280 
Annual Be pout of the 
trouble with our help. The more you pay a man the more you 
have got to be his servant, instead of his being yours. 
Mr. Gr. E. Morrow. Circumstances have made it necessary that I 
should give some special attention to dairying for several years. 
And I want to say, it seems to me that at no time has there been 
nearly as much interest in the question as now. Take this state 
especially; I may say certainly at no time have I received as many 
letters of inquiry as in the last few months where people propose 
to engage in dairying. I agree with Mr. Favill in almost every¬ 
thing he said, and have frequently made this statement, that for 
the last eight years I believe that no body of farmers in this state, 
with the same amount of capital, has made as much money as 
have the dairymen. And I am heartily in favor of people engag¬ 
ing in it when they first count the cost. 
Secretary Field offered the following resolution, which was 
unanimously adopted: 
Resolved , That the thanks of this convention are due and are hereby tendered to 
the railroad companies of the state who have so generously given delegates reduced 
fare to and from this meeting. 
HORSES. 
BY HON. JOHN L. MITCHELL, MILWAUKEE. 
1 shall start off with the query: What is the most profitable kind 
of horse for the Wisconsin farmer to raise? Not as a special bus¬ 
iness, but as an incident to ordinary farming. My own paradoxical 
answer to this question would be: No horse at all. Our prolonged 
winters and the consequent necessit}' for expensive housing, costly 
care and much artificial food make horse-raising in the main alasing 
affair in this climate. That is, the average horse is not marketable 
for what he has cost. 
Nevertheless, as nearly ever}' farmer has “ the old mare,” endeared 
to him by association and a life’s labor, having qualities he desires 
to see perpetuated, the question will still recur to him: What shall 
he breed, that the manger and the hay-rack may make a return? 
In a short-sighted way let me look over the ground. 
Among district breeds there is 
