Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-11-19

EDITORS FREE Press AND IIHfs
There seems to be some want Of information
in regard to the Vermont Dairymen's Assccis-
ton recently organized, if We msy judge from
the many inquiries On the subject. We, there
fore. beg leave to make use Of your columns
once more to enunciate the principles upon
which it is founded and the ends proposed to be
attained.
1t is deInonstrable that Vermont dairy pro
ducts, though bearing = gooi general rcPuts-
ton, are not as a whole strictly trst-clas-, and
do not return to the citizens of the State 50 much
money, by many thousand dollars per annum,
as they ought; that the product per COW is not
so large as it might and ought 10 be that the
number of COWS kept, compared with the
number Of acres Of tillage lands, Is much too
small that the prevailing system Of marketing
the product Is radically faulty, in that there Is
not a proper discrimination between the several
grades. and the better are made to compensate
for the loss to the middle men on the poorer,
which inevitably results from the system; that
the supply Of labor. specially Of female labor,
is inadequate to the wants Of the State. imperil-
ing the dairy interest Of many towns, and tina;
these and many other defects and evils Of our
system may be remedied by proper diffusion Of
information among the people.
To investigate all these defects and evils, and
propose practicable remedies, is the office Of the
Dairymen's Association. The manner in which
it proposes to accomplish these purposes is to III
vite addresses from practical men who have in
vestigated and experimental upon the several
subjects until they have established certain facts
and principles TO cause inquiries and nvesti-
CATION 10 he made and reported by committees
appointed from among the members Of the Asso-
citation, and to compare experiences and elicit
facts by discussions.
The constitution provides for three days
meeting, substantially upon the plan pursued in
ike meetings under various names, IN the other
New England States, New York, Ohio and the
Northwestern States, which meeting will proba-
bly, he held during the third week Of January
next, at such place as may offer the greatest in
ducerncnts in members. etc, etc.
Thr committee are not yet prepared to an
nounr.. ary programme for the first Winter
meeiit &. nu1 it NAV be premature to announce
thst ,hey have ALREADY made preliminary ar
ram o. ,nts with Dr. &c rye Z Loring Of Salem,
Ma.,achusett.. President Of the New England
Agricultural Society. an accomplished speaker,
one of the most, if not the most thoroughly COM
petent man for that purpose IN this country, to
address the Association on the breeding and
feeding Of dairy stock They nave also made
positive arrangement with y. A. lllarl, A VI,
Of Herkimer County, n. y, Pric'i,', dairy
man who has given years Of time 70 'i'r invest
CATION of the subject, both in this cIutry AMI III
Europe, under the auspices Of me 'wciican
I Dairymen's Association, formerly the New ork
| Cheese Makers Association, and who Is believed
Z bv the practical dsirymen of New York and the
/ West. to have added untold thousands to their
wealth in the last six or eight years by his coun
/ sci and advice. They are also in correspondence
4 with other gentlemen who will be engaged as
I fast as the accumulation Of funds will warrant.
1t may be proper to remark for the Informs
ton Of those parties who were not in attendance
1 upon the Convention for the organization of the
| Association, that majority OF the officers were
, present and entered heartily into the spirit Of
| the meeting, and are thoroughly in earnest in
4 their endeavors TO make the Association sue
cess. and that its success Is already fully guar
anteed, although large accession TO the list Of
members is still desirable.
We repeat what we have said on a former &C.
casion, that none should refrain from becoming
members, fearing they may not be able to attend
the meeting, as the constitution provides that
the transactions shall be published and distrbut-
ed to all the members, thus returning them
Sull consideration for the two dollars invested in
/ membership D. 5. BLISS, Georgia,
Secretary. Y. ID. a.
1 NoafpsIier, Nor. I2ih, 1859.