Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-01-14

! it would require IL men to inspect
once year the 1900 cheese factories
and the 1900 creameries in this state
But once year is not often enough
to inspect them. Twice year is not
sufficient; yet to inspect them twice
a year would require not less than "a
competent, energetic inspectors.
ut may be profitable for us to con-
slider what some of our neighbors are
doing in this line of work. The
province of Ontario has 1000
factories. Sixteen travelling cheese
instructors are employed. They find
this number insufficient and I'M
satisfactory and wish to increase it.
Each cheese instructor gets from $500
to $1,000 for the season. There,
| travelling cheese inspector watches
group of from 200 to 300 factories.
Some of these he visits but once in
season, others as often as once a
month, the number of visits depending
upon the necessities of the factory.
He gives counsel, sees that the
factory is kept clean, and by report
j ing to the proprietor or the farm
owners, is able to weed out the poor
cheese makers and encourage and
stimulate the worthy ones. He has no
absolute powers, his work being
strictly advisory.
| so travelling cheese instructors Here,
the dairymen are largely of French
descent, and the cheese factories are
smaller than those of the Province of
Ontario and relatively more numerous.
Here different plan is followed from
that in Ontario. The cheese factories
are allowed to form syndicates So
called, that is % or 80 factories near
together are allowed to form an as
ISOLATION for hiring a travelling cheese
Instructor. If they hire one approved
/ by the government, the government
VIII pay toward his salary up to the
limit of $3.50, but not more, and not
more than half his salary in any
event The instructors receive from
$500 to $500 for the season. The
difference between the government
salary is met by the factories them
selves. Thus it will be seen that the
provincial government of Quebec pays
out not more than s12,500 annually
for these travelling instructors while
the patrons of the factories them
selves must pay at least 5000, 900.
Are there not suggestions here
that Wisconsin can make use of to
her great profit? Wisconsin is a
great dairy state. She has the largest
number of creameries and cheese
/ factories of any state in the union
In total volume of dairy products she
ranks second Draw a line from
Prescott on the Mississippi river east
ward through Marshfield to the
northeast corner of Kewaunee county
and the portion of wisconsin south of
i that line is the richest dairy country,
/ of equal area, in the United States.
/ Can Wisconsin hold her prestige as a
i dairy state by supineness? Improve
ment in quality and uniformity is
needed. IL this association. the Wis
/ consin Dairymen's association, the
Wisconsin Butter Makers association.
the dairy school. the state dairy COM
mission and the state dairy and agri-
cultural press could unite and CO.
operate in an effort to increase the
rumher CT instructors or inspectors
in cheese making and butter making
On some such plan as that of the
Province of Quebec, could not pro
/ greSsive movement be thus in
+ augurated and success achieved. In
high schools graded schools and the
county training schools for teachers.
and the county agricultural schools.
day schools fer the deaf and other
enterprises, the state co-operates and
rewards local effort. Why not in the
work of lettering dairy conditions?
bat equally with laws in relation
70 cleanliness and good sanitary con
ditions, there ere needed high ideals