The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-24
From the 81. Adams Messeu GER.
Hhe Dairymcn's Report.

Inc fourth annual report of the Vermont
Dairymcns' Association, just Issued. far cV-
ceeds any fits predecessors in interest and
value, and we may therefore safely say
that it is one of the most useful and IN
slructiVe agricultural works ever issued.
1t is pamphlet of 100 pages and embraces
list of the life members: the constitution.
report of the fourth annual meeting at
Montpelier report of the fourth winter
meeting at st. Albans; and retrospective
view OF the history of the society. bv the
secretary
The proceedings Of the winter meeting.
of course, constitute the bulk of the vol
ume, and embrace addresses bv President
Mason and w II II McAllistcr; papers bv
Joseph ii Crosby, (of II general character.
L ID Douglass, on butter-making. o VI
Tinkham, on Jersey Cattle, + $ Gold. sec
retary of the Connecticut Board of Agri-
culture, on milk, Il ID Curtis. editor of the
Utica UeroH. on Hints applicable to the
times, DIR Z l. Sturtevant, of Massachusetts,.
on Ayrshire Cattle, Prof. Alexander HYDE.
on root culture, the late Capt E l. Iibbard.
on marketing butter, + Wood Of Pom
frst- isst.s-rs,'sl<iss. CsSrSsncr NNrcriSs.
Secretary OF the American DIiIymens' As
so2iatiOn, on three years experience in a
creamery, John + Ellsworth, father of
the Barre system of feeding on the manu-
factnre and marketing of fancy butter. and
by Hon y A Willard, on the taints ofmilk,
and other topics of great interest.
In addition to this fund of fresh lilcra-
ture the discussions had at the winter
meeting are reported with tolerable full
ness and accuracy, and to many farmers
will prove the most interesting feature of
the book. Some of them were quite spicy
and all of them were ON topics of vital in
terest and brought out the views of our
most practical and progressive men. Tie
report also embraces the finding of the
committee on the samples of butter entered
TOR the Blanchard prize churn, and the res
oluliOns of the Association in memory of
J b Lyman and Horace Greeley.
Within the last four years there has been
almost revolution in the whole process OF
dairying in this State, and especially in this
county. DairYmen and dairywomen knew
from experience that certain causes pro-
duced certain effects, hut very few knew
anything of the reasons. Science in the
calling was little known and less sought
after, most farmers seeming TO regard il rs
beyond their comprehension and every day
use These meetings of the Dairvmen's
Association however, have shown what
mistaken idea that was. They have sim
pliiled and adapted everything that was
first term in chemistry will find himself led
into ils delightful fields by the perusu Of
this book, and when he realizes the knowl-
edge that he has gained, he will wonder
where all the big words are
L. is rcgrctiul reflection that all the
farmers in the state have not come within
the influence of these meetings, and cspcci.
ally that a greater number have not pro
cured the printed reports. They are the
only agricultural documents ever issued in
Vermont until this year, and We under
stand that Hon. Henry Clark, the long
time Secretary of the State Agricultural
Society and Wool Growers Association.
remarked in his address at the Chittenden
county fair, that they were of more value
to the state than all the work his own So
ciety or any other had ever done. Having
twice carefully read each volume, cur
opinion corroboraes this, and any farmer
who obtains and reads the four will find
himself master of 4 library and master of
the situation.
But the society being new, farmers sola-
ted and many OF them "land-poor,' it has
been at the hardest that sufficient funds
nave been raised To pay even the moderate
bills for printing, while the secretary has
served without n dollars compensation and
has paid his own expenses in travelling To
other states to keep up reciprocal relations
with kindred societies. Last year the Leg
islature made an appropriation for the
printing fund, but rs no legislature con-
venes this year, the present volume could
not have been issued unless at least a hun
dred additional life memberships could
have been procured, had it not been for the
generosity of Hon. Bradley Barlow. whose
observations here had acquainted him with
the great value of the socletys work. and
to whom the thought occurred that he
could not do better service with the same
amount of money than by helping to print
that Volume. Among all the acts of henev-
oence for which he has been noted for
years, this, though he has tried to keep the
knowledge of it from the public, we regard
MS of the widest public benefit
The secretary can now furnish to all who
may desire to become life members and
will send him the fee, So each of the foul
annual reports, and life members are enti-
tied to all future issues without further
payment. The opportunity will soon be
past for securing the back volumes, and
besides, the dairy farmer who neglects 10
store his mind with the information they
contain will soon find himself behind his
neighbors. If the farmer does not elevate
his calling, he cannot expect to find the
future more profitable than the past. 1t
ought to be the pride of every Vermont
farmer to keep this association, organized
for the promotion Of our leading industry.
high above all want, and If they knew how
its reports are looked to as authority and
are sought after even in distant foreign
countries, we think they would rally and
thus by cooperation make easy in the fu.
tuse what has been hard in the past.