The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-23
Vermont Dalrymen's Meeting,

A brief outline Of the meeting of the Yer.
mont Dairymen's Association is given byour
agricultural editor, DR.. Hoskins, elsewhere
in this issue, and the doctor further explains
his purpose with reference to reporting In
detail in these columns the proceedings in
| full. At the close of the evening session on
Thursday the award of premiums was an
nounced, as follows:
Dairy butter-Class /, ten-pound tub
First premium, Henry W. Walker, South
Woodstock; second, f. r. Town, Water
bury; third, f. l.. Davis, North Pomfret
Glass ,, five-pound boX-First, +. f. Lam
berton, North Pomfret; second Stephen
Hewitt, Pomfret; third, L.W Pitkin, Marsh
| field. Glass 3, tive-pOund print-First
George Aitken, Woodstock; second f. d.
Douglass, Whiting; third G. S. Paine, South
Randolph. Dairy weepstakes George Ait
ken, manager Billings farm, Woodstock.
Creamery butter-Class I, twenty-pound
tub-First, A. ID. Evarts, Vergennes; second,
William V. Beach, Essex; third II. NJ
Arms, Springfield. Glass ., five-pound
print-First, Newton & Hazen, Hartford
second, A S. Stearns, South Randolph;
third, j. S. Reynolds, Essex Junction.
Creamery sweepstakes-A ID. Evarts, Yer
gennes. Grand sweepstakes-George Ait
ken, manager Billings farm, Woodstock.
Glass 6, S25, to be divided among the exhib-
its scoring above eighty-five points, no
taking any other premiums was divide
between twenty competitors, as follows: 5
II. Warren, North Pomfret j. Gregory
Smith, st. Adams; j. S. Sherburn, Mort
Pomfret w S. Hale, Keene, n. H.. G. S
Short. East Montpelier; Aaron Loveland
Norwich; Ezra Stevens, Jonesville; exhibit
from Poultney; James X. Curtis, Georgia;
James Stanley, Pleasant Valley; s. L.
Hastings, Passumpsic; j. r. Kinnerson &
Sons, Peacham; Il. j. Kimball, West Ran
dolph; j ID. Wells, West Randolph; d. A.
Clark; j. O. Sanford, Stanford: j. II. Bick-
ford, Lebanon, n H; Glens Falls cream
cry, Glens Falls, \ Y; Newton & Hazen,
Hartford =. Stedman, Chicopee, Mass.
Dairy cheese, plan-First, j. H. Riley,
Sheldon second, Mrs. c. II. Clark, Under
hill; third, n. ID. White, Huntington
Sage First, Mrs. c, II. Clark, Underhill:
second, j. G. Oliver, Charleston.
Creamery cheese, plain-First, Essex
factory. Essex; second, II. Johnson's fac
tory, Williston; third, C. G. Peck, Hines
burgh. Sage-First, Essex factory Essex.
Sweepstakes-Essex factory, Essex
The premiums for butter were $40, So
and 81, for first, second and third prizes
respectively; for cheese. So, 81 and 50:
sweepstakes, $40. AT the Friday session
two protests We're presented and sustained.
The first, signed II. NJ. Arms, Aaron Love-
land and George Aitken, against the award
under class five to Newton & Hazen of
Hartford because the butter was not made
in the state there being no such creamery
in Hartford. The second was against the
award on butter made by the Essex cream
cry Mr.. Reynolds stating that he entered
two samples, one of them being in the name
of w, V. Beach, his butter-maker, made
under exactly the same conditions, except a
difference in sailing, as "A test of the expert
and that he did not care for the premium,
IL was by vote awarded TO the next highest
exhibit, as the rules required that not more
than one sample Of the butter from the same
cows should be admitted.
The following officers We're elected at the
Thursday session; President f. ID. Doug
lass of Whiting; vice-presidents, Alney
Stone of Westford and j. C. Oliver of
Charleston; secretary +. l.. Bass of West
Randolph; treasurer III. w. Vail of Pom
fret; auditor NJ. O, Stoddard of Poultney.
City Hail. in which the meetings were
held, was tastefully decorated with the ma
tional colors and agricultural embems, the
handiwork of the interchangeable secretary,
f. l.. Bass, in which he was efficiently sec
onded by the taste and skill of Mrs. Bass,
whose interest in the work Of the assoca-
ton and enthusiasm in promoting the sue
cess of the meetings is hardly second to her
husbands. Together the twain make a
complete and a most acceptable secretary,
and one to whom the association owes
much of its renewed prosperity and prom
Use of usefulness. The new president, Mr..
Douglass, is a man of sterling qualities, and
will bring honor and prestige to the assoc
citation.