Wisconsin's Dairy Industry

Wisconsin's Dairy Industry (HM6W3)

Location: Denmark, WI 54208 Manitowoc County
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Country: United States of America
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N 44° 19.092', W 87° 48.966'

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The growth of the dairy industry in Wisconsin is a story of remarkable transfer of scientific knowledge to practical use. As dairy farming developed, Wisconsin's agri?culture underwent transformation in less than 50 years.

Proposed as an alternative to wheat farming as early as the 1850s, dairying was common in southeastern and south central Wisconsin by the early 1860s. Farmers in other regions soon adopted diversified dairy farming, an enterprise favored by the state's geography. At first the "general purpose cow" provided milk, meat, and motive power, but milk produc?tion increased dramatically when farmers accepted the concept of the single pur?pose dairy cow and applied scientific methods to feeding, management, and selec?tive breeding.

Most milk was made into cheese and butter, which at first were made on the farm. In the 1870s, however, factories began dominating the cheese industry, and in the 1890s, the butter industry.

Wisconsin had 245,000 dairy cows by 1867 and more than 2,000,000 by 1925. By 1907, Wisconsin, 13th largest state, produced nearly half the cheese and a tenth of the butter in the nation.
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HM NumberHM6W3
Series This marker is part of the Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society series
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Marker Number263
Year Placed1980
Placed ByThe Wisconsin Historical Society
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Date Added Thursday, October 16th, 2014 at 3:58pm PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)16T E 434920 N 4907539
Decimal Degrees44.31820000, -87.81610000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 44° 19.092', W 87° 48.966'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds44° 19' 5.52" N, 87° 48' 57.96" W
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Area Code(s)920
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 2601 I-43, Denmark WI 54208, US
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