Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-16


: breeding and an infinitely better one OF
? manufacturing No such expression
, occurs in my remarks anywhere. He has
/ probably exercised his ingenuity upon the
following remark and extracts that en-
. preston from it. l had just been dis
, cussing some of the many evils which are
, creeping into the associated or cooperative
system of working up milk and proceeded
} 10 say LET it be repeated that the hope
of the dairy interest of the country, es-
, pecially the butter branch if it, is in the
; elevation and improvement of the farns
ddtrtes, and the production of such Il
} quality OF goods as shall educate the pub
lie taste into an appreciation of such flavor
and quality of goods as cannot be made
from anything else but pure milk, which
has not been exposed to COMMUNICATING
influences or manipulations. 70 this end
the famers must themselves be educated
to finish their butter at one operation, and
immediately pack it for the market, and
sell it upon its merits" then proceeded
to show the evil effect which results to the
dairy interest ut 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 alusion
made in my whole remark, to the educa-
ton of the farmer, Il subject which | never
essayed to ".grapple with" as charged by
Mr.. Tinkham, always preferring to leave
its agitation in the hands Of such eminent
ly competent educators rs Mr.. Tinkham.
| Mr.. Tinkham next quotation is,-"A
great danger of over production" This is
another false quotation. No man ever
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 remarkable fact that
notwithstanding the many incentives to an
increase of dairying during the decade COW
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 ofthis 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 Q.3) persons. But the very marked
improvement in the quality of the products
has very largely increased the per capita
consumption and, of course, the demand.
There is a glorious future for the enterpris-
ing and intelligent dairymen of the country.
No other business connected with or
dependent upon the tillage of the soil
promises so full reward as does this, to
those who seek it Alright" Does that look
like ga great danger of over productions"
Thus have l shown every one of the
premises upon which Mr.. Tinkham pred- !
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 trumped upI
charges.
l hand you herewith ii copy of the report
of the N. b. c. e. L. Association that you
may verify my statements and quotations
and find his if you can. The address,
rs he calls it, may be found on page 20 CT
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
injudcious) praise of too partial friends
The next best thing, and one altogether
more beautiful 10 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 tlattcring remarks concerning our
inventive genius and mathematical abili-
ty inclined us to the former, but IN en-
preston or two in it, has finally carried
"a 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 qNott,iOnS made by |
Mr.. Bliss are mainly correct, 50 we must,
in legal phrase, plead the general issue
Well, it was rather "a sharp provocalion,
and had it been directed toward II man
lacking Mr.. Bliss extreme reluctance in
taking offence; his angelic amiabiily of
temper, his sweet serenity of manner;
such SuaUitcr en- mode (our readers mus
pardon us,-we felt that nothing short of IL
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 high tempered irascihle 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 his tenderest corn, or
pinched his finger in the crack of IL door,
then indeed we should have taken II " 90
ing over" in round vigorous Saxon we
shudder 10 think Of and which would have
left one in doubt us to the writer's state
of mind.
One thing may he considered us settled,
that Mr.. Bliss did formerly keep u COW,
as he excerpts that from our other remarks
which he playfully characterizes us ''gross-
ly and maliciously false" On second $
thought. he may have considered that /
simply in error of ours and no, grossly
and maliciously false, We wish Mr.. Bliss
had settled that point and also whether he
still had the COW. But there are in Mr..
Bliss article one or two things which to
our perhaps too sensitive soul seem I'M
kind. "lt must have been done by a
process peculiar to Tinkham." Now we
submit, would it not have been well con-
sidering our extreme constituencies to have
said Mr.. Tinkllam. And again near the
close, "vapid calculation of trumped-up
charges" That word "vapid, we are
not quite clear. AS to vapid-but it somehow
seems, as it were, to expreas something
not entirely respectful We decidedly
object to vapid.
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