Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-02-06

some of us very closely-that we would !
have to go home and find out the an
swcr The matters under consideration
are as vital to your interest and mine
al safe Hae uttsaa4 do@hs of monetary
matters in Wall street l tell you gen
tlemen-it makes difference with a
man at the end of the year whether he
gets 25 or 35 cents for his butter. Now
as we expect to hear from those who |
have been In practice for many years in
this art, we do not propose to suggest |
that we know better than they, nor do |
we propose to acknowledge that we |
have made no observations about our
selves. A simple allusion to the fact |
that some people are sloyenly and that
that others are not, is sufficient to &C
count for at least one class of very poor |
butter makers. If my remarks are close
fitting, am sure they will not suit only
such forms as they are adapted to:
AS State, we have the name OF max |
inc rood butter, but the name only has
a local application and belongs only to
such as merit it. If / could say some
thing that would bring one of our old
dealers in the article to his feet, and
have him discourse to us on what he
considers the secrets, | shall have done
what | now despair of doing. How is
it, Mr. Dealer, that you stand at your
post and by a sort of supernatural power
gather all the choice tubs of butter to-
gether and close up your accounts and
start off for Boston almost before some
of the farmers give you call ? l al
most think you have sort of affinity for
particular tubs. Gentlemen, this is no
fiction! The fact is prominent that we
have a large amount of inferior butter
made and brought to our market for
| which there is no reasonable excuse if
the makers would take heed and use pro-
per care. My own experience has in a
measure been confined more to the eat
ing of good butter than the making, and
therefore | speak confidently in regard
to the quality and leave the why and
wherefore to those more competent to
instruct. If shall have the pleasure of
seeing, as result of this meeting, new
activity expressed on this subject, | am
amply repaid in contributing a few
words on this occasion.
There are other important subjects to
be discussed at this time-and | am glad
to see competent men here to explain
them. Foremost of these may be named
those which relate to the cultivation of
the SOLVES, my friends, Vermont soil
on which most of this assembly have
been raised and from whose homes the
strength of the nation has in great de-
gree emanated. To make these homes
desirable, to make them inviting to the
rising generation, is our duty; to make
them especially profitable is the special
duty of us all. And in closing | can
not refrain from suggesting, that as
many of our young men are inclined to
leave their native State with the impress
sion that better one is to be found at
West or somewhere else; that this false
notion has obtained ground mainly for
the reason that they have had poor eX-
amples set them in this art of farming,
which has resulted in disaster and ruin.
| hope to see many a man in this State
able to say he had doubled his products
and doubled his income from a new
mode of management and new devO-
ton to agriculture. The particularly
pleasing hour to any one engaged in
business, is when the balance sheet shows
the profits. The interesting moment in
our lives is when we find ourselves well
established in business, and that business
honorable and profitable As | close
these remarks | am admonlshed that
practice is not so easy as preaching, and
| hope in future my own experience will
enable me to add much more of interest
on such an occasion than the cursory
| chances have the honor to present.
REPORT ON PRIZE BUTTER.
Gardiner B. Weeks, ESQ, for commit
tee on prize butter, submitted the fol-
lowing report
Your committee appointed to examine
samples of butter shown at this cOnven-
ton in competition for the Blanchard
churn offered as premium by Messrs.
Porter Blanchard's Sons, OF Concord, n.
H., for the best package of butter shown
at this meeting, respectfully report:
Ten different lots of butter, cOmpris-
ing seventeen packages of all sorts were
placed under inspection.
Lot No. is worthy of special notice.
from the exquisite manner in which it is
moulded into one and four ounce balls.
and the perfection of neatness exhibited
in the way it is packed. The grain and
color of the butter is unexGeptionable.
But in the judgment of the committee
the addition of sugar rather detracts from
what would otherwise have been pure
flavor
Lot No. consists of two tubs of
packed butter, one made Nov. s, and
the other Dec. Is. OF the first named
the flavor, texture and color were good,
very good, rather over sailed perhaps,
but, on the whole, superior. The De
cember tub, of course, is not quite as
fine in body, flavor and color, but is like
wise good.
No 4, one tub packed butter, prob
ably made in early winter, of quality
nearly equal in all points to best winter
butter shown.
No. s, made late in December from a
dairy of only three cows. Color rather
pale, of unsurpassed grain and texture
flavor not entirely faultless though not
noticeable except on most careful test.
No. 3 consists of two tubs packed but
ter, one made November 10, the other
December -. The former showed most
color and most quality, though exceed
ingly highly salted. Both samples are
well made.
Lot No. 10 comprised one tub packed
butter and one package of rolls all made
in January.
No exception could be takentoquality
of these samples, they ranked with the
best winter made, on exhibition.
No. consisted of one tub of packed
and one tub of roll butter, both made in
January 1878.
The quality of both samples was not
eXcelled by winter butter shown, and
had the committee felt it to be in com
pliance with the terms of the offer of the
Messrs. Blanchard's the award would
have been made to these samples.
No. 8, balled butter winter made. of
first quality in all respects, ranking
equal to No. T.
Lot No. 2, one tub of winter made, of
quality not quite up to the last referred
to, or to other samples OF winter butter
! shown, and one tub of choice fall made
butter, which being in the judgment of
the committee the best sample shown,
they recommend as entitled to the
premium churn.
1t is but fair for the committee to state
that every package and every pound of
butter examined by them was of extra
good quality, considering the season in
which most of it was made, and every
package would do credit to any dairy
anywhere