One of sources I will be using for my Wisconsin cheese industry topic is “Creating Dairyland” which is that some of us might read already for extra credit back in our segment one assignments. I choose this source because this source will cover some more details about starting dairy industry in Wisconsin on my previous source such as how Wisconsin famers treated their cows or land or what are some efforts did famers do for dairying. This source will be more about Wisconsin farming life and dairying which eventually lead Wisconsin cheese industry to be famous.

This source is written by Edward Janus who is a writer and also an oral historian. This article is addressed for the people who is interested in history or local dairy life or agriculture. The purpose for writing this is to explain the Wisconsin dairy life in 19^th century.

After wheat farming failed to bring enough profit to state, people put all their efforts into saving their land with manure and grass and started growing cows for the agricultural savior. Even though caring cows required a lot of work such as large quantities of good feed and good condition, they brought good profit to farmers and to state. When growing cows became the major farming in Wisconsin, people started making cheese from the milk because cheese can be kept longer than the butter. They bought the milk from their neighbors and made cheese. Since dairying played important role in the state’s economic in 1870s, people tried to grow their cow in a better way to make their product better. William Henry who is a first dean of University of Wisconsin’s’ college of Agriculture studied a relationship between science and farming. In late 1890s, Henry and some other professors started to educate the farmers and actually many of farmer’s sons studied about the farming. Farmers cannot just leave their cows in the grass and throw them some food. They have to feed the cows with balanced and proper food with great nutrients. Good cows need to enough nutrition and diets. They also have to keep improving their soil for good care of the cows. Through their great devotion, dairying became more profitable and they made a successful relationship between cheese industry and dairying. It brought wonderful profit enormous profit to farmers and the state. As a result, we call Wisconsin is a Dairy land.

Even though this reading is not directly related to Wisconsin cheese industry, as we know, cheese are made from the milk. So it is obvious that good milk makes delicious cheese. I think this source has great information about how Wisconsin milk are so fabulous to make delicious cheese. I learned so much about Wisconsin dairying life from this reading like how farmers put their efforts for their cows compared to other famers from different areas. I did not know people are educated to farm. I also learned some more history about how wheat farming is failed and people turned to grow cows in Wisconsin. Including the previous source, I learned a lot about the history of the dairying Wisconsin. Now, I would like to focus more on the Wisconsin Cheese. How they make their cheese or what do they do differently compared to others.