Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-05-27
Talk to the Farmers.

EX-GOv. w. ID. Hoard, OF Fort At
kinson, addressed the Watertown Far
mers' club in the City ball, Saturday
afternoon, on dairy topics. He COM
menced by tracing the dairy interests
of Wisconsin from the time when the
production of cheese, twenty years ago,
was 5000, 900 pounds a year, down to
the present, when it amounts to 50,000,-
600 pounds, the entire dairy interests
of the state aggregating value Of $685.
1000 year. He showed the import
ance as well as the value it is to the
farmer to make careful study of his
business, and took for his text the town
of Watertown and the town of Kosh-
konong. In 1885 the town of Water
town marketed $4,000 pounds of butter,
which sold at II cents and mills per
pound, while in the same year Kosh-
konong marketed $4,000 pounds of
butter, which sold at q cents and 8
mills per pound. Compared with
Koshkonong the town Of Watertown
lost cents per pound on her butter, a
total of $500, or $3.71 for every per-
son in the town. This result, the speak
er claimed, was because the farmers of
the town of Watertown had not given
the proper attention to the dairying
branch of their business, which, of
course, resulted in a heavy loss to them.
Two farmers were cited living In Kesh-
konong who take their milk to the same
factory. One of them gets $63 a head
for the milk from his thirty-fve COWS,
while the other has only $40 each for
the milk from his twenty cows. Here
was an example of how it pays to fol-
low up dairying on an intelligent basis
against conducting it in slip-shod, in
different manner. To make dairying
successful, attention and study must be
given to breeding, handling and feed
ing. The general purpose COW was a
mistake; successful dairy COW must
be especially bred for this purpose.
You must look for both talent and abil-
ity in the COW. The principle of food
support is now occupying the attention
of dairymen. A large animal tax es
more for its support than smaller an
imal. The best paying COWS are gen.
orally under 1000 pounds AS to the
best breed of COWS was hard question
to answer The COW giving the largest
amount of solids in her milk. rather
than the cow giving the largest amount
of milk, was the best. Some special
bred COWS give one pound of butter for
every fourteen pounds of milk, while
it takes thirty pounds of the milk of
some other COWS to make one pound of
butter. Winter dairyjng was recon-
mended as paying well and being east
Iy conducted. In the speakers iudg-
ment no COW excels the Ayrshire in
making butter at the least cost for feed ,
etc., and the Holstein costs the most
The Guernsey makes the most butter
for the amount of feed. The raising of
peas for butter feed was highly recon-
mended It is tried by the Canadian
farmers with great success. Two
pounds of pea meal lis equal to six
pounds of bran. Gov. Hoard is strong
silo advocate. He helped build the
first silo in the West in Koshkonong in
1875. The present system of supplying
milk to factories he looked upon as a
fraud, and sooner or later the factories
will adopt the Babcock test or some
similar method for arriving at the true
cream value of the milk.
Gov. Hoard was listened to with
marked attention, and at the close AL
derman q. Habhegger moved a vote of
thanks to the speaker, which was car
ried unanimously.