Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-11-14
University Notes.


school at the University of Wisconsin
college Of agriculture opened this
week with an enrolment which taxes
the department to its utmost capacity.
Additions in the faciliCies for instruc-
ton and the courses of study offered
this year materially increase the eff
fciency. and interest Of the work for
dairy students. Only those who had
no experience in factory dairying are
admitted TO the course, SO 1t is pos
sible to omit the more elementary
forms Of instruction and confine the
consideration Of problems which con-
front the dairymen.
FROM NEW DAIRY DISTRICTS.
Manufacturers Of butter and cheese
nave come from ali parts of the state
10 enter Che dairy school for the par
pose 0f learning TO improve the grade.
aud quantity Of their PRODUCTS. The
Swiss cheese district ia the south
central part of the state, from which
Cor fifteen years iii was impossible ~
recruit students. as d8irymen there
did not reo0 gnize she advantages and
value of the course, has this year sent
large representation. Many have
come from Kawaunee county and the
vicinity. The registration from the
northern part OF the state demon
sstrates the growth of the cut-over
timber country as a dairying district.
Professor e. III. harrington, in charge
Of the dairy school, visited that dis
trict during the summer. and pre-
dicted it to be the greatest dairy
country of the United States, on ac-
count of the fine clover grown there,
the proximity to Minnesota bran mills,
and the fine cold water to be had
throughout the year for dairy pur
poses.
MILLIONAIRE SOCIALIST STUDIES FARM
ING.
Joseph Medill Patterson, the young
millionaire socialist, whose meteoric
career in Chicago politics last year.
ending as it did in his conversion to
the doctrines of socialism, attracted
national attention, has enrolled as
student In the short course in agricul-
ture at the University of Wisconsin.
Mr.. Patterson Is a grandson of Joseph
MedilI, founder of the Chicago Tribune,
and is a graduate of Yale. After COM
plotting his college course he returned
TO Chicago, where he was appointed
commissioner of public works by
Mayor Dunno. He at once began
vigorous crusade against numerous
private interestswhich have'encroached
upon public property without authori-
q Ia6 in
thousands of dollars of rental for the
city of Chicago. In the midst of his
work of reform, he became convinced
of the hopelessness of the struggle
under present conditions, and tender
1ng his resignation to Mayor Dunno,
announced his espousal of the cause
of socialism. His determination to
study agriculture at the University of
Wisconsin this winter is evidently the
result of his recognition of the i'm
.pOrtance of a return of large part of
the population to farming, as the only
solution for the evils of congested life
in large cities.
Mr.. Patterson is the second young
millionaire to take advantage of the
instruction of the short course in
agricultural at the state university.
Last year Fred Pabst, son of the late
Capt. Fred Pabst of Milwaukee, re-
signed his position in the management
of the great brewery interest with
which his name has long been as
ISOLATED, and decided to take up the
easing of blOOded horses as his oc-
cupation. Accordingly he entered the
short course last winter, and took
special work in the breeding and care
of horses. Upon completing his work
last spring, he purchased a ranch of
several thousand acres in Dakota, and
imported hundreds of the finest