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of cheese. Mr. White, of Kenosha, averages 600 pounds of cheese 
per cow annually, but he raises his own heifers and keeps them in 
growing condition all the time. They are graded short-horns, and 
their cheese product is equal to 240 pounds of butter per cow, and 
cannot the state average two-thirds of that amount? The remedy 
is to improve the common stock of the country with thoroughbred 
stock, and then feed on milk-producing food while growing. Then 
if we feed our increased production to our improved animals, our 
net profits will again be increased 100 per cent, at least, and the 
same rule holds good in the production of beef, pork, and all other 
live-stock. The grade short-horn will keep as easy as the na¬ 
tive, and weigh at three years old more than the native at four years, 
and bring a much higher price per hundred, thus not only saving 
one year’s keeping, but getting so much more and realizing one 
year sooner. Had I time, I might recite experiment after experi¬ 
ment that have proved these facts conclusively by hundreds in this 
and other states, where the improved stock had not only doubled, 
but had thribbled and even four-folded the meagre net profits on 
the native stock after paying all costs of improvement. 
The census of 1870 reports $45,000,000 of live-stock in the state 
of Wisconsin. Now, to double the net profits on that is equal to a 
perpetual loan of $45,000,000 to the farmers of Wisconsin, free of 
interest. A mine of wealth within our reach nearly equal to the 
consolidated Virginia mine in the Comstock lode, above the 14,000 
feet level, that is now attracting the attention of the world, and the 
cost of rendering that increased wealth available, is no greater 
than that of mining that precious mineral, but because it will take 
longer to realize we are slow to invest. From 1860 to 1870, 
Vermont, Ohio, and Michigan added over 25 per cent, to their av¬ 
erage production of wool per head on their sheep. Some other 
states have added even more than that to the net profit on their 
beef, pork, and horses, yet in this state we have depended so largely 
on the wheat, and a large majority of farmers have neglected their 
stock and partially exhausted their land, and wheat having failed, 
the hard times has too many farmers in its iron grasp. 
Should there be any farmer present who thinks the importance 
of improved live-stock is overdrawn by me, let him closely consult 
the sales at the live-stock yards in Chicago, and then take the tes¬ 
timony of those who bred and fattened that stock, and they will 
