Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-09-19

poor season last spring is of an inferior
quality,
though the show by Mr.. Foster of Cal.
Of would hardly seem to warrant the
assertion. But then Mr.. Foster is one OF
the best sugar makers in Vermont.
FRUIT
made 4 small show. A. C. Hood. Winoos-
XII, made very good show, though when
asked what his crop would be, replied,
mot apples enough to say apples. G.
Miller IL Son, Pomfret made a fair exhibit
in quantity of special varieties, but OF
excellent character.
FLORAL HALL
that of Wells, Richardson & Co. Burling-
| ton, Of diamond dyes and the pertec
butter color, and Rice and KnckerbOcker
seedsmen, of Albany N Y The Adams
& Westlake Mig Co.. Boston and Chicago
made fine display of heir oil stoves,
which were utilized by various concerns
requiring heat, one by the Horsford Chem
ical Co , in baking biscuit prepared with
their yeast, and another by steam fruit
dricr. The stoves are first class. rs we
can testify from uso and deserved the first
prize they secured.
Geo. w. Holmes ~ Co, Burlington,
showed an excellent line of gloves and
mttens of their own make, buck, calf, dog
skin and Kid oil finished, grain side out,
look like good stock and workm nship.
E. Spear Platts5urgh, N Y showed a
fine stock of lurs. fur lined oIoaks, etc,
and one VIC saw we thought OF bnYng for
Mrs Editor, it being a handsome seal of
extra length, but on learning that The
price was but Sl50 concluded to wait till
he had good one. While there he took
an order for one TO be of seal, 81 inches
long, 10 be trimmed with Tipped beaver, a."
to cost $500. His best coon and buffalo
for men costs less than one tenth of that
but would do very we'll for the editor Cf
ne could afford to get one,)
Of fancy work Floral Hall was pretty
bare, the smallest exhibit, by all odds, that
we ever saw at any fair, state, county, or
;own. There were few silk quilts Of he
! crazy or japanese pattern, Il rug or two,
4 little embrnderv and some paintings :;
excellent bUt limited is the full descrinton
In machinery there were few new
articles, The Cooley Mfg. CO., Waterbury,
showed new sand box and collar com
hined for wagon aXtes which looks Ia he Il
good thing. Il is malleable ron box.
covering the inner end of The hub, and
which screws on to the axies, that portion
axle can be run as 'rattler or telhered
to run still, and will protect tha axle from
exuding grease.
MOultOn, whose cave spuus aud tubing
are so generally known, showed beside
those, new style glass weather vlnes. very
handsome. and a new lightning rod,
polished and twisted copper over solid
iron core, intended TO give the greatest
facility for the passage of tho electric
luid. There was a line show of monu-
mental work in which Barre granite |
showed conspicuGusiy.
In butter aud cheese there were exhibits |
said to be made by the Powell Vacuum
process" and having curiosity to know
all we could of it we visited the cheese
factory in Colchester where the system is
in use in company with Mayor Morse of
Burlington, president of the company.
Gen. I. S. Peck, Prof. S lbin and Mr..
Cheever of the New England Farmer
inspected the machinery and process, and
gathered such facts concerning it as would
DE- ofinterest to dairyman. The machinery
peculiar to his process IS lour horizontal CYL
ndcrs three feet in diameter and nine feet
ong, each with a capacity of 2200 pounds OF
milk. Into two OF these cylinders is put
he mix of the factory and steam applied
o the cylinder till the milk is brought up
o lO5 degrees. which lakes about 10
minutes. The steam is then turned off,
and cold water applied to the cylinder to
,ool the milk down to about 40 degrees,
1t which degree the milk win have de-
lreased eight and a half gallons in volume
o every thousand pounds of milk. This )
cooling process requires about four hours
line. At the same time the cooling is
,egun, an air pump is connt cted by pipes $
With the milk cylinders. is set in motion i
,xhaustng the air from the cylinder, till ,
he gauge shows pressure of y pounds.
The benefit claimed to be derived from :
he vacuum is two.lold. The extracting of /
II offensive odors and destructive germs
rom the milk with the air and removing .
he pressure of the atmosphere from the a
milk which will facilitate The rising of the r
ream. The milk now stands about Is =
ours, when the cylinder is opened, the