Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-10-10
IT LEADS IN DAIRYING
Wisconsin Premier State De-
velops More Herds Than
Any State in Union.

ton. Her nearest competitor IS
New York, with 1,678,000 cows.
Badger cows produce yearly ten
billion pounds of milk. This would
fill 384000 railroad express cars,
making a train over $500 miles
long. Wisconsins annual milk
output would make train reach
ing from San Francisco to New
York and back to the Mississippi
river. If moving at Is miles an
hour, it would take 1912 days for
this train to pass a given point.
One-eighth of the creamery but
ter, three-fourths of the cheddar
cheese, over 80 per cent of all the
foreign types of cheese (Swiss,
brick, etc., 26 per cent Of con-
densed milks, and almost one
fourth of all dried milks produced
in America are made in Wiscon-
sins 1886 dairy manufacturing
establishments.
The largest cooperative creamery
in the United States is located at
Barron, Barron county, in a re-
gion that has been settled less
than generation.
Twenty and six-tenths per cent
of all the manufactured dairy pro-
duets of America Clutter, cheese,
and condensed milks) are produc-
ed in Wisconsin; Minnesota ranks
second with 9.4 per cent; New
York third with 8-5 per cent-U.
S. Department of Commerce Re
port.)
There are more pure bred dairy
cattle in Wisconsin than in any
other state with the single excep-
ton of New York. Wisconsin
ranks first in Guernseys and
Brown Swiss, second in Holsteins,
and fifth in Ayrshires. There are
in the state $1,000 Holsteins, over
10000 Guernseys, and 5000 Jerseys,
giving to Wisconsin a premier po-
sition as a 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 100000.
A decade ago Wisconsin had
only thirteen COW testing associa-
tions. 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 population under test, Den
mark has more than seven times
as high a ratio.
While the average milk produc-
ton in the state is 5000 pounds
yearly per COW, the average in
$500 COW testing association herds
is 6,882 pounds, or 270 pounds of
butter fat. Of the herds in cow
testing associations, ninety-six per
cent are headed by pure bred
sires.
Fully so per cent of the farm
income in Wisconsin is from live
stock and it's products. Dairy
ing rescued Wisconsin from the
disaster of the single crop farm
ing system-wheat production
restoring the depleted fertility of
our soil that had been occasioned
by grain farming practices.
The largest cooperative cheese
marketing organization in the
United States is the Wisconsin
Cheese Producers Federation
which handles the output of over
200 cheese factories, making about
one-tenth of the states supply.
The first dairy school in Amer
lea was started at the University
of Wisconsin in 1890 as an out
growth of the application of the
Babcock test.
III SClSlCS anu Invention w lScOn-
sin has contributed most notably
to the development of dairy adj
vance. Most of the tests essential
to modern dairy manufacture have
been perfected in Wisconsin. The
Babcock test has revolutionized
the dairy industry. Wisconsin
scientists hove ooo+r;b,,+od ,o,,,oL
to show that milk is the great
protective food in the human die
tary." 1t was in Wisconsin that
the first essential difference was
show between butter fat and its
substitutes from the standpoint
OF health and nutrition.