Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-07-25
Mr.. Bliss Speaks.

MessrS Editors In your last issue your agr-
cultural editor says: 1t seems Mr. Bliss is not only
soundly converted to deep setting, but recommends
tank system only so much different from that
of Mr. Douglas AS il demanded by the light so
recently thrown upon the subject through what
has been learned regarding the so-called Swed-
sh system" He also quotes a subject of re-
mark a mere excerpt from letter from George
Crane, OF Williamstown, to me, which ! embodied
in II recent letter To the Country Gentleman.
Things are not always what they seem, and
Mr.. Bliss is not soundly converted to deep set
ting" but occupies precisely the same position
to-day that he did when he wrote that memora-
BILE sentence" Deep setting is first, last and
every time humbug" which threw the deep set
tiers all off their balance, provoked an almost in
terminabe controversy and eliminated in Mr.
Douglas tremendous fusiade in the Country Gen
hemdn against the one COW secretary of the
called Vermont Darymens Association" All
the way down through the contest. as the files of
the several papers in which it occurred will show,
took the ground that no advocate of deep setting
had verified his position by setting milk both
deep and shallow at the same temperature and I'M
der similar conditions. | moreover challenged the
whole array of them TO comparative trial in
pense, or as an alternative proposal, to pay the
whole expense if the result was favorable to deep
setting provided they would agree to pay it il the
result was unfavorable But my challenge was
not accepted and was left to pursue the investi-
cation of the subject at my own expense. be-
lieved then, as a result of carefully studying and
comparing the reported experiments, what | now
know, as the result of large number of expert
ments carefully conducted by or for me, under a
great variety of circumstances, and in widely
parated localities, that the depth at which milk is
set is Of no importance whatever, If the other
more important influences are properly employed.
have often published statements to that effect
which can hardly have escaped the attention of
the editor. A communication covering this whole
topic was published in the Country Gentleman OF
May 9th, and has appeared in several other pa
pers since
The agricultural editor takes "A great deal of
pains to thrust Mr.. Douglas unpatented arrange
ment upon public attention at every possible OPP
portunity, as if it by reason of his wonderful
nlagnanimity that it is not patented, when there
is not and never was patentabe feature in it,
IL is time that the public understood that single
feature OF the so-called g Douglas arrangement "
was original with him, except the unblushing
cheek with which he claimed it. By implication
at least the arrangement mentioned in the ex-
tract from Mr.. Cranes letter is characterized as
ga simple modification of Mr.. Douglas unpatented
arrangement" 1t, in fact, bears about the same
relation to the other that locomotive does to Il
hand-cart. MIR. Douglas sets his pals in tank :
so does Mr.. Crane; here the resemblance ends
Mr. Douglas pals and tank are both open and ex-
tI,a nj, NJ, a. both alas
Mr. Douglas surrounds his pals with water to ex-
tract the heat from the milk and keep it," while
the cream rises in its own time and way; Mr.
Crane forces jets or streams OF water ON to the
covers of his pals, his tank serving simply as a
reservoir for the water after it has done its specific
office work in cooling the milk in the most
thorough and expeditions manner, and establish
ing active currents in ii, by which the cream is
forced to the surface. The retention OF the water
in the tank in Mr., Cranes case, tends TO the
servaton of the contents of the cans by protecting
them from outside influences, but it il after all
mere incident in this system and can be dispensed
with without impairing its efficiency in the least
il is really all there is to Mr. Douglas arrangement
In the use of ice there il far greater difference
Mr. Douglas puts his into the tank; Mr.. Cranes
is put on the covers Of the cans dry, where il
lasts twice rs long and is more than four times as
effective
But Mr.. Crane, did not, in his letter to me, at
tempt description of his arrangement for the
public eye, and in presenting his experiment TO
readers of the Country Gentleman for comparison
with an experiment published the previous week
by Mr. Michener OF Pennsylvania, felt it neces-
sary to supplement the little excerpt with more
complete description Of the system But the pur-
pose of the agricultural editor of the Waterman
could evidently be better subseryed by suppress
ing that. 1t IL just possible that the interest Of
the readers of the paper would be better served
by having the whole truth or none in cases of this
kind The covert insinuation in regard to patent
rights is far-ietched. no mention Of patents or
inventions has been made by anybody but him,
but il probably accounts for the milk In the whole
cocoanut A patent right s property to be bought
and sold like other property, and any man is un-
wise to buy it If he does not need it, or to pay
more for it than 1t is worth to him; but he could
better afford to pay twice it, value than to At
tempt to steal it, even under the advice aud pro-
lection of a miscellaneous meddler in other people 5
business cannot but regret the necessity for
occupying your space or time, but | cannot believe
my duty to myself and the public will permit me
to overlook 80 malicious an attempt to mislead
the readers of the WAroHMAN
! Very truly yours, o :. Bliss.