Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-17

in the wagon to protect II from thesuu's rays,
and then il freshly mown grass or moistened
sacking be thrown about the packages
whereby a rapid evaporation can be effected,
the butter will be kept cool aud will reach
the depot 10 good order. If IL then be
Immediately placed in refrigerator cars it
will arrive in market 10 as good condition as
when il left the farmers cellar or the cream
cry.
Greater pains seem to be taken at the
West than at the East in the transportation
of butter packages by rail. At the first
meeting for the year Of the Watortown,
Wis, Board Of Trade, which occurred june
3-as we learn from the Western Farmer
w. w. Chandler, agent at Chicago Of the
Star Union line, invited the members OF the
board to examine one of the refrigerator
cars used by the line which he bad seut to
Watertown for the purpose, which is de-
scrbed by the Farmer as follows:
"The cars are the ordinary freight cars
with double sides, roof and doors, the space
between the outer and inner boarding being
| packed with sawdust. At each end Of the
car is large zinc-linod ice chest, extending
across the car and about half way from the
roof TO tho floor, and about three feet in
width. The ice is introduced from the top,
and while provisions is mado for the free
passage Of cold air from these chests, there
seems no danger of leakage, the water being
let off by pipes at each corner Of the car.
1t is stated that the expense Of fitting up
these cars is about $3.50 each, aud that
about S12 worth OF ice Is used each trip.
The claim is made that uniform tempera-
ture Of about fifty degrees is maintained,
aud that the supply Of ice is sufficient for
eight days"
1t will be seen from the above that the
expense of converting freight into an ice
car is but triaing compared with the advant'
ages secured by the arrangement; and as
very heavy losses often result from shipping
butter and cheese during hot weather on &C
count of cars not suitable for conveying
perishable products at such seasons, it be
hooves shippers and dairymen to require o
the roads the running Of refrigerator car
from all the leading dairy depots. A larg'
quantity Of cheese in sumner gets badly
heated up by tho time it reaches New York
and in consequence arrives abroad more O.
less "off flavor" and this defect is the fruit
ful source Of weak markets and low prices
If we can provide against this loss in par
by so simple means as the refrigerator cars
then there should be no delay in their intro
duction on the roads of New York. Wit
the refrigerator car the West has better ia
cilities for shipping butter and cheese I
New York than Little Falls or Utica unde
the present arrangement; for the chees
shipped from the West gets to New Yor
City in as perfect condition as when it lei
! the Western factories. On the other hand
the Now YORK make Of cheese goes to tn
city in the common freight car, is heated u
and loses flavor, and thus we are in fas
way Of falling behind our Western friend
in quality as well as prices on our she
r weather goods"
{ We believe in the improvement of ou
dairy products by all possible means, but
we are to put upon the market nutty, ne'
milk-havored goods, we must adopt som
means Of sending them forward in he
$ weather in good order. Otherwise what
I gained by skill and attention in manutactur
is liable to be lost by improper methods {
> transportation.
The hot weather season is now at hanC
and we call attention Of shippers and dea
ers to this matter, in the hope that some az
tion may be taken to secure better trans
Of our dairy goods to the seaboard than thf
which has been in operation heretofore
Moore'S Rural NeiU. Yorker.