Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-01-26


all who are or who may soon become members
and this provision having been made, we shall
make no other excuse for somewhat abbreyiating
our extended notes of its transactions.
The meeting was holden in the commodious
hall Of the Weldon House, about one hundred
and fifty being present at the opening, and was
called to order at hall-past two o'clock on the al-
ternoon Of the 18th inst, by the President, who
delivered the following
ADDRESS.
Gentlemen of tn, W. DnrymenS Association
In free government, next to the influence Of
universally diiused education, no cause has 50
powerful an effect in pcrpetuatlng 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 diiused, the information gained of
their own independence 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 meetings IS
that OF agricultural Societies or DaiNmen's As
s0ciatiOns Ina addition to the agricultural knOwl-
edge collected and disseminated, in addition 70
the practical benefit gained by the farmer, they
show 30 every disOrguzer that those who formed
a free government are ready to defend 1t while il
protects them. Meetings like this, unlike military
spectacles or the amusementsOi public days, bring
not together alone the idle, the young and the
dissolute, they assemble the Industrious, the in
dependent, the sober owners OF the soil. Tie
meets his brother farmer, hears his improvements,
details his own, sees the bone and sinew Of the
nation around him, and returns 10 his farm and
his labor with happier and an easier heart, with
the proud consciousness of his own independence
and usefulness and the numerical and moral
strength of his associates
t,o net
important station in society 1t is to his exer
tons that the support, the food, the employment
Of every other rank is owing. 10 the surplus
produce of the farmer we owe the Institution and
the preservation Of distinct empoyments, the ORR
gin of commerce and manufactures and the ex-
istence of government. Ii Is the surplus produce
Of the farmer that sets the wheel of the manuiac-
turer in motion that bids the sails of commerce
whiten every sea that gives to religion her min
listers, ~ education her students that supports
the busy population Of the crowded city, and that
lends 10 government its resources, its energy and
its very being. Let the farmer but raise only
enough for his own support and the mighty heart,
which, By its beatings, communicates life to every
extremity, would be chilled, and every member of
the great body polite be palsied in q moment.
We have met for the first time as an Assoca-
ton, 10 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
sections of the dairy region are far IN advance of
us, not only in quantity produced but in the quail
ity of their goods. Such things should not be.
lake up any Of the daily papers and how do we
find the markets reported as to butter and cheese
Vermont butter from three 10 five cents per pound
less than New York State, and cheese from to
two cents less to say nothing Of the difference Of
twenty-five to thirty cents per pound between
Vermont butter and the tar-lamed fancy butter Of
Orange county and the Philadelphia Prints.
nairNmpn 81 a
need not exist il we will use the means that are
at hand. With climate that is unequalled in
any section of our dairy lands, with purest springs
of cold water running from every hillside, and
with the sweetest Of pastures, we should furnish
the best dairy products Of the whole country If
we will avail ourselves Of every help as manuiac-
turers of other articles do to be successful. and
put our goods in better packages, 50 that they
will 90 to market in fine condition, ahd see 10 it
that they are put into honest hands in the market
Vermont butter and cheese will stand where it
shoud-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 i'm
provements that have proved 50 successful 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 posi-
tive progress in processes and knowledge Of prn-
cples.
Butter diaries are individual and isolated, and
excellence in their product is the result of pecu-
liar care in the manager, and special adaptation
to his business. 1t is of the almost Importance
that the very best methods of manufacture should
be understood, that the dairyman and the farmer s
wife who cares for the smaller dairy of the ordi-
nary farm, should compare theirprocesses (which
they mny now deem to be the best because they
know no other or better) with model establishments,
and learn 10 produce an article OF higher excel
lence from their diaries. The difficulty Of obtain
ing really good butter in the markets appears to
be Increasing, probably from growing iastdous-
ness of butter eaters as well as from the increas-
ing dispropOrtion in numbers Of consumers and
producers This fact gives urgent and immediate
| Importance to efforts for improvement. When
We can bring our dairy products up in point OF
excellence 10 the best in the country, then we
shall reap harvest that will fill our State with
comparative plenty, encourage improvement and
tend to retard emigration Let us strive to place
our dairy products in the markets as high as Me-
rino sheep and Morgan horses Then will plenty
and comfort reign throughout our borders then
will be that time we have 50 often read about,
The good time coming"
This was followed by a carefully prepared and
very interesting and valuable paper on the Guilt
walton of the Sugar Beet for Stock Feeding, by
Hon. Henry LANE, Of Cornwall, the substance OF
which shall reserve for future article for OUT
agricultural department. Mr.. Lane said that he
belonged to the majority-the tillers of the soil
and would give in plain language and simple de-
tail his own experience in raising and feeding the
Sugar Beet. lie proved himself master of the
situation" from the beginning, and was listened
to with intense interest and profit. Every dairy
farmer would, according TO Mr.. Lanes theory,
and experience too, derive great benefit from
tho raising of an extensive root crop, and the
kind which had proved the best for Addison
County, was the American Improved Imperial
Sugar Beet. 1t was shown that they could easily
be made to produce an equivalent of eight tons
of hay per acre, and at an expense of cultivation
not exceeding forty dollars.
At the close of Mr., Lanes reading, an inter-
estng discussion followed on the subject of root
culture, which was participated in by quite a
number of the gentlemen present.
In the evening an address by Hon. X. A. VII
LARD, of Little Falls, New York, Dairy Editor Of
the RURAL NEW YoRKER, on the Factory or Asso-
ciated System Of Dairy Management, was listened
to with marked attention,
We shall copy next week carefully-prepared
abstract of his remarks from the st. Adams MIS-
sESdER, to save the labor of rewriting from our
own notes.
SECOND DAY-THuRsDAY.
The association was called to order at 10 o'clock
by the President, and the opening exercise was
an address by DR.. MIDDLETON GoLDsNrn, of Rut-
land, on " The objects and Method of Inyestiga-
ton necessary to the full and proper development
of the Dairy Interests of Vermont" The doc