66 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



quote the summing up of this talented young dairy farmer 

 in the following two paragraphs at the close of the address. 

 He is a German boy raised in the city of Fort Atkinson, 

 his father a wagon-maker, and was put on a farm, and 

 shames nine out of ten of the farm-raised boys of that 

 county. There is something queer about this life, anyway, 

 isn't there ? He has a masterful sense in his business. He 

 says : — 



We estimate the cost of keepuig a cow at $40 a year ; $20 is 

 for grain, $11 for ensilage and other coarse feed in winter, and $5 

 for grain and $4 for pasture in summer. 



For the calendar year ending Dec. 31, 1892, our cows gave us 

 179,936 pounds of milk, giving us a credit at the factory for 7,801 

 pounds of butter. This was an average yield per cow of 7,455f 

 pounds of milk and 325J pounds of butter. 



Understand, these are the figures taken from the creamery 

 books, and not private record. The gross cash returns were 

 $73 per cow. The skim-milk was returned to him, he mak- 

 ing no account of it in this calculation, though it was made 

 profitable in another way. 



Turn where you will, you will find it a wonderfully broad 

 field, one that will take all the brains you can muster to ex- 

 plore. It is something like that field that the farmer started 

 to plough with a team of unbroken steers. They went 

 hither and thither and he could not control them, so he set 

 in the plough and said, " Go where you are a mind to ; this 

 field all needs ploughing." Don't look at it cheaply ; don't 

 think you need not exercise the very best intellect, the best 

 honesty, and the best training you can secure. It requires 

 more brains than politics (the Lord knows that, and so do 

 I), more honesty than banking, and more trained thought 

 and skilful hands than running an engine. To promote all 

 these to their best fruition is what we are here for. 



Dairy Education. 



Because a man keeps cows, is no sign whatever that he is 



a successful dairyman. In the eight Hoard Creameries about 



Fort Atkinson, Wis. , are nearly six hundred patrons. Every 



man has an equal chance with his neighbor, for all are paid 



