The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-01-25

wiscousiu Cheesemakerr Association.
The tenth annual meeting of the
Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association
will be held in the city of Milwaukee,
IN the 9Th 9th and 10th days of Janu-
ary, 1902. This is to be an educa.
tional meeting on the latest improved
methods of cheese making, both for
aign and domestic, including all al
lied subjects. Speakers Of national
reputation of Canada and the States
1ave been engaged at great expense
TO address this meeting. Professors
and authorities. who are continually
Investigating and experimenting along
iairy lines, have been booked for this
occasion.
We had the largest convention In
che history of the association at Madi-
son last January, and should start this
meeting with a big membership list,
making the tenth annual convention a
record-breaker in the history OF the
association. No one interested In dairy
work and cheese-making, or desirous
Of learning more in this line. can
Afford to miss this convention. 1t be-
nooves us as cheese-makers to bring
L sample Of our cheese, and have 1t
tested by cheese experts. who are edu-
lated in this line of business; showing
as wherein our cheese is not equal to
that of our neighbors lif it is not);
and, as we are students, we will go
home with a determination to profit
~ Il past mistakes and the sug-
yestions received.
Those who contributed to the pro-
masters in the art of practical cheese.
making, the representatives Of two
governments, the assistant food COM
missioners of two great dairy states.
and world-famed professors, who have
reduced dairying to a science. TIT
names of r. A. Pearson, assistant chief
Of the dairy division of the United
States Department of Agriculture; j..
A. Ruddick, official referee of the De-
partment of Agriculture of Canada;
y. H. Mpnrad, assistant food commits
sioner of Illinois, together with DR..
S. NJ. Babcock and others from the
Wisconsin Experimental Station, gave
/ prestige and standing to the con-
.gention which but few meetings OF
This kind in the United tSates have
,ver had.
To think that our farmers should
nave almost en- bloc remained away
from this convention, and missed the
practical and stirring addresses of the
we'll known authorities on the dairy
COW, and how to tend and feed her for
profit is, to say the least, a blunder.
Perhaps they did not know anything
about what vas going on, but OF this
we are doubtful, as the usual means
were taken to advertise the gathering.
In every community there are farmers
Ito whom the rest naturally look up.
They have a good deal Of inau-
snce, and IL you cheese-makers can
get those farmers to come to this meet.
ing, they will carry a great amount of
good to their brother farmers. Those
cheese-makers who have not attended
these conventions where others inter
'ested in the same line of work are
wont to meet together, can hardly re-
'alize the benefits derived from such
meetings. Upon such we would urge
the value of attendance. Once a year
Mt least, at any reasonable cost. 1t Is
well to break away from the rut of
individual work and mingle with the
broader field of associated effort. A
man is frightened by contact with
others of his kind. He gets new ideas,
loses some old ones, and keeps, abreast
of the times.-U. s. Baer. Secretary,
Madison, Wisconsin.