Connecticut western news., 1900-02-22
MONEY III COWS.
DniryinR Increases the Value Of Land.

In a recent address before Georgia
 dairymen l.. C. Wade called attention
 to the incidental improvement of lands,
 the total canceling of fertilizer bills and the consequent building up of agri-
 cultural values. Speaking of the ex-
 pertinent in Wisconsin, which had
 reached condition of agricultural des-
 that in 1870 in the leading counties of
 Wisconsin now devoted to dairying
 land had depreciated in value until the
 taxgatherer and mortgagee were ab-
 sorbing large parts of the state. Gov
 ernor Hoard called in that year con-
 ventiou. Six men met and formed the
 Wisconsin Dairymen's association. Her
 soil had run down so that when the
 counties raised wheat the average was
 down to seven bushels per acre. Now
 it is 10; never pound of fertilizer
 bought, only the byproduct of the COW.
 Land then scarcely salable sold for
 taxes or only fetched $1 to S6 or SS
 per acre. Now. according to the report
 of the secretary of state. Sheboygan
 county land sells at an average of S47 per acre. Jefferson county S4l. Wau- kesha county S54. Walworth county
 $56. while Dane county, much better
 naturally than any of these. but hay
 ing little dairy industry, sells for only S29. and the farmers of Jefferson coun-
 ty alone had last year nearly So 100000
 on deposit from their dairy business. Based upon these facts, Mir. Wade
 said to his assembled Georgia listen
 CTS: Il see no reason why you should
 not at least equal this. You have that
 best of market. the home market.
 which for a number of years at least
 doubles the average Wisconsin market.
 l am told by gentlemen in position to
 know that the south imports hundreds of tons Of butter and cheese from the | northwest and that the city of Atlanta , alone pays tribute to that dairy section for butter and cheese in the neighbor-
 hood of S250,0O0 annually. Are you farmers of Georgia going to submit to this? It lies in your hands. Adopt the motto, Millions for defense, but
 not one cent for tribute'-that is, buy | cows, study up the question, build {, creameries and cheese factories. Pass state laws forbidding that disreputa- I ble product oleomargarine from fiaunt- | ing the livery of our choice creamery butter into the faces of our citizens. Let them sell 1t for what it is and not , an adulterated product. Let every tub stand on it's own bottom. Will you | Georgia farmers give intelligent, per severing, energetic efforty If so, you 1 cannot help but succeed. I ask this question of you today. What shall the answer be?' In the single saving of the fertilizer bills, amounting to many millions of dollars annually. Georgia would make a gain which was impossible to Wis
 consin. The result of similar agri-
 cultural policy pursued in this state would be to double the values attained i in Wisconsin, for even under the slip
 shod and unscientific methods of the | past we have kept afioat, as against the returns of well expended thrift
 and intelligent action which have char
 acteriZed the people of the north and
 west. Our profits in agriculture should have the same excess over the sections
 named which is represented by the
 greater length of productive weather and sunshine.