A. MEMBERS FOR 1883. Aldrich, A. M., Burlington, Wis. B. Beamish, John, Elkhorn, Wis. C. Curtis, D. W., Fort Atkinson, Wis. Carswell, N., Elkhorn, Wis. Conger, W. H.. Elkhorn, Wis. Cowles, John, Elkhorn, Wis. Church, Cyrus, Elkhorn, Wis. Clark, R., Elkhorn, Wis. Church, L. C., Walworth, Wis. Curtis, F. C., Rocky Run, Wis. Curtis, T. D., Syracuse, N. Y. Cronk, J., Waupun, Wis. Calkins, G. S., Palmyra, Wis. Cheever, D. G., Clinton, Wis. Chadsey, Albert, Sharon, Wis. Cooper, J. W., Whitewater, Wis. Casey, D., Delavan, Wis. D. Deirhick, La Fayette, Wis. Davis, J. P., Elkhorn, Wis. Dunlap, Chas., Geneva, Wis. E. Edgerton, S. R., La Fayette, Wis. F. Flack, Hiram, Elkhorn, Wis. Flack, John, Elkhorn, Wis. Flack, D. L., Elkhorn, Wis. G. Greening, Wm., La Grange, Wis. Green, Harvey, La Fayette, Wis. H. Hubbard, E. A., Troy, Wis. Hubbard, J., Spring Prairie, Wis. Hoard, W. D., Ft. Atkinson, Wis. J. Jacobson, Ole, Sugar Creek, Wis. Jones, T. L., Helena, Wis. K. Ketchpaw, Jacob, Elkhorn, Wis. Kinney, T. B., Sugar Creek, Wis. Kling, Jacob, Troy, Wis. Kinney, M. W., Lyon, Wis. Kelley, Mrs. R. H., (short-hand reporter, Room 31 Major block, Chicago). L. Loomis, H. K., Sheboygan Falls. Lytle, Geo. A., Elkhorn, Wis. Lawrence, Geo., Jr., Waukesha, Wis. Lang, Willis, Waupun, Wis. Lawrence, George, Kenosha, Wis. M. Morrison, W. H., Elkhorn, Wis. N. Norton, A. C., Spring Prairie, Wis. Norris, H. C., Elkhorn, Wis. Northrop, S. S., Clinton, Wis. P. Purdy, P. L., Springfield, Wis. Pratt, Orris, Spring Prairie, Wis. Phelps, C. K., Geneva, Wis. Paden, H. C., Elkhorn, Wis. Potter, Alonzo, Elkhorn, Wis. Preston, D. S., Elkhorn, Wis. Piersons, Robt.. Sharon, Wis. Prescott, Otis, Elkhorn, Wis. R. Rockwoood, S. S., Janesville, Wis. S. Smith, Hiram, Sheboygan Falls. T. Taylor, J. L., Elkhorn, Wis. Taylor, C. P., Springfield, Wis. Torrey, Maj. R. D., Milwaukee, Wis. V. Voss, August, LaFayette, Wis. Vahey, John, Elkhorn, Wis. Vosburgh, John, Richmond, Ill. W. Waring, E. S., Elkhorn, Wis. Wisewell, Geo. N., Elkhorn, Wis. Williams, John, Delavan, Wis. TRANSACTIONS, WITH ACCOMPANYING PAPERS AND DISCUSSIONS, OF THE WISCONSIN DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION, AT THEIR ELEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION, Held at Elkhorn, January 31 and February 1 and 2, 1883. The eleventh annual convention of the Wisconsin Dairymen's Association convened at the court house, in Elkhorn, Wednesday, January 31, at 2:30 P. M., Vice President Hazen in the chair, who stated that the severe snow storm had blockaded the roads so that it was impossible for Mr. Beach, the president, to reach here on time. As Prof. W. A. Henry was here, from the University at Madison, he would call upon him for a “talk” upon matters at the University. PROF. W. A. HENRY.- Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentletlemen: It seems to me it is time this meeting should be called, and even if we have not all whom we hope to see here; if there are persons here who have come to obtain information it is time we were talking with each other, time we were giving out and receiving facts. The dairy interest is such in the northwest that when as many people have gathered together in a room as are here that are interested in the dairy question, the time should not be wasted. These meetings are expensive, they demand our time, they demand inconvenience in travel, so we should get to work and get acquainted with each other. About the time this meeting closes you will hear persons saying, "I wish we had an hour longer to discuss that question." Let us put that hour in right now, at this end of the meeting. Let us get warmed right up and make this a good lively meeting. This is my first coming among the people of Walworth county, I am sorry to say-sorry because I know I need your help; whether you need mine or not I doubt. I wish I could tell you something about our experimental farm. It is rather a small farm. People very often go away with a very small opinion