Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-11
A Farmers Visit.

some uayS ago We paiu II sHotl WISH "
our old friend, H. T. Cuts of Orwell,
whom we had long known as an enter.
prising and successful dairyman. Mr..
Cuts owns the old Linus Wilcox place,
about mile anil half from Orwell
village, which he bought ten years ago
1t then contained 460 acres which he in
creased by purchase of 100 acres OF
meadow land year ago. This soil is
clay and clay loan, and is especially
adapted to grass. AS he said. where |
can't raise hay the rest need not try"
and in reply to the question Of how much
hay he raised, be said be filed nine so by
40 feet barns, and four of them floors and
all solid.
Mr.. Cults has partially "forsaken his
first love" the dairy business, as he now
milks but abont half his former number Of
COWS (now about thirty and gives his
attention largely TO his horses. His cows
are Jerseys, and several of them are fine
full bloods, among which we noticed Il
handsome yearling bull. by Mr.. Girls
wold's bull Champlain, which took the
first premium at the state fair last fall,
and out of a COW which tested over l5lbs
of butter per week on grass alone. Mr.
Cults sets his milk in broad, shallow
pans with water running about them He
has an admirable place for straining the
milk which was new TO US. One end of
each pan stands close to the walls of the
dairy room, and above this end tin tube
runs through the wall 10 the outside. The
strainer has a similar though smaller tube
which runs through this one, and when
milking time comes the strancr is put in
position outside, with the tube leading
into the pan to be used, and each milk
man comes here with his pail and pours
in his milk which runs into the pan inside
and does not come into the dairy room at
all, which saves much dirt and labor He
puts his butter in ten pound boxes and all
Founders, paddles, stamps, etc used in
handling the butter are kept in strong
brine to keep them from drying and
cracking. But his horses are now his
especial care and pride and they are de
serving of it, His Lambert stations, Ben
Franklin and Addison Lambert, own
brothers, are in all respects fine horses.
Addison is over 16 hands higl a hand
some dark bay of beautiful form, and has
a record of 227.
Ben Franklin is probably the most noted
horse in the state, not quite SO heavy MS
Addison, beautiful dark chestnut of
seemingly perfect form and motion, with
a record of 23 1-2. He Is a model horse.
In disposition and temper they are both
remarkably kind and docile Ben first
stood for scrv ice in 81 at $25, which was
doubled in '82, and so great was the call
for his service that Mr.. Cuts limited his
service to 60 approved mares and again
doubled the price, asking 800 for service,
and at that figure has refused about 40
mares this season. The indications al G
that he will still further advance tho price
for 1884, and may still further limit his
service. He has about 60 mares in his
pastures as boarders from all parts of the
state; from Boston, Worcester and other
parts of Massachusetts and from northern
and western New York. lie has lately
refused an offer of $4,000 for Ben, and
still keeps Addison, though there has been
a report that he had sold him.
The numbers of sheep one sees in A T.
Olson county strikes one as very large, and
the barns have the gilled image OF that
animal adorning their cupola'. But they
have long been famous for good sheep and
in sheep Vermont leads the country, and
Addison county leads Vermont in num
bers. if not in excellence of their sheep.
We formerly had wide and excellent
reputation for good horses, and we think
it may be regained and from the attention
breeding is receiving we believe it will be,
and then we think we can breed as good
jersey as anybody in the world, so what
is to binder Vermont from standing A
in horses, cattle and sheep.