Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-01

Wisconsln Cheesemakerv Association.
The tenth annual meeting of the
Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association
will be held in the city of Milwaukee,
on the 8th 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
eign and domestic, including all al
lied subjects. Speakers of national
reputation of Canada and the States
have been engaged at great expense
to address this meeting. Professors
and authorities who are continually
investigating and experimenting along
dairy lines, have been booked for this
occasion.
We had the largest convention in
the history of the association at Madi-
son last January, and should start this
meeting with a big membership list,
making the tenth annual convention
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-
hooves us as cheese-makers to bring
a sample of our cheese. and have IL
tested by cheese experts. who are edu
us wherein our cheese is not equal to
that of our neighbors cir it is not);
and, as we are students. we will go
home with a determination to profit
by our past mistakes and the sug
gestions received.
Those who contributed to the pro
gramme last January were past grand
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 science The
names of r. A. Pearson, assistant chief
of the dairy division of the United
States Department of Agriculture;
A. RuCdick, official referee of the De
partment of Agriculture of Canada;
]. H. Monrad, assistant food commits
sioner of illinois,. together with DR..
s. M. Babcock and others from the
Wisconsin Experimental Station, gave
a prestige and standing to the con
vention which but few meetings of
this kind in the United tSates have
ever had.
To think that our farmers should
have 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, blunder-
Perhaps they did not know anything
about what was going on, but of this
we are doubtful, as the usual means
we're taken to advertise the gathering.
In every community there are farmers
to whom the rest naturally look up.
They have a good deal of infiu-
ence, and II you cheese-makers can
get those farmers to come to this meet
ing, they will carry q 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 year
at least. at any reasonable cost. it is
well to break away from the rut Of
indiyidual work and mingle with the
broader Held of associated effort A
man Ii 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.