Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-01-06
fermoSt Dairymen's Association
GEORGIA. Dec. %. 1869

GEORGIA, Dec. %, 1869.
Editoj% IF Messenger d: My connection
With the Agricultural press of the couu-
ry, during the last few years, has FREE
lnently thrown me into communication
With the progressive agriculturists of the
and, snd have had occasion to attend
anyoi their gatherings of one or an
"a or hind, suuh as fairs, meetings for ad
res SEES, aad discussions, farmers' festi-
ala, D., etc. always took peculiar
ride ~ representing myself az a Yer
lontar, aNd | always booked myself at
otels and eisowatre ~ such. A not uu-
latugMl rrssl}t has heen that I have been
sateohis.sd q thousand timea or more, GER
.ainly NOS ler-. ia regard to what the
larnaersC rs Vermont are doing to increase
their knowledge Of their vocation, and
what mean they aro pursuing to guard
thenlselves against combinations of va
rious sorts To deiraud them Of their we'll
earned dollars and homrs.
When looked around mo and saw to
what an extent catechists had been and
were being benefited by their consulta-
tions at such times, and realized how very
Indifferent our people were to the forma-
4
but little to boast of, and usually evaded
the subject The more | have seen of
@Ncn fnsJltutious, however, and the more
tht1pughlye ha~o iss-p4,.s+i eratad the an h.
iects discussed in them, the more firmly
has il become Impressed upon my mind
that they are necessity Of the age, and
that they must become to large extent
the dependence of the farmers of Yer
mont if they could keep up with the
times and make their business pay.
There is no gsinsaying the fact that the
Massachusetts Board of Agriculture has
converted the barren aud exhausted wastes
of that State into fruitful fields. There
il no gainsaying the fact that the New
Yorl Cheese Manufacturers Association,
by ierveatigation at home and abroad and
discyS.sions, has added untold thousands
to the wealth of the dairymen of Central
New York, and every man of them will
tell you so. There il no gainsaying the
fact that the farmers clubs of the north
west and the Northwestern Ddirymen's
Aesociation have accomplished what never
,ould have been done by mere individual
eli Nrt, in the way OF developing the dairy
az nm ices of that section; and the oft re-
peated boast OF some of our dairymen
fhat the Vest can never compete with us
in tbe proo pction of butter and cheese
Ia haap ~ho>~n TO be illusory this very
saaaop ~ the ADJ oearanGe in the city mar
49, of both prod,, cts of most excellent
oualitv from that sec ton. An extensive
dealer recently informed me that during
the fresbet season, when the supply of
Veslnont butter was exhausted and the
railroad communication cut OFT, he sup
- ton. NaH
York State and Ohio butter, and, although
they had previously used only the YER
o mont product, they have as yet shown no
disposition to return TO it, but actually
prefer the other This he believes to be
the principal reason why the looked for
reaction in prices in our markets after
the reopening of communications was not
reoAied
Ccuvincea that the farmers of Vermont
must soon recognize the necessity for max
ing some positive improvements in their
system of culture, and the first step in
that direction, that they must settle down
upon some such scheme as these indicated
above for obtaining the necessary infor-
nation, to do it intelligently, heounder-
took year or SO ago to interest a few of
them in the organization of a farmers
AAUCbluk hhb luhl hblu Ut muntueSIeF,
N. IL, last winter | thought and still
think that the State Agricultural Society
oneht to appropriate a portion OF its
boarded funds for that purpose, but they
did not quite see it in that light, and no
al Mon has been taken.
East summer | spent little season
amcng the dairymen of Central New
York, aud became fully convinced from
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Dairymen's Association was intellectually
valuable to- them, and they do not hest
tate to give it full credit for very much
Of their prosperity.
I came home fully determined TO have
= Dairymen's Association organized at the
EARLIEST practicable opportunity, and after
consultation and correspondence with sew
ersl of the leading dairymen of the State,
arE organization was effected at Mont
pGier the last week of October last.
The agricultural press of the entire
c0~htry has published commendatory no.
tt4es of the Association, and it is believed
uMt no event has transpired in the last
S1eade which has done so much to estab-
the character of Vermont dairy pro-
with consumers as the organ
a xs y. ,he Vermont Dairymen's
NeN SAo notices which II ha
elicited from the press. 1t is accarta a nas
eusrantee that Vermont dairymepp' eua a sa .
teemined to spare no opportunity 70 inn.
p&Gve their products and maintain their
rofntation, and it now remains to be seen
wzNther they will themselves come up to
theeupport of the Association. The pro-
viG1bns for the winter meeting are most
a1nple, and shall be much disappointed
II our dairymen and citizens gen.
sir1ly a. not realize very great sat
idction from attending the meet
in& 1t affords us much pleasure to-
bqpble to announce, in addition to the
p gramme heretofore published, that DIR.
ldleton Goldsmith of Rutland, will
FL paper on the COLLECTS and Methods
o43nvestigation necessary to full and
HSAtable development of the Vermont
iry interests" To those persons ac-
ainted with his personal worth, his
orough scientific attainments, and his
Yep interest in the development of the
\ dustrial resources Of the State, no word
Communications from us can add weight.
those Of your friends sho do not know