Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-09-10
SHORTHORNS.

seven head, and takes six first premiums
and one second Pretty good for seven
animals, but they were good animals.
Elisha Darling, Charlton. Mass, has
eight head. j. L. Ellsworth, Worcester
E. NJ. Holman and Geo. +. Woodbury.,
Sutton, have good stock.
SWISS CATTLE.
There were several head of Swiss cattle
The most notable was bull years old
owned by E. F. Henshaw, West Brookfield,
Il handsome squirrel gray" in color, and
in build like the Herefords.
]. N. Reyes, Worcester, shows seven
head-one bull, three cows and three
calves. John. A. Bancroft, Worcester,
fifteen head Swiss and four Ayrshires aud
several grades.
GRADE COWS.
In these, John T. Ellsworth. Barre,
Mass, has a fine herd of grade Short
horns, as has also VIM. A. Childs, New
Braintree, Mass.
Luther Crawford, New Braintree, had a
remarkably fine grade COW. They appear
to believe in grades down there in Barre,
New Braintree and whereabouts.
Altogether the display of cattle was
good, and in working oxen very good for
the locality where horses are worked so
generally, there being about fifty yokes on
the ground, AS the premiams had not
been announced, we were able to give but
few, for which we were indebted to such
committees us we knew.
SHEEP.
The show of sheep is larger than last
year, and of equal merit. The entries
FROM Vermont are Geo. Campbell of
Westminster, A. +. Fuller, Pomfret, and
J. IL. Hazen of Hartford. which comprises
all the fine woods shown. The character
of this'stock is too we'll known to need
more mention. In sheep it is noticeable
that the coarse woods and mutton sheep
are much in the majority, and the charac-
ter of the show in this respect has greatly
changed in the last few years. OF these,
c. p. Mattocks of Portland, Me and Mrs.
Eliza Sutton of Centre uarbor, N. H.,
show fine Cotswolds.
N. r. Boutelle, Waterville, Me-, j. z.
Wheat, Putney, VT. and John Mayer,
Newport, r. l., show Soutudowns.
The large increase of mutton sheep
shown indicates an increased attention to
this branch of sheep raising, and we shall
soon be sending increasing supplies of
this choice meat TO our English cousins as
we'll as consuming more at home.
SWINE.
Here Mr.. Smith Harding opens the show
with forty head of Poland China swine
Mr.. Harding has seventy head and may
claim place in the front rank of New En-
gland breeders of this growing variety Of
hogs. He showed one sow with ten pigs
seven weeks old which would average to
weigh thirty-fve pounds each. Last year
he showed the same SOW with ten pigs
which weighed when shipped, at eight
months old, three hundred and ninety
eight pounds.
A. Riggs, Sul1ield, Conn E, shows seventy
three head of Magic and Black Beauty
strains of Poland Chinas. This is the
largest single exhibition of thoroughbred
swine ever made in New England
The exhibit of swine numbers one hun
dred and fifty head and is meritorious in
character.
The exhibit next in interest was that of
dairy Implements and products, and of
these the show from Vermont was very
creditable. There were four ''creameries''
or methods of setting milk, and of these
three were from Vermont, viz: The Bu-
reau Creamery, made by the Ferguson
Manufacturing Company of Burlington,
the Cooley Creamery, from the Vermont
Farm Machine Company, Bellows Falls,
and the Moseley Creamery made by Nose
ley & Stoddard, Poultney, VT These are
pretty well known by our readers, but u
brief description may not be amiss.
The Ferguson Bureau is Just what its
name purports, q bureau, on which the
drawers are four milk pans, two lower
and two upper Into these the milk is
strained, while above is rack for ice IN
hot weather and drip pan below, while
below the pans is a space for cream can,
etc. The aim Of this system is to keep the
milk at about 50 or GOo, by means of cool
air, and let the milk stand from thrtv-six
to forty-eight hours.
The Cooley process consists of Il tank
into which Tin cans about 8x2O inches are
set. Into these the milk is strained,
cooler like an inverted six quart pan is
put over it and held in place, when the
cans are Theoretically sealed by filling the
tank with water and covering the cans.
Into the water ice is put the aim being to
bring the milk down to 400 or less, as soon
as possible, and to get the cream in less
time than from one milking to the next,
making only one set of cans necessary.
The Moseley Creamery is similar, in
having tank and deep cans. but in this
the cans are not covered by water, and
have a cover with hole for ventilation of
the milk. In this ice is used for the same
purpose and intention rs in the Cooley,
and is modification of what we described
pretty fully last winter as the Wooster
Creamery.
OF course these systems differ in minor
datails, for which each claims especial
merit. The other, Lincoln's portable
creamery, made by William f Lincoln,
Warren, Mass, is also deep, cold setting
process, and may be said to combine both
the others; that is, it sets the milk in wa
ter, but ventilates it at the top, and coos
from the top also, by placing ice over it.
Its construction being difficult to describe
SO as to be plainly understood, we secured
a cut of it. which we give below, and
which is explained as follows:
I - The apparatus consists
| If three parts:
| V N.xAlNcoLNx II l. box refrigerator
| ASoNNtsnlJt GREAhfoH arranged for any number
y-z z=zss1as..szz=.2 If cans, according to size
| <%S53yHSY4tx2A md provided with an over
4. |:..'
| m low pipe eighteen inches
II rom the bottom. 1t also
lHNI i~H Ias a galvanized iron box
| PEEA HffE Xtendin4 from the top OF
| Z1it--r-flf&4zEsH he refrigerator below the
| HzE4sz1 .z Tzs4sasshsh water line. The upper is
| Hlsazl= tzs=A-.--ssA1 II ice receptacle with per
Grated bottom The lower
receives the drip from the
melting ice thus securing constantly dry ice making
a sav4nE of more than fifty per cent
2. milk can nineteen inches deep.
3. A portable ice chest fitted with an arched iron
bottom of sufficient size to extend over more
cans of milk This arched bottom is high enough to
form comnodious air chamber.
DIRECTIONS FOR USING.