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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.
1899
11 14 DAIRYMEN’S
CONVENTION EFFORT
Businessmen’s
Association at its meeting last Tuesday night it, took up the matter of making
an effort to secure the next convention of the Wisconsin Dairymen’s Association
and appointed a committee to solicit funds with which to guarantee expenses of
the meeting. Our citizens have responded
liberally to the committee's solicitation and the required amount has been
raised. At Thursday night's meeting of
the Business Men's association a resolution was passed extending an invitation
to the dairymen and pledging all necessary aid if the convention is located
here. WR
11 21 EFFORT
SUCCESSFUL
Efforts of
the Watertown Business Men's Association to secure the next meeting of the
Wisconsin Dairymen's association were not without avail, were at the meeting
the executive committee of the dairymen at Fort Atkinson last Wednesday it was
decided to hold the annual convention for 1900 in this city, February 14, 15,
16 and 17.
It is
fitting that the annual convention should be held here, inasmuch as Watertown
was the place of meeting nearly twenty-eight years when the Dairymen's
association had its inception. In its
endeavors to advance the dairying interests of the state the association has
been eminently successful and the publicity given its deliberations has
resulted in untold good to the Wisconsin who is numbered among the foremost
dairymen of the world.
The
association aims at all times to give special information relating to the work
of the dairy farmer and its membership is very large. WR
Wisconsin
Dairymen's Association
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.
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"
