St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-31
Close Of the Dairy Meeting.

The annual meeting of the Vermont
Dairymen's association at Music hall
last week closed as successfully as it
began. The wisdom of giving the east
side of the state an occasional show
was proven to the satisfaction OF both
the association and the agricultural
board. The only bad break made
during the whole meeting came from
f. A. Harris, the supposed expert but
ter Judge from Boston, who in mo-
ment of embarrassment confessed that
it was the first butter exhibit he ever
saw.
THE LAST DAYS WORK.
Thursdays sessions were very salts
factory. DR.. George X. Drew of Dan
vilIo led off in the ensilage discussion.
He got fifteen tons of ensilage from
each acre of land, and fed his cows
seventy five pounds besides ten pounds
of hay and three quarts of grain a day.
Both cattle and sheep did exceedingly
well on this feed
Col. Mead urged greater variety of
food for cows. Ensilage might be
valuable for this, but he would not go
into its production too largely.
A Lyndon farmer said he had tried
raising roots, but failed to make it
pay and had switched of on to ensilage.
a rising vote was finally taken, and it
was found that thirty-three had used
ensilage with good, and two with bad,
results.
Mr.. Powell of Burlington spoke on
utilizing the entire milk product. Half
of the value of the milk was lost from
imperfect manipulation. BY his pro-
cess butter was first made, then cheese
from the sweet SKINNED milk. From
the whey good quality of sugar was
obtained, making the value of the en-
tire product much greater than by the
common methods. The cheese was
good enough to command fifteen cents
Il pound at retail. By this process it
was possible to obtain five pounds of
butter, from nine to ten pounds of
cheese and from three and One-half to
four pounds of sugar from 100 pounds
of milk. The system is applicable to
dairies of twenty cows or more.
A. w. Cheever of the New England
Farmer favored this method.
b. Batchelder of Stanstead, p. G.,
gave paper on cows' diseases. Among
the causes of disease mentioned were
impure water, improper drainage and
bad ventilation. Careful attention to
the details of management was urged
as a means of prevention.
Mr.. Cheever followed with paper
on the mistakes of farmers. The
greatest mistake he thought was in
vesting surplus capital outside of farm
improvements.
Gen. w. w. Grout spoke in the
evening on Common law on common
matters" He gave much useful in
formation Oh labor contracts, the rights
of employer and employe, drainage
laws and warranty of sale. The
speaker was overwhelmed with ques-
tions at the close Of his paper, but an
swered in way creditable even to an
eI congressman.
GOV. FAIRBANKs's RECEPTION.
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Gov. Horace Fairbanks gave a recep-
ton at his residence to the society's
officers, dairymen from abroad and IA
number of townspeOple. The affair
passed off very pleasantly and the out
Of-tOwn guests felt much gratitied at
the attention shown them. They were
also much surprised to find in the
centre of the refreshment table de
sign in butter, which Outdid anything
at the exhibit or that many of them
had ever seen. 1t was made of the
choicest butter from the governors
Jerseys aud was put up in small orna-
mental scrolls. A beautiful bouquet of
flowers was artisticaily arranged at the
top, the whole forming unique orna-
ment, pyramidal in shape. 1t was got
up by the governors cook and head
gardener as special compliment to
the visiting dairymen.
JoTTINGS HERE AND THERE.
All of last years officers were re-
elected. They are: President, John
B. Mead of Randolph vice presidents,
Aaron Loveland of Hanover, n. H., F.
d. Douglass eff Whiting, L. A. Taicott
of Williston; secretary, 0. NJ. Tink-
ham. of POmfret; treasurer, II. w.
Vale; auditor, G.. B. Williams of
WalpOle, y. II.
Several dairymen bringing butter
think it strange that their names did
not appear in the list of exhibitors.
But there is nothing strange about it.
So many entries came in late Wednes-
day afternoon. contrary to the regala-
tions previously printed, that the sec
rotary found it impossible to classify
them all.
A good many samples of butter color,
salt, milk pals, creameries and other
dairy utensils were exhibited J. K.