Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-29

each other the benefit of each others ex'
perience. He wished to remind the farm
ers that they are all part and parcel OF The
same great interest of the state, and the
interest of one is the interest OF all, and an
increasing interest will secure increased
!. benefits. Let it not be said that Vermont
} had lost her prestige as dairy state,or an
agricultural state; and he did not believe
that western water and western climate
} were equal to that of Vermont. and if We
are awake 10 our interests our advantages
} will be patent.
DR.. Hoskins said he agreed with Colonel
Mead, that we must get our fertilizers
cheap enough; he had bought a CARLOAD
. of phosphate ut u time for his farm o.
twelve acres, but now he had given up
buying them, they cost too high. lie had
not great faith in the formula manures.no
but they are genuine but they cost toe
: much, and now he is buying ashes anC
bones, which he makes available by burn
ing and pulverizing, and for nitrogen he
buys suphate of ammonia, and the ashes
, and bone supply the potash and phospho
/ ric acid.
Mr.. Whitaker said DR.. Hoskins was or
the right track; and commercial fertilizer!
cost too much. OF all the humbugs in thu
: world there was no greater than that any
man could tell by an analysis what ant
, how much of fertilizers it WAS necessary tt
, apply to his land to produce certain crops
he doesn't know what fertility is lyine
dormant in the soil. Science and expert
: mepl should go hand-in hand, for expert
tnce Is science and science is experience
With all science and experience there are
, many questions we are unable 10 answer
and a lady asked him to-day question
which had got him; that was why he heat
. ed his milk up 10 gu degrees after setting
it away for twelve hours. instead of II
once us soon us drawn. He could onl,
, SAY lie could get more cream SO. and h'
was not certain of the reason why-th'
fact WIS certain.
Some discussion was had on the value
of ashes, Mr.. " hittaker asserting tina
there WAS no soil but what would be bene
fitted by ashes applied. while other
thought there were soils which did no
show any appreciable benefit from appll
cation Of ashes.
Dr.. Ioskins explained his method o
making bones available. which was by
burning them in the stove and pulverizins
them, when they are easily and proftab J
applied.
Mr.. Whitaker said he sent the Ammonia
up chimney by that method. which he ha'
to buy in Boston to replace.
Mr.. +. G.. Butler, of the Vermont Farm
Machine Company, Bellows Falls, read &
paper on The drawbacks to successful
darying, and the possible remedies. lie
n I, lncirnI,litu of finn Tar
some of the difficulties attending its max
ing. He advocated the selling of but
Ter us soon us made, and the practice o.
winter airying which should give an uni
form supply, which with good early GU
hay and meal will be of IL quality equal t'
that Of the summer dairy. lie next spoke
Of the hap-hnzird, -of-method ways il
handling milk and cream. He had seer
in farm house, the milk set in the living
room, the cream covered with dust, an,
absorbing the odors Of the boiled dinner
Such ways cannot produce good butter
Vermont was loosing her prestige for but
t / which the western dairymen were tax
ing from us by their rapid strides, and no
that web ave refrigerated, but have not KEEP
pace with them.
Considerable discussion was had on the
mplraive excellence of dairy ant
creamery butter.
Mr.. baker thought the creamery system
almost universally raised the price of but
ter III the location where it was intro
duccd, though there was diaries of butte
sold in market every day in the week fo
higher prices than was received fol
average creameries.
Mr., Phelps of Milton, said the bes
diaries sold higher than creameries.
Mr.. Whitaker said that dealers in Bos
f ton were careful to avoid quoting the high
est prices received for the best diaries, u
they We're exceptional, and would perhap
: Tend to make the average of butter maker
: disconnected. lie compared the western
butter with the Vermont, and 10 the credi
of the latter.
Mr. Tinkham said he though much harm
. was done the reputation of Vermont butte
5 by the hnbtual crying down the quality o
| it and proclaiming that but ten per cen
was first-class. 1t was no doubt true tina
= the announcements of butter shown a
fairs was small, but he noticed at the New
f England fair, ut Worcester. last fall, tina
there was enough of Vermont butter Their
to scoop in the first premium. though Their
I was but one entry, and he believed that a
5 good butter was made in Vermont rs wa
made on the continent and from his limit
' ed experience he believed the averag
5 quality WAS habitually underestimate.
Mr.. Bliss said that in good and careful
} hands there was no better method than tin
, dairy for butter making, but for II careless
t or ignorant or slovenly class, the introduc
t ton of the creamery system always i'm
proved the product of the vicinity.
+ Mr.. Baker said that Improvement wa
: us much as eight or ten cents per pound.
The president announced rs the addition
nj managers to the International Dair,
/ Association, Mr.. Mosely of Poultney, an,
Mr.. Talcott of Wiliston.
r THURSDAY MORNING.
The meeting was called TO order ut /,
O'Clock and prayer was offered by Rev Mr.
Wright of Montpelier, after which Mr.. Z
; r. Skinner of Tunbrdge, read an interest
ing paper.
Mr. SINNERS paper is necessarily de
> ferred until next edition.
He said he had read an article entitled
" Pomfret on the Back Track" which h.
SupPooch W oS 81 oh'iP PasoiSc btINeel
TWO able editors, but he knew of no plac
in the state where he would sooner 20 L
/ learn in dairying than to Pomfret. II
i stated in reply he could not give the yiel'
, of butter for the last year. He though
+ cream proper did not sour but the mill
did. He skinned the milk sweet nm,
, then ripened the cream, sets his milk il
' large, dry pans from two to three inchc
I deep, does not cool, and aims TO keep hi
mIlk-room at about 60 degrees, and churn
at about the same temperature, or on
cold day ut about 65 degrees; churns in
Nutting churn which is Il Triangular DO,
churn with three equal sides. When tn
butter has come to granules the size of
4 wheat kernel he sprinkles on little sal
and rinses with water, and takes it out in
: TO the butter worker which IS IL common
l inclined board, and carefully presses on
the remaining moisture and finds great as
sistance in using Il cloth; then he salt
with three.fourths Of an ounce of salt pc
pound of butter and makes up into pats o
one-fourth and one-half pounds.
Following this, Col Sprague said the ac
! ton of the legislature in abolishing thu
Board of gpiculture had been criticised
: very severely, and as member of tina
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