St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-01-10
Farmers Meeting.

lZeu by choosing d. ". HOVey, IfeSl-
dent; j. Lawrence, Secretary. Notice
was given that Col. Meade would not
be present until evening. Mr.. u. E.
Jameson of Irasburg was called out,
and spoke upon the subject of taxation,
or rather double taxation. Mr.. j.
claimed that it was an evil to pay taxes
upon real estate that was mortgaged,
and also for the lender of the money to
pay taxes on money lent, and claimed
the notes should be exempt from taxes,
and showed it by several well-made
points.
Mr. j. p. Foster of Barnet next spoke
upon the same subject, and admitted
the subject of double taxation was an
evil, but did not know how to avoid it,
and would be glad if some one would
show better way. He did not know
as it would be any better to put men
under oath as some thought, unless they
paid more attention to the oath than he
thought they would. On the whole he
did not know how we could avoid it.
Mr.. Geo. Drew of North Danville said
that ever since he understood matters,
he supposed that death and taxes could
not be avoided, and he had no breath
to spend to try to get rid of taxes.
Mr.. Ross of Waterford spoke upon
the subject but did not know of any
better way than the present course
Mr.. Amos Carpenter claimed that the
wrong came by the rich men putting
their money into bonds, and compelling
poor men to pay taxes for both them
and the rich. Adjourned till evening
Tuesday EUening- j. B. Meade.
and DIR. Cressey of Amherst College put
in an appearance. Col. Meade spoke
in general terms upon the subject of
farming, and said he did not expect to
tell the farmers anything they did not
know, but to tell them what they did
already know. He said we needed to
know how to increase the products of
our farms; and in order to do this
manure and fertilizers were needed, and
we need to study how to save and make
the most of these necessary appliances
He spoke of the waste of mauures and
liquids, and gave several instances of
the waste of these very essential fertiliz-
erS. He said that in Wmdham county
there are $50 deserted farms that were
only Int l.,
have left them and gone West. But
he believed Vermont to be good state
to live in if farmers will only manage
right. Col. Meade had several speci-
mems of buckwheat on charts, showing
that 1T was necessary to have all the
elements that the soil requires to give
plant food. He said we needed to study
our soil and see what is needed in the
soil.
DR.. Cressey said the real doctor need
ed to be Il doctor of the soil as well as
be dOctored, and he spoke in general
terms of the waste of manures. DR.. G..
spoke of the leeching of manures until
all that is of any value is gone. He
made several good points upon veteri-
nary science, as applied to animals,
and made the application to the doctor
ing of the soil, and suggested several
ways to accomplish it.
Wednesday Morning. subject of
Dairying was brought up for discussion.
Col. Meade, the first speaker, claimed
it was necessary to feed well and take
the best care of the dairy COW, and the
best care of the milk and butter He
claimed it was experience, and not so
much the theory, that we need in this
matter. He claimed that he knew of a
man that kept Is cows and got only
about 100 or 125 lbs. of butter from the
COW. He claimed this wrong way of
managing. He spoke of Mr.. Skinner of
Tunbridge who had done very well,
and cited to his way of managing his
cows, and called upon the farmers of
this county to give him their co0pera-
ton in the next year in the matter of
dairying, etc.
DR.. Hoskins, the next speaker, said
he was not a dairy man, but was inter
ested in the matter. and thought that
there was no need of destroying the COW
by over feeding, and claimed farmers
ought to weed out the poor cows and
keep only good ones and feed better
those kept. He thought that perhaps
One-half of the butter made in YER
mont is done so at a loss. He said the
/ poor butter i'll our markets is made
from the poor COW, and the COW should
r be got rid of.
E. A. Parks was called upon and gave
) some items of his experience in butter
making that were of interest to butter
makers.
: j. R. Kinnerson of Peacham gave his
experience in cOloring butter, and said
he put the coloring into the salt before
, sailing the butter and he used some
white sugar in connection with the salt
ing. He packed his butter in boxes,
and showed samples of butter packed
and all stamped in the boxes, which
looked very nice. He believed the COW
was machine as much as the grist
mill is, and said that good care and
feed paid the best profit to the farmer.
Col. Meade closed the forenoon by