St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-04-13
Some CALEDONIA County Butter
DairieS.

The agricultural contributor of the
st. Adams Messenger has the following
brief sketches of the butter diaries of
two of the principal dairymen of Gale
dOnia county:
We have found more or less of these
scattered throughout the state the past
winter. At the Passumpsic farmers
meeting a considerable number report
ed yield of 200 pounds of butter per
COW.
S. J. Hastings of Waterford, the
chairman of the meeting, has large
dairy, several thoroughbred Jerseys
and the remainder high grades. He
makes 300 pounds per COW. Makes
butter all winter, as also do many of
the farmers. Mr.. Hastings butter is
principally put up in half-pOund prints.
There are two styles of molds, one
making two pats of one-fOurth pound
each, and the other four pats, weigh
ing two ounces each. These all have
pretty designs on top, and make an
attractive appearance. This butter
brings a good but not fancy price in
market. The quality appeared to be
excellent for winter butter. Winter
dairying is practiced to a considerable
extent in the more southern portions
of the state, and is preferred to the COM
mon practice. This requires excellent
feed and care and good facilities for
raising the cream and making the but
ter in cold weather. BY following this
method the cows are allowed to go dry
during the hottest part of the summer.
Some of the Jerseys go dry but a short
time or not at all.
Judge Parks lives just outside the
village of Passumpsic and is very
successful farmer. He has dairy, we
believe, of twenty-five cows and heifers
all full blood or grade Jerseys. The
annual yield of butter is thirty five
pounds per COW, probably the largest
amount made in the state from a dairy
of this size. Good early cut hay is fed
in winter and from four to five quarts
of prOvender per COW, according to age
and size. Grain is fed until there is a
good growth of grass when it is discOn-
tinued until the dry weather of the
t summer, then fed again. SOiling crops
are raised and fed in their season. OF
course, good care and attention is re-
quired to produce such remarkable re-
suits.
: We found that Mr. Hastings makes a
t speciality of raising pigs. He breeds
the Poland-China exclusively, from
Ohio stock. Had twenty or twenty
five animals of all ages. They are
nearly black, resembling the Berkshires
very much in color. They grow to
large size, are quiet, good feeders and
a mature early. An excellently arranged
building with its rows of pens, filled
with pigs of different ages, made a
very pretty exhibition.
e This gentleman, still young man
: appears to be making a success OF
farming. He has erected good, sub
stantial buildings and doubled the
producing capacity of the farm, we be
b. lieve, in eleven years. 1t must have
required much labor and expense iu.
diciously applied to accomplish thi,
much in so short time.
l., Grand Lodge of knights of Hon.
!, or.
: The grand lodge of Knights of Hon
}. or met in the hall of Eureka lodge OF
5 Wednesday. From the reports of the
n grand reporter we CLEAN the following
/, statistics Number of lodges per las
;, report, IA instituted during the year
'f +; present number of lodges, Is. Mum
D, Der of members Jan. |, 1882, 567 Jan
:. ], 1883, SIS; April /, 1888, 595; Apri
E, IL, 1883, 625. The financial condition
e of the subordinate lodges is as follows
i, Jan. l, 1882, cash on hand, 1864 re