Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-03-01
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Reported for the Free Press.
The meeting of the State Board of Agri
culture for Bennington county was held at
Dorset. which is situated in the northern
part of the county. II is the centre of quite
a large communit of farmers and the towns
of Rupert Dandy and Manchester had
good representation of first class farmers.
Dairvirg is the principal occupation OF the
farmers and the milk is mostly made into
cheese either at factory or in private dairy.
Some of the farmers milk as many Us 6O
cows
Dorset has quite place in the early his
tory of our State. We were shown the
site where stood the inn of Deacon Cephas
Kent. and where Ethan Allen used to put
up in crossing the country.
a full house greeted the board, and
Charles Il. Kent was elected chairman. He
said the meeting at that place last year was
Il decided success, and the fruits of 1T were
plainly visible. We wish the Board of
Agriculture could hold up the business of
farming in such light that more of our
Young men would remain at home ON the
farms. Too many 80 West, and those who
stay send them money TO pay Tor their farms
at from + to - per cent interest. If many |
of the boys who leave their homes i'll Yer
mont would deny themselves as much here,
and work as hard as they do in other places,
they would in many instances he much bet
ter Off Most Western lands are heavily |
mortgacCd, and Vermont has too much |
money invested in them. While farmers are |
deporing the condition of our own State, |
let them lool, to others. Vermont cows
produce 12S pounds of butter per COW. |
while Kentucky cows produce only 60 We |
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BREEDING HORSES.
Mr.. Winslow of the board was the next
sneaker His s1bioct was ..The trottinp
horse on fine firm Prominent amonG
tbe heavy draft horses are the Clyde
shire par,hrron and Norman The
CLYDE and Shire are virtually the same
horse bainr bred in different sections of
country: also the Percheron and Norman.
hra these Lreeds uroftoble in Vermont
We farmers have n GOOD deal of road work
and can hardly afford to keep a horse that
is not fit for driving. Always raise the
h,pbest TYNE of any animal In the West
crn STATES with their cheap feeds they can
raise these heavy horses much more cheaplv
than we can. The French coach horses as
wen as the English are always in demand.
do not think the Cleveland bavs thorough
bred horses. They have not the strength of
prepotencv 10 reproduce their kind as a
thoroughbred has. The French coach ap-
pears to be a typical Morgan. only larger.
with pcrhaDs less vim and specd. The
smaller ones are fine cavalry horses. while
the larger are valuable for coaches.
An intelligent Western horse breeder
saws Vermont made a Great mistake in let
ting the Moran 90. She would have stood
at the head of all the horse breeding coun
tries in the world had She kept the Morgan
blood Is pure as it was 80 years ago. and
improved a little on the size. The Morgan
horse. with proper feed and breeding. could
characteristics of the breed ! do not con-
sluer inc GthcIa purpose holse ol vermont
OIJ Jmstin Norpron 1,os = horse about IA
hands and ,voigbnd about 05o Wounds 10
was 1rrI,Jo,f1Il,, strong, borea and ,ra.
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them to do the ordinary farm work and
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