The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-11-22
agricultural department.
CONDUCTED BY ALBERT CHAPMAN,
Vermont Dairymen's Association.


the chair.
The following officers were elected for
the year ensuing President Il. D. Ma
son, Richmond; Vice President Mid
dleton Goldsmith, Rutland, N. B. Stafford
Hartford, 6. w. Brownwell, Sheldon
Secretary and Treasurer, o. s. Bliss,
Georgia Trustees, Henry Lane, Corn
wall !. A B. Armstrong, Dorset Frank
Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury; f. Ba.num,
Milton Il, S. Freeman, Guildhall G.
5. McAlister, Enosburgh A. r. Manning
Alburgh E. p Mudgett, Cambridge
E. F. Darling, Derby S. b. Carpenter,
Tunbridge; A. d. Smith, Dandy; G. G.
Chandler, Fast Montpelier G. II. Hub
bard, Springfield and p. Winslow Put
ney.
Voted to extend the thanks Of the AS
ISOLATION to s. B, Campbell of New York
and P. Winslow of Putney, for cuts of
improved stock to illustrate the first vol
June of Transactions.
II was also voted to elect Richard
Goodman of Lenox, Mass, a correspond
ing member. Ex.Lieut. Gov. Alvord of
New York was elected an honorary
member.
EVENING SESSION.
In the evening the Association assem-
bled in Representatives Hall to listen to
the address of Hon. X. A. Willard Of
Little Falls, N. Y, Dairy Editor of the
Rural New Yorker.
HON. Y. A. WIZARDS ADDRESS.
The cheese factory system was origina-
ted by jesse Williams, of Rome n. Y.
From the small beginning of this private
mandatory it had prospered, till the
State Of New York has nearly fifteen
hundred cheese factories. The factory
system, aside from tightening the toll and
hardship of large private diaries, must
commend itself rs the most efficient pro.
Queer of cheap food. The abundance and
cheapness Of food has much to do with
the wonderful development of mind in
America. The rapidity with which pop
ulation increases in this country, is al
ready making meat too dear and scarce
to be within the reach of many of the
poorer classes
Some other form Of cheaper animal
food must be had To the poor and mid
ding classes, the associated dairy system
comes as the fruit of benefcent purpose
Of Providence, and to it the masses must
look for cheap animal food. To illus
trate: a good steer at four years, well
fattened, will yield 1000 lbs, of meat,
while a single COW will yield in one season,
from five to six hundred pounds of cheese.
When to this we add, that one pound of
cheese is equal in nutritive value to two
pounds of meat, the value Of the dairy,as
4 producer of cheap food, is apparent
Milk itself deserves to be moro largely
used as food; even at ten or twelve
cents per quart, it is the cheapest food to
be had.
The factory system is found to be n
most efficient educator of the farmers as
they attend the dairy conventions, intent
upon cleaning facts which can be applied
to their business, and thereby coined into
money. The conventions of the Ameri.
can Dairymen's Association fills the larg-
est hall in Utica, and men of the highest
information and largest talent are found
in attendance at these meetings. liver
mont would keep pace with the improve
ment Of the age; if she would call to her
fertile hills all intelligent yeomanry, capa.
bic of transmitting her rich legacy of free
institutions to future generations, she
must do it by giving these associations
her hearty support and patronage. This
is an age Of competitive industries. Mis-.
direction Of land to ends for which it is
not adapted, is the key to immigration
West, and the decline Of New England
agriculture.
In the speciality of grain growing, the
Western farmer can seriously compete
with the Vermont farmer, unless grain be
grown in connection with and auxiliary
to some other speciality. The dairy gives
that speciality. The dairy region lies
between the 10th and 45th parallels of
latitude, and of this vast stretch of dairy
country, Vermont, by its sweet and fer
tile pastures, its favorable concomitants
Of good water and cool climate, presents
rich and inviting field for the enterpris-
ing dairyman.
The dairy farmer, having wide mark
ct and little competition, can largely d.
versify his production. He can raise
fancy stock, or beef for the shambles, if
need be, as well as produce milk, butter
and cheese.
In freights, the dairy farmer has great.
iy the advantage. His products, in pro.
portion to their value, can be placed in
the market much more cheaply than the
grosser products of the farm. A good
dairy farm is, per Sc, a good stock farm;
but stock iarm is not always a good
dairy farm. The stock farms ofthe South
west are not good dairy farms, on account
Of poor water and unfavorable climatr in
Auences.
There need be no fear that we shall
glrt the market, as consumption keeps
even pace with supply. No nation under
the sun eats as much butter as the Amer.
can, and the waste of this article,in cook
ing and table use, is enormous. Some
700,000,000 pounds of butter are an.
nually consumed in the United States,
and 1S5,000,000 pounds of cheese, while
we annually export 100000 pounds Of
cheese to foreign countries.
While there is no fear that the dairy
business will be overdone, as achole,
there is danger, if all should bend their
energies to the production of either butter
or cheese, of loss and ruin. If each branch
shall keep its own proper sphere Of pro.
duction, diversifying it to meet the wants
Of special markets, the highest success is
sttainable.
The details Of the process of condens.
ing milk at Elgin, Illinois, were then
given, and were very interesting. Thi,
branch Of industry was yet in its infancy
but in time would be greatly enlarged