News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-08-06
LaPOrt Dairy,

road, about three miles from the
village of Morrisville. The farm con
tains 145 acres, is in an excellent
state of cultivation, and is consid-
cred one of the best dairy farms in
the county. The principal object OF
our visit was to see his "baby." We
do not mean those human bipeds,
but the DeLaval Baby Separator,
which he has recently placed in his
barn, and which after several weeks
of thorough trial he has concluded
is just the thing for every dairy far
mer to have. We went at milking
time so as to see the mOdus Operandi
from beginning to end.
Entering a large barn we found the
COW stable filled with twenty-five or
more fat, sleek Jerseys, standing on
platforms built for their comfort,
and not to save space or material.
The floor was covered with fresh,
clean sawdust, and everything in
the stables had an air of cleanliness
about it. We found the proprietor
busily engaged in extracting the lac
teal fluid. While waiting for enough
milk to accumulate to start the Sep
arator we looked over the premises.
All the rest Of the barn, the horse
stable, the hog pens, etc, were like
the COW stable, neat and tidy. A
handsome stallion, "Gen Fremont, "
occupied a box stall and commanded
attention. He is a bay, with star
and points is ICY hands high and
weighs 1850 pounds. He possesses
inbred Hambletonian blood, and
comes from stock with noted records
for speed and beauty.
There are three silos in the barn,
two each of IS tons capacity, and
one of $50 tons, which is Il strong
argument of the confidence Mr.. Smith
has in ensilage. He has found them
to be of much benefit to the dairy
and knows of nothing better for the
dairy farm. Under the barn, in
roOmy pens, were six or eight fine,
clean hogs.
Mr.. Smith devotes a little time to
bee culture, and as result manages
to sell each year about 500 worth
of honey.
Another improvement on this place
which is worthy of mention is that a
few years ago the proprietor con-
cluded that drawing ice from Norris
vile was an unnecessary expense,
and so by laying out a few dollars
on some waste land, built a pond
from which he harvests all of the ice
necessary for his own use and that of
several neighbors.
BY this time enough milk had been
gathered to feed the "haby." The
power for running the Separator is
furnished by a yearling heifer, which
at first was as wild as a Texas steer,
but now quietly mounts the tread
power and is as docile as a lamb.
The power is speeded so that she
travels very slowly, and chews her
cud as though she stood in her stall.
The Separator is in a little room fin
ished off in the end of the stable.
The milk is poured into the top of
the machine and after the wheel has
turned a few times two streams, one
cream and the other "skim " milk,
flow from the Separator What
skim milk is wanted for the calves is
above-the calf stall adioin-
ing the Separator room. The bal
ance is conducted to the hog-pen in
the basement. The little machine
works nicely, does it's work thor
oughly and in very short time. AS
Mr.. Smith runs a winter dairy a
great saving is made in warming
milk for hogs and calves, and in car
rying it to and from the barn. Only
the cream is carried to the house.
AS the Separator is a comparatively
new thing in this section, we give
herewith some of the advantages
claimed for it
There is an increase of 10 to 80
per cent. in cream produced.
2.-The Separator butter brings the
best prices in every market.
3.-Sweet cream of any desirable
may be obtained.
4.-Warm, sweet skim milk for
feeding purposes.
5.-Perfect cleanliness, as more
dirt is taken out of the milk than is
possible with the finest cloth strainer.
GA great saving of time, labor,
ice and space. The machine being
very simple, durable and compact, is
easily cleaned and very easily oper-
lted.
Mr.. Smith is so we'll pleased with
the machine that he has secured
agency for this county, and any one
may obtain any informa-
Jon they wish or circulars by drop
ping a postal to him at Morrisville.
Mr.. Smith is certainly a progress
,ive farmer He introduced the first
wheel power in this section the first
horse corn planter the first cream
cry for the deep setting of milk, lit
being 16-can Moseley & Stoddard;) |
bought the first manure spreader,
and built the first silo, 1.-THE fourth in
he State.) Now he puts in the Sep
traitor, which, he says, has come to |
tay-it being, as he claims, as much |
ahead of the deep setting as the lat
er is ahead of the old-fashioned |
mall pans.
The farm was bought by Mr.. Smith
leven years ago, who was obliged to |
un into debt for both farm and |
took. All the wise acres" had con-
iderable to say about it and many
we're not at all reserved in predicting
hat the poor-house would soon be
lis home, so reckless was he-buying
verything and keeping a good deal
If hired help. But by close attention
o business and buying necessary
nodern machinery, he has kept the
arm thus far. He is ever on the alert
Or the best machinery, that will en-
BILE him to make the most and best
utter possible at the least expense.
lis butter is put up in attractive
hape and always finds a good mar
eft
He is a firm believer in the Jersey
reed, and thinks that, rightly man
ged, they would pay off the mort
age on every farm in Vermont in a
wv years. He thinks that farmers
,ould do much better by getting a
and separator and making and
their own butter. He
avs he can make several hundred
ollars more yearly than ahy cream
ry man can pay him. OF course to
o this, besides having good machin-
ry, the stock must be well taken
are of. The cattle are housed every
light in the year and are we'll fed.
lie buys about $12 worth of meal
Or each of his cows and they each
verage him about So wort!. of
utter year, heifers included,
People who speak lightly of YER
lont farms and say that F." farming
4 the state is played out" would
e very strongly convinced of their