Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-12-04

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The subjects of Prof w. J. Fraser,
Of the State University, Champaign,
ILL.,, upon Building Up Dairy
Herd, H. G. Searles, Fond du Lac,
Wis, upon Testing $4,000 Cows in
| Wisconsin, and 1.-THE Poor Cow and
the Good Cow, by Theo. Sexauer,
| Menomonie, trenched materially up
on one another, the necessary con-
clusion from the chart demonstration
of each being that some such reform
as that being developed by the cow
| testing association was indispensable
| to popular success in the dairy bust
ness, from the standpoint of profit.
F. D. Currier, of Nicollet, Mimi,
| in speaking upon Cooperation
Among Farmers" urged, with good
show of reason, that it was the only
| way of solving the seeming paradox:
reducing the cost to the consumer,
without reducing it to the producer.
He congratulated Ladysmith on hav-
| ing a cooperative creamery. If all
get back of it, it will be mutually
prosperous, and he believed the mar
ket here could be raised 3 cents a
pound. Aid if the patrons would do
what they should, his judgment was
We would have one of the best
creameries in the state.
The convention developed an I'M
usual orator, in G. A. Nelson, Wa
verify, Ia, upon the subject, What
the Dairy Cow has Done for Me"
He had the audience completely UNI
der his sway for-well, everybody
| forgot all about time limits. He has
an affection for his business that
rises to the level of the poetic, and
a consuming earnestness that grips
a reporter til his pencil fails at
| times, to move. But anyway, to try
to give sample of his many-sided
style would be about like undertake
| ing to give one All impression of the
house, by exhibiting a brick. He has
| elOquence, pathos, and grotesque
humor that that proved irresistible
when he, for instance, attributed the
outbreak of the European war to
pork-eating making the Germans hog
gish, and beef-eating making the
English bull-headed. Also when he
recited the quatrain,
What care | for town or city,
What care | for office grand;
Just give me wife and fifteen chill
| dren
A Holstein COW and piece of land.
His tribute to the dairy COW was
worthy to be associated with Senator
Vests eulogy of the dog, and his
own eloquent Senator Delivers Apos
trophe to the Hen.
Notes of the Convention
Mrs. Annie Laurie Kelly, the Off
cial stenographer, has unique dis
tinction, this being the Both success
sive convention at which she has
been present. Until lately, she was
court reporter for Judge Tuley, of
Chicago, who used to excuse her for
the convention week.
Several attendants of the conven-
ton have been breeders of notable
animals. F. H. Scribner developed
Loretta D., which was the champion
Jersey COW CT the demonstration held
at the Worlds Fair at St. Louis;
W. J. Gillett bred the Holstein, Col
antha 4th's Johanna, for sew
eral years the champion of the world
H. c. Taylor bred and raised the
Jersey, Brown Bessie, which was the
champion cow of the Chicago World s
Fair
| An air-pressure milking machine,
the first in this section, exhibited by
the Ladysmith Implement Co., ex-
cited great interest Nothing seems
to be lacking to make it perfectly
realistic-even from human milk
ing-machine standpoint-unless it is
a photographic attachment, to ut
ter, in soothing tones so, boss, at
the proper time-when the teat cups
are being attached and disconnected.
A. J. Glover, one of the editors of
Hoard's Dairyman, seems to be a
fixity, as secretary, apparently on
the ground of 100 per cent efficiency.
The present officers of the Assoc
citation were elected for another year.
SO members were received at this
meeting
| B. H. Rawl, Washington, who was
to have spoken upon "The Advan-
tag6s of a Breed Center, was pre-
vented from attending by his work,
incident to the ''foot and mouth dis
ease"
Resolutions were adopted by the
convention expressive of it's appre-
citation for the hospitality of the city,
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