The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-07-14


him. AS fiddler accompanying Irish
songs he could not be beat and in ev-
cry social gathering, where he sat was
the head of the table.
Hoard was the typical Poor country
editor" for a number of years. In 1870
he pieced out cord wood subscriptions
with an appointment as deputy United
States marshal, and he took the fed
eral census the same year. In 1871
Lake Mills elected him justice of the
peace and the next year he was SER
geant at arms of the senate. Those
were the days and even later, for a
decade, when w. D. Hoard was glad
of a subscription to the Jefferson
County Union" and no one enjoys re-
calling them more than he. AS old
Aeneas used to say:
''FOrsan ct haec OHM meminisse
juvabit.'
Of late years he has prospered,
"Hoard's Dairyman" Can outgrowth in
1885 of the dairy department of his
local newspaper) attained a circulation
of $4,000 and going literally all over
the world. Some years ago he told a
friend that Chicago parties offered him
$4,000 for the property, but since then
it's growth has been marked. He is
certainly out of the reach of want.
To the ''Dairyman" many contribute.
Postmaster G. w. Burchard, who came
out of the war a major, and who
served as adjutant general under Gov
ernor Hoard, is on the staff, as is Pro-
fessor F. G. Short, ex-state chemist,
and C. P. Goodrich, active in farm in
stitute work.
Official Head of IL, 100000 Farmers.
The dairy interest may we'll feel
grateful to Ex-Governor Hoard. First
he banded the dairymen of his own
county into an association; then the
state and the northwestern" associa-
lions followed. Ever since 1873 he has
been reelected president of the latter
without opposition. He is also presi-
dent of the Farmers congress. There
are 100000 farmers in this land of
the free and if they should ever turn
in and vote for their official head as
president no electoral board would be
necessary to decide the result.
1t is certainly in no small part due
this eminent friend of the COW that
the value of dairy products in Wiscon-
sin has increased from about $1,000, 900
in 1872 to 35,O00,000 in 1898.
The farm institute" was the ladder
by which the ex-governor largely
climbed into the popular heart, and
in two seasons he delivered over 300
addresses on dairy matters. The Mil
Waukee Sentinel under Horace Rublee,
brought him out in 1888 as candidate
for governor and he was elected by
10000 majority. Acting upon rec
ommendation in Governor Hoard's
message that law be enacted that
should provide that every child be-
tween and IA years Of age be given
some English instruction during each
year, and further to compel the educa-
ton of the nearly $4,000 children who
were not attending any school, the leg
islature passed what afterWard became
famous as the Bennett law" a law
compelling parents and guardians to
give their children at least twelve
weeks instruction in English during
each year.
A war of debate followed and Gov
ernor Hoard defended the law in sew
enty addresses. He was unanimously
renominated by the Republicans but
defeated, although his friends never
| forgot that he received nearly 5000
| more votes than any other member on
| the state ticket, attesting the large
number of Democrats who. supported
| the Bennett law and Endorsed his ad
| ministratiOn.
Making Butter for Chicago's Rich.
| [ visited the ''Model creamery,
whose nickel-plated machinery and
| fancy oaken woodwork have made it
| famous 1t is an extensive plant, about
which some fifteen people are en-
ployed, the offices with roll-top desks
! and busy typewriters being as impOs-
ing as those Of small factory. The
creamery is lighted by electricity; the
floors are cemented; the walls and cell
ing of decorative thing. Originally
| there was just an everyday creamery
| on the spot, but SO many eminent peO-
pie came to see the governor, that the
family pride was aroused and art, .
/ the son who has developed the system
now numbering ten creameries, said
he would build creamery that was
worth seeing. It does not have SO
! large an output as some though 75G
! pounds are made daily; but this butter
| is all sold as family trade" in Chi
cagO and elsewhere-sen directly to
| consumers by express and brings
cents a pound above Elgin prices. The
milk is contributed by 100 farmers
daily. The butter is made in fancy
pound prints, artistically stamped and
delicately wrapped, and samples OF
each make are kept that complaints
may be traced and the fault discovered
A cold storage plant is part of the
equipment. Formerly butter prices in
this state ranged from 10 cents to 40
| according to season, but now it is fair
ly even the year round.
Of the ten creameries all are in JEFF
fersOn county except one in ambridge
Dane county, and one in Lima, Rock
county.
Of Governor Hoard's two other sons
! the oldest, H. L. Hoard is managing
editor Of the Hoard publications, and
Frank is the business manager AL
the sons are workers and possess in
varying ways the traits of the father.
Life Preseryers for Horses.
At G. II. Founders factory, alOns
with harrows, brooms, etc., one sees