Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-01-19
STOCK MEN MEET |: 7
GERNSEY BREEDERS HOLD AN
NUAL CONVENTION AT
BRUCE
FINE BANQUET AT HOTEL BRIGGS
Several Very interesting and In
structive Addresses are made
Followed by Discussions

The regular annual meeting Of the
Rusk County Guernsey Cattle Breed
ers association Of Rusk county held
at Bruce, Wednesday Of this week.
was a profitable and enthusiastic one
and had the largest attendance of
any such meeting held by the asso-
citation.
The meeting was called to order in
the village hall at o'clock p. m. by
President, John Helm, of Tony.
President Krause, of Bruce, cor
daily welcomed the Guernsey breed
ers to Bruce in a brief and happy
address
1t being impossible for secretary
l.. Z. McGill to be present, Judge D.
w. Maloney, of Ladysmith, was sec
retary of the meeting
Then followed a program at once
pleasing and interesting to every one
present, interested in well-known
Guernsey breed Of dairy cattle.
Agricultural Representative ingalls,,
Of Eau Claire county, spoke on how
best to buy feed, and care for dairy
stock. Mr.. Ingalls, manner Of deliv-
ering, was pleasing and his explana-
tions and replies to numerous ques-
tions propounded to him were lucid
and convincing.
County Representative Household
er, of Rusk county, followed Mr.. m
gals with a talk on the value Of
using a pure-bred sire. He Illustrated
by charts a series Of experiments
that have been recorded in a latitude
considerably further north than in
Rusk county, that were conducted
over q period of ten years, which for
cibly illustrated the gain made il
the production Of butter fat by using
q pure-bred Guernsey bull in crossing
on common cows. In every case the
daughter from the first cross, ex-
ceedcd their dams in the production
CT butter fat, and in most cases the
higher the grade, the larger was the
production.
Mr.. Householder dwelt earnestly
on the adyisability Of using care in
the purchase of a sire, the main
pCint CT which advice to would-be
purchasers was to ascertain definitely
that the sires immediate ancestors
lo Ce Iynpup ,,pOductiO0 c0p9city 4
Vouey OF questions fired at him led TO
profitable discussions Of the subject.
W. w. KinyOn, formerly supernten
dent Of the Rusk county farm, now
manager Of a large Guernsey hero
n6Gr Eau Claire, spoke on the sup
remacy Of the Guernsey as q dairy
breed He delivered some telling
Du2ch2s for his fayoriJe breed ana
was warmly applauded.
Mr. Spiers spoke from the cream
buyers standpoint, and he cited sOmt
forcible illustrations in support ot
using pure-bred sires in dairy herds.
Mr. Householder was acc3mp nicd
W q NAS'F1o VI iIlO 10y - III CIiN hoA-OA
course in agriculture being conduct
ed by him at the county training
school. They are: Nander Nelson,
Matthew Nelson, Arthur Arnold
WendiIl Corbett, Arthur Nelson, Al
bert Schimberg and Clarence Wright
In tho evening banquet was
served at Hotel Briggs, where toasts
were proposed and responded to in {
happy vein by large number of the
banqueters, w. A. Blackburn, OF
Bruce, acting as toastmsster.
John Helm Jr., Of Tony, was re
elected president and L. Z. McGill
Of Ladysmith, secretary.
A number Of names CT new mem
bers were added to the roll of the
association.