People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — The Dairy Debate. [ARTICLE]

The Dairy Debate.

Last Friday eveuiiVf A. McCoy, the String Band and about forty others from Rtmaaelaer went out to Marlboro oft the milk train to attend a big debate •on the* dairy question. The question was, “resolved, that the dairy business is the best, paying business which the f. wmers of Hanging Grove and Milroy townships can engt. <ge in.” By seven o’clock the hou.w was crowded to its utmost capacity. The meeting was called to order by S. T. Robinson, vice > president of the literary society. It was agreed that none of the program be carried out and that all the time be devoted to the debate. A. McCoy was the leader on the affirmative. He discussed the dairy business very thoroughly and showed that a good cow well cared for would yield a net profit of one hundred and ten dollars per year. Louis Hamilton presented in opposition to this the poultry business and gave figures to prove that if the same amount which is required to buy a good cow was invested in chickens, with proper care, they wpuld yield a gross profit of six hundred dollars. Mr. Bruce Porter gave some facts in favor of dairying. He was' followed by Jas. H. Long, who made a most able plea in favor of the poultry business and alfco tore Mr, McCoy’s* figures up in pretty baid shape. But Mr. McCoy’s last speech was a winner and Messrs. Fred Zard, William Bussell and Frank Watson, who had been selected as judges, all cast their ballots in favor of the affirmative. Those who went out from Rensselaer came back on the stock train about ten o’clock p. m. A few days ago a subscriber came into our office and ordered his paper discontinued, giving as a reason that he was not able to take a newspaper. We kept our eye on that man and before hp left town he spent enough money for whisky and tobacco to pay for the news six months. And this man is raising a family. —Silver Lake News.