
superintendent of farm institutes, on
"The Status of Wisconsin Agriculture,
This lecture was full of interest, and 1T
showed that the superintendent had made
complete study of the labor he had
taken hold of.
Tho next paper was from Hon Geo. b.
| Burrows, on Forestry" Mr.. b. said:
81 have always contended that there was
no better place in the great northwest for
man to settle in, for the purpose of
farming, than in the southern part of our
own state, particularly young men and
emtgrants with limited means. No
where can you find richer grain growing
region or one TIA It promises greater dur
ability.
In wheat crops northern Wisconsin ex
celled, and where is the average yield
more abundant? In tame grasses it
scarcely has rival in the west either in
quality or nutritiousness. That this is
| TO be the future butter an cheese region
of the northwest--the very seat of dairy
| ing enterprise, as much so as Vermont
| and the celebrated districts of New York
and Ohio, is already well established.
"The most heartless and cruel feature
of recent immigration is the blind, I'M
ceasing rush of mutitudes out upon the
]
where not only IS every comfort sacri-
feed, but health and life positively put
in peril. In what more horrible
condition could humanity be placed
than on those trackless wastes, with no
better shelter than cabins of sod or holes
burrowed in the earth; no fuel but hay
twisted into rope, with winter extremes
OF cold often from 500 to 600, and
summer extremes of 1908 to 112o IL the
shade. 1t is from such sections of flood
swept valleys and cyclone desolated hills,
where the mantle of winter SHOWS draw q
veil over human suffering, that wall of
anguish and despair is yearly heard, that
makes humanity shudder and taxes the
hand Of charity to the uttermost even to
preserve life.
"The papers of to-day contain blood
eurdling accounts of the recent blizzard
Never did death send more terrible
avant courier than the binding, freezing
blizzard, against which Dakota stands
with her her treeless plains, defenceles5
Without note of warning, the familiar
landmarks of ones home surrounding
are transformed into trackless waste
Many a poor victim has crossed the river
OF Death in attempting to reach his own
door from some immediate point around
his home.
"The late terrible blizzard in Dakota
has taught our Wisconsin farmers living
in the timber portion of the state good
lesson-"to keep a good thing when they
have got it," and "to let well enoug /
aloue.n No settler of our northern fores
need ever suffer from cold or hunger
1t is true the cold has been nearly az in
tense, but being timbered country, thu
wind is shorn of its deadly power; and o.
course fuel is abundant; consequently thu
people have been spared the suffering
and loss of life whiyh have overtaken th'
settlers on the great treeless plains far
Their west"
The senator has on exhibition CRANE
display of the best woods of the northern
forests of Wisconsin.
In the afternoon session, the most in
terestipg topic was that in regard to tn
dehorning of cattle by Mr.. ii. ID. Haaf, o
Chicago. lie launched right out on hi
system, and in few minutes he seemed
to have carried the vast gathering will
him. At the close of the address tn
question OF the &shornlpg of cattle wa
discussed pretty freely: and il appeared