Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-08-15
MAKE AN APPEAL
To THE DA|RYMEN
DAIRY AND FOOD COMMiS SION
CALLS FOR EXHIBITS at
THE STATE FAIR.
INCREASE PREMIUM MONEY
Instructions to Butter and Cheese
Makers on the Preparation of
Products for Exhibition.
SPECIAL PRIZE APPROPRIATION

All the state departments are lend
ing every possible assistance to the
Board of Agriculture to assure the
success of the State Fair. The State
Dairy and Food Commission is espe
cially active in the interest of the
dairy exhibition, and is privately urg-
ing every person in the state to assist
in making a display commensurate
with Wisconsin's rank as first in the
dairying industry.
H. c.. Larson, second assistant
dairy and food commissioner, has
addressed the following letter to but
ter and cheese makers:
To Wisconsin Butter and Cheese
Makers:
The Wisconsin State Fair is to be
held September 1914, 1912, and the
State Fair Management is very anx-
ious that the exhibit of butter and
cheese should be the largest ever
made in connection with the fair.
The premium money for creamery
butter has been increased to $3.50.
In addition thereto the Board of
Agriculture will add SIS for each addi-
tional exhibitor over $50 exhibiting
creamery butter, the total amount of
money for creamery butter being linn
tied to $1,000, which amount will be
prorated on all butter scoring 80 and
above.
The total premium money for
cheese has been increased to $3.50
and classed as follows: Flats or
Daisy cheese, $3.50; brick cheese,
$135; Cheddar cheese, $50; Limbur-
ger cheese, $50; Young America or
Long Horn cheese, $175; Swiss
cheese, $500.
One single cheese is required for
an exhibit in the case Of Cheddar,
Flats or Daisies, Young Americas or
Long Horn cheese. While only
three cheeses are required fCr an ex-
hibit in the case of Brick and Linn
burger, it is earnestly requested that
such cheese be exhibited in full COM
mercial cases. Single cheese is re-
CURED for an exhibit in the case of
Swiss cheese and may be either the
drum or block shape. The premium
| money offered in all classes will be
prorated on cheese scoring 80 and
above.
Premiums Remain in State.
The law in this state provides that
no premium can be paid to parties
exhibiting butter or cheese from out
side of the state. Your chance Of
winning liberal amount of the mon
ey to be prorated is good and we'll
worth any effort there may be on
your part to make an exhibit.
There is located on the state fair
grounds the finest dairy building in
the country and it is provided with
two large refrigerators, one for but
ter and the other for cheese where
a display, second to none, can be
made advertising the dairy products
of the state. There are over 1000
creameries and nearly 1900 cheese
factories in the state and if that
many exhibits of butter and cheese
could be made at the state fair where
the thousands of people from all
over tn ecountry visiting the fair
could see the exhibit, what an ad-
vertisement it would mean for Wis
consin butter and cheese.
If you have not already received
copy of the premium list, entry
blanks and shipping tags, send at
once to Mr.. J. G.. Mackenzie, Secre-
tary, West Allis, Wis, for the same
and prepare to make an exhibit of
not less than twenty pounds of your
BEST POSSIBLE MAKE OF BUT
TER OR CHEESE such as Is above
mentioned Get a 20 pound ash tub
if possible because such packages
make up the finest butter exhibit. II
you cannot do that send any size
tub or box of prints not less than
20 pounds
Must Arrive by September 3.
You should send the butter or
cheese by express to the Dairy build
ing, State Fair Park, West Allis,
Wis, charges prepaid, so that it will
arrive there not later than Tuesday,
September 8, as it is the plan to
have the butter and cheese all scored
the week before the fair opens, which
will give opportunity to arrange the
exhibit so as to advertise Wiscon-
sins greatest industry to the best ad-
vantage. Surely the buttermakers of
the state will want to make the ex-
hibit of butter large enough to eat
up the entire 81 900 which the board
offers, and l trust you will be one to
make an exhibit.
Very truly yours,
H. G. LARSON,
Second Assistant Dairy and Food