Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-01-27

sisted him in conducting The exercises and
for the courtesy he received fcom The
members Of the Association, and ospe-
cially to its Secretary, Rev Lewis A.
Austin, who labored unwearingly to mako
pleasant and agreeable not only the pro-
ceedings, but the stay Of the mem hers of
the Association in Manchester.
We are under special obligations 20 Sem
ator Orvis and his estimable lady for their
generous and graceful hospitality TO US
and several of our friends.
Vermont Dalrymen,s Association.
The first annual meeting Of the YER
mont Dairymen's Association met in the
Weldon Hall, at st. Adams, at 81 o'clock
Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1870.
The President, Hon. E. D. Mason of
Richmond, called the association to order
and delivered the following address:
Gentlemen of Tie VI. Daiay0aeaa's ASsocia-
ton In the government, next to the
influence of universally diffused education,
no cause has so powerful an effect in per-
petuating the institution of liberty as
bringing the intelligent yeomanry of the
country acquainted with each others
views and characters. The habits of
intimacy formed, the knowledge diffused,
the information gained of their own indie
pendence and power will always prevent
the domination of the military tyrant or
the arts of the political demagogue.
One Of the most useful of these meet
ings is that of agricultural Societies or
Dairymen's Associations. In addition to
the agricultural knowledge collected and
disseminated, in addition to the practical
benefit gained by the farmer, they show to
every disorganizer that those who formed
free government are ready to defend it
while it protects them. Meetings like
this, unlike military spectacles or the
amusements of public days, bring not to-
gether alone the idle, the young and the
dissolute they assemble the industrious,
the independent, the sober owners of the
soil He meets his brother farmer, hears
his improvements, details his own, sees
the bone and sinew of the nation around
him and returns to his farm and his labor
with happier and easier heart, with the
proud consciousness of his own independ-
ence and usefulness and the numerical
and moral strength of his associates.
The farmer occupies the most useful,
the most important station in society. 1t
is to his exertions that the support, the
food, the employment of every other rank
is owing. To the surplus produce of the
farmer we owe the institution and the
preservation of distinct employments,
the origin of commerce and manufactures
and the existence of government. 1t is
the surplus produce of the farmer that
sets the wheel of the manufacturer in
motion that bids the sails of commerce
whiten every sea ; that gives to Religion
her ministers, to education her students (;
that supports the busy population of the
crowded city, and that lends to govern
ment its resources, its energy and it's very
being. Let the farmer but raise only
enough for his own support and the
mighty heart, which, by its beatings, COM
municates life to every extremity, would
be chilled, and every member of the great
body polite be palsied in a moment.
We have met for the first time as an
Association, to take into consideration
what needs to be done to wake up the
sleeping dairymen of this State to the
true interest of their calling. Other Sec
tions of the dairy region are far in ad-
vance of us, not only in quantity produced
but in the quality of their goods. Such
things should not be. Take up any of
the daily papers and how do we find the
markets reported as to butter and cheese T
Vermont butter from three to five cents
per pound less than New York State, and
cheese from one to TWO cents less, to say
nothing of the difference of twenty-five
to thirty cents per pound between YER
mrsst butter and the far famed fancy but
ter of Orange county and the Philadel-
phia prints. Now, brother dairymen,
such state of things need not exist if
we will use the means that are at hand.
With a climate that is unequalled in any
section of our dairy lands, with purest
springs of cold water running from every
Inside, and with the sweetest of pas
lures, we should furnish the best dairy
products of the whole country. If we
will avail ourselves of every help as man.
ufacturers of other articles do TO be sue
cessful, and put our goods in better pack
ages, 50 that they will go to market in
fine condition, and see to it that they are
put into honest hands in the market,
Vermont butter and cheese will stand
where it should-in the front rank in
point of excellence and price. In order
to DO this we shall have to work in the
right direction; do away with our old
wooden tubs and pals and adopt the new
improvements that have proved so sue
cessful in other sections; form factory
associations, employ first class operators,
furnish them with good sweet milk, and
the thing is accomplished.
Greater advances have been made in
cheese making than in the art of butter
making. The factory system has secured
uniformity, with positive progress in pro-
cesscs and knowledge Of principles.
Butter dairies are individual and iso-
lated, and excellence i'll their product is
the result of peculiar care i'll the manager
aud special adaptation to his business. LII
is OF the utmost Importance that the very
best methods of manufacture should be
understood, that the dairyman and the
farmers wife who cares for the smaller
dairy OF the ordinary farm, should COM
pare Their process (which they may now
deem TO be the best because the know no
other better with model esta blishments
and learn 10 produce an article of higher
excellence from their diaries. The diff
Guilty OF obtaining really good butter in
the markets appears to be increasing,
probably, from a growing fastidiousness
of butter eaters as well as from the in
creasing disproportion in numbers of con-
sumers and producers. This fact gives
urgent and immediate Importance to eff
forts for improvement. When we can
bring our dairy products up in point of
excellence to the best in the country, then
we shall reap harvest that will fill our
State with comparative plenty, encourage
iinproveu, ut and tend to retard emigra-
ton. Let us strive to place our dairy
products in the markets as high as Merino
sheep and Morgan horses. Then will
plenty and comfort reign throughout our
borders then will be that time we have
SO often read about, "The good time COM
ing"
DR. Middleton Goldsmith of Rutland
who was appointed to deliver an address
at this time, not having arrived, Mr. Hen