The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-03
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
VcrMout Dairymen's Association.
SIXTH WINTER MEETING.

SIXTH WINTER MEETING.
The sixth annual meeting of the Vermont
Dairymen's association will be held in
Montpelier, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, January 10th, goth and 2lst,
1875.
The object of the association, from. Sthe
first, has been to bring into communica-
ton, social and educational, the farmers of
the remote parts of the state and of other
states, that they may compare experiences,
exchange fraternal greetings, and carry
home with them, not only more exact
and more extended knowledge of their own
specific business, but higher and more en-
nobling ideas of life and of their own priv
ileges and duties.
The association adopted at its christening
the motto ''onward," and it has never fall
tered in its career. Our meeting at Essex
Junction, last winter, was attended by
very large number of the most8 intelligent
and active, practical and experimental
farmers, not only of this but of neighboring
states, and the addresses and discussions
were of an order of merit rarely if ever ex-
celltd in any industrial gathering anywhere.
Gentlemen, of almost world wide reputa-
ton as scientific and practical farmers1 land
dairymen, were present and contributed
largely toward the success of the meet
ing.
The local, the metropolitan and the agri-
cultural press have been powerful auxil-
lhres of the ass ociation, and not less than
seventeen papers were represented by their
editors or reporters at the Essex meeting
Our arrangements for the coming meeting
are not perfected, but we have no hesitation
in assuring our friends that we shall not
spare any sefforts necessary to retain our
pfati IN
as the leadi'g organization OF its class in
the country.
Arrangements will be made for free re-
turl tickets to every railroad station in the
state, and on lines operated by the Central
Vermont railroad in other states, for mem
bors of the association and ladies, who have
paid full fare coming, and to no others.
Any person may become an annual men,
Der on payment of 50, which entities him
to the report for the year, or II life member
on payment of So, which entities him to all
the reports already published. There are
also honorary and corresponding members
of both grades. who receive the correspond
ing benefits. Members, or persons intend
ing to become such, who desire information
on any topics relating to the dairy or any
subsidiary subject, are invited to submit
their questions in advance of the meeting.
cially qualified for investigation, and re-
port upon the matter.
o. S. Bliss, Secretary.
Georgia, Nov. 18th, 1874.
REVOLUTION IN FLoUR-MAKING.
We have heretofore spoken of the new
process of making flour now coming into
general use in Minnesota and elsewhere.
1t may justly be called revolution in
trade. Briefly, the process consists in pass
ing the wheat through smut machine ;ther
through the "Decorticator," where the
outer fibre of the grain is removed: after
this, grinding coarsely and submitting tc
an air blast which separates the finer flouI
composed of starch mostly, from the coars
er or middlings, which contain all the sach
arine and other nutritive properties of
the wheat. These middlings, thus purified
are then ground, forming the "new pro
cess" -four.
The idea is of European origin, but ha
been vastly improved, and is still in course