The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-13
THE FARMERS CON YENIION
PROCEEDINGS OFTHE SECOND DAY
OF TIE MEETING.


Tnteresting and Valuable Papers by Elk
Gov. Hoard of wisconsin and G. ID
pertinent station-A Question Boa
Yesterday Afternoon Productive OF
Much Profit
The second days session of the Con-
necticut state agricultural convention
was called to order yesterday morning
In Republican hall by Edwin D. Seeley
of RoXbury, vice president of the state
board of agriculture. Mr.. Seeley intro
duced Hon. w. D. Hoard, an ex-gover-
nor of Wisconsin, who spoke on Some
Modern Conclusions in Dairying." He
is the editor of Hoards Dairyman. His
address dealt largely with the history
and progress of dairying. He spoke in
part as follows:
THE last third of a century marks an
epoch in the progress Of the dairy in
dustry in the United States and Canada
as well to a certain extent in all other
parts of the world.
''There is something peculiar about
this industry in it's effect on the men
who follow it intelligently. They stand
foremost in the ranks of agriculture in
the point of intellectual conquest.
Dairying calls for the best judgment
and work in the tillage of the soil and
the growing of grass and grain. 1t calls
for a special knowledge in the care and
harvesting Of those crops in order that
they may impart their highest food
value.
1T calls for a knowledge of the laws
Of reproduction whereby we may make
use of the forces of nature to the mani
fest increase of dairy power in our cat
tie. We have no right to sit still or
act Indifferent on this question. The
cows of a state are what it dairy
farmers have made They represent
accurately just the amount Of fore
thought, skill and judgment that has
been used in their breeding and devel-
opment.
mo other branch of agriculture is
as socialistic as dairying, for it is or
ganized very greatly all over the land
into cheese factories and creameries
Here again is a special endowment of
such organization takes place the farm
err finds himself no longer a producer,
but a manufacturer. He must learn
farming according to the laws of bust
ness. He must study the finer econom-
les of manufacturing. He is to be the
creator of one of the finest foods on
earth, which, like Caesars wife, must
be above suspicion
"The first marked change lin the
business of daiiying), as I view it,
was in the Inauguration of refrigerator
transportation by rail and steamship
lines. This method, rude at first, was
introduced about 1870 At that time it
consumed five days to send a carload
of cheese from Wisconsin to New York
city, and the freight cost two and
half cents pound in common box cars.
In hot weather it was very hazardous
to shin at all. To-day cheese is sent in
fine refrigerator cars in forty-elght
hours at fifty cents hundred. In ad-
dition, refrigeration has been adopted
on ocean steamers, and all perishable
foods are now carried to the ends of the
earth in safety. Not only this, but cold
storage warehouses all over the coun-
try take the surplus product of the
summer months in butter, cheese. eggs, |
milk, meats and fruits, and preserve |
them in good order for future consump-
ton The modern dairyman must learn |
from refrigera ton the lesson that CIV |
ilization has provided against the great |
wastes.
"Great Transformation in the art of |
butter and cheese making has been
wrought by the discoveries in bac-
teriology, upon which are based the in
vention and now quite general use of |
the butter culture or starter, the acid I
test for the rpening of cream, the curd
test for impure milk, as well as the
pasteurizing and sterlizing of milk and
cream.
I'm veterinary science has come the
discovery of the tuberculin test for the
determination of the existence of tuber-
culosis in our cattle. l am aware of
the prejudice many dairy farmers have
against this test, but it is prejudice
they of all men should not entertain.
The question is a practical one. Can
/. as a dairyman, afford to keep dis
eased cattle? Can / afford the loss in
productiveness, in quality of product,
in the number of valuable cows which
must eventually die from this cause?
Can l afford the reproach of my own
Judgment, as well as that of the pub
lie? 1t will not answer these questions
to say that there are dishonest veter-
inarians, or that the tuberculin test is
not absolutely exact. The question of {
honesty is not confined to veterinarians
alone and the tuberculin test is the {
most exact of any method known to {
science.
zone of the new and already power t
full factors of our progress is the mod I
ern dairy school and the short course in t
our agricultural colleges Ideas about
education have changed. No longer is
t deemed the height of wisdom to edu- ,
,ate men away from the farm away
from nature, away from a condition of
intelligent self-helpfulness. We need I
)ne thing more as an established out r
post; that is, the teaching of the ele
nents of agriculture in every common +
school in the land" 9
At the close of Governor Hoard's talk \
he following questions were discussed:
Are Light or Closed Barns the Cause I
# tuberculosis in Cattle?" IF the
4rout Bill Should Become a Law How
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