Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-12-14

members to affiliate under the stat
association plan and $75 was voted II
the state association to liquidate Mar
athon county's expense.
A tour of the Holstein Breeders Il
John Erickson's farm, Waupaca, Wis.
where over 10000 farmers and others
gathered to pay tribute to one of the
most skillful breeders of Holsteins
was well carried out. Over 20 Hol-
stein breeders attended this picnic
and absorbed some Of the spirit of the
occasion.
The county Guernsey breeders as
ISOLATION enjoyed their annual picnic
in a spacious grove on the farm OF
Ed. Pfrang, Edgar. A number of the
breeders with their families gathered
early and stayed late, enjoying the
worth while events and addresses
At the annual meeting in Wausau
in November plans were laid for a
spring sale of Quality Guernseys and
hearty appreciation was given to the
campaign eradicating the highest
priced bull in the world-the scrub.
Recognizing that the advancement
of Guernsey interests was prob
lem of the future as well as the pres
emit the association sealed its approx
al on boys and girls club work.
Cow Testing
Someone has said that "you may
lead horse to water but you can't
make him drink. It's perfectly true
but it is also a fact that if you keep
him away long enough he will be
only too glad to drink.
This equally applies to COW test
ing. All efforts to lead a great many
OF the average Marathon county farm
ers to the gateway of the cow testing
road have been unavailing. Practi-
cally as unavailing as to make tie
horse drink. However, poor cows, |
and scrub sires and no returns with
good prices for butter fat has set a
number of them thinking.
An old association in the town OF |
Plover was reorganized and the Ed
gar Marththon, Cherokee Marathon,
Spencer, Stratford, Marathon
and Dorchester association were |
again put into operation for another
year.
The farmers around Athens are
about ready to organize and the mem
bers of the Holstein and Guernsey
clubs at Elderon have practically
enough members to begin an active
association. Unity farmers not to be
outdone by communities around them,
have stated they will organize an as
ISOLATION at the farmers institute to
be held December rs.
Quite a number of farmers in the
towns of Marathon and Cassel are
very much interested in the proper
functioning of an association and a
great many of them are willing to
Join IL the desired number of mem
bers can be obtained.
If there is any one agency that has
helped to make some of the dairy
countries of Europe the strong dairy
countries that they are today in the
development of their dairy industry
it is the COW testing association.
Through the functioning of the Or
ganization in the community in which
1t operates, the farmer has been
taught to Gull the boarder and I'M
profitable cow, keep only the best,
determine the value of the sire, feed
for more profit and raise better and
more profitable calves. This lesson is
being learned every year by many of
the members of the different associ-
tons for the county.
Obtain the sentiments of many of
the farmers who are testing regular
~ and you will find staunch adher-
ents of the COW testing association
idea.
One of the big results accruing to
members of the COW testing associ-
atoms is the increased compensation
they obtain for surplus cattle sold to
out of state buyers.
While 1t is true that outside buyers
are paying from $40 to $40 a head
hterhat. 70 c,trplf1o than thn In |
cal market warrants members of COW
testing associations are obtaiaing
from $40 to $50 per head above the
market created by buyers brought in
from other states. Dozens of men,
bers have expressed themselves as
being well satisfied that they have re-
ceived for one COW above the market
created by the outside buyer more
than their dues to the association. AS
high as $3.50 per head has been paid
for grade cows with records.
Live Stock Sales
Through the live stock specialist in
animal husbandry of the college of
agriculture. cooperating with the
county agent system and the breed
ers' clubs of the county, SEA head of
surplus stock has been shipped into
tht sttitcs VI NOW lOTk,
New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Illinoic.
North and South Dakota, Minnesota,
Colorado and southern Wisconsin.
The purchasers of this stock have |
been interested first in cattle with a
clean bin of health, second from a |
pure bred bull and in great many |
instances only in springers with COW |
testing association records.
The Athens Guernsey club sold $13.- |
1877 worth of surplus stock to some OF |
these buyers, The Elderon, Edgar |
and Wausau Guernsey clubs each sold |
number of carloads to eastern, |
southern and western purchasers |
The Stratford Edgar. Athens and
Wausau Eolstein clubs also made |
handsome sales to similar classes of |
buyers.
II is conservative to say. based upon
the opinions of the farmers selling