Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-11-10
Agricultural.
Report Of the state board Of AgricuI-

Report Of the state Board Of AgricuI-
ture.
The seventh report of tho Vermont Board
OF Agriculture is now ready for distribution.
It comprises 1873 pages, making volume about
the average size of tho preceding reports.
The work contains much that is valuable,
with less than the usual quantity of that which
is of another character. About two-thirds Of
the book bears the authorship Of the socreta-
ry and members of the Board, and papers by
President Buckham and two Burlington pro-
fessors comprise good share of the remain
der. The secretary states that the whole num-
Der of addresses given or read during the two
years. under the auspices of the Board, has
been 500. OF these, 10 or 20, exclusive of
those before mentioned, are given q place in
the report. We notice no contributions from
either Wndham or Bennington counties ex-
oept by the worthy member of the Board
from this end of the state, NJ. W. Davis, Esq.
The somewhat familiar subject of "adapta
tion" which he handles in mastery style, sp-
pears again in a new and shorter Dress and
the report contains two other well-writton pa
pers by Mr. Davis-one ON 1.-THE Horse" and
the other on 1.-THE Universal Butter Cow"
(meaning the Jersey.
Henry Lane, member of the Board from
Cornwall, contributes two valuable papers,
the first treating of "Merino Sheep and the
second of Economy in Feeding Farm Stock"
These articles will we'll repay a very careful
reading. Mr.. Lane, as an agricultural writer
always abounds in useful facts and figures.
He shows how the Vermont Merino has been
so improved that it is very unlike the original
importation from Spain and hardly like the
Merino of 80 or 40 years ago. Statistics of
fleeces-with per cent to live weight, length
and evenness of staple and fneness of fibre
are given, showing the improvements of later
years. The article is illustrated with several
engravings of famous Addison county sheep.
Hon. f. NJ. Goodwin of Hartland, member
of the Board and senator from Windsor coun-
ty, treats of the Manufacture and Applica-
ton of Manure" and, in another article, of
the growing, cutting and curing of hay.
e. Il. Pember, of the Board, from Wells,
treats of Butter Making, and discusses the
different methods of setting milk, noting first
the common small pan, and following with the
Jewett pan, the Centennial, the Orange coun-.
ty, the Cooley creamer the Perfection cream
err, the Mosely creamer, the Lincoln creamer,
the Reid creamer, the Revolution creamery,
the Hardin bureau, deep setting, cool air
Dreamer, the Ferguson bureau creamer, and
the Fairlamb cold setting factory can. Al
though preferring to regulate the temperature
of the milk as can be done by using some of
/ f. "a 10.
doubt that us much and as good butter can be
made from the same quantity of milk set in
the old fashioned small pans as in any other
way, provided the conditions are all favora-
bic. The difficulty is found in keeping the
small pans of proper uniform temperature
The report contains an article by the same
author, entitled "Will it Pay?' which is in
tended in general way to answer in the neg
alive the above question AS put by young men
who propose leaving their native state to find
| homes elsewhere.
+. II. Towle, member of the Board from
| Franklin, contributes paper on "Maple Su-
| gar" and one on 1.-THE Improvement of Pas
tures;" President Buckham one on the "Self-
Education of Farmers." Prof. Sabin of the
Burlington University has an excellent com
mon sense essay on Education for the Farm
| err"
Prof j. w. Sanborn's address on "Animal
Growth and Nutrition" delivered before the
Massachusetts, Board of Agriculture and pub
lished in their last report, occupies % pages
of this volume and is most valuable addi-
| ton to its contents.
Geo. L. Perkins, professor of natural his
tory in the University of Vermont, contributes
list of Vermont plants. 1t is the only flora
of the state that has been published since that
in Thompson's Vermont, in 1912. 1t takes
46 pages of the report, and is the most COM
plete fora of the state ever published.
DR.. L. H. Hoskins of Newport treats of
fruit; H. G. Day, of Bradford, of agricultu-
raj chemistry z. L. Jameson of Irasburg,
"What shall farmers do p; o. C. Wait of
Georgia tells about bee Keeping" o. S.
Bliss of the same town treats of 1.-The Dairy, "
and the report contains several short articles
by other writer's, besides the work of the sec
rotary of the Board, DIR. H. A. Cutting, which
comprises no small part of the volume, either
in quantity or in the quality of the matter.
At another time we shall have more to say
about the secretary's part of the report.