St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-28
Gbe Californian.
HOW TO ADVANCE DAIRYING.

the proud distinction of leading in
the quality of her butter product, a
distinction which has been fairly
earned. They carried out an admir-
able programme at the three days
meeting and no doubt great good
will accrue to dairvmen of the Green
Mountain State.
Vermont is moving in the right
direction in regard to these matters
The state has come to recognize the
importance of a Liberal education"
among her dairymen, and for the
first time in twenty years made a lib
eraI appropriation to help forward
the good work Among the speak
ers at the convention was OhiO's
veteran in dairy lore, John Gould.
Mr. Gould took occasion to say to
the convention some things which
have Il deep interest to Maine farm
ers. We refer to the matter of spec1f-
&c instruction IN the manipulation
of milk and cream to manufacture
the best dairy goods. What is true
of Vermont is mainly true of Maine.
Mr.. Gould said:
There has got to be some form of
education different from that of the
past The dairy associations meet
and talk, but it does not educate
masses The head and hand must
be appealed to and facts demonstrate
ed The excellence of Vermont's
dairy products should be its best adj
vertisement Dairymen ought to
meet often as students There should
be dairy associations, dairy confer
ences, and dairy schools. With the
present methods you employ you
reach too few people. The dairy
conference, supplementing the work
of the association, is the work that
will get at the masses. At these
conferences demonstrations should
be given of how to make the best
butter. Approved apparatus should
be shown, and skilled manipulatOrs
be present to instruct. Individuality
about butter-making should be elimi
mated We don't want so much of
this "shoe-bOx butter" When all
the butter in Vermont is made sub
stantiaIlv by the same rule, an in
crease of five cents a pound will re-
suit lust think what an enormous
total that would make for year,
Make what purchasers want, and
you can sell all the butter you can
turn out Don't think you know
more about butter than the public.
1t does the buying and you the sell
ing. Find out which it wants and
furnish that kind. BY raising the
standard of your products, the finan-
cial prosperity of the whole of Yer
mont is increased. How shall the
dairy conference be started? How
many shall be held These questions
must be answered by you farmers.
Will you put your shoulders to the
wheel, or wait for the gods to move
things? | believe the Legislature
should make bigger appropriations.
Vermont is a natural dairy state.
AS we say out West, you have got
the bulge on all the rest of the
states. You are right close to the
market You ought to lead the
country in dairying and could, if you
set about it and work hard and prop
erly. Dairy associations, dairy con-
.ferences, and dairy schools, working
hand in hand, will bring about this
result Friendly strife is the channel
that will take you on to final success.
When these dairy schools are organ
lied, things will begin to move in the
right direction. They are the kinder
garten in this system of dairy educa-
ton.
Dairy conferences will sift out the
best methods When in this rivalry
of butter-making you are beaten, &C
cept the result with good grace and
turn in and try and beat some other
fellow We must not think that our
own opinion is better than that of
everybody else The butter values
of our milk and cream in the assOci-
ate diaries should be better adjusted.
Every mans milk and cream should
be paid for at just its proper value.
| don't believe in this Jumping bust
ness. Let the milk and cream be
tested, and the pay be in proportion
to the solids in them. We ought to
paw men for just what they furnish.
The dairy conference will remedy
such faults as this. A good many
COWS will probably have to be
knocked in the head in order to prop
erlv adjust things. In the dairy
schools all who want to may learn
the fine art of cheese and butter-1nak-
ing.
Diplomas should be given in these
schools to scholars who attain GER
tain degree of excellence, and as 4 re-
suit the time will come when you
would not employ Il man to make
YOUR butter unless he possessed one
of those diplomas. Think how such
schools would enhance the reputa
ton of our state From all over the
United States the demand would come
for Vermont butter and cheeseman's
ers. a dairy conference for two days
costs, in Wisconsin, about $50.
When held at a private creamery the
cost is much less. Summed up, then,
the conference will make interests
mutual it will promote labor saving
and the economy of material by
making the most of a given amount
because made by one rule; 1T will
canvass systems and call for greater
study; it will call attention to cream
and milk values, and even up and
deal out Justice Lewiston Journal.
SHOE YOUR OWN HORSE.
The London Times announces an
invention which Is called 1.-The nail
less horse shoe" 1t Is one of the diff
ficulticS in the use of the horse that,
if he casts shoe, YOU are i'll peril till
YOU reach the nearest blacksmith s,
and then are delayed fifteen or TWEEN
tv minutes till the shoe is put on.
The street car horses and team horses
are subject to the same delay, and in
time of war, when everything de
ponds upon the certainty of supplies,
the loss of horses shoes often DELAYS
a team wagon at moment when
the detention Is fatal to military