The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-05-19
wisconsin Dairymen Meet.


wisconsin Dairymen Meet. Ii
CONDENSED from Farmers, Review
Stenographic Report,)
The twenty-sixth ANIMAL convention
of the Wisconsin Dairymen's Associa-
ton was held In Manitowoc February 8
to IL, 1898.
The address of welcome was deliver
eddy 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 receivedadnring the entire.
course of the year..
Remarks Of a congratulatory nature
were made by Ex-Governor Bench, ex-
Governor Hoard, II. C. Adams and Pro-
lessor Hacker. -.
From the address of President Geo.
w. Burchard we make the following
extracts:
During the customary season OF
cheese-making the association kept two
travelling cheese instructors in the field
and would have employed a third in
structor for a considerable portion OF
the time if a man just suited for that
work could have been found. There
were such men, but, unfortunately for
us, they were under other engagements.
For the coming year l recommend that
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 u 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 $1S7.5G
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 ad-
herents slowly, as all matters of that
character do. Various American ex-
porters and English dealers have disap-
proved of Sec. Wilson's efforts to estab-
Iish 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 Spi-
der and the Fly, in which they taxi 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
of means to ends insures a satisfactory
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 c~ovetousness
tries to make them believe that marsh
' lo.x ,ra cfro ny ORC DC onnd oC thu hoe
silage and clover hay for producing
milk, is uniformly unsuccessful ane
complaining.
What Wisconsin dairymen need mos
is a realizing sense of the worse thar
utter worthlessness of a poor cow. L
is quite within the truth to say tina
one-third of all the cows in this state
kept by men who profess to be dairy
men do not pay for their board ant
can not be made to pay, and are con
sequently kept at a loss; that another
third do no more than pay ter thei1
own keeping and make good this loss
which means that two-tt,irds Of all tn
cows kept return no profit whatever
and that only the remaining third arr
genuine proit-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 dair.
problem which confronts US to-day.
The COW that does not yield 400
pounds OF milk in q year is not worth
keeping. What is the average yield pc
COW in these lake shore counties?
am sure it is not 1000 pounds. Their,
may be a goodly number which yiel'
more than this. but this is only saying
in another way, that there must b.
many which yield less. Somebody own
and feeds these poor, worthless-yes
worse than worthless, cows. Who is it
l can't tell you h. ZANE. but | ca
give you some OF 1,s symptoms. He i
usually more or less in debt, and sci
dom or never has a dollar in his poke
that be can rightfully call his own; h
works hard, and SO do his wife an
children, rising before it is light il
summer, as well as in winter, and con
tinulng his labor long after dark q
night. He has to do this because h
gets no help from his cows. He is tn
man who complains about the times
and the low prices for milk and butte
and cheese. forgetful Of the fact tina
everything except wages has decline
In price more than milk has.
The election of officers resulted In tn