of such test or analysis sworn to by the tester or analyst shall be admissible in evidence in all prosecutions under this chapter.

CHAPTER 240, LAWS 1887.

Section 1. Every person who shall, at any cheese factory in this state, manufacture any cheese, shall distinctly and durably stamp or mark upon each and every box, case or package of cheese manufactured and sold, the name and location of the cheese factory at which the same was made, together with the grade of the same, as "full cream," "half cream" or "skim milk," or as the case may be. And if any manufacturer of cheese shall sell or dispose of any cheese without such stamp or mark, or shall falsely stamp or mark the same, he shall forfeit and pay to any person who shall prosecute for the same the sum of twenty dollars for every box, case or package of cheese sold or disposed of without being marked as prescribed in this act, or with a false mark thereon, to be recovered in a civil action in any court having jurisdiction of the person and subject matter, one-half of such penalty to be paid into the county treasury of the county in which such action is brought, to be by said treasurer paid to the state treasurer for the benefit of the school fund.

CHAPTER 229, LAWS 1887.

Section 1. Every person who by any false pretence with intent to defraud shall obtain from any club, association, society or company for improving the breed of cattle, horses, sheep, swine or other domestic animals, a certificate of registration of any animal in the herd register or other register of any such club, association, society or company, or a transfer of any such registration, and every person who shall knowingly with intent to defraud give a false pedigree of any animal, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished. by imprisonment in a state prison for a term not exceeding one year, or in a county jail for a term not exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

TRANSACTIONS

WITH

ACCOMPANYING PAPERS AND DISCUSSIONS,

OF THE

WISCONSIN DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION,

AT THEIR

FIFTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION,

Held at Sparta, Wisconsin, February 8th, 9th, and 10th, 1887.

The fifteenth annual convention of the Wisconsin Dairymen's Association convened at the opera house in Sparta, Tuesday, February 8th, at 10:30 A. M., President Morrison in the chair.

President Morrison addressed the convention as follows: It is very gratifying to look over so goodly a number at this, the organization of our meeting at Sparta.

I had a foretaste of your hospitality, your courtesy, and your appreciation last winter at the institute that we held at this place, and I have looked forward for many weeks to our meeting at Sparta, knowing that the inspiration and the enthusiasm we should meet here would make us feel perfectly at home. In holding something like thirty-four institutes this winter, we have been obliged to discuss all departments of agriculture. A diversified program. We were not confined entirely to dairying; we mixed up with swine husbandry and sheep husbandry, and all those industries that cluster around the farm, but here it is nothing but the dairy and if there is any subject in this world that I like to talk about, it is dairying. It always appears to me, that in the mixed farming that we have so much of in the west

ern states, that they shut up shop just about six months in the year, and farm it six months. Now, what would you think of Mayor Thayer if he closed up his bank six months of the year, and worked the other six months? That is just the way that the average farmer does. He commences in the spring, and it is hustle and bustle, rise early, and work late; it is sixteen hours a day for half the year. But when we come to dairy farming, there is a uniformity of work during the entire year, and a uniformity of revenues that are constantly pouring in, and go where you will, the men engaged in dairying are prosperous men. They have fine buildings and fine homes, all conveniences, and a good many of the luxuries of life. So, whenever I talk about dairying, I get warmed up. Now, it has been our practice in our meetings to have a sort of experience meeting at the last. We are going to reverse the order and have the experience meeting first. We have some gentlemen here that the state is very proud of, that have been connected with the Wisconsin Dairymen's Association from the first, and I always refer to them as the "immortal nine." There were only nine men who organized this association fifteen years ago.

Now, I will take great pleasure in introducing to you this morning, a man that has worked long years in the dairy industry. I refer to Col. R. P. McGlincy of Elgin, secretary of the Illinois Dairymen's Association, and also secretary of the Elgin Board of Trade.

Ladies and Gentlemen:
What has it grown to?

R. P. McGlincy- Mr. President, This dairy interest; what is it? From whence came it? Now, I only refer to the dairy industry in the northwest, I need only to go about two hundred and fifty miles south of this to locate the beginning of the dairy ndustry, and that point has been for many years, the center of the dairy industry of the northwest. In the city of Elgin, which I claim as my home, in 1852, the first, real, active dairy business was done by a man who had traveled almost over the entire country with the expectation of bettering his condition. From York State to the prairies of Illinois, and from the prairies of Illinois to the golden shores

of the Pacific. In all his wanderings he was seeking for that for which we are all seeking - money. The first few years that he spent in Illinois, he was engaged in grain farming. The longer he followed that industry the poorer he became. He went to California and he didn't find that gold grew on the bushes there, as it had been represented, and after a year or two he returned to northern Illinois, and conceived the idea of engaging in the dairy business. He made arrangements with a firm in Chicago, and shipped them one can of milk per day. In a little while the demand grew and it became necessary to ship more milk, and as he had but a small dairy, he was obliged to call upon his neighbors for assistance and secure milk from them, and from that beginning there is shipped to Chicago to-day from our place, about ten car-loads of milk, shipped in cans containing about eight gallons.

In addition to that, in our town we have a milk condensing factory that is now using a little over 7,000 gallons of milk daily. We have a creamery which is using about 15,000 pounds of milk daily. In that whole section creameries and cheese factories are dotted upon almost every four corners. In the county in which I live there are at a low estimate, 44,000 head of milch cows.

The farmers, when they began this dairy business, were burdened with debt, their farms were mortgaged, their stock was mortgaged, everything but wife and babies, was mortgaged, and they knew not how to get from under that burden.

But with that characteristic enterprise which has marked the history of the people who have settled these prairies of the west, they made one mighty, supreme effort and turned their attention to the cow, that being which can lift more mortgages from the farm than any other device that has ever been brought to the attention of man. And as they got more to understand the business and to prosper in it, they began to improve their condition, financially, socially, and I may say, morally: for it is a fact that a man who will care for stock that is entrusted to him, can not help but be the better for it.

So these farmers began to improve their condition, and in a few years instead of having mortgages hanging over them, they were loaning money themselves to their less fortunate neighbors.

As the industry became general around Elgin, it spread to Wisconsin until to-day there are 650,000 cows, producing a reenvue of about $25,000,000 annually, all of which has been brought about within a very few years and I may say, I believe it has been brought about very largely by the efforts of this association.

When our people began the dairy industry, they found that they lacked intelligence; they did not know the habits of the cow; they did not understand their situation and they gathered themselves together in a little farmer's club, known as the Fox River Farmer's and Dairymen's Club, which for many years held meetings at Elgin. That club grew, and finally a few gentlemen from Wisconsin visited the club on two or three occasions and learned from these people how they were doing, and they too became posessed of an idea that education was needed if this business was to be made a success, and from that club originated the great NorthWestern Dairymen's Association, and from that association sprung the Wisconsin Dairymen's Association, the Illinois State Dairymen's Association, the Minnesota Association, the Iowa and the Nebraska. So that all these associations in their educational work, have been the means of lifting the farmers up and teaching them how and what to do.

That the dairy interest has done much for this country, can be readily proven by the condition of those farmers who have been engaged in it. I want to say to you, that if you go into the business with the expectation of becoming rich in one year, you make a mistake, but by intelligent, careful work, by understanding the routine, and looking after the smallest details, you can make the 'business pay you handsome profits on the investment.

Not many weeks ago I heard Jubge Wilcox announce in a public address, that on a cash valuation of $27,000 for land and stock, he was receiving six and one-half per cent. in