Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-02-15
THE VERMONT PHulN1X BRATrEBORO FRIDAY. FEBRUA AIRY

law requires every man TO restrain his stock
upon his own premises, but at the same time
one owner may compel the other adjoining
owner to do his part in building and repair
ing fences, except against unoccupied wood
land think you must understand this.
Also, your neighbor, il allowed to use the
right Of way across your lands, or uses
portion Of your yard or woodland, for 10
years. he has become the owner by posses
sion The law does not require you to fence
upon the highway. Among these necessary
enactments you as farmers would do well
to make questions for discussion. For they
are pour laws You are in the ascendancy,
and the farms and homes which you occupy
are every inch of them sought out as the
to see that the laws be so framed and so
executed as to give equality to ALTO the
borrower as well as the lender. As means
to this end, you farmers it seems to me,
would do well to get together and discuss
these questions. Great good must come
out Of gatherings like this one thank
you for your attention.
Mr. Chaplin wish to say word at this
time, as it follows in this line. Last fall
the legislature passed new school law.
Now, it makes no difference whether we
like it or not, it is law and for one pro
pose to obey and try it, In some three
weeks your March meeting comes. and you
are to elect a member Of the county board
which is to elect a supervisor. Then rise
above all party cliques and clans and elect
your best man, and insist that the board
elect the best man for supervisor-a man Of
good age yet not too old, well posted in
modern methods of instruction, aTable, and
constituted to reach rural schools, scholars
and homes in their needs.
Roln G.. Smith Of Pittsford spoke upon
summer and Winter Dairying' Twenty
| five years ago Vermont was a sheep grow
| ing state but wool went down and then
the bottom fell out. Pastures began to de
cline until a large portion of them have
gone to the wall and must revert to forest
We knew comparatively nothing about dai-
| ryiug nothing about handling 20, 80 or 100
COWS. Our barns were open sheep sheds as
| 1t were, and we run along in this groove
until today Vermont produces less than 1870
| pounds If butter to the COW annually. Yer
mont is truly dairying state, and there is
no other industry presents itself to the av
erage farmer. If 1870 pounds is the aver
age, we must conclude that one half the
COWS in the state are really supporting the
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some 10 diaries that make 300 pounds to
the cow annually. If dairying does not
| pay, it is because the man is not adapted
his COW is unfit and subsists upon unbaanc.
ed food. There must be wedding out Of
cows and raising Of calves to supply the
need. Raise the good heifer calves feed
well not fattening, until a year old. Have
! them come in " hen two wears or 30 month,
old, in September, and dry off first of July
next after | can produce 1000 pound,
more milk in ten months to come in then
than to come in in March. Cows should
have solling crops TO supplement shortage
of pasture, whether in milk or not. for it /,
very important to keep them in first rate
condition for future use. Treat kindly
handle gently Raise and feed first rate
hay, for hay is the foundation feed If hay
is poor, it will be difficult to feed grain and
make butter economically but with good
hay and grain mixture upon a well balanced
ration winter dairying is far more prufita
BILE than summer dairying.
tx Gov. Holbrook inquired what should
be done with our June grass pastures
Mr. Smith-lurn in double Of the stock
in fore part of season so it will not seed
and supplement at the barn
Mr. Chaplin was urged to tell his "churn
ing experience, 80 which he did very reluct
antly, saying it was very Illuminating in
deed, as it was much against him As h,
proceeded the faces of his audience Lighted
up, and the end Of the story was greeted
with burst of laughter, in which even tn,
ex governor joined with evident apprecia
ton
\ vote of thank, to the board, responded
TO by Mr.. Chaplin closed a series of meet
ings most pleasant and profitable to tn,
people of Wndham county who attende,
them.