Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-07-02
nd $3.50, 900, 900 are invested in the in

and $3.50, ,OOO, 900 are invested in the in
dustry in that state. The dairy pro-
ducts, of Sheboygan county, consisting
OF fifteen ordinary townships, is ST.
100000 annually. Green county makes
Sl.OO0,O 900 worth of cheese annually.
How does this affect the farmer? The
state auditor reports that the average
sales of land in Sheboygan county are
at s47 per acre.
In 1870, when the Wisconsin state
dairymen's association was organized,
with six members, the state had gone
through the
DEBAUCH OF WHEAT RAISING
and its citizens were all in a condition
OF pocket-ache, akin to the feeling of a
man just recovering from an all round
drunk. Any town or community which
makes its living continuously from
wheat raising is a licked town, COM
munity or state. You need not expect
anything else in your state. 1t is the
inevitable result.
The wheat debauch had wasted the
fertility of Wisconsin soil until the
average was but seven bushels per
acre. Today it is 10, fertilization
through dairying bringing up the aver
age of the state. Is the man a good
citizen who wastes the fertility of the
soil? 1t is certainly on the line of bad
citizenship to continuously impoverish
the soil and not return to it the ele-
ments it needs.
The speaker remarked that he had
been devoted student of the science
of dairying for forty years. His father
and mother had been excellent dairy
lists. But comparatively few make a
success Of it. With his son the speaker
is engaged in the manufacture and sale
of butter and cheese, making an aver
age of 1900 each per day. Among the
former patrons of their creamery is
one man whose COWS average $75 per
head annually for butter. Another
man with the.same opportunity real
yes only $40 a head.
WHERE'S THE DIFFERENCE?
One has everything systematized and
works from proper standpoint. He is
winter dairyman, another thing in
his favor. He has the most milk to
sell when the price of butter is the
highest.
The speaker met German friend
one day returning from fair leading
his heifer, and inquired if he had Sc
cured premium. The German replied
with very ugly expression.
II tell you, if a man haf der very
bestest heifer in schoust der whole
coundry, he don't got no premiums
mitoud he got a good head.''
He struck it didn't he-he needed
good head to see the committee. We
need good head to make success of
dairying. In the first place we must
have dairy breed of COWS. If you
were in the horse racing you wouldn't
expect to win with Clydesdale; boy
does not go hunting for birds with a
fox hound, nor for foxes with a bird
dog. You can't fool the boy that way
but you could fool his daddier; you will
see him hunting for butter with beef
COW. You need a man for every fif-
teen COWS. You need the right kind
OF a place to take care of your milk;
the right kind of treatment of it.
The speaker mentioned a farmer
who came to him some years ago ask
ing advice. Said he:
II got me holdings but shust my
frau, unit my six childers, some dimes I
dink-too much childers, mind leedle
house, my cows, my farm unit my mort
gage; unit work schust as hard as
can all der dime, but I don't get nod
dings ahead. sell my butter by der
store, where dey solids Goldfish und desc
dings, unit gets only ten cents"
carl, you keep your milk and butter
in the house don't you?"
''Yas, cerdingly."
And you are smoking a good deal
and your wife cooks cabbage, and
washes and all the smells in the neigh
borhood get into the house, don't they?
s'Yas, dink so too, but vat can I
do? I have no monish.
sBut you can get s5 worth of lumber
can't you, aud two good kerosene bar
rels and burn them out for tanks, and
build a little milk house over your we'll,
and keep your milk cool, and save the
cream until we get enough to churn
and I will show you how to make the
butter.''
ssYas, I dink so.''
Carl's wife objected, saying to him
when he mentioned the matter, 'Carl,
you look Oud: Yankee man 8 humbug, .
but Carl didn't think so and followed
my instructions and when he was
ready r went, olIf ono dav and shnuod