Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-21
INDUSTRY HAS MADE TREMEND-
Gus STRIDES.
Biennial Report Compiled by Commits
sioner H. {. Adams Shows This State
to Be at Least Fourth Among the
Butter Producing States.
Some Legislation Needed.


change in the value of the hog product,
decrease of 16 per cent in the value of the
cattle product, decrease of II per cent
in the value of the sheep product, de-
crease of 80 per cent in the value of the
horse and mule product, a decrease of IA
per cent in the value of the hay product.
The falling off in the wheat product has
been enormous, the value of the crop i'll
1885 being $13, $685. 46 and in 1895 81
j223, 1913, the area of land devoted to wheat
having diminished over 60 per cent. The
value of the corn crop has diminished 16
per cent; the value of the oat crop has
increased over 40 per cent; the tobacco
crop, which in 1885 amounted to 29,594,-
I625 pounds, in 1895 had dropped to 1888,
i552 pounds. In ten years the barley crop
had only increased in value % per cent.
The wool product had dropped off 45 per
cent the production of cheese had increas-
ed from 33, 47S 900 pounds in 1885 to 3d.,
l4SO,S15 pounds in 1895. The total value
lof this product had increased 80 per cent.
Marked Increase in Butter Product.
The increase in the butter product is
the most marked of all, 36, 24O, 431 pounds,
with value of $3.50, 4O2 having been
produced in 1885, while in 1895 the pro-
duct was "a, 653, 73O pounds, with value
of $12,31O,373. The figures show strong
ily the drift of Wisconsin farmers toward
the dairy business.
By reducing the total milk product of
the State to butter basis, Mr. Adams
has figured out the following interesting
table, which shows that Wisconsin stands
at least in the fourth position among the
large butter producing States of the I'm
ion:
Butter equivalent,
pounds.
Milk sold and
consumed, quarts 2S4, 100000 2O.32O,OOO
Cheese product, lbs 50, 1908 2O,OOO,OOO
Butter product. 80. ........ "A, 653, 13O
-, Total milk product the State
would produce. ....... .114,913, 80
= Mr.. Adams reviews at length the rea
sons why Wisconsin has Eacome a great
dairy State, and quotes a considerable
part of Prof. w. A. Henry's book on the
possibilities of advances in the industry
in northern Wisconsin. He also gives
some interesting tables to show that an
increase of the dairy industry in any COM
munity tends strongly to carry with it a
corresponding increase in wealth and that
dairying improves the average value of
farm lands.
Restricted Sale of OIeomargarine.
In regard to the sale of oleomargarine
in Wisconsin, the Commissioner gives eX
tracts from the law passed by the last
Legislature and review of the prosecu-
lions under the same. For the informa-
ltion of district attorneys and others en-
gagged in the prosecution of cases under
the law Mr.. Adams has incorporated into
his report the greater part of the brief
prepared by John M. DIN, who represent
ed the State in most of the prosecutions
during the last two years. In regard to
the general effect of the oleomargarine
law Mr.. Adams says:
''The sales of oleomargarine in this
State have been greatly restricted by the
operation of the oleomargarine law. Pre-
vious to July 1, 1895, there were seventy
three licensed dealers in Oleomargarine in
the eastern district of Wisconsin, which
embraces the eastern half of the State
Sept 1. 1895, the number had been re-
duced to three. At the present time am
informed by the collector of internal reve-
nue. for that district. there is only one
dealer who has retail license, and no
Wholesale licenses have been issued in the
district.
Previous to June 30. 1895, there were
in torce in the western district of Wis
consin siXty-two licenses. In September
of the same year the number had been re-
duced to six. At the present time there
are no licenses in force in the entire dis
trict In little over year the number
of licenses in the State has been reduced
from 1}0 to one.
Hint to Lumb erman.
/, SIT is certainly true that the northern
lumbermen who are buying supplies of
this kind for their camps from the but
terine manufacturers of Chicago are max
ing mistake. They are not regarding
profoundly their own interests. With the
cutting away of the pine forests there is
n new development in the northern part of
the State of a large agricultural interest.
no PARTON of that interest is more helpful!
lin the development of profitable farm
business than the dairy interest. There is
NO norton of the State where it can be
carried on with greater profit than in
northern Wisconsin.
.The lumbermen are largely interested
in the building up of the towns and cities
of that region, and in retaining the lands
which have been stripped of their timber.
They can help themselves and the COM
munities in which they live by patronizing
honest home industry in buying the pro-
ducts of their neighbors instead of send
ING their money outside of the State and
jbuying a cheaply made counterfeit article
TO come into competition with the honest
iproducts raised upon their neighbors
farms, and imposing that cheap counter
e. Al II
and aid them in the accumulation of their
wealth.
To Prevent False Food Labels.
Mr.. Adams makes a number of recon-
mepdations in regard to dairy legislation.
He recommends the amendment of the
law of 1879 prohibiting the false labelling