of the farm and the man that has charge of it, but I have done as well as I could. One of our lines of work has been producing sugar from sorghum cane. I will have some here this evening to show you, and each of you can take home a sample. We have produced on the University farm this year about two and one-half tons of sugar. We got nearly a ton and one-half from three and one-half acres. I have at the farm four very excellent milch cows that are now just in condition to use for any experiment that I might wish to carry on. They are all just fresh, they are large cows, and they are pretty well accustomed to the farm. Our chemist and myself have discussed what experiment we had best try. Whether we should try the value of oil meal for producing butter, or whether we had better try any more ensilage experiments; but we concluded we had enough of those experiments just now. Then we have discussed different hays, then bran and corn meal, and now I wish you would talk it over among yourselves at this meeting, and think of some experiment that you think ought to be carried on, and I will guarantee that we will do all in our power. I have one man that I have trained who will, if necessary, stand by those cows from half-past four in the morning, until six in the evening, except to go to his meals. I have a young man who will attend to the butter with equal care, and under all circumstances I can assure you, we will conduct the experiment, whatever it may be, with the greatest care. We have taken two lots of milk of sixty pounds, and when we come to weigh the butter unsalted, there would not be any more than the turn of the scale's difference. That is the accuracy with which our butter maker works. I have one man who, if a cow throws a stalk in feeding, he picks it up and it is weighed. We are trying to be accurate. There is something that is of considerable interest to me and possibly you might be interested in it. It is the importance of a chemist to help our farmers in their wants. Let me tell you about a man that I have secured to assist me. When I went to Madison two years ago I found a young man, an instructor in chemistry, helping Prof. Daniels. He was working for $400 or $500 a year. He had graduated at the University, was teaching several times a day, but spending his odd moments in improving himself. When I found him he was studying the glucose question, and his experiments were certainly very interesting. He got a box of Duryea's corn starch, and the next day he had some beautiful glucose made out of it. He turned the corn starch into syrup, having the sweetness, though not the flavor, of honey. He had a purpose in view in working with that corn starch, and it was not long until a glucose factory in Iowa heard of him and they offered him a salary of $4,000 a year to come and work for them, but they told him they were expecting to make articles which must be sold under names of a different character from what they were really. They wished him to be a chemist to help them adulterate different articles of food. And it was a question whether he should take $4,000 to do such work and thus give up his integrity or stay with me. He is now at work with me at $1,200 and I want to secure that young man as a friend and a helper to the farmers. You may say "What use can he be?" There are many uses. This fall when I was at Chicago at the fat stock show, I found upon the table that a glucose company had a certain kind of new feed called glutenile which they sell for $15.00 a ton. I said to myself, "here's a new thing, I wonder what it is worth." I went down to the factory and I said to the president, "Sir, I would like if you showed me a chemist's analysis of your meal." He showed me one for which he probably paid $200, in New York. I said, "Is this correct?" "Yes." "Where do you send this meal?" He said, "Mostly to Orange county, N. Y." I said, "You ought not to send that there, you ought to send it to Wisconsin, and only ship but |