Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-26

should he skinned three times, say at
twelve. twenty fonr and thirtv-six hours,
and churn the cream thus obtained sepa-
rately. thus grading the butter, expecting
the cream first obtained to make the best.
and so down. He gave the strongest and
boldest recommend for the Syracuse salt
Che purest. the cheapest. the best; call for
that and take no olher), to which no OBJ
lection was made. though poor johnson
got so sharply suubbed because he gave
his business with his name, when 1t was
called for.
Following this was a discussion partici-
pated in by l.. b. Arnold. DR.. HOsklns,
Mr. Whitaker and Mr. Cheever, rs to
how the butter come.
Mr. Arnold thought the largest butter
globules came TO butter first. and so down
along. till there got to be more butter than
there was cream, when the dog would
wag his tail" in the language of the min
! strcl," and the "hutter had Gomez" while
lots of the little butter globules went OIL IN
/ the butter milk
/ Mr. Cheever thought butter came more
ut once. lie had churned twice week
every week almost for several years, and
sometimes in the fall when the weather
was COOL the cream would swell in the
churn till it would be too full, and he haG
repeatedly in such cases drawn out about
half the cream and churned the remainder
till it showed the signs of coming which
are familiar to every butter maker, and i
had then shrunk to its original dimens ons
he would then turn in the cream he hac
drawn out, and all would come directly
and without loss in the amount of butter
rs he knew from weekly experience th'
{ amount which the cream should yield.
On the whole, we are inclined to hold tt
Mr.. Cheevers facts rather than Mr.. Ar
nold's theories, and we do not believe thu
most scientific experts or careful observers
will be able to tell just at present exactly
what makes the butter come.
There was some talk about the mem
branous envelope of the butter globule-
whether there be such thing or no, anC
the result was in no way different from
the usual one; each believed he was RICH
and the other wrong, and it doesn't MAKE
IA cents odds in practice which is right o
whether both are wrong.
THURSDAY MORNING SESSION.
The association met at Armory Hall
and the meeting opened by prayer Offered
lay Rev Mr. Pratt of the Baptist church
Following PRAYER, Mr.. Leander Weth
erell OF Boston read a paper on the "Adul
Iteration of Food" He spoke first of cof
fee as adulteruted with chicory, dandelion
etc. of authorizations of cream tartar
spices, etc horse radish, which every
body knows is thirty-three per cent o
English turnips, and is put up in bottle
labeled "pure horse radish." If it i!
better than pure horse radish, as some say
why tell lie on each bottleP He spoke o
butter and its adulteration; of tallow ant
lard, and said that but for these goot
butter would sell for fifty cents per pound
confirming u remark we made in a lat
article on cleo, that IN abundant supply
even of "a cheaper grade, will affect til,
higher grades as we'll. He was yer,
severe on the coloring of butter, which h
characterized as Il fraud, in making
HUG appear what it is not. He advocated
stringent laws to regulate its sale, and t.
the objections urged by some that the Law
could not stop its sale, he cited the law
relating to fertilizers.
DR.. Hoskins followed, saving MIR, Weth
ereIl had shown only one side He sal
he had apparently forgotten that elias
known us innocent frauds He colore
the butter he made and used in his ow
family. We want to please the eye IL
we'll as the tongue, and he thought it innc
cent. Some of our churches say to tn
eye, 1--WE are finished in brown ash,
l when it is really spruce. The doclo
= branched off on to political economy an
proper education for children, dear land
+ nioh interest, etc. He considered tn
1 manufacture of oleo, ETC., legitimat
I business and its use harmless.
Mr.. Arnold thought the prices of dair
. products placed them as luxuries and NJ
4 as necessities. He looked for 10 {
, prices A boom in the export of graf
would be II gudsend to dairymen, as
, would divert farmers to the raising
= grain.
f Pare milk was the most perfect an
/ cheapest Of all human fool. One third {
It all ne milk produced is used in its simpI
" 5tal and while milk is sold below il
u real lood value, but er is sold above i
t OlCp aud sulne are almost identical
T. composition with butter, and ill the SAN
i want OF the system, and he thought tn;
: before the close Of the nineteenth centur
d artificial butter would, in flavor as nearl
Ii equal the best butter as 1t now does
!, color and texture. Prices of butter mu
come down to its real value as food.
J. Ot cheese, albumen was the same in
c as when found in other forms, and case
" could be much more cheaply produced
; leguminous plant, than by the animal.
" We must produce so low that we CT
lie pay freights and sell cheaper in the forei!
i markets than they can produce the sal
ii there. When this cannot be done prodJ
II, ion must be limited to home conSumptiC
Is Whether the cost of producing milk cou
IT, he much reduced many questioned, but
ii thought there were leaks on most far
lot which would equal one-half of the pres'
". cost. The liquid manures, which in va
ny equaled the solid, were generally lost, a
ls the solids were left where they We're
.Iy precated by rain and air.
he Another loss was from insufficient fC
nut for the COWS. When grass was fresh
I'm growing rapidly, the flow of milk ,
ect good but rs the season advanced and or
ch grew more slowly, the COW had not ST
IDS cient food and the milk yield fell off. ]
al feed should be supplemented by soil
he and the animal supplied, as in the frs
li> the season, with all the food it can dig
is and assmllale.
ot Another great leak was in the infer
IA character OF the animals. One-third
90 the COWS kept in the country are kept
in loss, the second third perhaps just at
to , pay their keeping, while the other tt
ma ,ay II profit, and are charged with the
nee licences of the other two-thirds.
out Another leak is IN the discomfort of
is COWS. TO get the best results they she
be, be kept comfortable, fed well, treated C;
lay fully, and neither beaten or logged.
NV THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
md The session was opened with paper
Ter Prof. F. E. Englehardt on CONNER
,eIl Fertilizers, giving Il list of them and Il
blv action, and was followed by j. w.
hat born, Esq, superintendent OF the coll
eds farm at hanover. He believed in br
to and intensive farming, the cultivation
he broad areas in II thorough manner,
frh was mainly what he gave at some of
superintendent's meetings last winter
eed was reported by US at that time. Thoro
sed fertiizing, chemical fertilizers, cultiva
of by machinery and economics; feed
the were the strong points.