The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-15
VERMONT DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION
Prizes for the Next Winter Meeting.

VERMONT DAIRYMEN's ASSOCIATION.
Sec. Office. Georgia, June 2G, '15.)
At the last winter meeting of the asso-
citation, several of its active friends made
valuable donations to il 10 hs used "a prizes.
!uuuUu a large and more varied display
of the dairy products of the state at the
meeting to be held January 18th, goth and
3lst, 1876. The place of next meeting
cannot be fixed until the annual business
meeting in October. So many and so va
rious were the articles contributed that no
schedule of the prizes was arranged, but
the whole mattar was left in the hands of
the executive officers of the association.
and we have accordingly arranged the fol-
lowing.
SCHEDULE OF PRIZES.
BUrTER.-For best tub go lbs June
butter, bbls. Onondaga factory filled
dairy salt, donated by the American dairy
salt company of Syracuse, n. Y. For 81
best 3 bbls. For best tub fall butter .
bbls. For I'd best bhl For best tub
winter butter, , bbls. For 2d best, Dbl.
For best lot prints, . bbls. For ID best, /.
For most meritorious display of butter, quail
ity, statement, ETC., to be considered,
Billiards. Oscllating churn, donated by
John t. Ellsworth, Esq, of Barre, Mass.
Prize articles. in other classes are not de-
barred from competing IN TINS.
Cheese.-For best July cheese (25 lbs
2 bbls salt. For 2d best, Dbl. For best
September cheese, bbls For I'd best, /.
Sweepstakes. for most meritorious dis
play of cheese, Cornish and Curtis rect
angular churn, donated by ID. w. Curtis
Esq, Secretary of the Wisconsin dairy
mems association.
RULES.
Each competitor must become member
of the association, and must furnish to the
secretary with his entry an instructive state
ment OF ali the material facts in regard TO
the production of the article entered for n
prize, the objects sought being information
in regard to the manner in which the arti-
Gle is produced, rather than mere show OF
products to excite the curiosity. The
committee will be instructed to take the
statements fully INTO the account in making
up their awards, and in no case to award
prizes unless both the article exhibited and
the accompanying statement are mertor-
GUS In case of no competition the COM
mittee will award n first, second, or no
prize as in their judgment shall best serve
the ends sought by the donors.
ESSAYS.
The Sprague prizes. One of the Bran
don Manufacturing Co.'S double beam
double platform scales, donated by Col. n.
L. Spraguc Jr.. will be awarded to the lady
furnishing the best easay on the manage
ment of II butter dairy, accompanied by
specimens of her handicralt and the 9TH
er to the lady furnishing like essay on the
management of the cheese dairy with speci-
MEMS Essays should be forwarded to the
secretary at least ten days befoae the meet
ing. No fee for membership is exacted of
essayists and they are always placed on the
~ nfo fnp ~
rent year and receive all the benefits and
privileges of other members Their essays
however become the property of the asso-
citation.
The exhibition of any other articles cal
culated to afford instruction is invited and
20 bags of Onondaga factory filled dairy
salt and several other articles will be placed
at the disposal of the committee to he
awarded in their discretion for such art-
Giles as may be deserving,
o. 5. Bliss, Secretary.