Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-01-29

unpoetical, if managed right-if you let
the sun come into your kitchen windows.
keep the green grass growing around
your back door, and bright flowers.
Don't be afraid to stop to read news,
paper, either, or let some one read aioud
while the work goes on. To TINS Gay
never eat bit of new cheese or fresh grass
butter. but get breath of the roses that
grew around our back door, and am dimly
conscious of Horace Greeley, in the old days
before he tried to be President clambering
over the mountains of Europe, because we
used to read the New York Tribune whine
the morning work went on.
Dear ladies, you all know how to make
home happy and pleasant. You all would
do so, and send your boys away with
the sweetest memories, anu turn them
back with those memories, too, but Tor one
demon which haunts this Northern YER
mont, a terrible dragon who stands on the
door of the farmers house and watches
iealously for even a bit of comfort and fun
and sparkle, that enters there, and throt-
ties it if he can. The name OF this demon.
dragon. fend, is orer'oork. You know
him From the beginning OF your married
life he has tempted you. 1t Is Satan HIM
self. saving: "All the kingdoms of this |
world will give you If you will fall down |
and worship me-" lie tells you It's your
duty. he beseeches You by the hottest ties OF
love. lie is liar. and you will soon know
how he will reward you it you serve him
faithfully-ill- health, an irritable temper. |
sickly children, a spoiled home. Do battle |
with HIM earnestly. Pray against him.
Save your health and some hours OF leisure |
each day, and puta little sweetness into the
family life.
Every wife and mother should be in some
sense poet Ii is possible for her 70 do 50
much for she sits a. the helm In the family
The heart of her husband trusts in her. the
children take all things a. yea and amen
from her lips. If it were NOS for that old
dragon how much happiness and zest she
would give to life. She would put singing
into the family prayers and call attention
to the form of the cloud resting on old
Mansfield She would teach the children
to see so well that they could never become
unconscious Of the beauties and wonders OF
Nature. She would bring books to her aid
oh. how she would need them: and the
/ evenings these long winter evenings
would be rich with the treasures OF
| history. poetry and romance. shared to-
cether around the family table. She
would put great many festive days into
/ the year. think Christmas, Thanksgiving
and the Fourth Of July, papa's birthday
and the wedding anniversary, each oil the
children birthdays, would, | think be trans
figured into happy times, to be looked Tor,
ward to with longing By the little ones. and
treasured up afterwards in the heart Tor
ever.
wanted to say great deal about these
festive DAYS We New England farmers are
apt to forget them. We call them non
sense.
Please to read in the Ola Testament
what God thought about them: Because
he knew what was in man. lie bound His
chosen people, by all the sacrtdness OF their
religion, 10 set apart frequent times to be
happy in. We cannot improve upon Gods
plan. lie attaches IS much Importance 10
the poetry, to the beauty Of lie as to is
hard work. Dalrymen give Il little corner
to it in their associations.
On motion of Mr. McAlli7ter. Of Enos-
burgh. vote of thanks, by rising, was
unanimously rendered to Mrs. Kile for her
very able and interesting paper.
Prof Wickson, Of the Utica H'raid, then
read paper entitled DAIRY Facts and
Dairy Figure"
Mr.. wlcEsoS's rArER.
lie treated the Association to Il series Of
facts and Trustworthy experiments, furnish
ed.to the Utica HraH from ninety cheese
factories and creameries, located in the DIFF
ferent parts of the state OF New York.
In regard to the dairy, there l. no sounder
method Of inquiry than prevails in all ~cien-
tihc queries and replies, and that = the
! method of induction from actual facts and
Trustworthy experiments. The wider our
observation the more numerous the actual
facts, the more scientific il the generaliz-
alton from them. have some facts to pre-
sent which cover 4 wide field and comprise,
believe. the fullest data Tor determining
the average and extreme yields OF factory
cows which have yet been gained. have
authentic reports furnished to the Utica
Herald from upward Of ninety cheese fac
tories and creameries. located in different
parts of the State, giving the average net
return per COW TO patrons, the highest aver
age per COW to Z single patron. and the low
/ est average per COW 70 q single patron. The
1 figures which ! present are drawn from the
actual records OF the yields OF more than
thirty-six thousand COWS. The average
/ Yield per COW in these factories during the
season OF 1874 has been S3J.j7. In the in
divdual factories the highest average per
cow reported Is $500, and the lowest
average per COW in Il factory running the
same number Of days l. S3l % Taking all
]
/ the average return per COW for the season
Of average length Is $50 .. II VIII be re-
nembcred that these figures are factory
averages. not average yields IN single herds
| IL appears from comparing the reports OF
| these sixty factories that the average re-
turn net to patrons for 100 pounds vi milk
has been one dollar and twenty-five cents
| The highest net Weld l. one dollar and !
thirty-eighl cents, ana the lowest ninety
nine cents. ! have been much interested
in comparing the average returns per COW
with the average selling price OF the lac |
tory and the pounds of milk required 10
make q pound OF cheese in order u deter
| mine how much Of the large yield per COW |
! wa due TO the dairyman, and how much to |
| tie cheese maker and salesman. In the |
| factory reporting the highest average per |
/ COW. $50 OF. the selling price OF the season |
| averaged II lie, and the IllE teSen wa |
/ go pounds to pound OF cheese Com
pairing this with the lowest average per !
| COW, S3I -, find that the latter sold 1
cheese for one quarter OF cent less per |
| pound through the season, and used nearly |
| One-halt pound more milk TO pound OF |
| cheese on an average. But this difference |
In manufacture and price can form only |
very small part of the difference between |
the low mark at 81 and the high mark at |
| s. dollars.
Tie main points in the probability OF |
4 dairies a.c vested in the farm not in the |
factory, as the following tgures show; OF |
the diaries sending milk to the sixty lac
tories. the best season : average per COW :
$50 T., and the average of all the highest |
dai1ies reported By the factories is S50,Vi. |
| The lowest yield in single dairy. carrying /
to the factory during long seaSsoa. Is
Sli 80 average money To p COW, aud the
average of al the poor diaries reported Is
| S29.3I per cow.
The lessons of figures whicA show what |
cows can d. and are doing are ike those
which the skilliul merchant or inanuiactu-
rer gain from studying their machine or
their ledgers. \ manufacturer will throw
out machine as soon as he finds another /
which can make better use of his raw ma
terGl. Sometimes If you happen 20 have
the confidence ct > merchant he Will tell /
YOU that he does rot sell 5Geh line of goods
any more because the profits Were 'werEed
down to 80 fine thing that he could not
afford to handle them. but he is now selling |
another line of merchandise whicd pays
bettes' The sooner dairymen who are
feeding or starving 81. 30 cows discover
that the profit on that line CT g00ls is i,
worked down so fine that they cannot otOrd
to handle them, the better for them.
1t can not be doubted that one great as
surance of continued profit in the dairy
regions is the improvement OF the herds;
the milk making machinery, and this Is u
question which should h. discussed and act
cd upon continually But there is another
tiiIg, which Is a part of the former. and
that IS TO GiscJ,eJ what rhr cows are doing.
Dairymen should learn 80 w'.,ish, vhst each
COW " worth producing n.rLh.ne, srC
the amount and exact value OF the food
which each EMPLOYS, Thcre is wide tsn-
dcncy now toward thi. truly scientific and
practical test OF value in dairy cows and
every COW which can not prove her value
on the scales in milk should be passed over
them herself
WI Wicks0n then gave instances of sue
cessruI LIZ, {. i, I !. -;ninitv md Of the