Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-01-26


petence for his declining years by the
culture of the soil has thereby made him
self the benefactor of his race. Nobody
is the worse for his career, while many
are improved and spurred onward by his
practical wisdom and by the healthy con.
tagion of his example. -
The President then introduced Presi.
dent Angel of the University of Vermont,
whose remarks were received with ap.
plause, and perhaps were more effective
than any studied address could have been
DIR. ANGELLs S ADDRESS
Mr. President md Gentlemen
We read that in old time it was the
custom to bring on the older and better
wine at the end of the feast; it must be
in carrying out this idea and to start with
skim milk, that you have assigned me the
first place; and I applaud your wisdom
in 80 doing. | should not presume to at
tempt giving any instruction to body oi
men so much better versed than myself
in the subjects that are to come under
discussion But am glad to congratu
late you on the success of your efforts last
year III starting your Assoc'ation. 1t re-
quired pluck, foresight and wisdom. II
seemed to me the most successful agricul-
tural meeting | have attended in this
part Of the country.
We learn that the entire dairy prod uot
of the country il estimated at three hun
dred million dollars; and of tbi4 Yer.
mout has contributed more than her share
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butter, aud 30 III that of eheeso. T. Ia a
remrrk hi" estimate to put the produc-
ton of butter in 1870 at twenty five mil
lion p ii, d., and that of ci,ep-e at four
tom IuIlliunA, worth ~ 30 and IA cent?
res ~prctIvrlv-over- nine and a haiti mil
lions of d,lIAra Why, this IL nearly
three times the gross earnir4s of 1he three
great railroads OF the State, he dairy
men could buy them all out--aEd ] hope
then make them pay divid~ndr. (LauRh-
ter Considering what II great sun the
increase If only two cents Il pound Oh
these d ,iry products would amount 20
the object aimed at by This As~ocittion
becomes very important, and the orgtni.
cation of it is evidently justified.
Ih.vc been ready to despair at hearin =
young men 50 frequently saysthere is nc
field in this State for tho exercise of their
talents, wherefore they will 90 elsewhere
and rise i'll this or that professiun, for
farming requires no RFeaial ability. here
il 40 greater fnllacy in the world The
questions of pasturage, of soihng OF cattle,
of forest lands and meadows, and other
such, demand investigation by minds of
the highest order, and the greate-t learn
4 h,, rg
the greatest t,lents. There are few in
the country ut present capable 10 under
t AXE such tasks We have to raise up a
generation that can do it. The results OF
experiments in other countries are not
conclusive here, where the conditions are
so very different The German govern
meats have expended much money in con-
ductrng such Investigations bat their ex.
perinentI, valuable as they are, VIII not
sap.Iy the lIok Tor this county. The
subjrcr of brt eding, alone, employs at
this time the beet dent in this country
and in Europe, to d. tarmine how to
raise the best breeds and how to keep
thrm up and when l hear young men
say there il utthing worthy of their
genius f be done in VrrmOut, | am in-
clined to doubt their common sense.
4
tioua Whose solution promises the highe st
results both to the scientific man and the
prac tcl breeder.
There is evidently yet much to be
learned in regard to the art of manufac-
turing butter and cheese, if the facts
stated by you are 80 and there is no way
80 good to provoke desire to learn in
most people'as to put the matter in dol
lars and cents before them. Here is a
field that promises the largest results, for
the addition of a trife to the amount re.
allied from these two products would be
more than enough to pay the whole ex-
penses of the government OF the State.
Here scentific and practical uen must
work together.
The speaker cited as practical illustra-
tions of the value of proper application of
scientific research, the cure discovered
by Pasteur, the celebrated French Sdgdnt,
for the disease among silkworms, which
had cost France over two hundred and
fifty million dollars in loss and damages
to her silk manufactures and the es-
TEEN in which the German chemist, Lie
big, is held in Engl4nd, from the excel
lent results following the application of
his discoveries TO the improvement of
lands.
There Is not 40 much lack of practical
farmers in this country today as of
trained scientific men there are not
enough TO furnish Professors for the Agri-
cultural Colleges lately created. The
field is large enough for all wise and
good men to work without jar or jealousy
| congratulate you, Mr.. President, on
the organization Of this Associ tion 1t
should be State institution and have
funds from the State, if they are to be
had no other WY, for its encouragement
and assistance in prosecuting investiga-
tlons and experim, ma Vt 80 much value
to the State at laTg".
4 few moments being left before din
aer, for presentation of any matters of in
terest, Mr.. Z. c. Jameson said he noticed
in the Boston Journal of yesterday,a COM
from an Essex county, Mass,
man, on the lew cattle disease, which, as
presenting somo new views of the subject
be would read The article took the
ground that the disease was not so much
to be dreaded that it could only be
caught by cattle brought in contact by
those "fgcted that it never proves fatal
that the milk can be used in families and
fed to hogs, and that spirits of turpentine
was the best thing for the feet and honey
Tor the mouth of the animals affected by
he disease. 1t was signed "a II. K"
Mr. o. 5. Bliss thought that this was a
dangerous article, and probably written
by some butcher or drover baving diseased
,attle which he wished to get rid eff. !
There was abundant evidence that the |
disease was almost as contagious IS small |
,ox, and could be carried in clothes and
,ars, etc, aud that it was dangerous to |
lse the milk of diseased animals. He
,oped the Association would hear on the
ubject from Mr.. Goodale of Massachu-
etts, who had given especial attentioni to
t, before the session was over.
Gen. j. i. Barsfow said he had in his |