The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-24
From the ST. Adams Messenger.
Thc Dairymcn's Report.

The fourth annual report of the Vermont
Dairvmens' Association, Just issued, far ex-
ceeds any of its predecessors in interest and
value. and we may therefore safely say
that il is one of the most useful and in
structive agricultural works ever issued.
1t is pamphlet of 100 pages and embraces
a list of the life members; the constitution;
report of the fourth annual meeting at
Montpelier report of the fourth winter
meeting at st. Adams; and retrospective
view of the history of the society, by the
secretary.
The proceedings of the winter meeting,
of course, constitute the bulk of the vol
ume. and embrace addresses by President
Mason and w II II McAllister papers by
Joseph II Crosby (of general character),
i ID Douglass, on butter-making, . VI
'rinkham, on Jersey Cattle, T 5 Gold, sec
rotary of the Connecticut Board OF Agri-
culture, on milk, r d Curtis, editor OF the
Utica Herdld. on Hints applicable to the
times, DR. L l. Sturtevant, OF Massachusetts,
on Ayrshire Cattle, Prof. Alexander Hyde
on root culture, the late Capt l. Hlbbard,
on marketing butter, f Wood OF Pom
fret. on butter-making Gardner Il Weeks.
secretary of the American Darymens AS
sociation on three years experience in
creamery. John r Ellsworth "father of
,he barre system of feeding" on the manu-
fncturc and marketing of fancy butter, and
hv Hon y A Willard, on the taints milk,
and other topics of great interest.
In addition to this fund of fresh litera-
lure. the discussions had at the winter
meeting are reported with tolerable full
ness and accuracy, and 10 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. The
report also embraces the finding of the
committee on the samples of butter entered
tor the Blanchard prize churn, and the res
oluions OF the Association in memory of
J i Lyman and Horace Greeley.
Within the last four years there has been
almost revolution in the whole process of
iaryng in this State. and especially in this
county. Dairymcn and dairywOmcn knew
from experience that certain causes pro-
duced certain effects, LII. very few knew
anything of the reasons. Science in the
calling was little known and less sought
after. most farmers seeming TO regard il as
bvyUnd their comprehension and every day
use These meetings of the Daiymen's
Association however, have shown what a
mistaken idea That was. They have sim
plilicd and adapted every thing that was
ab.tr.lsc and the farmer who don't know the
first term in chemistry will find himself led
uto its delightful fields by the perusu of
HIS book. and when he realizes the knowl-
edge That he has gained, he will wonder
where all the big words arc
is a rcgrcttul reflection that all the
farmers in the state have not come within
She influence Of these meetings. and espcci-
ally that Il 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
lime Secretary of the State Agricultural
society and Wool Growers Association,
remarked in his address at the Chittcndcn
county fair, that they were of more value
to the state than all the work his own So
cicty or any other had ever done. Having
twice carefully read each volume, our
opinion corroboratcs this, and any farmer
who obtains and reads the four will find
himself master of library and master of
the situation.
But the society being new, farmers isola-
ted and many of them 'land-poor." it has
been at the hardest that sufficient funds
have been raised to pay even the moderate
bills for printing, while the secretary has
served without 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
stature made an appropriation for the
printing fund, but ms 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 Lad acquainted him with
tlp Great NnlIIp nj fhn sngIetu's xVprly anI
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 beney-
olence for which he has been noted for
years, this, though he has tried to keep the
knowledge of it from the public we regard
rs of the widest public benefit.
The secretary can now furnish to all who
may desire tC become life members and
will send him the fee. So, each of the foui
annual reports, and life members are emit
lied 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 tC
store his mind with the information they
contain will soon find himself behind hi,
ncighbOrs. If the farmer does not elevate
his calling, he cannot expect to find tho
future more profitable than the past II
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
lis reports are looked to us authority ant
are sought after even in distant foreign
countries, we think they would rally and
thus by cooperation make easy in the flu
tire what has been hard in the past.