Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-02-01
MONEY In COWS.
How Dairying Increases the
Value of Land.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

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 a condition of agricultural des-
peration, Mr.. Wade went on to show
that in 1870 in the leading counties of
Wisconsin now devoted to dairying
land had deprecated in value until the
| taxgatherer and mortgage were alb
| sorbing large parts of the state. Gov
ernor Hoard called in that year a con-
yention. 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 a pound of fertilizer
bought, only the byproduct of the cow.
Land then scarcely salable sold for
taxes or only fetched 81 to Sc or IS
per acre. Now, according to the report
Of the secretary Of state, Sheboygan
county land sells at an average of SAT
per acre. Jefferson county $41. Wau-
kesha county $54. Walworth county
S56, while Dane county, much better
naturally than any of these, but hav-
ing little dairy industry, sells for only
500, and the farmers of Jefferson coun-
ty alone had last year nearly 100000
4 %t,ot 4
Based upon these facts, Mr.. Wade
said to his assembled Georgia listen
ers: 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
| 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 S250OOO annually. Are you
! farmers of Georgia going to submit to
this? 1t 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-
BILE product oleomargarine from faunt-
ing the livery of our choice creamery
butter into the faces of our citizens
Let them sell it for what it is and not
an adulterated product. Let every tub
stand on its own bottom. VIII you
Georgia farmers give intelligent, per-
severing, energetic effort? If so, you
cannot help but succeed. l ask this
question of you today. What shall
the answer beY
/ In the single saving of the fertilizer
bills, amounting to many millions of
dollars annually, Georgia would make
gain which was impossible to Wis
consin. The result of a similar agri-
cultural policy pursued in this state
would be to double the values attained
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.