Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-03-26

Woodstock Meeting.
The farmers meeting at Woodstock was
held in the same hall on Saturday, the 18th
instant, and was organized by choosing
Mai. Ira Paul chairman, and L. c. Ken
dali and Hon. Crosby Miller were selected
rs committee of arrangements.
The first topic discussed was farm barns,
which was participated in by Messrs.
Wheeler, Brown. Durham, Mead, and
others, to the effect that no man could
now afford to build barn without both
barn cellar or basement for manure, and
IN elevated driveway leading TO n floor
where the great beams are in the ordinary
barns.
Mr. Bliss read paper on the raising OF
cream. He thinks the great loss of the
dairy is under estimating the buoyant
power repaired to bring up the heavier
particles Of cream. He assaied the idea
some hold that the butter exists in cream
AS free fat. which was not the case. Were
this the case, there would be much less
trouble in getting the butter. Each butter
globule is developed in membrane OF
some heterogeneous material. Some assert
in the columns of the industrial press, ana
continue TO assert in public. that cream
will rise of itself, which WAS great er
ror. Cooling of itself is not sufficient to
cause the cream to ise, as when 1t Is I'M
properly used it will prevent the rising Of
the cream, and cold is applied III cheese
making to keep the cream from rising.
Top cooling assists cream rising; cooling
from the bottom prevents its rising; side
cooling is the happy medium which we
read of. BY top cooling the most perfect
separation of cream is had and the poor
est skim milk got, except by destructive
chemical action. lie spoke Of the Orange
county system, which is the same rs the
Cooley without the cover, which fails to
raise the cream, and therefore you will
fluid it very generally with the system OF
making skim milk cheese which is neces
sary to make it profitable, and which is
the curse Of our dairy system. lie de
scribed his vessels for setting milk, which
are much larger at the top, and the bot
toms are concave, making rounded IN
stead of square corner, as he had dis
covered that when Il vessel had flat bot
tom withssQuare corners. there WAS rlh@
of milk around the outside bottom OF the
can, which never parted with its cream
He next read from an article by DE-
Hoskins, in which he asserted rs seen
titic discovery. that milk held at any tenn
l,ertture will part with its cream, and IN
allusion to remarks by Mr. Wood of Pom
fret, that "he did not believe it necessary
to keep the milk ut the same temp nature
to get the cream and from letter re
ceived from Mr.. Williams of the Vermont
Farm Machine Co., saying that his (Bllss'
system failed to WORK in practice, ant
those who have tried it have thrown il
aside. He characterized this as m unkinc
attack on his system from rival concern
He had ALWAYS refralned from adverse
criticisms of rival systems.
If DR.. Hoskins had taken milk from thu
COW at ninety degrees and kept it ther
and raised all the cream he would nc
knowledge the fact, but if left to fall t.
five four degrees, it is through the iallin:
temperature only that cream rises.
Mr.. Emmons, asked to describe hi
method, said he set his milk in pals in
tank with ice-watcr in it. He lets his pail
set in the water twelve hours, then take
it out and lets it stand twenty-four hour
more, lets it stand the last twenty fou
hours to raise more cream. Mr.. Tinkhar
reminded him that that practice was i
opposition to the theory OF cream rlsln
only in II falling temperature.
Mr.. McKenzi" uses the Cooley and ha
increased his yield and improved the qua
ity, and, rs he understood the matter, a
the first prizes at the international dalr
fair were awarded TO butter made in tn
Cooley. Mr.. Bliss said that was false
there were plenty of first prizes awarde
that did not come from the Cooley. Som
advertising prizes. one by the lilggIn
Salt Co., were awarded TO butter made b
the Cooley system. The Cooley systel
was great step in advance, and he W;
always ready to admit the fact, but 1t owe
its success to the cooling from the top, :
the ice floats there and the water and mil
is cooler there He had always accorde
The Cooley system credit for the merits
possesses, and this attack of Mr.. William
The treasurer of the company, on his sy
tenn, was dirty, unmanly, unbuslnes
like wGv of doing business. There W;
not one of his perfected systems in II
and one had never been put on the marke
ANY system which does not get the mi
out of the cream will not get the crea'
ont of the milk, ard cream taken fro
milk of twelve hours setting does n
make butter possessing good sterling gu;
ties.
The evening session was taken up by 7
pers by d. G. Spauldirg and j. +. Mo
tague, but we We're obliged to be abse
and cannot give an abstract of them.