The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03
The Dairymen's Meeting.

The Vermont Darymen's Association
held its annual meeting in Bellows Falls
January 1921. A brief address of welcome
was made by Hon. NJ. w. Davis, who was
followed by Hon. F. d. Douglass. He
thought farmers should raise more grain and
not depend upon other states for feed; that
we should raise our own hay-seed, fruit and
nursery stock; and the average production
per cow of butter, now from one hundred
twenty-five to one hundred fifty poun.s,
should be much greater. If there were better
farming and better dairying, there would be
fewer mortgaged farms and less complaint
about hard times.
Peter X. Spauding of Proctorsville read a
paper on Ensilage, in which he maintained
that it was a positive benefit. He favored
heavy pressure for ensilage. Mr.. Tinkham
asked if ensilage could be fed without injury
to the quality of butter Mr.. Fay of Rock
ingham said that he had found no injury to
butter from the use of ensilage, and Mr..
Walker Of Woodstock gave an example
where he thought the butter hal been i'm
proved by its use. George Davis of Caven-
dish said wherever he had seen the ensilage
used the cattle looked poor. Mr.. Douglass
said it was not possible to get good milk
from poor food, and there was great differ
ence in the quality of ensilage. Mr.. Keni-
son OF Peacham said none OF the butter pre-
mums awarded at the last Caledonia county
fair were for butter made from cows fed on
ensilage. Mr.. Hazen of Whitefeld, n. H.,
spoke of the absurd prejudices against en-
silage. Mr.. Bidwell of Canton, Conn, gave
favorable instance of its use. Mr.. Good
win of nlmwood. Conn, gave several ex-
amples of its good effect on the quality of
butter. The discussion of this subject was
quite protracted and developed much di-
versity of views. Mr.. Douglass said ensilage
was yet in its infancy, and he was not salts
fed that it was best to adopt it,
An address on Milk and It's Productions
was given by DR.. III. A. Cutting. He urged
the importance of cleanliness in all dairy
ing operations; of good pasturage, free
from stagnant water and marshy soil and
thought that ensilage should not be fed alone.
Cotton-seed was good, but corn-meal is the
most valuable. Care should be taken to
have the hay of good quality, free from OBJ
noxious weeds, and not to allow the cattle
to drink water too cold. III. p. Beckwith OF
Canton, Conn, and u. w. Ladd of Wap'
ping, Conn, spoke on Creameries, and Mr.
Williams of Walpole and Mr.. Houghton OF
Putney discussed the merits of Holsteins
Professor w. w. Cooke of the University OF
Vermont gave an address on Farm Fertili'
cation.
an address on Jerseys and Jersey Island
where the famous cattle of that name haC
their origin. This island is about tifteer
miles long and seven miles wide. 1t has {
population of sixty thousand, or one thou
sand to the square mile, which is large The
farms are small, but well cultivated. A
farm of six acres keeps seven cows, tive
horses, with pigs, poultry. etc Two crops
year are raised and every inch of space Il
occupied or cultivated The Jersey Gov
first came into note in 1889. She was eros
with a Normandy cow. 1t was not unit
1S2O-3O that she became attractive, and tn
dawn of thoroughbred COW was in 1888
A society for their breeding was formed OF
the Island of Jersey, and in the fifteen year
that followed more was done IN thorough
breeding than ever before or since. Prlz
money was offered and the original stoc
was almost entirely changed, both in colo
and form. The first importation to thi