Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-19
A Dairy Talk.

The farmers of Addison and adjoining
all to themselves Wednesday and Thursday,
Feb ii and ~, and no thanks to the state,
or anybody else. From the report we judge
they had rs successful meeting as the Off
cial board does. They discussed the agrlcul-
tural college question, and IN other things
initiated sand board, though the opposition to
the college seems not to have amounted to
much more in one place than the other
+. ID. Mason was questioned on the
dairy question, with the following result:
During the past year realized within n
fraction of $50 from each COW. not counting
whey or calves; my cows are chiefly natives,
having some crosses with Durhams; have
about 90 COWS in the dairy; get lie per pound
for cheese at Richmond depot give my
cows three quarts of meal daily until grass;
use meal made of one bushel of corn and
three of oats; make some butter, but not
much; am confident the day will come
when good cheese will be made from skim
milk sell my butter mt an average of 32c per
pound; color butter with annattoine made
by myself; think it better than carrot: do
not think il affects the keeping quality or the
taste; have furnished cheese for II number
of years to the fremont and Revere Houses,
Boston, the Fiflh Avenue New York, and,
for less time, the Grand Pacific, Chicago;
would not advise the taking of of cream ex-
cept what rises in one nights setting; think
that what thus rises cannot be put back into
the cheese ut all, and that it is wasted unless
removed; do not churn this cream until it
becomes slightly sour; think cheese paid
better than butter last year and that it will
the coming year; tina average weight Of milk
for each pound OF cheese was 81 or nine
pounds; each pound of butter requires from
IA to 2sd pounds OF milk; tho former figure
WAS attained by Mr.. Wood, of Pomfret; his
cows are Jerseys; he feeds two quarts of
Indian meal every day when his cows are
being MIXED; think that the grass crop
could DO cut so rs to make rs good butter
and rs much as is gained by feeding COM
mon hay and meal togetheri think oatmeal
will produce more milk than cOrnmeal, but
not so good butter; do not think meal will
produce more milk than abundant pasture;
six specimens OF fancy butter from Boston
were shown ut the dairymens meeting in
comparison with Vermont prize butter and
the latter was adjudgcd tho best; think
wheat bran produces greater quantity of
milk but not II very good quality OF butter;
never work butter but once; wash the butter
in the churn in cold water, then pack 1t at
once; work with II lever on the table, use
soft water to wash butter with; use Onon-
daga +. +. SALT one pound to twenty pounds
of butter; do not know how to keep June
butter; always sell rs soon rs ready. Think
we do not take pains enough with our butter
approve of the use of tin as package; no
branch of farming will pay so well for the
next ten years MS dairying provided proper
care is used; think tho tin packages for but
ter will not be injured by rust; an interest
ing subject was whether farmers arc not
keeping some cows which run them in debt
nm experiment by dairyman in New York
showing that the five best cows in his herd
Melted him profit OF SAC, while another
live ran him IN debt S35 Mr.. Wlckson tab
ulated the statistics from 90 factories in Now
York and found the general average per
cow TO be from S35 to S55; some individual
cows produced ssl per head while others