Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-11

A Fleasant Tour i'm Vermont - Cheese
 and Butter Factories A Beautiful
 Cemetery-Homes and Hills.
 PoULTNEY, Vt., Sept. 7.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL COURIER:
 If Delaware can boast of peaches the Green Mountain State can lay claim to the best cream, as a visit to the dairy sections will substantiate. We bolt our dinner at Nose ley's depot restaurant two minutes before leaving time, depart in haste UiG the Consoli- dated monopoly, and ere sun down enter the borders of Vermont. Quite noticeable is the improved appearance of the landscape as we go through the old Bay State, in comparison with southern Connecticut, and as we near Rutland rain has favored the farmer, and both hill and valley seem fresh and quick: ened. The farming interest in this State has for many years tended toward butter and cheese production. The soil is well adapted for grazing, and too mountainous and cold for the cultivation of cereals. Corn is of little note here, but potatoes, with exception al years, do we'll, and large quantities are ex- ported. Maple sugar continues one of the industries and will long remain so for the rock maple takes kindly to the soil. and be- sides furnishing beautiful shade and grove is useful in old age for the stove. Coal mer chants in this section are scarce owing to the cheapness and excellent quality of fire wood.
 Our t1ip was taken solely to visit the cheese factor-es, with business in view. It is worth the effort and expense to take in the half dozen towns near Rutland for the scen- cry and tho pleasant drives, to say nothing of the peaceful rest it gives one who is much confined by office work. The cheese factory system is cooperative. The farmers partic- ipatlng join in electipg board of directors, which board has a general oversight of all matters through the season. he agent or salesman who is chosen from the board and f. kho s,,pa rir,fAo an of fha work and only in the large factories do they require assistance. The building is as near the patrons as feasible, strongly built, of good size, say forty feet by eighty and two stories high. The upper story is of no use, but is 8 necessity, to keep the store room cool. As step into the spacious hall above, at one large factory, an exclamA- tion escapes, ''What a grand place for dance Well said my informant, that is just what we use it for. Leading on, my friend reports a condition of the sparsely settled towns similar to our own State. The young men go West or gravitate to the city. Tho present method of cheese making and all improvements for the saving of labor in farm management reduce the population down to tho required basis for actual needs. An esti- mate as to the saving of labor by the factory process of cheese manufacture shows that one man does the work formerly requiring twen- ty-ive at least. The price realized for full cream cheese-the same as made in this vii Clnlty WlCn one exceptlon-naS been thlS sea- son above an average for the past ten years and quite satisfactory to the farmers Yet the result is only two cents per quart for the milk. We visit factories in Shrewsbury, Wallingford, Clarendon, West Rutland, Mid dletown and other places, and in nearly all receive good attention and witness cheese making with great interest, not the least no. ticeable thing being the cleanly and whole some manner in which the manipulation is carried on from the milk to perfect cheese. The Gleason $ Chilson at East Wallingford, as also the Gleason at Shrewsbury, are mod els of neatness and perfection.
 In our ride yesterday we halted for brief time at Cuttingsville to visit cemetery which is at present attracting unusual inter- est in this State. The grounds-an old fash toned country burying ground two years ago have been changed into beautiful place as by magic, all under the inspiration of Hon. J. P. Bowman, who has expended over fifty thousand dollars on mausoleum containing the remains of his wife and two daughters. MT. Bowman has otherwise improved the grounds by fountains greenhouse, etc, at a | large outlay from his private purse Any one visiting these parts should visit this at traotive city of the dead. Finally finish ! our labors for the day and mine host halts at his own threshold, where pleasant and
 happy family greet us and soon we are en- ! toying 8 good old fashioned New England l supper. We talk over the news of the day,