The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-08-09

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FIVE to ten times as much.
Wisconsin in 1920 according to the
latest available figures made:
IA per cent of all American cheese
made in the United States.
815 per cent of all the Swiss and
Brick made in the United States.
Or rs per cent of all the cheese
made in the United States.
| lis per cent of all the creamery
butter
26 per cent of all the condensed and
evaporated milk.
"a per cent of all the matted and
dried milks.
There are 22,000,000 dairy cows in
the United States of which Wisconsin
has 3,OO0,00 or little less than one
seventh of the whole.
Corn Comes First
The dairy business is second only to
that of corn. Farmers get nearly one
billion dollars annually for dairying
and our annual output in Wisconsin is
valued at $500, 100000 or not quite
one-third of all the dairy money, and
remember, Georgia bankers, this mon
ey has been coming in this last year
| during the hard times-this money
has been the life saver of Wisconsin,
generally and especially those coun-
| ties where dairying is developed to a
high standard. Let me say those
bankers hardly felt the stringency. I
know personally in my own banking
community we have two valleys,
though diversified farming is prac-
ticed in both valleys, one valley is in
habited mostly by people principally
engaged in grain farming with very
little dairying, second valley inhab-
tied mostly by those better educated,
valley where | started a cow testing
association last year and where dairy
ing plays a very interesting part and
| where they have culled out their poor
cows for years, and use better sires
and have learned how to feed. Right
in these two valleys, which start from
a common center the effects of de-
f1ation are very noticeable. The dairy
1 valley farmers were receiving their
checks on the Goth of each month.
Money with them. everything consid-
cred, wasn't as scarce as with the
grain farmers which this years crop
was nearly failure. The dairy
farmer has learned that it was more
profitable to feed their grain to the
cows and use them as the elevator
instead of hauling it to the elevators
or holding the poor grain.
Agricultural Team Work
Bankers, Wisconsin could not hold
the enviable position she holds today
were it not for the agricultural team
work of bankers, farmers, manufac-
turers and lumberman and the school
of agriculture of the University of
1 Wisconsin. These all work hand In
hand as it takes money and brain, and
ceaseless, patient labor to get the CO.
veted results. These working together
4 permit the state to have 10000 silos
2700 cheese factories, 300 creameries
70 condenseries and more than &c
major associations of farmers and nu-
merous other organizations that car.
ry on particular lines in their respec.
tive districts. But back and over al
/ these consider the greatest single
/ attribute to dairying in Wisconsin, i:
| the ITO Cow Testing Association Oh
, about "a per cent of all in the United
: States. In our last Is years of oul
} cow testing career the Badger Stat.
! has relinquished its hold on first plac,
; but three times and that was between
, 1912 and 1914. But in 1915 we gainet
{ a lead of two associations over oul
/ nearest rival, the old dairy state, New
York, which is about three times tn
size of Wisconsin, to say nothing o
E years in dairying and density of popu
1 lation. We have 81 associations sh
: had 35 and ever since that time W
have gained rapidly 1920 proved tn
b banner year when we closed with IL
e I"Cow Detectives" Association VIII
e constantly Swallowed "the borders"
d have observed that the states stand /
e dairying, generally speaking, accord
4 ing to the number of Cow Testin
/, Associations they have within thei
: borders.
e Cow Testing Associations
S Now time does not permit me t
explain the many merits and workin
o OF the Cow Testing Associations, bu
n definition to those of you who don
It know, / will say a Cow Testing Asse
IS citation is an organization of 26 c
IS more farmers in a community VIII
h hire an educated dairyman or teste
n as we call him to weigh and test tt
Y milk of each cow in each herd an
It keep account of the feed costs of eac
I cow and production record of the hen