Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-27
Sarm Copies.
THE NlCkWACkETT VALLEY
CREAMERY.
PITTsFoRD, VT, Jan. 81, 1888.


as the Nickwackett Valley creamery in
Difference to the wishes of number of
ITS patrons, for the entire season to Jan.
1, 1888, 620,204 lbs. milk, from which
were made 20, 425 lbs. of butter being an
average of one ID. butter for each q 7-100
lbs. milk received. This butter was made
by me by the pound, nearly all of it, and
it was the wish of my patrons that |
should sell it when in my opinion 1t
would give the best results to them. The
make of May was closed out at once and
most of the balance was held for the fall
and winter trade and nets them over 21c
per h., after making, freight and COM
mission are paid, and giving them over
81 per hundred for their milk on an av-
eyage through the season. l will give
two or three cases of individual results
and will say that they are not extreme
cases, but no more than an average in
proportion to the time they brought their
milk here.
James Smith brought the milk of four
cows the entire season from May 8 to
Jan. and the milk of one more about
three-fourths of the time. From it were
made 1910 lbs. butter, averaging 225 lbs
per cow for each of the four full-season
cows, and netting him,over S47.25 for
the butter alone and the skim milk was
worth from So to $40 each, giving a total
of about sos per cow. These cows are
natives or grade Durhams and had no
feed but good pasturage until about the
10th of Nov, after which they had little
meal.
Chas. S. Smith brought the milk of
four cows through the season and made
for him $50 lbs. butter, netting over SlS5,
and averaging, including the skim milk,
considerably over $50 per COW.
In the former case the tested value of
the milk was below the average and in
the latter it was just about the average
of the whole.
The dairy interest was formerly very
prominent here, but the amount of labor
involved, in connection with the low pri-
ces of later years, discouraged the far
mers and most of them reduced their dali
ries to greater or less extent. The de-
velopments of the past season have
shown that it is still possible for them to
keep cows at a fair margin of profit, at
the same time avoiding the former drudg-
cry, and are moving to restore their
diaries.
l had prepared the foregoing for the
REGISTER when Mr.. Dorsey's article in
the last issue met my eye.
1t is astonishing with what venomous
rancor he assails me and what mighty
efforts he makes to drag me down to his
level. Were no others involved should
pass his abuses over in silence and con-
tempt. AS it is, shall notice his article
very briefly.
If MIR. Dorsey thinks he can make the
people of Addison county believe that
would garble an account for the sake of
making point l am very much mistak-
en-. Furthermore l had nothing to do
with making any test at the Cornwall
creamery the past season. The tests
were made by gentleman who was en-
tirely disinterested and gave general sat
isfaction to the parties hiring their but
ter made, as they were the only ones af
fected by the result.
Mr. Dorsey makes great account of the
fact that by the cream-gathering system
the cream is measured every day and the
producer gets his pay according to that
measure. Now, undertake to say that
at the end of "a hours from setting cream
from different diaries is no more alike
than the original milk itself; as proof
of which will say that in taking tests
have frequently examined the samples at
the end of "A hours from setting and
found samples that would register 3O%
which at the end of 4S hours would reg
lister only 25% and other cases that would
increase so the last "a hours and still
Others that would show a pei feet and
unchanging separation at "a hours. From
this let farmers draw their own conclu-
sions.
Mr.. Dorsey makes point that we paid
III cents hundred more Tor milk from
Sudbury than the creamery there would
pay in September "to boom the separa-
tor" The proximity to market being
equal we can do the same thing at any
time of year at any place in the United
States and make more profit than any
Cooley creamer can do.
But the great secret of Dorsey's antip-
athy to me at the present time lies right
here. In the winter of 1886 and 'S7 he
worked up the town of Pittsford with
view of introducing the cream-gatherlng
system. But the farmers were too in
telligent and they would not take the
bait to any extent. Only two bought
creamers and adopted the system and l
shall close this article with an account