Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-02-21


a more honest administration Of the duty
laws He held that sheep raising could be
made profitable if man liked the business,
and that n few sheep should be kept upon
Vermont farms for the wool and mutton,
All farm industries have their ups and
downs. and while il is the dairy which is
Just now being doomed. Mr. Winslow ad-
vised those who were giving their atten.
ton to sheep raising TO be getting ready TO
stand prosperity
Il. $ Phelps opened the discussion which
followed, stating his own experience IN
sheep husbandry lie did not consider it
difficult to get 500 from 100 sheep, and
reckoning 10 cows TO 100 sheep, thought
the balance was in favor Of the sheep. as "A
dairyman must do well indeed to secure $40
head annually from his cows. Sheep
need care as well as other stock Mr.. Cha
pm did not put all his eggs in one basket,
but kept both cows and sheep, and spoke
favorably of the sheep raising industry
Following this discussion song, The
Milk Maid" given by Misses Maynard OF
r. C.. Smith delivered an address upon
| "Dairying,' which was very interesting
the view presented being totally different
from that given by Prof. Cooke the previ-
GUS evening 1t related to the situation OF
| Vermont % years ago. when it was purely
sheep and wool raising state. As that
| industry declined the Yankee farmer must
| go into something, so he took the dairy
with such knowledge as he had Of the COW,
utensils, and manufacturing Of butter and
cheese, knowing nothing of breeding or OF
| feeding TO make success Yet under these
circumstances, since 1880 with an average
production of 100 pounds of butter to the
COW per annum, there can be found - dai.
ries of ten or more COWS, producing more
than 300 pounds to the COW, and when the
next census is taken it will doubtless show
large increase He made "a strong point
on care in rearing the calf for COW, Civ.
ing exercise and proper food A year
should be taken to raise a calf. Care should
he taken to select the sire from a good line
of mixers, and then continue to breed IN
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much in and in breeding. He believed in
feeding what you raise and raising what
you feed as much as possible. He held that
at no distant day all of the butter in Yer
mont will be made by factory operation, all
made alike and bringing in the aggregate
more money into the state than now. He
urged the improvements of stock by testing,
wedding out, by breeding better feeding
better and making a better quality.
Another song by the Misses Maynard,
Hannah, the cows are in the corn, - won
much applause, and then the discussion was
opened by George Wright, the butter man
ufacturer at the Valley creamery, West
minister
On Friday evening the closing session
brought out large numbers in spite Of the
pouring rain. After the song given 10y the
/ Misses MAYNARD, r. G. Smith very pleas
anty introduced NJ W Davis to address.
/ his fellow townsmen and the visiting agri
culturists, and under the head Of "Agri
cultural brio brac" he gathered up and
/ presented to them some of the chief points
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sions of the two days Mr.. Davis said
1 eve have had presented to us many new
/ theories, many which are old in practice
/ but imperfect in administration; 1t is for
us to make the application. This town and
| county, with the rest of the state, has
lost heavily from the best element of popu
lation until the cry is deserted farms
/ and abandoned homes The fault is in
ourselves we are uneasy, we have eXtrav
/ agant notions, we change too often our
| speciality in farming, we are not willing tC
assume the place and business to which We
are adapted, and bring ourselves into d
/ knowledge of all that is movable about it
Farms should he selected and bJilding,
erected with reference to the branches OF
agriculture to he pursued, goods should be
manufactured in the best style for the best
market for the best goods in that class and
sold when ready Take the best paper
that pertains to the speciality followed
keep posted in the true sense hguratively,
make two spears of grass grow whore but
one grows now, produce 300 pounds of but
ter per COW instead of 100, increase the an
nual income per head of sheep from 81 to : =
The time has come for more intensive, in
| stead of extensive farming when oul
work must he done by the hest modern ma
chnery to save the expense of muscle
To attain the best prosperity curtail all un
necessary expenses, practice economy, b,
industrious, fertilize the brain. study poht
ical economy learn politics, go to the polls
for the right men, keep the line shoulder e
shoulder, represent agriculture with a solo
front and stand for equal taxation anC
representation Have pride in the farmers
calling and move up on to a higher plane.
At the close of Mr. Divis's remark,
Messrs Chaplin, Vail and Smith each SPOKE
in complimentary aud appreciative wa!
of the excellence of the meeting and tn,
hospitality of the people, and on motion o.
II, A Willard unanimous vote of thank
was rendered the board of agriculture an,
the singers,
This last meeting of the season may b,
considered the best of the series held, tn,
attendance being very large and a deep in
terest manifested throughout That thu
benefits resulting will be great cannot b,
! doubted