The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-16

may be said of the board, DIR. Bowles
and the "boys" are "sound on the
goose" The meeting was a successful
one from first to last-much better
than was expected. The New Hamp-
shire Board of Agriculture, the New
Hampshire Dairyman's Association
and Experiment Station were holding a
joint meeting at Hanover, only mile
away, and it was thought that this meet
ing might spoil ours. The Vermont
ers, however, not only held the fort,
but are reported to have had the best
and largest meeting. ID. A. Loveland
welcomed the board and presided over
the sessions with grace, dignity and
precision. The exercises were accord
ing to the programme, with the addi-
ton of a short address by A. w.
Cheever, editor of the NelC England
Farmer, who came over from the
Hanover meeting and spent one even
ing and night with us. Mr.. Cheever
spoke mainly on corn, and advised its
more extensive cultivation. The paper
by II. b. Odds of Norwich, on " Farm
house Surroundings " was good-good
mountaineering of beauty of location,
cleanliness, gardens, fruits and flowers,
L
to be regretted that so fine a young
man as Mr.. ODDS should be destitute of
that most necessary farmhouse sur
rounding, a wife. Can't the ladies of
Norwich see to it that a change is made
in that respect? The various papers of
the board were thoroughly discussed
and some good dairy records were given.
Mr.. Slack made | 800 pounds of butter
in year from five cows; keeps them
on seven acres of moving and ten
acres of pasture. Mr.. G.. Slack has
eight cows; makes forty-eight to fifty
pounds per week on feed of hay and
| two quarts of cOtton-seed meal. Chang-
| inc the cotton-seed meal to four quarts
of coru-meal caused shrinkage of five
or six pounds week the first week,
and more the second; the third week
the maximum loss per week being
fifteen to seventeen pounds.
Tuesday evening Payson j Board
man rccited Elias Hardhack's discourse
on the question, "Does Farming Pay?"
in the true Yankee dialect. 1t was
finely done.
Between the sessions of the afternoon
and evening it was pleasure to me
to visit an old resident of Washington
county, the venerable Ashley Blodgett,
formerly of MiddleseX, who, although
nnety-seven next March, is quite smart,
walks about the house, remembers his
old friends and inquired for all the older
generation, like Ex-Governor Paul Dill
bingham, +. p. Jewett and many others.
His two sons, Warren X. of Boston
and Elijah II. of Red Wing, MINI.
! /. - &c
Wednesday forenoon, by the kindness
of Mr. Samuel Hutchinson, we had the
pleasure of visiting the fine old town
of Hanover, the classic seat of that
ancient institution of learning, Dart
mouth College, and also the Expert
ment Station and farm connected there
with. The town and College are finely
located on high plateau above the
Connecticut river. The farm lies
rather flat and the soil seemed clayey
but we did not look it over much, or
account of a severe rain-storm. Drop
ping into the meeting, we found small
but very respectablelooking audience
listening to statistical and interesting
discourse by Mr.. Cheever, on the rela
tive productions of the various sections
!, of the United States. Mr.. Chaplin gave
brief greeting from the Vernon
Board to the New Hampshire Board fo
the success and improvement of agri
culture.
) Leaving Messrs. Davis, Vail, Wins
low and Cooke to finish up the meetin!
at Norwich, | started out amid the gath
0 ering gloom of rainy winters after
0 noon to accompany the "two grea
= moral bears " to the scene Of tie mex
a meeting at Bloomfield, Essex county
o Up the long river (ConnecticuD t,
. Wells River, then up the lower Am
. monoosuc to Wing dam or Wing roa,
. q have forgot which), thence over int
the valley of the Connecticut at Ian
, caster, where we took tea; then on t.
Groveton Junction, where we strucl
the Grand Trunk railroad, as it wind
, down the upper Ammonoosuc. Thir
t teen miles over that road brought us t
, North Stratford, on the east bank o
the Connecticut river. Here we learne
: that the meeting had been adjourne
to that place, on account of there nc
f being a suitable hall on the Vernon
= side. This was probably the first tim
the Vermont board ever held a meetin
on New Hampshire soil. The expert
ment proved an entire success, tn
e meeting being an improvement on tn
one held at Iunenburgh last year. Their
was good audience, good music ant
an increasing interest all the wa
: through, and good hotel fare at the Wi
5 lard House, kept by G. E. Moses. MI
/; Williams representative from Bloom
= field in 1866 was chosen chairman
and with one exception the programm
. was carried out as printed, to wit
/ "Address of Welcome" by Mr.. vii
n Jams; What Shall be Done with tn
e Milk?" by r. c. Smith; Cultivate
and Sowed Crops" by William Chaplin
) Profitable Stock-feeding," by NJ W
= Davis; Breeding (and Feeding) Dair
) Stock" by Homer w. Vail" Address,
V by W. W. Cooke, and d" What Breed c
. Horses is Better than the Morgan?" b
q G.. NJ. Winslow These topics, wit
n the usual variations and questions, too
y the time fully.
> The afternoon session of the secon
, - day was omitted on account of a tuners
: that many people wished to attenC
hnr int