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Wisconsin
Dairymen’s Association
est, 1872
1872
The
Wisconsin Dairymen’s Association, organized in Watertown on February 15, 1872
was originally a Jefferson county organization, being the direct outgrowth of
the old Jefferson County Dairymen’s Association
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The
Wisconsin Dairymen's Association originated in a resolution offered in the
Jefferson County Dairymen's Association, Jan. 26, 1872, to issue a call for a
meeting of Wisconsin dairymen, to be held at Watertown, Feb. 15, 1872. A few
gentlemen met and organized the Wisconsin Dairymen's Association. The aim of
the organization has been to secure improved methods of making butter and
cheese and the best markets for shipment and sale. The association holds its
annual meeting in January of each year for the discussion of the dairy
interests. Dairy fairs are held at each meeting. There is printed annually by
the State printer 2,000 copies of the transactions of the association. The
Legislature receives 600 copies, the State Historical Society, Academy of
Sciences, Art and Letters, State Agricultural Society and Northern Wisconsin
Agricultural Association receive forty copies each; the remainder are
distributed to the members of the association and generally over the State to
all who make application for them. The association receives its support from
members who join each year, paying the sum of $1, and by appropriations from
the State. Wisconsin won first premium on butter in competition with the world;
the second premium on Cheddar cheese (the first going to Canada), and the
second on fancy shaped cheese at the International Dairy Fair, held in New York
city in December, 1877. To the Dairyman's Association belongs the credit of
raising the reputation of Wisconsin cheese and butter from the lowest to the
highest rank.
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Source: Wisconsin: comprising sketches of counties, towns, events,
institutions, and persons, arranged in cyclopedic
form, ed. by Ex-Gov. Geo. W. Peck (Madison, Wis., Western Historical
Association, 1906). ]
Economic History of Wisconsin During the Civil War Decade, by Frederick Merk
Wisconsin
Dairymen's Association
Definition: "This association was organized Feb. 15, 1872, at
Watertown, by seven men — Chester Hagen, Lagoda; H.
S. Dousman, Waukesha county; Stephen and Alpheus D. Faville
and H. C. Drake, all of Lake Mills; Walter S. Green of Milford, and W. D. Hoard
of Fort Atkinson. The association aimed directly at the improvement of dairy
products and the promotion along safe lines of the dairy industry. In 1872
there were but 40 cheese factories in the state; now there are 2,000; then,
there were no creameries; now there are more than 1,000, besides hundreds of
private creameries; then the value of the annual dairy product did not exceed
$1,000,000; now it is upward of $55,000,000."
Cross references:
A H Hartig, editor of "Hoard's Dairyman"
