The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-03-08


of the Wisconsin Dairymen's Associa-
ton was held in Manitowoc February
to IL, 1898.
The address of welcome was deliver
ed by Mayor T. E. Torrison. Hon. Ste
phen Faville replied, calling attention
to the fact that the products OF the
dairy are the surest of crops, and may
be depended on every year. Other crops
are subject to the caprices of the sea-
sons. being totally destroyed by too
much heat or too little rain, but dairy
ing is more directly under the control
of man. Most farm crops come at one
season of the year, but the products OF
the dairy are received during the entire
course of the year.
Remarks of congratulatory nature
were made by Ex-Governor Bench, eX-
Governor Hoard, H. G. Adams and Pro-
lessor Hacker.
From the address of President Geo.
w. Burchard we make the following
extracts:
During the customary season OIL
cheese-making the association kept TWO
travelling cheese instructors IN the nelu
and would have employed thlro III,
structor for considerable portion Oh
the time if a man just suited for thdI
work could have been found. Ihere
were such men, but, unfortunately Tor
US, they were under other engagements.
For the coming year | recommend thdt
early efforts be put forth to secure at
least three competent instructors.
Messrs. Aderhold and Baer were en-
ployed again last year and rendered the
association and the state most excel
lent service. The instructors have MADE
reports to me weekly and have sub
mitted final reports which will appear
in our printed proceedings. They are
also expected at this meeting and will
stand up to be cross examined.
Mr.. Aderhold visited forty-one differ
ent factories, thirty-six of them twice
and fifteen of them three times. He
was paid for $50 days and collected
from the factories visited 5000, which
was applied on his salary. Mr.. Baer
visited forty-six different factories,
thirty-six of them the second time. The
factories he visited contributed $3.50
towards the payment of his salary AND
expenses. He was employed 143 days.
The total expense of these instructors
for the season was 1892 The state
trade mark BILL which this association
has twice approved, is still pending in
congress. 1t is gaining friends and adj
,,11 oil ttnr Of hot
character do. Various American ex-
porters and English dealers have disap-
proved Of Sec. Wilson's efforts to estab-
lish a distinctive reputation for Amer
lean butter in England, and have as
sumed to advise him to leave the solu-
ton of these commercial problems in
their hands-so that they might con-
tinue to enact the tragedy OF the Spl-
der and the Fly, in which they take the
role Of the Spider. Happily the protests
of the gentlemen referred to were ig-
nored.
The experiences of the past year,
among the dairymen Of Wisconsin,
have demonstrated once more that
skill, foresight and a wise adaptation
measure of success; whereas in dairy
ing, as in all other occupations, the
man who trusts to luck in the selection
or breeding of his COWS, and then
through ignorance or cOvetousness
tries to make them believe that marsh
hay and straw are as good as the best
silage and clover hay for producing
milk, is uniformly unsuccessful and
complaining.
What Wisconsin dairymen need most
is a realizing sense of the worse than
utter worthlessness of a poor COW. 1t
is quite within the truth to say that
one-third of all the cows in this state
kept by men who profess to be dairy
men do not pay for their board and
can not be made to pay, and are con-
sequently kept at loss; that another
third do no more than pay for their
own keeping and make good this loss;
which means that two-tftirds Of all the
cows kept return no profit whatever,
and that only the remaining third are
genuine proft-makers. This division
into thirds may not be literally exact,
but it at least illustrates, in no exag-
gerated form, the COW end of the dairy
problem which confronts US today.
The COW that does not yield 1000
pounds of milk in year is not worth
keeping. What is the average yield per
COW in these lake shore counties? l
am sure it is not 1000 pounds. There
may be goodly number which yield
more than this. but this is only saying.
in another way, that there must be
MANY which WELD loco Conoo1,od,, ~,,,,,o