Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-02-16

al Service Department of the James
Manufacturing Company, Fort Atkin
son, Wis, speaking before the Com
mercial Club and farmers of this vi
cinity, congratulated the Commercial
Club upon it's desire to bring closer
together, the business interests Of
Mineral Point and the farmer. He
said, "The interests of this commun-
ity are not circumscribed by the linn
it's of Mineral Point, but include, as
we'll, all of the agricultural popula
ton residing in the vicinity of the
city, in what might be termed, the
Mineral Point Trade Territory"
AS a community builder, the COW
deserves the attention of the man in
the city, as we'll as the man of the
farm, as she is the real mother of
prosperity.
The speaker used a number of in
teresting charts showing that the
COW was the best possible market for
the feed grown upon the farm. The
charts showed the difference in the
years, from 1914 to 1921 inclusive,
between the average price of feed fed
to dairy COWS, as compared with the
average price received for butter, for
cheese, and for market milk. The
fact is that while the margin be-
tween the price paid for feed and the
price received for the dairy products
is not quite so large as it was the lat
ter part of 1918, 1919, and 1920, it
is much greater than it was at any
time in 1914, 1915, 1916, and the
early part of 1917.
wisconsin is more prosperous
than any other state in the union to-
day, because her agriculture is thor
oughly sound, being founded as it is
upon the dairy industry.
1--WE may go to Minnesota, to the
Dakotas, to Iowa, Nebraska, or Kan
sas, states depending largely upon
the grain is marketed directly from
the soil, and where the livestock in
connection with the dairy industry
has not been we'll developed, and
there the agricultural situation is
very serious. Wisconsin is the only
state in the Union, that has not ap-
pealed to the Federal Reserve Board
for assistance to save it's agriculture,
and this is because we have become a
great dairy state.
wisconsin produces 10 per cent
of all the dairy products of America; !;
76 per cent of the cheese; 26 per cent
of the condensed milk; we have more
COWS than any other state in the
Union; we have become one of the
great dairy communities of the entire
world.
Fifty years ago, we were largely
a one crop state, producing mostly
wheat. Land at that time was worth
only $40 or $12 an acre, and we
were producing about eight bushels
of wheat to the acre. At that time,
the Wisconsin Dairymen's Associa-
ton was organized and began sys-
tematic campaign of education along
dairy lines which has been carried on
through this half century. At that
time, our total receipts from dairying
was about one million dollars per
year. At the present time, in round
numbers, they are over $275,000,000
In the grain producing states, they
are now turning to dairying and com
ing to Wisconsin for foundation ami
mails.
There are two ways for the dairy
farmer, or any other to get profit.
One is through increased price receiv
ed for that which he raises and has
to sell. The only way the farmer can
have anything to say about the price
received for what he raises is by Or
ganization. He cannot do it individ
ually Even then, there are certain
limits beyond which he cannot go,
for if the price is raised too high,
people will not buy, for sales always
fall off in proportion to the increase
in price of any commodity. But or
ganization of farmers carried on and
lead intelligently, and comparatively
will eventually assist in solving the
mark eting problem which is the most
serious one confronting the American
Farmer to day.
But, the dairyman can always prac
tice methods of economy in produc-
ton, and thus increase his pdofits.
There are three ways in which the