Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-01-23

year 3,788 pounds of butter, or an average |
of 29l lbs. We have received cash for
butter sold 81 ,341 SO, an average OF $780,
80.
shall not tell you how we make butter.
This is profound secret. Deep or shall
low, cold or hot. covered or open, large
pans, small pans, bureau pans, pals, buck
cts or cans,-I must not tell for all the
agents for every arrangement but the one
we use would Immediately offer the use
of their apparatus for three months. just
TO advertise. you know -; for, of course,
having tried, we should never be willing
to part with it." No, thank you, gentle
men, your wares may be the very best,
but we cannot afford to set up an expert
ment station.
The young dairymen and women will
have advice enough without seeking it from
gossip; but some excellent people will
forbear to tell you to have one method,
and stick to it, till by comparing your re-
suits with others you are sure IL change
would benefit you. They who have been
for twenty-five or thirty years at work to
bring up the average product Of the dairy
from $50 pounds per COW to 300, are per-
haps old enough to rest on their oars, con-
tent to maintain that average. But they
can have no desire to see the good work
stop
There is rumor. not very distinct, to
be sure, but sufficiently so for gossip, of a
| Vermont man who keeps four or five cows
that produce yearly average of 500
pounds of butter per COW. 1t is to be reg
| al lat hoc M ac5innoI fnis
man a local habitation and q name; but
would it not be good sport for the enter
prising young dairymen to find him?
Make circle, if you WILL and close in
upon him, as you would in bear-hunt.
Possibly when you find him you find q
bear; but you are more likely to find him
worthy citizen who pays his taxes with
out grumbling, kind neighbor who lends
his farming tools and only grumbles when
he bas to 90 three times to get them again
and u model family man who always
makes the fires in the morning, and takes
his turn walking the house with teething
baby that won't let him sleep o'nights.
Then, if his stock originated in Lapland
or Terra del Fuego, in Nova Zembia or
New Zealand, in Franklin or Orange or
Bennington county, it matters little. If
he is the patriot we imagine, he will de-
light to impart knowledge of the means
by which he has attained 10 so desirable
results.
But you say, "Will this woman never
stop her clack?'
Certainly, gentlemen. | hold you no
longer by the button hole
EVENING SESSION
was opened with music by the band, after
which Mr.. A. 7. Smith of New Haven
spoke on General Dairy Farming. In
such meetings one meets much the same
faces, the more intelligent of their class,
and he felt he was indebted to them for
information. for educating him up to better
methods and higher results. What he had
found was, that where farming was done
somebody had to work, and it could not be
done in fancy way on paper. He die
not believe in the doctrine that there
should be II Chinese wall around Vermont
to keep the boys from going out into the
world where they would make their mark
One such went out from the town where
he lived, and not long since he sent home
$1,000 to build school house; and he
was then in London, and was q power
there, and boys raised on Vermont sol
who went out into the world often made
their mark. and were powers for gooC
q where they were located
Prof Cressy was introduced, and spokt
h of the Relation of Veterinary Science tC
the Dairy" There were now hundred.
I and thousands of acres in Vermont under
\ Il higher state of cultivation and fertilit,
q than ever before. Veterinary science ha
6 IA demand on the dairy interest in view o
: the immense capital it represents, rs ;
protection from disease and loss. II,
q spoke of the scourge of the foot-and
n mouth disease, and how it WAS prevente,
!. from a second run through the country b,
the prompt action Of the veterinary sur
r. geon ut Montreal,
lie spoke of the introduction of tn
. Texas cattle disease at RouseS Point las
n summer, and the danger to our Vernon
p cattle by the passage of infected catll
:, through the state, and the necessity {
il competent veterinary skill to detect it
presence and prescribe for its cure.
Ii How can the farmer be educated? Firs
!, by increasing the usefulness Of our com
II mon schools. A few years ago physiolog
, was introduced into our common schools
q and the result was shown by the man,
i who were melted by it to II deeper study [
the science. The next line to be intro
k duced was botany, showing its inhuenc
i on crops. A land growing good beec
d and maple will raise good wheat, an
spoke ut length of the need of plants {
u silica, potash, etc, and of the methods {
h supplying those needs, and the applicatio
S of chemistry to agriculture.
= FRIDAY MORNING SESSION.
+ Dr. Cressy took the stand and answere
c questions, relating chiefly to the Texa
y disease, the facts brought out being tn;
native cattle will not give the disease, th;
IL frost kills it, that ticks are IN indcatio
of disease but not the disease itself; thu
the disease WIS contagious, but not infet
tious 50 it must be impaired by contact
5 excrelions and not by atmospheric infe(
: ton, like measles, etc. In character til
disease is similar to yellow fever
lc The meeting was called to order by tn
president, when prayer was offered b
- Rev. Mr.. Guernsey, after which son
e - The old log cabin in the dell" by Mr.
IA Wolcott, accompanied by Mr., Witter
lie after which Col. Mead gave his address o
" the Education of the Farmer, which W
gave last week in the report of the Mid
10 dlebury meeting.
After Col. Mead, Mr. Skinner of Plair
y field read n paper on Dairying, which W
u shall give in another issue. After NJ
t Skinner, DR.. Hathaway of West Milo
u; read n paper on Corn in which he e1
III allied its worth and advocated its culture
Is Mr.. Vail of Pamlrct gave talk on Dair
"a Barns, chiefly u description of his bari
u which we shall give in tull in an artic
W on barns, which we intend to publis
y soon. The time of leaving for those goin
III south having come, the question whothC
y an afternoon session should be held WI
X; r. decided affirmatively, and Mr.. Smith toe
Vi the stand rs the next speaker, and WI