Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-11-24
Dairymens' Association.

Ennons MONTPELIER JorRN,L.
There seems 10 De some want of information iu
regard to the Vermont Dairymcus Association
recently organized, if we may judge from the
many inquiries on the subject We therefore
neg leave to make u-e Of your columns once moro
to enunaiate the principle, upon which it IS
founded and The ends proposed TO be attained.
Iii. demonstrate thut Vermont dairy products.
though bearing "a gogd general reputation, are
not as a whole strictly lrst-cas-, and do NOT rr-
turn to the citizens Of the State SO much money
BY many thousand dollars per auuum as they
ought; that the product per COW is not So large
as it might and ought to be that the number of
cows kept, as compared with the number of acres
Of tilhge lands. j. much too small that the pre-
yaling system of marketing the prJdac, is radi-
cally faulty, in that there isnoi proper di-crmi-
nation between the several grades, and the better
ARE made 10 compensate for the loss to iho middle
men on the poorer, which inevitably results from
the system that the supply of hb1r. specially
Of female labor, is inadequate % the wants Of
the State, imperilng the dairy interest Of many
towns, aud that these and many other defects and
evils of our system may be remedied by a proper
diffusion OF information among the people
To investigate all these defects and evils, and
propose practicable remedies. is the Office Of the
Dairymens Association. The manner in which
it proposes to accomplish these purposes is to in
yite addresses from practical men who have in
vestigatcd and experimental upon the several
subjects until they have established certain facts
aud principles to cause inquiries and iu,estigu-
tons to he made and reported By committees APP 1
pointed from among the members Of the Associ-
alton, and to compare experience and elicit facts
by discussions.
The constitution provides for three days
meeting, substantially upon the plan pursued in
like meetings, under various names, in the other
New England States, New York, Ohio and the
Northwestern States. which meeting will proba-
bly, be held during the third week of january
next, at such place as may offer the greatest in
ducements in members, etc, etc
The committee are not yet prepared to announce
any programme for the first Winter meeting, but
it may not be premature to announce that
they have already made preliminary arrangements
with DIR. George b. Loring of Salem, Massachu- ;
sets, President of the New Engnud Agricultu- ,
raj Society, an accomplished speaker, one Of the
most il not the most thoroughly competent man a
for that purpose in this country, to address the
Association on the breeding and feeding Of dairy I
stock. They have also made positive arrange- q
lnent with y. A. Willard, A. NJ, of Ilerkimer Z
County, n. y, u practical dairyman who has o
given years of time to the investigation Of the sub
ect both in this country and in Europe. under d
the auspices Of the American Dairymens' Assoc t
,iation. formerly the New York Cheese Makers u
Association, and who is believed by the practical d
iairymen of New York and the West. TO have &
added untold thousands to their wealth in the last il
Xix or eght years by his counsel and advice They r
lrc also in correspondence with other gentlemen Il
who will be engaged as fast as the accumulation $
Of funds will warrant. {
1t may be proper to remark for the information I
Of those parties who were not in attendance upon
the Convention for the organization of the Asso-
ciaton, that majority of the officers were pres
ent and entered heartily into the spirit Of the l
meeting, and arc thoroughly in earnest in their
endeayors to make the Association a success. and
that its success is already fully guaranteed, al
though large accession to the list of members is
still desirable.
We repeat what we have said on u former occa-
sion, 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 distributed to
all the members, thus returning them full con-
sideration for the two dollars invested in member
ship. O. S. Bliss, Georgia.
Secretary Y. ID. A
Montpelier, Nor. 12h, 1869