524 BOAKD OF AGKICUJ/rUKE. 



The Secretary: There are eighty of Avhich I have heard. Sixty were 

 running last year. 



Proiessor Decker: In the State of Wisconsin they have 1,000 cream- 

 eries and 1,500 clieese factories. They talk about the State of Minnesota 

 being the bread and butter State. They turn out a great deal of flour 

 there, but they have a less number of cows than they have in the State of 

 Indiana; but they have something like 600 creameries and sixty cheese 

 factories in the State of Minnesota. You see they are making a business 

 of it and pushing it there. Why should Wisconsin and Iowa and Minne- 

 sota butter be shipped through Indiana to eastern points— eastern markets? 

 The people of the eastern States, and the great cities in the east, and a 

 good many of the exporters, are going west, and they own lots of cream- 

 eries in these States. Why can't we make that butter just as well as the 

 States west? Why shouldn't the dairy business prosper just as much in 

 Ohio and Indiana as in those States further west? We can make as good 

 an article. The only thing to do is to do it right, and we can make a great 

 success of it. 



The President: During the last five years the beef interest in this 

 State has grown very largely, and today the Shorthorn cow is having her 

 inning, and you know what .lersey cows are in Indiana. They can't be 

 sold in most places for any sort of price. It is not a defect in the Jersey 

 breed as much as it is the traders and cow jockeys bringing into this 

 State a large number of cull Jerseys and selling them to farmers. While 

 Wisconsin has a million dairj^ cattle, she is not to be mentioned in the 

 same class Avith Indiana as a beef State: so, of course, we are not lacking 

 in cattle in Indiana at all. I personally have been trying to keep track 

 of our dairy development in this State. I have felt for the last two years 

 that we were working under great difficulties, and that is the reason why 

 I feel that every person that is interested in this subject should cast in 

 his lot with this State Dairy Association, and try to make it as substantial 

 and as useful as possible during this trying spell. 



Mr. Drischel: Mr. Decker, what nationality are the people in Wiscon- 

 sin, Minnesota and Iowa as compared with Indiana and Ohio? Are there 

 many Germans up there? I know a creamery running from 1,800 to 

 2,000 pounds per day that is run by a German. Isn't that class of people 

 more energetic in that line? 



Professor Decker: Well, there are more Swedes in Minnesota, I be- 

 lieve. In Wisconsin, I think, there ai*e a good many Germans. In the 

 dairy districts there are Germans, and they push the dairy business, but 

 there are other nationalities, also. For instance, there is a town of 

 Eden. They call it the Garden of Eden, and it is inhabited by Irishmen; 

 they are great dairymen. 



