Morning journal and courier., 1882-01-20
Dairymen's Convention.

Meeting of the Farmers of the State-Ag
 ricultural Discussions and Exhibits of
 Butter.
 In response to the call to the dairymen of 1 the State for meeting at Hartford yes l terday there was a large attendance. The | meeting was called to order by Mir. Nathan | Hart, of West Cornwall, one of the signers of the call. An organization of the meeting resulted in the choice of the follow ing officers MT. w. M. Wadsworth, of Pennington, chairman, and Edward Norton, of Pennington, clerk. Among the hundred or more dairymen present from various parts of the State were the following representa- tives of we'll known creameries:
 Lyman Hall Goshen C.. s. Pratt, E. A. Atwater, c. E. Ives, of Cheshire :; Henry l.. Nettleton, w. E. Hart, Durham; George
 Wilcox, Shaker Station; E. Manchester, Prospect Hill; N. Hart Cherry Hill; W. Cornwall, Elmwood; E. Norton and ". M.
 Wadsworth, Pennington.
 Mir. Nathan Hart began the discussion by
 saying he had long been interested in the
 dairy industries of Connecticut, and he be- leved the farmers hereabouts can be educa- ted to the fact that it is not necessary for
 
 and other farm products. He said we should concentrate our capital and hold our l inducemen for our young men to go through l their farm schooling here and not go away | for their learning. If each farmer would 1n- ! terest himself in the welfare of the creamer l ies of the future, the entire profession will
 supply their own wants and the wants of the l market.
 1 Mr. Hall, of Goshen has been in the dairy | business long time and is governed in his l price by the quotation of the New York mar l ket. His product goes to Waterbury. There
 is more difference in the feed of COWS than there is in the breed in the making of butter.
 MT. E. A. Atwater, of Cheshire, related 1 his experience in conducting creameries with l common stock. He had not made any fig | ures on the amount of milk used to make 8 l pound of butter, but in summer it was lit | tie less than thirteen quarts, the average cost l of which was 77-S0 cents His creamery is | the property of joint stock company, and l is profitable.
 I MT. W. E. Hart, of Durham, detailed the products of his dairy by months and recited l the dividends by pounds of butter which av-
 eraged twelve mills. Milk is brought to his l dairy twice day, and is not as good cold as l it is warm. He had not tried cooling the 1 milk after being taken from a cow The l sooner it came to him from the COW the bet I ter.
 l Lieutenant George B. H. Hyde recom- mended the co cooperative system to be of ad
 vantage to the State. He takes butter to the
 market and they set the price on it and he
 takes it; they also set the price on their 1 goods he thought that was universal. Chairman W. M. Wadsworth thought that
 butter from the West was being sold right at
 our doors and would continue to be sold so
 unless the farmers concentrated their efforts and made a better article; a creamery we'll | established and we'll managed in this State
 will bring better price than can be got at our homes.
 Mir. David Whittlesey, of Morris, was called l to the chair, to take the place of Mir. Hart, ] who left to attend another meeting. l Mr. Manchester, of West Winsted, said he 1 had been getting from two to three and quarter cents per quart for milk, and his market had been New York but it was now 1 at home and New Haven, and he realized
 more than he did from the New York mar
 ket. His consumption of milk was ten to eleven quarts to pound of butter. When l the temperature was warmest in the room l and the water was the coldest he got the most cream He gets four pounds of butter l from forty quart can.