The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-07-08

Or' henry OJeWarC, III WHICH ne sPedhs
of the "heresy " of the belief " that the
proportion of butter in milk cannot be
increased by feeding" Now here is a
mis-statement implied at the very start.
No one has, to our knowledge, ever put
forward so bold an averment as is here
assumed. Why not state a position
that you are going to controvert, Doc
tor, in the language used in stating it
by it's holders? Is it, perchance, be-
cause when so stated 1t could not be con-
troverted with success?
IT depends good deal upon the con-
dition of the COW, when you begin your
experiment, whether the proportion of
cream in her milk can be increased. If
she is below her normal healthy or
vigorous condition, and you begin to
feed her more and more suitable food,
the relative proportion of cream to the
skim milk will usually be somewhat in
creased. Also, as time goes on, even
with adequate and proper feeding, there
will be some relative increase of cream
to milk in all cows, as they get farther
from their date of calving.
BUT these affirmative points, uni
versally conceded by intelligent writers,
are not concerned in this question, as
properly stated and understood by COM
petent dairymen. No comparison is
intended by them between ill and we'll
fed COWS, or between fresh and farrow
cows. The test, to be fair and within
rightful conditions, must be to learn
whether, by any known practical
method of feeding and handling, a
three or four-per-cent butter-cow can
be permanently transformed into five
or six-per-cent butter-cow? That, DIR.
Stewart, is the question which must be
met by the men who undertake to argue
this matter. If you, or any other man,
feel willing and able to demonstrate
this affirmative practically and eff
fectively, and will do it, then we can
assure him of the unbounded gratitude
of at least all the breeders of big black
and-white COWS for the butter dairy in
America.
SEVERAL readers have asked us to
give them the Law of Newspapers, as
regards subscriptions; and as we have
just come upon compilation of them
by DR.. Tuckerman, editor of the Cleue-
land (Ohio) Workman, we will insert
them here: First-Subscribe who
do not give express notice to the con-
trary are considered as wishing to re-
new their subscriptions. Second-If
subscribers order the discontinuance
of their periodicals, the publisher may
continue to send them until all the
arrearages are paid. Third-If SUBJ
scribers neglect or refuse to take their
periodicals from the post-office to which
they are directed, they are responsible
until they have settled their bills and
ordered them discontinued. FOURTH
If subscribers move to other places
without informing the publisher, and
the papers are sent to the former adj
dress, they are held responsible. Fifth
The courts have decided that refusing
TO take periodicals from the office, or
removing and leaving them uncalled
for, is prima facie evidence of inten-
tional fraud. Sirth-If subscribers
paid in advance they are bound to give
notice at the end of the time, if they
do not wish to continue taking it:
otherwise the publisher is authorized
to send it, and the subscriber will be
responsible until express notice, with
payment of all arrearages, is sent to
the publisher. The latest postal laws
are such that newspaper publishers can
arrest any one for fraud who takes
paper and refuses to pay for it. I'm
der this law, the man who allows his
subscription to run along for some time
unpaid and then orders it discontinued,
or orders the postmaster to mark it re-
fused and have postal card sent
notifying the publisher, leaves him
liable to arrest and fine, the same as for
theft"