The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-09

more TO me used as use it. This is
bold talk perhaps; but big crops and
plenty of money have tendency to
make one feel that way. l know that
the good ship that has brought me
safely over would do the same for thou
sands of others if they did their share.
No reader of your paper can be harder
up than we were before clover and
tillage came to our assistance"
THE NEW BUTTER EXTRACTOR
1t is now admitted that this machine
does not yet work with practical per-
lection, and one writer declares that its
product is not butter, but only "thick
cream" This is Indignantly denied by
the Dairy World The most plausible
criticism we have seen is the following,
by a writer in the London (Eng.) Agri-
cultural Gazette, "I watched the ma
chine working very closely, and came
to the conclusion that it tries to do inn
possibilities. 1t is simply a combined
separator and churn, and, working as
ditions that render failure either in one
or other of the operations attempted a
certainty. The best condition for sep
arating milk is that the milk shall be at
temperature of ninety degrees, and
the best condition for churning cream
is that the temperature of the cream
shall be from fifty to sixty degrees. 1t
is therefore clear that machine that
separates and churns at the same tenn
either the one operation or the other.
To separate at ninety degrees entails
that the butter churned at that degree
must be too soft TO be workable. To
meet this difficulty tub containing
iced water is used to harden the butter
as it comes from the separator, and of
course ice in sufficient quantity for daily
use is an impossibility in country
dairies." This difficulty about ice,
however, is much greater in England,
which has to import it's ice, than in our
Northern states.
FIFTY YEARS AGO.-At a meeting
reported in the Homestead "E. G.
Flagg, a veteran farmer, nearly eighty
years of age, was the first speaker. He
explained methods of farm manage
ment fifty years ago, and compared old
methods with more modern ones.
Once, one hundred acres were thought
necessary to keep dozen cows, yoke
of steers and horse. Truck farming,
as now practiced, was unknown. No
one knew then of the Jersey, Guern-
sey, Holstein, Devonshire and Short
horn breeds of cattle. All were native
stock. Eight, ten and sometimes
twelve quarts of milk per day was a
fair average, though occasionally COW
was known which would fill nine
quart pail twice day. This was all
without grain rations. l do not have as
much faith in breeds as in care and
feeding. If cows then had the same
management that fancy stock does
now, probably as good results might
have been obtained. Now three times
as much stock can be kept on the same
amount of land, yet, with all that,
many farmers have too much land"
Now we ask the croakers about the
decline" of our New England agri-
culture where they find evidence that
farming "before the war" was more
profitable than now. Our own mem
DRY of the farm runs back more than
half century, and we insist that New
England farming was no way SO profit
able then as now. Potatoes twelve
cents bushel, butter the same, eggs
six cents dozen, dressed beef three to
four cents, and so on,-and all very
slow of sale, even at such rates.
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