The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-16
New Hampshire Dairyman's
Association.

The annual meeting of the Granite State
Dairyman's Association was held at Han
over, commencing JanuaryS, in connection
with the meeting of the State Board of Agri-
culture and continued three days. The av-
erage attendance during the meetings ex-
ceeded one hundred and those present were
the leading men in the agricultural work of
the state. There was also fair representa-
ton from Vermont, on the last day. The new
building OF the Experiment Station had been
so nearly completed that the laboratory and
part OF the offices were occupied. Dairy
tests were carried on in the building con-
tinuing through the three days. Five sys-
TENS were in use: The centrifugal or sep
arator system, the Cooley system, the
Noseley and Stoddard system the johnson
top can sS stem, and the ordinary shallow
pan system. The meeting of the first dav
was opened with discussion of the question:
Does Farming Pay? II. f. Hoyt of Han
over showed that the town farm during the
year 1887 IS did pay all expenses and six per
cent on the full valuation of the farm and the
stock, etc. There were addresses by Pro-
fessor Cooke of Vermont, Professor May
nard of Massachusetts, Mr.. Cheever of
the NeW Engtdnd Farmer and others, but
the most striking paper of the meetings was
one on Home Attractions by Mrs. &. W.
Emery of Canterbury.
a might be expected, the discussions dur
ing the meeting drifted off to the dairy
uurSllOH, anu lneTe were occasional COntrO-
versieS between the friends Of the Cooley
system and those who favored the separator.
During one Of che discussions Mr.. Slayton
of Manchester stated that he formerly pur-
chased three-fourths of the butter he bought
for Manchester from the private diaries of
Washington county, Vermont. But he
added that not one fifteenth of the butter
handled at the present time for the same
purposes comes from private daires. He
stated that the difference in price be-
tween the creamery butter and private
diaries was between five and eight cents
per pound, and he showed that this differ
ence would in few years pay for cream
cries in all the farming towns.
The award for butter made at private dai.
ries gave the first prize to w. b. Baker of
Quincy, the second to l.. l.. HaZen of
Whitefeld and the third TO the New Hamp-
shire Experiment Station. The awards for
creamery butter gave the first prize to the
West Lebanon creamery, the second to G..
j. Britton of Keene and the third to the
Hanover creamery. The tests showed the
weight of butter from one hun
dred fifty pounds of milk used in differ
ent systems Moseley 4 Stoddard's, six
pounds, eight ounces: Cooley, five pounds,
pounds. three and half ounces shallow
pan, six pounds, eight and one-third ounces;
separator, six pounds, thirteen ounces. The
Johnson system did not have higher
weight, from the fact that the milk was set
for only few hours. On the quality of the
butter, the rating on the scale of 1907 Nose
ley Il Stoddard, so per cent Cooley, IS per
cent; Johnson's Sc per cent: shallow pan,
- per cent; separator, So per cent. The
chemical tests have not been completed,
but those made are favorable to the Cooley