Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-01-16

y manufacturing" No such expressio,
10 occurs IN my remarks anywhere. He ba
n probably exercised his ingenuity upon th,
d following remark and extracts that ev
10 preston from it. | had Just been dis
lie cussng some of the many evils which ar,
e creeping into the associated or co-operativ,
: system of working up milk and proceede,
o to ay:-"Let it be repeated that The hont
d OF the dairy interest of the country. rs
Q peclally the butter branch if it, is in tb,
Is elevation and improvement of the farm
d daSrteS, and the production of such ,
@ quality OF goods as shall educate the pnb
II lie taste into an appreciation of such Aavo,
e ana quality of goods as cannot be made
- from anything else but pure milk, which
mas not been exposed to communicating
+ influences or manipulations. 70 this end
:, the flmers must themselves be educated
d to finish their butter at one operation. and
s Immediately pack it for the market. and
sell it upon its merits" then proceeded
n to show the evil effect which results to the
dairy interest at large from the fact that
full one half of the butter made in this
country has to be repacked and reworked
before it is finally sold to the consumer.
That was absolutely the only allusion
made in my whole remark, to the educa-
ton of the farmer, a subject which never
essayed to "grapple with" as charged by
MIR. Tinkham, always preferring to leave
its agitation in the hands of such eminent
~ competent educators us Mr.. Tinkham.
MIR. Tinkham's next quotation is.-"A
great danger of over production" This is
/. InnnthpY t1Isn nUotntiot, NJ,
heard me say any such thing. What have
often said in substance, and what | said
there was Modern skill has made the
production of good butter practicable in
every part of our wide domain where the
production of good beef is practicable and
showed the utter fallacy of the old theory
that only on narrow belt of country could
dairying be successfully practiced; and yet,
there is little probability that the business
OF making the better grades of butter Or
cheese will ever be done. There has
always been an over production of the
lower grades, and despite all the schemes
for improving the quality of poor butter or
cheese once made, it can never largely
affect the profitable production of the
higher grades. 1t is a remarkable fact that
Notwithstanding the many incentives to an
increase of dairying during the decade cov-
cred by the last two national censuses the
increase of milch cows did not keep pace
with the increase of population, and it is
hardly probable that we shall make any
different showing at the close this decade.
In 1860 we had one COW for every three
and six-tenths (3.6) persons, in 1870 there
was but one COW to every four and three
tenths (4.O persons. But the very marked
improvement in the quality of the products
has very largely increased the per cupilu
consumption and, of course. the demand.
There is glorious future for the enterpris-
ing and gentdairymen of the country.
No other business connected with or|
dependent upon the tillage of the soil
promises so full II reward as does this, to
those who seek it Alright" Does that look
like ga great danger of over production?'
Thus have | shown every one of the
premises upon which Mr.. Tinkham predi-
Gates his low personal attack upon me to
be false. | will not farther intrude upon
your time or space to comment upon his
vapid calculation of his trumpod up
charges.
| hand you herewith copy of the report
Of the n b. G. & E. Association that YOU
may verify my statements and quotations
and find his if you can. The "addre>s,
us he calls it, may be found on pace ~ ell
seq. o. S. Bliss
Georgia, Dec. %, 1877,
REMARKS. - If there be one thing
more than another especially sweet
and pleasant to poor frail human nature,
it is the appreciation and 1--WE fear, often
njudcious) praise of too partial friends
The next best thing and one altogether
more beautiful in its influence and effects. |
is the full and frank expression of the
estimate placed upon us by those unbiased |
BY personal friendships. We have quericd
somewhat rs to which of these two classes
Mr.. Bliss article should be assigned. |
Some ilattering remarks concerning our
inventive genius and mathematical abil-
ty inclined us to the former, but i'm ex-
preston or two in it, has finally carried
Il verdict for the latter. Had we the dis
position TO deny what we wrote, it would
be useless to do SO, for there the article
stands in our columns to speak for ITSELF
And we believe the q0ota,ionS made by
Mr. Bliss are mainly correct, 50 we must,
in legal phrase, plead the general issuc.'
Well, it was rather sharp provocation,
and had it been directed toward u man
lacking Mr. Bliss extreme reluctance in
taking offence; his angelic amiability of
temper, his sweet serenity of manner;
such Suauiter en- mode (our readers must
pardon us,-we felt that nothing short of a
classic quotation could do the subject fail
Justice, SO we hunted up one in the back
of the spelling book for the place. had
he been a high tempered, irascibe man
like what the man said of his wife, 1.-The
most even-tempered person in the world
always mad" Or one who had the govt,
or the dyspepsia, or who had Just dropped {
Il stick of wood on bis tenderest corn, or
pinched his finger in the crack of II door
then indeed we should have taken 4" 90
ing over" in round vigorous Saxon we
shudder to think of, and which would have
left one in doubt rs to the writer's state t
of mind
One thing may be considered as settled,
that Mr.. Bliss did formerly keep COW,
rs he excerpts that from our other remarks Il
which he pIayfully charaeterizes as gross :
y and m;,liciously false" On second s
thought. he may have considered that t
simply an error of ours and mo- grossly 5
md maliciously false. We wish Mr.. Bliss
lad settled that point, and also whether he q
still had the COW. But there are in Mr.. &
Bliss article one or two things which to |
1ur perhaps too sensitive soul seem I'M
Kind. sit must have been done by
process peculiar to Tinkham." Now we t
submit, would it not have been well con- |
'idering our extreme sensitivoness, to have J
said Mr. Tinklam.' And again near the =,
close, "vapid calculation of trumped-up
charges" That word "vnpid. we are ,
lot quite clear.as to vapid-but it somehow
'eems, rs it were, to expreas something !
lot entirely respectful. We decidedly c
object to vapid.