The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-27
OF DIARIES.
Owners of Mich Cows in Unit.
ed States Prospering.
BUT THEY REQUIRE MACHINERY.


Carry Titles to Enrope-The Knapp
Stout Concern-Lead Mining Picking Up
Other Wisconsin Topics.
Madison, Wis, Oct. PAT is only
within thirty years that dairying as
we know it has been developed. 1t is
certainly a commanding industry now.
In 1898 the dairy products of the Unit
ed States were $5OO0O0,O00 There are
some 100000 mich COWS in the Unit
ed States-one for every five people;
an annual consumption of 1,75O,OO0,000
gallons of milk; 1,5OOOO0,0O0 pounds of
butter and 3OO,OO0,OO0 pounds Of
cheese; and 1899 prices of all dairying
products. especially butter, have been
considerably higher than for several
years past.
Our Wisconsin dairy milk farmers
are gradually equlpplng themselves
with separatOrs, both for the purpose
of securing cream and to purify the
milk. Any one who sees for the first
time the amount of impurities thrown
from even "clean" milk by one of these
centrifugal-methOd machines will be
surprised. When one farmer puts in
modern dairying machinery, the effect
is to force others to do so. The fact
is, dairying has come to be business.
The farmer is business man. The
cow, the cream separator, churn, but
ter-wOrker, cans, coolers and other
utensils are his tools and machinery.
1t is said that dairying upon the lines
of fifteen years ago is now losing &C.
cupatiOn. Dairying upon the basis Of
five and ten years ago now does we'll
to make ends meet. Profitable dairy
ing today must be up-tO-date and be
kept so.
The future seems to be hopeful for
the milk producers. The European
markets for these American products
are only now being fairly opened up.
The exports, which are as yet small,
will within few years amount to one
third of the total production, not only
affOrding a sufficient market but in
surfing the maintenance of prices.
$4,000 Barrels of Cranberries.
The approach of Thanksgiving finds
cranberries higher, like most every
thing else. 1t is not known generally
that Wisconsin cuts quite a figure in
this curious industry. Wood county
is an important producing point, some
$4,000 barrels being the output this
year. The yield of the whole country
is said to be 100000 barrels New
England raises about half. and New
Jerseys marshes are prolific to the ex-
tent of 10000 barrels. The west, all
told puts out only about 10000 barrels.
No doubt other parts of Wisconsin
q limo
1t is the key to success for a COM
munity to ascertain what one thing it
can do, and then push hard on that
line. Look at Kalamazoo celery.
Think of that county in western New
York that produces a large part of the
worlds peppermint supply.
There are some products that will
grow any where. 1t is the town and
the individual that persists and excels
that opens source of profit. A Long
Island woman took it into her head to
raise mint. Today the Waldorf-Astoria
and other big hotels pay her So and S.
day each for their supply to garnish
juleps and make lamb redolent sup
pose.
But to revert to the luscious cranber-
ry. The Wisconsin association num-
bers. some seventy growers. At their
last convention they made plans to ex-
hibit at Paris and to publish a paper,
the only publication of the kind in the
world. 1t seems that there are about
1000 growers in the United States
who cultivate three acres or more. And
there are enough varieties of vines and
berries to keep a man busy as a stu
dent for life time. Pickers get 40
cents a box, and the retail price for
cranberries ranges from $3.50 to $3.50
a barrel.
The fellowship that binds together
people interested in the same line of
cultivation. especially if it be a limit
ed craft, like bee-growing, or cranber-
~ farming, or mushroom hunting is
attractive. Take the bee men and
women, for instance. They meet at
Madison for a convention once a year,
and have for generation. They get
to know each other and have their
Nestors, and jOkers and saints; and
the social end of the rally reminds one
of family reunion. Get a hobby and
get in touch with fellow hobby-riders.
1t will sweeten life.
New Way of Distinguishing Fires.
At the Grand Rapids meet of cram
berry growers, A. C. Rennett advanced
method of fighting fire "a curse of
marsh as we'll as foresD, based on Da-
WIS discovery in England 100 years
ago, that the flame from fire would
not pass through small PAGES. He
made a practical application of his dis
covery by the invention of the miners
safety lamp. This consisted of a cylin-
der of fine guaZe wire enclosing the
flame of the lamp on all sides with
gauze wire over the top.
With this lamp the miners could
walk in safety through the most dan
gerous explosive gases in their mines.
Mr.. Rennett says: ION prairies and
marshes the onward march of the fire
is preceded by the tongue of the fire
which acts as leader, being in ad-
vance of the main fire. To cut this
off and divide the fire in sections is the
first object sought. With roll of fine
wire screen, such as is used for win
dow screens, 100 feet long and three |
feet wide or more, provided with small
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