Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-01-25

know the producer and the process OF
manufacturing, and knowing that they
get good article are willing to pay for
It. The trouble with middle-men is that
good butter goes into the market with
the bad, and the prices rule accordingly.
The best butter goes directly to the con-
sumner and they will pay for it, but If it
is sent to the market it viii not bring so
much because consumers have no con-
fidence in It,
z. D. Curtis, said that Dir. Douglass
principle was correct, and also Mr.. Bliss
facts. What we want is butter makers
who are both honest and able to make
good butter.
Mr.. Br0ao1a, of Milton, did not think
middle-men could be done away with.
A person might as well get his cotton
directly from the manufacturer, etc.
1t can't be done. He was willing mid
dle-men should have all they could make
out of Vermont farmers.
T. S. Gold, of Connecticut, said that
the butter in some parts of Connecticut
had been greatly improved in the last ~
years, by sending it to New York where
it is either sold directly to the consumer
or on commission. They had found the
better the butter the better the price.
Hon. Charles L. Flint, of Nassachu-
sets, said the fault of poor butter had
been charged on the producer. Con-
sumers are as much to blame, the largest
share of them being Indifferent as to the
quality of butter. Many pay large
prices and don't get as good butter as
your best Vermont butter. One of our
largest breeders of Jersey cows buys
Vermont butter for his own use. Jer-
sey butter had no flavor and he could
sell it for a larger price than he had to
pay for Vermont butter which was far
better. Jersey butter has high color
but no richness or flavor. Smaller
breeds give better and richer milk than
larger breeds. The great difficulty in
Boston now is with milk rather than
with butter The way the milk bust
ness is managed there was disgrace to
civilization. Honest men cannot sell
milk there.
T. D. Curtis said that in test made
with butter made from the milk of
Ayrshire, Devon and Jersey to stand a
high temperature, that of the Jersey
was the best
Mr.. Wood of Pomfret kept a high
grade of Jerseys, and sold all his butter
to one man. He had no trouble in pack
ing it down. He kept eight COWS and
made the last season, which was hard
one, 1900 pounds of butter, which he
sold at 40 cents.
Nr. Flint said he was not prejudiced
against Jerseys; he owned some and
thought them valuable. The Ayrshires
are not so much a butter as milk
breed; they give more good and nutri-
tive milk, but will not make so much
butter as the Jerseys. Thought they
compared well with the milking breeds
of the short horns. The Attorney is the
same as the Jersey. Most of them came
from Jersey, but they got the name of
Attorney from the fact that vessels from
Jersey, bringing them, stopped at AL
derney and were registered from there.
Mr.. Win8I0lo, of Putney, was satisfied
with Short Horns as mixers; they COM
pare favorably with other breeds. Have
cows that make IA or Is pounds of but
ter per week in March and June; in
March fed on good hay and four quarts
of meal per day, and in June only on
grass. Cows weigh thirteen or fourteen
hundred pounds.
Mr. ChildS of Wallingford thought
poor butter wouldntbe made if it didn't
sell The best butter can be sold at the
best prices, and in order to obtain it
more attention must be paid to feed,
cows must be well 1ed.
Mr.. Broom of Milton, said that they
were apt to overlook the main thing. If
they would pay more attention to the
quality of pasture and Of the food given
to the COW, and would improve them,
they would soon and rapidly improve
both the quantity and quality Of the
butter
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Three questions were to be considered
before entering upon the discussion of
the subject.
FErSt-Is our dairy stock as good rs
we desire?
,gec0nf-If not. can it be so improved
that il will be more profitable without
extra care and food
T1ird-Wil it nav.
There are many diaries which have
been so far improved as to be satisfactory
to the owners. and perhaps Welding all
the milk and producing all the butter
and cheese, for the food consumed, that
could be reasonably expected, and as re-
quired. We find in almost every dairy
some choice COW or COWS, which produce
a large quantity of milk. far beyond the
average of the dairy, although they re-
ceive the same care and kind of food
with other COWS in the same herd. There
are also found in the same herd. good
for nothing, equity COWS, which do not
half pay their keeping at present prices.
All dairymen know that good COW is
much better than poor one. but all do
not appreciate the difference. This can
be illustrated by measuring and record
ing the amount OF each cows milk on
first day OF each month. a gentleman