Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-01-12
Reply by Jim Regain To G. BIS
Letter i'm Last Weeks Issue.
Mineral Point, Wis, Jan. Z, l9zl'
With a pen in my hand
And tear in my eye,

/ cannot pass you by.
The ancient scribes usually started
their letters, viz: II now take my
pen in hand which was, in itself
very good way to start out. If they
didn't, you might be under the I'M
preston, said pen, was held between
the toes, or possibly you may think
(from some of the marks) they hao
their pen tied out on the end OF
stick.
Truly it is pleasure to know that
there are men like you still roaming
at large, at this heat of the game. l
regret very much that you failed to
sign your nme as it leaves me to
guess who G. B. might be. Possibly
it may be Good Boy" or let it be
Grand Blunder." You also put
yourself in a "class" and call it
"steer man." whatever that kind OF
a man isl, I presume you mean
man, who earns his bread by the
sweat of his brow, carrying salt to
bunch of steers on Sunday morning,
For convenience of all concerned /
will address you thus: Brother of
the Grass"
Dear Brother of the Grass" you
complimented our County Board on
their action in voting out the County
Agent. There is just the kind of a
man l am looking for. Next fall
about fair time we will have little
tent and make all the fairs. You
stay inside the tent and I will be on
the outside-we will have a funkie
coon with a megaphone to boiler
thus: Come! Come! everybody, right
this way; see the Genuine Bone
head" Lassoed, tied down, captured
in the wilds of Wisconsin-the only
one of his kind in captivity Come!
Come! everybody, only nickel, half
a dime"
Say we would run that guy with
the five legged cow clean out of bus
mess. You also made little re-
mark in regard to the outlook of the
dairy industry.
The days of normally is here at
last. The sun of success has risen
in the east. The ship of fortune is
fast nearing shore with the grand old
dairy cow at the helm. The dairy
COW, the grandest and most noble
of beasts, is fast acquiring her place
in the sun.
Wherever the dairy industry has
been established you will find the
people prosperous and contented,
model homes and barns beautify the
landscape; homes that will send
forth red-cheeked, happy children
that are the future hope of America,
and they are the kind that have
never waved a red flag. The dairy
industry is founded on a foundation
as solid as the forts of Gibraltar
with men at the guns worthy of the
cause. The foundation is: the pro-
duction of milk, which in it's various
forms is viz: "Food and nourish-
ment" for the infant in it's mothers
arms. Food and nourishment for
the growing and the grown; Food
and nourishment'' for the old and
the feeble, who are on the brink of
eternity's vast gulf. Food without
which no human being is able to
exist.
The dairy industry, with the prop
er organization, will be far in excess
of any other industry upon the face
of the earth. The products of the
dairy industry are now put on the
market in various forms, and sorry
to say, some of them are not up to
the standard. It is thru organization
we hope to be able to obtain stand
ard. Certain rules will be made,
better methods will be used, the milk
will be handled under strictly sani-
tary rules, thereby enabling the
dairy products to reach certain
standard or score.
When the dairy products can all
be put on the market under a fixed
standard, Oleo and filled milk will
then be as welcome as ham sand
witch at Jewish picnic. In order to
make a success of dairying there are
ten essential rules to go by.
1st-Get herd of one of the diff
ferent dairy breeds, either Holsteins,
Guernseys, Brown Swiss, Jerseys or
Ayrshires.
2nd-Always use pure breed sires
that have records of production back
of them. A good sire is half herd,
and a poor sire you'll have
whole herd of them.
3rd-Join a Cow Testing associa-
ton; have record for every cow,
which will enable you to know the
good from the bad.