Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-02-04
Asrieul
by our Special Reporter.l
Vermont Dairymen's Association.
FRIDAYS PROCEEDINGS

FRIDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Morning session was opened by an adj
dress by Mr.. y. A. Willard of Little Falls
y. Y, giving statistics of the butter ant
cheese productions which we were unable
to get. A growing demand for hav in
New York, growing out of the demand by
horse rail roads, is making that branch OF
farming more profitable than d;iirying in
localities near the city. The supply OF
milk demanded by the cities is constantly
increasing, demanding now the product OF
one hundred and thirty thouscnd cows fol
NY. alone. The milk producing district is
being steadily pushed back from the city
which cuts in severely on the butter inter
est which has not increased in production
for the last few years. and hardly more
than supplies the demand for home con-
sumption.
The demand for cheese is constantly
increasing, and the low price paid in 1871
and 1872 was owing to the poor quality of
the cheese. badly cured and put on the
market in hot weather.
He advocated increased care for the
cows, saying no breed of cows would give
the best results unless well cared for. and
no passionate. rough man couli abuse his
cows without getting his pay back from
If farmer wishes to have his milk rich
in butter, he cannot reach the result bv
feeding but must look for it in the breed of
cows. The feed increases the quantity of
milk bat scarcely changes the relative pro-
portion OF the constituent plrts of it.
Roots tel to cattle gave sometimes better
results than other articles containin O
m IRE n ltri5ive IN Utter. Pastures $40 ii
be on high Ian l. which gave the sweetest
grasses; AM plenty of COOL pure wlter
WIS in tispenSable; the more water a cow
drank nler ordinary circum stances, the
more milk she would give. The prices of
dairy products he thought could hardly
fall below the prices of 1928, and that
the supply would not meet the dem IN
enough to keep the prices down to the
present low rates.
Mr.. Douglass of Whiting. member of
the State Board of Agriculture, read a
paper on . Brain Work in the Dairy" Mr..
Douglass illustrated very clearly how nee
esSary more care and intelligence were in
the dairy and farming interest A man to
be employed in mechanics, a railroad, or
the professions, must be an educated man.
but it had been usual to think that man
mt for nothing else would do for a farmer
He cOntrasted the farmer who kept cows.
them perhaps 100 pounds of butter per
COW, which he sells at 90 or 25 cents Der
pound. getting S32 per COW, and the man
who, feeding we'll and treating kindly,
using brains in his business, gets 800
pounds per COW, and sells it at 60 cents
per pound, thus getting $3.50 per COW.
ct, he said, this last example was not a
fancy but an actual fact. which was per-
sOnltled by some farmers in this assOcia-
ton. Mr.. Thomas Bates, the noted breeder
OF short horns. had said that :. he could
sooner find one hundred men fit for prime
minister to England than one man fit to
breed short horns" Get the best COWS. take
good care of them, observe absolute cleanli-
ness, care in m liking, packing and market
ing, and onejwill receive the highest price
1t is possible to raise this int lstrv from
one of profsless drn lgery to one of
pleasant and paying occupation. and which
would add largely to the wealth of our
state every year, which increase he show
ed could be made to reach eight and a half
millions of dollars per annum.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
MIR. D. NJ. Tinkham, of Pomfret, Presi-
dent of the WintSOr County Jersey Club.
presented statistics of the Jersey Diaries of
Pomfret as follows:
H..W. Vail has three cows seventeen
years old, one farrow and dried Sept 1st
Two helfers which came in about the 18th
of June, and five other cOws-ten in all.
Has made since April 1st, 1882 pounds of
butter, weighed before sailing, which he
sold for 40 to 45 cents. Milk and cream
for the family of nine persons. Fed no
meal in the summer
William c. Whipples dairy has five
two and three years old heifers, which
dropped their calves from the first to the
middle of June one farrow COW. MIXED
only a short time, and four other cows. ten
IN all. Made from May l, till Jan 20, 2O4O
pounds, sold at 60 cents per pound, con-
tracted for the year; ten in the family: fed
one quart of meal through the summer:
feeds now two quarts and four quarts of
bran per day for each COW. Is now milk
ing hVe, and IS making thirty pounds per
week and will till May.
-Obed Whipple's herd has five two wear
old heifers which came in in June and
july, land ten cows, fifteen in all. Has made
this year 3943 pounds of butter; contracted
at gu cents for the year. His family con-
sists of nine members, with seven addition
al bo;rrders four months. Fed two quarts
of meal till September 1st, when four
quarts of shorts were added In the third
week in December. with three new mich
cows. 1t took seventeen and one fourth
pounds of milk for a pound of butter.
r. ,. Wood has two years old, 5
three years old, 2 four, and each
i've. six. seven. and eight, eleven in all.
Has made since March I4th, 1888 pounds
of butter; sold at 43 cents. Fed one quart
of meal during the summer. Made three
trials of milk in December; the first stood
forty-eight hours; milk required for
pound Of butter. twelve and one-fourth
pounds; second stood thirtv-six hours took
twelve and forty-two -hundredths for. a
pound of butter Third trial stood forty
eight hours twelve and one-twelfth pounds
of milk for pound of butter He has
ried in June twelve or fourteen cows at
ifferent times with an average result OF