Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-12-18

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This show of dairy products, utensils
and kindred articles was held in the old
Rink" now the exhibition building of
the American Institute; and, according to
all accounts, was grand affair, and the
display one Of unusual excellence. The
RarH Net0 Yorker speaks of it rs three
acres of buttrr and cheese some OF it
thirty feet deep"
In butter Ireland took tbs premium over
America, and England the grand sweep
stakes premium on cheese. Cheese was
shown in two classes-two hundred and
fifty pounds for factory, and one hundred
pounds for dairy cheese; and butter in
two hundred pound lots for creamery, and
one hundred pounds for dairy, except the
special premiums offered for best fifty
pounds made, using Higgins Eureka salt,
and same using Ashton's.
There was also fair show Of cattle -
the Ayrshires of William Crozier and S.
NJ. & d. Wells Of WeatherSield, Conn;
James Nelson had some Holland cattle,
called Dutch, and Holstien, but which are
properly named Holland by the best au-
thorities Next came the Stamford, Conn,
Devons, and those shown were owned By
Mr.. Weed. Next came two of the pooled
Norfolks,n looking much like hornless
DcvonS. Then came the Jerseys and one
Guernsey, shown by Mr.. Crozier, and Mr..
J. a. Hoyt had also some fine animals of
the Jersey bree |, and the line was closed
by several natives, some showing good
milking signs. These, with Il curious ar
rangement were placed on the floor Of the
exhibition building, and while the odors
could not have been as pungent as they
would have been in Il smaller building.
they must have been in sufficient force to
have left their influence on the butter and
cheese in the same ROOM.
Perhaps the most ambitious display was
that of the Thurbors, cheese dealers, who
had an immense pyramid Of cheese near
the fountain in the center of the floor, Or
namonted with flags, evergreens and mot
toes from the Bible, Shakespeare and other
sources, and the whole surmounted by Il
stuffed Jersey COW. Near this was an
other pyramid Of cheese of American
manufacture, and shown by Smith & I'm.
derhill. Near these was Lots wife in
another form, or in other words, pillars of
salt from the makers before mentioned.
There were Two cheese factories in full
blast, by proprietors Of rival apparatus,
and there were creameres and churns, and
butter-workers AL in constant use to show
their several various points of excellence.
From what was observed at this fair, it
would seem that the attention of the in
ventive genius for the butter dairy WAS
directed mainly toward deep setting there
being four methods Of deep setting on
display, and but one mplel of shallow
pans. The Cooley system was CON
spicuous and we'll shown by the manager
of the Vermont Farm Machine Company
Nh Butler. Besides the creamerieS, they
had the Davis oscilatng churn and the
Eureka buttcr-worker, all of which VIC
have described in these columns before.
Mosclcy e Sloddard of Poultney dis
played "pyramidal milk strainer,'
which is u novelty. 1t may be simply
described us metal bowl, in the bottom
of which stands pyramid of wire gauze,
and as the milk is poured in, any sedi-
ment That would clog lltt slraincr, fall
to the bottom, leaving the strainer cleal
for its work. Ii seems Il desirable u,ensi
for every dairy, being made in sizes and
styles to fit any kind of apparatus.
Wells Richardson & Co. were awarded
Il diploma on their coloring compounds
which were ftvorably spoken of by many
visitors.
Pope & Watson, Burlington, showed the
"Tinkham butter boxes and shipping
case The boxes were commended fol
their light weight and neat appearance
and the packing case for the ability o
shipping butter in it in any weather, an,
without ice.
Besides what we have named, there wa
every implement and appliance we eve
saw in use about a dairy,ond beside,
new milking machine, u thing of lever
and rubber cups into which the COW
teats are inserted and then work til,
levers, and the thing operates. Only on
thing is rather ggestive-wiJh plenty 0
COWS right about there, they did not try
on the COWS.