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Show Editor Credited with Major Role in Dairy Promotion founded Hoard's Dairyman, a magazine mag-azine that circulated widely, even today. to-day. He supplemented his writing by touring the state and speaking until he hammered his gospel into the consciousness of the people. But the farmers of 1870 were inclined in-clined to resent being "tied to a cow." After a while Hoard convinced con-vinced a group of German farmers to go into dairying, and many Scandinavians Scan-dinavians were to follow. Wheat production began to drop as the dairy output increased. On the agricultural campus of University of Wisconsin at Madison Madi-son is a bust of William Dempster Hoard. A glance at Wisconsin history his-tory discloses that he was governor of the state from 1889 to 1891. But the story of Hoard and his service to Wisconsin and the world goes back a score of years before he j was governor. I In the little town of Fort Atkin-J Atkin-J son about 1870 there was an editor who noted the soil-depleting results of many wheat crops. He believed that in time there would be no good farms unless farmers turned from wheat growing to raising of livestock. He argued that' Wisconsin no longer could depend upon grains and that the future prosperity of the state lay in dairying. At first he devoted a column to his campaign, then a page and later a separate section. Eventually he |