Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-03-06

An Essay rad before the Late Meeting al
the Board Of agriculture at Montpelier.
BY D. b. wHEELUC X, ESQ OF BARRE
After brief introduction Mr.. WbeeIocL
said Perhaps to show the great imoor
t,nce of Butter Dairyins t. the farmers Of
Nern mt, a few facts and statistics will not
be amis-. | have not been a bic to obtain the
statistics FOR 1870, therefore the estimate ioI
that year Is sci upon the same ratio OF in
erase a from 1870 t. 1860. In 1850 III.
amount Of bntt-r male in he State was II
l37 $50 pounds; in 1860, Is 800 $50 pounds :
increase IL FER cent, and ut tie same rat,
of inc. care IN 1870 the amount would be
80 SO 40 pounds, which, if sold on an
aveIa-e Of 81 cents per pound would amount
to 50 .943 lJ3 % a SUN exceeding the total
value OF all the corn, wheat and rye raised
IN the State in 1866. The amount Of bu tet
made IN 1850 exceeded by more than 4 900 ,OOU
pounds that Of any other Of the New Engand
States, Maine pproaching the nearest, max
ing ii ,GSI.1St rounds. Not only IN butter
but IN cheese, Vermont also leads the other
New EnslaGd States, having made in 1850
S.2l 600 pounds, while Massachusetts
when j. second on tile list, made in 1860
only 5 1924 600 pounds In the matter OF
cheese there was slight decrease in the
amount made from 1850 to 1860 Of about
per cent. Vermont IN 1866 had I62, 356 COVE
valued at SS,Sl2,GS4. while Maine had ONLY
l29,19l valued at ST,2l0 26j, and Massa
chusetts had I29 4l5 valued at 81 ,S9g. 80.
IL viii thus re seen that our rough Green
Mountain State exceeds that of either of the
other New England States in the value OF
her butter and cheese as we'll as in the
number and value of her dairy stock. A
record surely of which we need not be
ashamed.
Butter has now become an i'm portant arti-
Gle Of export. Over = 900 900 pounds were
exported the past year, and it is said that
by opening the ports of Japan, a market will
thus be found that will take all the butter
and cheese we have 20 spare-at any ate we
need have no fear of an over stock of really
good butter. The only butter that is ever a
drug in the market, is of that quality which
none of US wish to own.
There are several essential elements nee
essaTy to the making Of good butter. Good
COWS, good feed, good salt. good cLurn and
a good woman and it Is said by some that
the possession of the last would insure the
first four. There are certainly three things
that are important to a successful butter
dairy. list, good cows %, good feed and
81, good process of making butter. First
theIe are good and poor cows amng all
leeds OF cattle: hence, it is not safe
tnea-y or practice to adopt any opebreeG,
tuIhk I1-g thereby that we are ON the high
ROAD TO successful dairy business. Tt, vari-
-; " eode +"ye their advocates, claiming
- Pr tculAr D:eed superior t. all
others, but the circumstances AID conditions
eAis'inS with different farmers make ami
Iorm'iy OF breed not desirable or profitable
ie' lhere are certain faces that have leen
established by scieroe and repeated trial,
mat 1t VII he well for US to heed in the sele,
ton OF cows FOR a butter dairy Itis of vital
Importance that Tor such a dairy, cows should
be selec ed or kept that give milk that II
rIch IN cT' am. and the only sure way to as
certain that fact is by setting the milk nv il
seit' thus knowing for certainly of the
value II the COW for butter purposes. To
ara US IN this matter many and repeated
va ara experiments have been made, both
to test the value Of Different kinds of breods
inr outter purposes, and to test the effect of
dln q, Kinds OF feed for the same purposes
Inc following experiments were made in
bngland few years since for this purpose
EXPERIMENT No feed, grass and VIA