Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-23
DAIRY SHOW
At STATE FAIR
THE VALUE OF ONE OF WISDOM
SINS GREATEST INDUSTRIES
SHOWN BY BIG EXHIBIT.
BUTTER MAKERS PRESENT
Came in Large Numbers and Take
Advantage of Spe cia Features.
Cheese of Many Kinds
on Exhibition.

Milwaukee.-The exhibit at the
state fair of one of Wisconsin's great
est industries, dairying, was housed
IN the best building on the grounds
and the best building of it's kind in
the world, according to the superin-
tendent, Lawrence E. Scott, Stanley.
Mr.. Scott said:
"The average spectator, looking at,
our exhibit, would think of it as the
contents of warehouse. But when
one thinks that every cheese and
every tub of butter, nearly 400 of
them in all, represents a separate
factory, and when one thinks that
every factory represents from 100 to
500 farms, and that every farm rep
| resents the living of one or more
families-then, and then only, do we
begin to realize what the exhibit
meant.
This department is representative
of an industry that brings into the
state Of Wisconsin an annual income
OF between $50, 900, 900 and $40, 000,-
600, to say nothing of the amount
invested in factories, farms and dairy
stock
Mr.. Scott was modest in his esti-
mate of the income derived from the
dairy products of Wisconsin. The
university college of agriculture ex-
hibit shows that in 1908 the figure
was more than SOS, 100000, and the
increase is unquestioned. Wisconsin
produces half the butter and cheese
of the United States and supports
more than half the factories.
In the huge refrigerators of the
dairy building were cheeses of Ameri-
can and foreign types, made in Wis
consin. Cheddar, flats, longhorn and
family cheeses were represented in
the exhibits. Huge foreign types of
cheese, Wisconsin products, are
shown. There were big Swiss drum
cheeses, three feet in diameter, and
weighing from 100 to $50 pounds;
Swiss blocks, big rectangular chunks
of cheese; brick cheese and limburg-
ers
OF the Swiss cheese, Fred Marty,
one of the judges, a Swiss by birth,
says that the quality of those On ex-
hibit, made by Wisconsin farmers, is
fully equal to any imported varieties
The Swiss have entered farms in the
southwestern section Of Wisconsin,
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state more and more famous each
year by the cheeses they are making
The entire center section of the
butter department was taken up by
tubs of creamery butter, fresh and
fragrant.
At each end of the butter refriger-
ator were varied exhibits. One show
ed notified butter, displaying the
effects of working, washing and pres
sure, presence of water during work
ing, and notifies in butter. At the
other end are tasty little pound prints
of butter, and jars and prints of both
dairy and creamery butter.
A new feature introduced this year
was the scoring of the milk and
cream, which was on display in thick,
rich quantities.
The recognition of the dairy in
dustries in Wisconsin was shown by
the installing of a permanent booth,
finished finely to correspond with the
interior of the dairy building, to ac-
commodate the exhibit of the De
Laval separators Booths showing
various dairy appliances were ranged
along the sides of the dairy building,
bordering the immense refrigerators.
A review of the dairy exhibits
would be incomplete without mention
of the milking machine on exhibit.
They call it the Rex, and it is the only
machine made in Wisconsin. j. Q.
Emery, food and dairy commissioner
has the milking machines in practical
use on his farm near Albion. While
the machine has not come into gener-
al use, improvements have been made
such that the farmer is beginning to
recognize it's value and regard it as
requisite.
Thursday was cheese makers day,
and there were a large number of
cheese makers in attendance from all
parts of the state.