Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-03-05

No. 81. Poor flavor. Cows, grade
Jersey. fed hay once and ensilage twice q
day, and 2 quarts meal, Q-3 corn, 2S
shorts) per day, milk set in small pans
iskimmed when turned, churn twice o
week, butter washed. sailed ounce 10
the pound, and worked three hours after
churning.
No. go. Attractive form. foreign
flavor suggestive of oysters. Cows, grade
and full blood Jersey, feed, half bushel
ensilage. 2 quarts meat, 2 quarts shorts
and straw night and morning with feed Of
hay at noon. Set in Wooster's creamery
skinned in IL hours, cream allowed to
ripen, colored with Thatchcr's, sailed IL
ounce Ashton, put in print.
No. 62. "Same flavor as in CO." Cows,
grade Jerseys. feed, ensilage and corn
slower with pint of cotton seed meal, quart
of corn and cob and oat meal per day,
Cooley creamer stoddard churn, Wells
and Richardson's color, Higgins salt IL
| ounce 10 Inc pound.
No. Go. "Trace of some flavor, some
thing I am not used to-" Cows,grade Jer-
sey, feed. ensiage twice and hay once a
day, 4 quarts meal per day,-half bran,
IA each corn and cotton seed meal Cooley
dreamer, Davis churn, Thacher's color,
washed, 3.4 ounce Higgins salt, work two
hours after setting.
No. IS. Well made, good color, poor
flavor, grade Jerseys, hay and 8 quarts
equal parts corn meal and shorts morning
and night, hay or straw at noon, small
pans, cream sour, churn 64o, Thatcher
oil color, 3-4 ounce salt.
No 60. Orange color too high, No l..
but colored too much, no popularity in
The make.
No. G7. Ornamental style, made too
long, lost flavor.
No. 80. Strong on outside, lightly
sailed, think parafine paper in which it
was wrapped has injured it. Cows not
stated, feed, rye enslage in morning,
corn ensilage at night with steamed
stalks for noon, quarts each corn and
cob meal and wheat bran. Milk set in
Cooley, butter washed in weak brine,
sailed 1,2 ounce to the pound. worked
again after standing four hours.
In the so descriptions we find l feeding
ensilage. or these 8 were classed in No.
2, 2 In No. /, and one am un,ble 10 say
where it was Chased. So far as can be
observed washing or not washing exerted
no perceptible force on chasing, or the
make of salt, or the colorng matter us' d,
some samples ranking as specially fine
gave in their descriptions, "hay early
cu'," some fed "bright corn stalks, Gu t
and wet with hot water some, hay
which was heavily clovered, which last
was mentioned for its excellent flavor.
While cotton seed meal appeared in
'everal samples, it also did in No. l , and
other lots of No. 2, had largely of shorts
and one of roots.
much regret that some one took away
me sheet OF my notes so l am not able TO
give as full a report as would wish, and |
ome samples were misplaced in the /,
exhibit by persons handling. Some sent
10 descriptions, and some signed no
James. But enough has. we think, been
hown TO demonstrate that the feed of the |
ows eXerts an unmistakable influence on
he quality of her butter product. 1t is
Intended that this report shall reach every
Exhibitor and those receiving it without
naked numbers will know their butter
vas in class l.. Others will have their
lumber marked.
Should there be another exhibit next
ear and we ARE there. we shall try to
ecure fuller statistics, to make the exhibit
nd its lessons, us full as possible and
pread them as broadly as possible before
he dairymen of New England
o. NJ. TINKHAM, Sec,
North Pomfret, March l, 1884.