Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-10-11
Figures Show Wisconsin
Is Premier Dairy State
A FEW FACTS ABOUT WISCONSIN
DAIRY INDUSTRY ALL SHOULD
READ AND REMEMBER

Her nearest competitor is New York,
with 1,678,OOO cows.
Badger COWS yearly produce ten
billions pounds of milk This would
fill $4,000 railroad express cars, max
ing a train over $500 miles long Wis
consin's annual milk output would
make a train reaching from San Fran
cisco to New York and back to the
Mississippi river If moving at fifteen
miles an hour, it would take ten and
a half days for this train to. pass any
given point.
One-eighth of the creamery butter,
three fourths of the cheddar cheese,
over 80 per cent of all the foreign
types of cheese (Swiss, brick, etc.
26 per cent of condensed milks, and
almost one-fourth of all dried milks
produced in America are made in
Wisconsin's 1886 dairy manufactur
ing establishments.
Twenty and six tenths per cent of
all the manufactured dairy products
of America Clutter, cheese and con
densed milks) are produced in Wis
consin; Minnesota ranks second with
ga per cent; New York third with
S.5 per cent - GUS. Department of
Commerce Report.
There are more pure bred dairy
cattle in Wisconsin than in any other
state with the single exception of
New York. Wisconsin ranks first in
Guenseys and Brown Swiss, second
in Holsteins, and fifth in Ayrshires.
There are in the state $1,000 Hol-
stems, over 10000 Guernseys, and
5000 Jerseys, giving to Wisconsin a
premier position as source for dairy
stock. Last year Wisconsin dairymen
sold to other states and foreign coun-
tries over $4,000 head of pure bred
and high grade dairy animals, re-
turning them over $3,OOO,O0O
A decade ago Wisconsin had only
thirteen cow testing associations and
now there are Isl, or about one-fourth
of all the cow testing associations in
America More than 10000 cows are
under test in these associations, but
this work has as yet scarcely more
than begun. While Wisconsin now has
3.5 per cent of her dairy COW populac
ton under test, Denmark has more
than seven times as high ratio.
While the average milk production
in the state is 5000 pounds yearly
per cow, the average in $500 COW
testing association herds is 1882 lbs.
or 27O pounds of butter fat. Of the
herds in cow testing associations, 90
per cont are headed by pure bred
sires.
For 20 years Wisconsin has pushed
bovine tuberculosis control work. In
the last seven years more than 49,,
900 head of dairy cattle have been
tuberculin tested. In 1922 over 10000
of its herds, containing over $4,000
head of cattle, were put under the
test. In fourteen counties all cattle
have been tested. Barron county, in
the new north, was the first county of
the United States to clean up the dis
ease through the testing of all of it's
herds. There are 3,430 federal accred-
tied herds with 1900 cattle in the
state.
There are 1885 herds under super
vision, containing 1S1, 391 cattle.
The accrediting of tuberculosis-free
herds and area testing originated in
Wisconsin's system of live stock dis
ease control Since their adoption by
the federal authorities, cooperative
effort with respective states has made
rapid Roadway.
To insure more economical feeding
of live stock, nearly 100000 silos
have been erected upon Wisconsin
farms, approximately a silo for every
other farm. This is nearly double
that of any other state.
Fully 80 per cent of the farm in
come in Wisconsin is from live stock
and its products. Dairying rescued
Wisconsin from the disaster of the
single crop farming system wheat
roduction-restoring the depleted
fertility of our soil that had been oc-
stoned by grain farming practices.
The largest cooperative cheese
marketing organization in the whole
United States is the Wisconsin Cheese
Federation which handles the output
of over 200 cheese factories, making
about one-tenth of the states supply
The first dairy school in America
was started at the University of Wis
consin in 1890 as an outgrowth of
the application of the Babcock test
In science and invention Wisconsin
has contributed most notably to the
development of dairy advance Most
of the tests essential to modern dairy
manufacture have been perfected in
Wisconsin. The Babcock test has rev.
olutionized the dairy industry Wis
consin scientists have contributed
much to show that milk is the great
protective food in the human dietary
1t was in Wisconsin that the first es-