Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-03-22
President Adams Said In His opsning
Address,

President Adams Said In His opsnlnl
Address,
Hoard's Dairyman.
Comparisons are said to be odious
but we will make one. Walworth is
a dairy county. st. Croix lie not or
was not in 1885. To-day her farmers
are In animal husbandry TO q greater
extent and are on the up grade to just
that extent. In 1885 the main industry
was grain raising. Her grain limits
contain plenty Of soil as good natu-
rally as any in the state. In that year
there were In st. Croix county 2OS,OOO
acres of improved land In round num-
beers: Walworth had 2lS,O acres. The
land of st. Croix county which Is I'M
proved and woodland amounts to lZS,,
600 acres, in Walworth to lOI,OOO
acres. The total valuation of the land
In st. Croix county was $7,255,OOO; in
Walworth $l3,4l0,0O0. The census
taker was not an assessor. Values
were given in full. st. Croix farms
were worth $22 per acre. those OF wal
worth SAL per acre. The cheese Of st.
| Croix was worth $l4, 400, that Of Wal
worth $lS2,OO0. st. Croix made 49,
600 worth of butter, Walworth $780,.
600 worth. One hundred and ten
thousand dollars worth of butter and
cheese In st. Croix against $462,OOO
worth In Walworth; 81. Croix raised
1856. 600 bushels of wheat, Walworth
266,OOO. The yield in st. Croix was
| II bushels per acre, in Wslworth ~.
| St. Croix sold $l66,000 worth Of the
plant food of her farms In the wheat
crop alone, Walworth $4,000 worth.
81. Croix raised $4,000 worth of corn,
Wal worth $6900OO. Two years ago a
farmer rose in an institute In st. Croix
county and protested against the con-
sideration of any means for the de-
st-uction Of chinch bugs because he
said their destructive logic was the
only thing which could clean out the
curse of wheat raising. What Is true
Of these counties Is generally true-in
the dairy counties, large crops OF those
products which do not starve the soil,
good land, good buildings, few mort
cages, many farmers with money to
loan, good demand for farms-in the
grain counties depression, short crops,
land low, labor cheap, merchants
hanging their harps upon the credit
system and q condition Of things liza.
bic to produce the farmers greatest
enemy-the blatherskite who howls
anti-lnonopoly and will not hoe corn.
1t is objected that tho average farm
er cannot be q good dairyman. The
proposition that he is not will hold
good because 1t can be proved that he
keeps al average COW that only yields
lis pounds of butter per year. But
the idea that he has not the capacity
to learn the dairy business is absurd.
With him 1t is o meter Of intention,
not of intellect. He does not want to-
be q good dairyman. The average
farmer mas mind enough, but he is
mentally lazy or sleepy. If he only
knew how much undeveloped, unused
strength he had in his head you would
soon see in him dawning of self re-
spect, activity of thought, mastery OF
business principles which would COM
mand the respect of all men. But the
average farmer finds thinking tire.
some, keeping account bore, milking
a COW a thing Of deadly regularity,
making butter rather delicate pro.
cess, and he finds that to successfully
breed and feed good stock be must
keep a full head of steam on his
thinking machinery all of the time.
He does not like the pressure. He
lodges it and frequently takes the
pressure of debt instead. But In nine
cases out of ten he has capacity enough
to make the dairy business pay II ne
will submit to labor in thinking aud
system in working.
Many farmers object to going into
the dairy business because OF over
production. There Is no over-produc-
ton of first class butter or cheese, there
never has been and probably never
will be. If all the pounds of butter
which II is expected will be eaten next
week upon American tables could by
some mysterious process be made first
class It would not last three days.
There Ia q glut of poor butter because
It is poor and people do not want 1t;
there is shortage Of good butter be-
cause it Is eaten quickly and every
man, woman and child wants 1t.
Cheese is cheap because so large o
portion of the supply is 80 poor that 1t
cannot be sold to one family In hve,
and because retailers want more profit
than the manufacturers. Our home
demand in the state Of Wisconsin will
be doubled when farmers will supply
first class butter to every store and her
factories shall place upon the market
nothing but full cream cheese properly
aud thoroughly cured.
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