Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-12-04
DAIRY CONvEN TON
STATE DAIRYMEN HOLD GREAT
SERIES OF MEETINGS
HERE
MANY PROMINENT MEN ATTEND
Several Of the Most Noted Dairy
Authorities in the Country
Deliver Addresses

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
at the court house, occurred the
meeting of the State Dairymen's AS
sociation And our good old friend
the COW, certainly was queen. II
fact, if old Brindle, from some bloom
ing, alsike meadow, in Eli5ium, was
permitted to hear the wealth CT ap
preciative words bestowed upon hel
daughters, she should not be blamed
if in her ecStacy she out-did the au
tics of that other distinguished mem
ber of the family, whose running
high notwithstanding to the au
thentic report of Mother Goose-in
cluded the moon.
The court room was filled; quite q
number of business men Of the city
were present throughout the sessions
there was a large percentage of lad
les, and the attention, from start tC
finish, was enthusiastic.
After an invocation by Rev. c. H
Sanders, Mayor A. C. Thompson, il
a few graceful words, welcomed the
convention. Thanks were expressed
on behalf of the city and county to
the officers, of the Association, fol-
bringing the convention here Though
we are young, the speaker said, we
are ambitious and anxious to learn
We have reason, in Upper Wisconsin
to be interested in dairying, for we
will one day be living in one of the
best dairying sections and We wish
to hasten the time. He was conf
dent those in attendance would be
better prepared for their work from
listening to the ideas advanced. A re
spOnse, on behalf of the convention
was given by w. ]. Gillett.
The President, M. l.. Welles, OF
Rosendale, after thanking the Assc
citation for honoring him With i,s
headship, expressed his pride in it.
work from it's organization, worl
the magnitude of which its founders
wise as they were-could have fore
seen but darkly. Important phase!
of it have been its fight on the fraud
ulent sale OF oleomargarine and al
adulterated dairy products. Thi!
fight must be continued, for of cours
if the butter market was affected, al
other lines of dairying would suffe
in sympathy He understood at tht
next session CT Congress al tn
present laws as to sale CT o,eomag
garine would likely be repealed. TIL
Associations work, in forming ant
keeping up COW testing associations
would grow to be one Of the l2rges
and most vital to the dairy Interest
of the state, as through educating tn
farmer, and appealing to his pride
it will lead to a higher standard fo
his herd. Although Wisconsin lead
the Union, in the number Of GOV
testing associations, has COWS t
every inhabitant, and, according t
the Dairy and Food Commissioner
her dairy products the past yea
reached valuation of more tha
500, G,000,0 ,000-a gain of 85 per cen
iii the past five years-the Associt
tion was exhorted by the speaker
higher achievements The Associ;
tion could take pride in it's judgmeI
of the wisdom of silos and unvar,
ing encouragement of their constru
ton. For since the states supren
acy, in the dairying line was coil
cident with the recent estimate thu
so per cent of Wisconsin's corn Gro
for 1914 had gone into silos and thi
95 per cent of the silage put up ha
gone into her COWS, it showed tn;
the Associations money had NJ
been put on the wrong horse" Nor
over, the present rapid increase
the number of silos was an indie
ton that Wisconsin's sun, as dair
ing state, was far from havil
reached it's meridian.
In treating on the subject, "Be
Crops for the Cow, and Why, t.
Hoverstad of Minneapolis, Mimi, sa
that while he had never seen bt
ter fields of corn than in this Sc
ton, the sane way here was to u
it as dairy silage, thus making t
farm a manufacturing establishmel
Alfalfa and clover were to be us
the same way. The only secret abe
growing them here was that they h
to be sown, that being the only rt
son there was not more of them.
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