Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-06-12

/ HAS C6dSed ~ sDO LuC AlihC-A- " Out
prosperity.
The Minneapolis Tribune is con-
Quoting a vigorous campaign to
arouse both business men and far
mers to realization of what these
figures mean. Every Sunday issue
has a full page illustrated feature
story by. COLLISION telling how the
dairy industry may be promoted
as a community enterprise. All
sorts of cooperative enterprises
in which farmers and business men
| get together. are fostered to en-
courage mo- .airying and less ex-
elusive wheat raising.
One of these is a great mutual
loan association just formed in
Minot, N. D., already an important
dairying center in the northwest
ern North Dakota. This organiza
ton operates on the building and
loan association plan, except that
the loans are made on dairy COWS
instead of on homes.
The installment stock is sold
4 to investors, and the funds are
| used to help farmers to get more
cows. The borrower pays 81 a
month on his stock besides $2.08
on principal and interest. He shares
| in the dividends also and his loan
is thus paid up in about five years.
1t takes only about one-third of
his regular cream stock to pay
the monthly instalIments.
/ This plan, managed by C. w.
Fowler, has worked out very sue
lcessfully and without any losses,
in western Montana. 1t: has the
backing of the business men of
western North Dakota, and also
| the new $10,O00,O00 agricultural
Credit corporation, organized at
President Coolidge's suggestion to
help put agriculture on it's feet.
f. FL Murphy, publisherof the Min
neapolfs Tribune, subscribed for
the first $1,000 worth of it's stock
and two carloads of COWS have
! already been shipped in from Wis
consin.
There is little danger of over
doing the dairy business for many
years to come" declares Mr.. COL
lisson. Two startling facts stare
us in the face. First we have new
| er been able in the past fifty years
/ to supply the home demanc for
dairy products. Second, we have
fewer dairy COWS per capita now,
than we had fifty years ago.
Since 1910, we have increased
our population by 20,OO0,OOO people.
In the same time we have gained
only 100000 dairy COWS. 1t is
interesting to know, however, that
more than one-half of this in
| crease has been made in Wiscon-
| sin, Minnesota, Michigan, the Da-
kotas and Montana.
| Last year we imported 60000,-
| 900 pounds of butter from other
countries. We also imported large
quantities of cheese, because Wis
consin, our greatest cheese produc
ing state, could not supply the
home demand.
Cow hot Keeping Paco
with all the production of dairy
ing, our COW population is not
keeping pace with our growth il
Ii imam r5pniation. We are limited
as tt rf.at. We cannot start Fo.'l
plants, to manufacture dairy cows;
we have to wait for them to be
bred. Mr.. Ford has been kind en-
ough to give us the sheet iron
horse, but not the tin COW, yet.
1--WE are really suffering from
underconsumptiori of dairying pro-
ducts, because we do not appreci-
ate their value, like other coun-
tries. The Swiss, the Danes, the
! Swedes, the Germans, the Dutch,
and the Canadians all use more
butter, cheese and milk than we.
| do
"A great deal of our effort is
| devoted, too, toward increasing
consumption, as well as product
ion. We are getting behind the
work of the National Dairy Council,
for example, which is teaching
school childen the value of proper
diet. including milk and its
products.
More advertising, better sales,
manship and better quality are all
| working now to increase the de-
sire and appreciation of dairy pro-
ducts, and forestall any possible
| overproduction. There are the
things that John M. Kelley is
working so hard to promote. His
/ speeches all over the country are
arousing a surprising interest, and
| we are sure that Fun on the
! Farm" will have q tremendous in