The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-20
VERMONT DAIRYMEN's ASSOCIATION
Winter Meeting At Rutland.
WEDNESDAY MoRNlNG's sEssloN.

WEDNESDAY MORNiNG's SESSION.
The Vermont dairymens association be-
gan its winter meeting at the town hall, in
Rutland, on Wednesday morning. The
attendance was good of the foremost prac-
tical dairymen of the state, and numbers
from different sections of New England
and New York. Among the leading gen.
tlemcn present were Hon. Z. II. Hyde of
Stafford Springs, Conn. T. ID. Curtis of
Syracuse, n. y. A. w. Cheever, editor
Of the New England Farmer, Boston NJ.
4. G. Day of Granville, N. y. Prof. II.
NJ. Seeley of Middebury college ;<AoH.
Alexis y. Smith of New Haven AL.
JOHN b. Mead If Randolph Gardner S.
Fassett, esq, Of Enosburgh G. Horace
Hubbard, esq, of Springfield c. S. Nc.
Allis,rr nd -~ire II D-osb,nsn , ~. l..
Ellsworth and wife of Barre, Mass.
The assembly WAS called TO order at 1C
o'clock IA. m by Hon. L. d. Mason OF
Richmond president of the association; o.
$. Bliss of Georgia, secretary.
The session was opened with prayer by
Rev. William }. Harris, d. d.. rector OF
Trinity church.
Henry Clark delivered an address OF
welcome as follows;
MIR. CLARK's ADDRESS.
Mr.. President The pleasant duty has
sci Of oil infr tba
bers of the Dairymen's association to Rut
land and the hospitality of her people. Il
was my pleasure, on a former similar oc
casion, to welcome the assoclation-a SEES
sion which proved of so much instruction
and proiit-that the farmers of this st ctor
have anXiously awaited your return, hoping
to derive still more pleasure and instruction
from the papers and discussions presented
at this meeting.
Your association has been the first in ou
commonwealth to perfect an organization
to supply want long felt by the farmer
Though at first the half dozen men who
assembled to organize were looked upor
with distrust, and 1t was thought that al
association tor the promotion of specia
department in the art of agriculture woult
be Il failure, yet your success has beer
complete and triumphant. From year tC
year your numbers have increased so thai
the faithful few have become hun
dreds and thousands, until the gathering,
have filled cur largest halls with interested
audiences. Your association has beer
the first in our state to lay before the
farmer in II printed form the results OF
such investigations and deliberations, anC
your transactions have proved the most
useful of any that have been issued, in oul
state at least, if not in New England.
Entering upon the centennial year of The
republc-maIking an important era in oul
material progress, the farmer and especial
ly the dairymen of Vermont and the ma.
ton should be stimulated to greater meas
ure Of success and widen the fields of their
observation and attain greater progress in
your especial department Of industry. The
interests of the diary should be prominent.
y represented at the centennial, that other
nations may note our progress and mark
the degree Of perfection attained by
the American dairymen. 1t is hoped that
before your session elJses arrangements
will be made for proper representation of
your association at Philadelphia
The past year, while the prices realized
for dairy products have not been as salts
factory as in some previous seasons, vet
the manufacture of cheese has gained
eighty upon tho export demand. In 1871
the reverse OF this WAS true. The dairy
interests have been promoted by the gen.
eral prevalence Of favorable weather, bro.
ducng rich and copious pasturage. A fair
return has been received for your labor.
While you have shared 10 the general dull.
ness prevailing in all industries, vet AS a
class you have suffered less hardships than
any other class. The prospects of a oros.
porous beginning of the centennial wear arc
now good SO far as dairymen are concern.
ed. Therefore make good the opportunity
that lies before you, and gather the lessons
that may here be impaired, and 50 use them
that this shall indeed prove centennial
period to your special department of apri-
culture, May the session upon which Won
are now entering bear as rich fruitape of
Information and profit as have those that
have preceded it in the past
Hon. i. ID. Mason, president of the as.
ISOLATION, proceeded to the delivery of the
annual address.
THE PRESIDENTS Address.
Although we have reason to congratulate
ourselves upon the great progress which
mas neen maze since the organization OF
dairymen's associations, we must not for,
get that vast deal remains to he done be
fore the desired end can be attained We
must recognize the fact hat financial dis
tress is upon us, and instead OF being dis.
heartened on that account, let it stimulate
us the more to pursue a stricter economy
and to avoid debt as we would peslilence;
We must continue diligently to acquire all