The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-03-03

so much superphosphate; he thought
the same amount paid for labor to make
compost would pay better.
Mr.. Fassett would say that on his
farm, grass could be raised more profit
ably. /
Mr.. Paul would say that in Pomfrct
the majority of tho farmers raised their
own grain.
Mr.. n. Skinner said some farms could
most probably raise grain and could do
1t at a profit. On his farm he could
raise grass most %proitably; he had for
many years bought largely of grain to
feed, and much improved the grass rails
ing capacity of his farm by top-dressing
the grass lands with the manure that he
would have had to apply to his grain
growing ground. He had been able by
this system to educate quite a family Of
children and keep Off that modern i'm
provement, a mortgage.
After this discussion, Mr.. d. G..
Spaulding, of Taftsville read a paper up
on "Poultry as a Source ofProft."
Tuesday evening, after the meeting
was called to order, Mr.. G. s. Fassett,
of the Board, read q paper upon milk
and Modes of Handling"
The next paper was upon ''Thc Dairy
and Butter-making," ard was read by
Mr.. N. S. Skinner, Of Plalnfleld.
After Mr.. Skinner had finished read
ing his paper, in answer to questions he
said he had used the Jewett pans for five
years, and they had given very good
satisfaction. He had used Ice before he
MIXED Jerseys but he had found their
milk does not need Ice, but can be set
in q higher temperature than the milk of
common cows. lie ueos a barrel churn.
AS soon as the butter comes, he draws
off the buttermilk, then washes well and
salts in the churn. works on q marble
table with O lever. In packing he uses
different sized tubs, 50 as 10 have butter
from only one churning IN any one tub.
He would now say from Investigation
that he thought the Cooley system was
better than the Jewett pans. In a trial
Of eight native cow he fed a halfbushel
Of shorts and meal, composed of one
half oats and one-half ears of corn
ground together; this he scalded. His
Jersey received one quart corn meal and
one of shorts, yet she made as much as
any other two. He thinks that he shall
hereafter feed about ten pounds of meal
and shorts to each COW per day. He
would have his COWS come in in Sep
TENDER, so as TO have them dry when
the butter is poorest and cheapest and
the work of the farm is pressing.
Mr.. Tinkham said the Jerseys had
been used for q hundred years for the
dairy alone. The Cooley cans were
made to hold about FIVE gallons, or
about ten inches through and about
eighteen inches deep; after being filed
they are placed in watts, covered with n
pan like a common pressed pan, which
is fastened on, and the whole Is then
submerged in water at a temperature of
about forty degrees. The cream rises
so fast that q few hours will raise it all,
and the same cans will then be ready
for the next milking.
Hon. Il. D.. Mason then read Il paper
upon ''Marketing Dairy Products"
The first thing is, to make a good
prime article. Better sell as made, than
to keep for a higher market.
The poorer qualities of butter unfa-
vorably affect the better qualities:
brings the butter down in price, the
buyer being obliged to nearly average
all together. If the maker produces a
really good article, he had bet or seek
his W customer that consumes it, than
to sell in the common way. The mid
dlemen make all their money from the
better half Of their purchases. We
must learn our business better, learn to
know whether our products are good
or not, and if not, learn to make them
what they should be, then we can get a
good paying price for the goods we
manufacture. BY going to and ~investi-
eating the market himself he had found
that his cheese would bring five cents
more a pound, when made into ten
pound cheeses, than when they were
made into sixty pound chooses. liver
monters don't look we'll they will be
beaten by western competition, as they
are already sending good articles ofdai-
ry products to tho markets, and will
soon send more and better.
lie would say he was very particular
to drive his cows very slowly; never
used q dog; usually cent tho LATEST man
he had for his cows, and If he drove too
fast he went himself. He uses some col
oring for his cheese and butter. Wells,
Richardson & Co.'S last colorinR materi-
al is the best. To have q COW coming
In occasionally, will keep tho color all
right. Would as soon have the %rennet
from a calf four days old, as one from
q calf four weeks old.
Mr.. E. e. Andrews of Berlin then
read a paper upon the "Neglects Of the
Farm"
In the discussion that followed, Mr..
Tinkham asked Mr.. Andrews why he
would not recommend the breeding or
purchase of thoroughbred stock.
Mr.. Andrews thought the great rea-
son was, the common farmer could not
afford SO large an investment, as 1t
would require q larger capital to stock
a farm than most farmers possess.
Mr.; Chapman instanced the purchase
of a thoroughbred Jersey COW by Mr..
w. W. Pierce of Waltham. He paid
5000 for her some years since: now he
has the old COW left; she has averaged
a return of over 300 lbs. ofbutter annu-
ally, and he has stock from her that Mr..
Pierce has been offered for or has sold
to the amount of over $500 moro.
The next paper was read by Mr.. G.I
W. Town of Woodbury., upon Cor
charding the Apple" He would advise
all to raise their own trees. He gave
an account Of how TO raise them. He
did not approve of root grating In any
form; he would graft at two to three
feet high. The varieties he would rec
ommend after trial are the following
Bow Sweet, Shropshirine, Red AS
tracahn, Fameuse, Wine Apple, Blue
Pearmain, Burlington Black, Sweet
Russell, Northern Spy, and Keniston or
Woodbury. Sweet. The last is a native
of Woodbury., and excellent every way.
He would recommend n location where
the snow would blow OF rather than
where it would stay on, and where the
fowls could get a chance to run In Il.
Mice do not always cat through the in
ner bark; whore they do not the trees
can be saved by banking up with turf.
Where all the bark is eaten of, he had
saved them by scions set in below and
above the wound.
He would not recommend very much
pruning; he thought many young trees
were killed by excessive pruning, but a
judicious system of pruning was neces.