The Portland daily press., 1892-12-16
TO THE BUTTER MAKERS.


dWelt upon the neeu Oh cleanliness IN
the case of our animals as in the
care of our own persons, of light for our
cattle as for our children. He thought
our farmers should look after these
things, insread of leaving all the caution
and most of the work to the women
folks, as too many of them do-a fashion
they learned from Farmer Adam, who
fell into the habit before he was driven
out of Aroostook county. To begin
with, he said, we should keep stock
worth caring for; to keep any other
kind is Improbable, waste of money
and time and labor. Then we should do
away with the damp, dark, filthy barns
in which 50 many of our cattle, on so
many of our farms, are sheltered. These
barns are disgrace to their owners, o
breeder of disease in their kline, and
source of impurity in their dairy pro-
ducts
DR.. Bailey commented upon the insult
ficency of the appropriation made by
the state for the cattle commission, whose
labor is greatly multiplying as its value
becomes known. Only last week he was
called to cases in Aroostook county land
here the speaker branched off to the
subject of game in that paradise of
sportsmen and, giving wings to an imagi-
nation at any time uncommonly alert,
said partridges were SO thick down there
they persisted in
Roasting on the Gun Barrels,
and every day, nearly, there are calls for
the services of the commission, and SO
the Doctor ran on, in a delightfully."- dis
cursive vein, for ten or fifteen minutes,
speaking of horse feed, of the ventila-
ton of stables, of pot-bellied calves which
looked as if they had swallowed boil
ster, of short-sighted and niggardly
farmers who never feed grain to their
cattle till the beasts are able to earn it,
and of fifty other things edifying or
amusing. The talk, to which only YER
batim report taken by phonographcould
do Justice, was received by the audience
with huge delight, and smiles as wide as
the address was long. The Doctor closed
with his favorite bit of advice: Feed
your horses on oats.
In reply to an inquiry the speaker at
tributed the improvement of Maine
horses within the last ten years to better
breeding and better feeding. More horses
have gone into the 2.30 list during this
decade than during all the years before.
In response to a request he gave de-
scrlptloh Oh tuoeIculosis, P pa 'io.'ieiiy
the pulmonary KING, ana the symptoms
by Whlch we may recognize H. anu
pointed OUT Inc dangers coming ron
contaminated mix. but we are aoo9o
Tree from tuoercuiosls III Malne' Nc saiu,
except that bfougnt from aproao, DIS we
are from glanaers IN Iorses'
AT the conclusion OF ~. balleys re-
marks the session was profosueo ior
DINNER sEssroN
AfIhhNooN sHssAoN'
The attendance IN the afternoon was
somewhat larger. Among 1.-THE new az
v;,,,a1s ,-o,,o - sooro+.rv Cs;lbapt of the
40 -, -;
agricultural poaro, eA-oecfe1aiy Ien.i-
son of the state fair, G. B. Berry OF the
Forest Creamery, Hiram Cobbett OF
Pennington, O. Meader OF Albion, and A.
L. Blaisdell Of Winterport
The first address OF the session was by
Dr.. George Austin Bowen OF Woodstock,
Conn, pres ident of the Connecticut Dal,,
rymen's Association and master OF the
Connecticut State Grange, on "Construc-
ton Of the Dairy Herd. +" DR.. Bowen
took UP and described the perfect COW,
which does not seem to be as rare an ami
NAL as the perfect man, touching upon
her fine points with loving admiration.
From the milky mothers OF the nero ne
proceeded to'consider the bull, giving
on the duties and RESPONSE
bilities of paternity that would delight
the heart of the most enthusiastic advo-
cate of stirpiculture. He gave the I'M
preston that the cattle herd should be
built up with as much care as the com
AS the material is, on the
whole, rather better, it ought to be an
easier task.
DR.. Bowen holds that out of these
dairy meetings great good will grow.
We shall learn by them to discard worn
out methods and to adopt those in ac-
cordance with improved experience.
The dairy business in New England is
the best business carried on there-bet-
ter than politics, better than preaching,
safer than railroading. 1t should bring
in six per cent annually oni the capital
and will if wisely handled
But we must bear in mind that the
Cooley method has revolutionized the
business. Remember, too, that not only
must we employ the new methods and
the new apparatus, but the new breeds
and the new ways of breeding. We have
departed from the old type OF animal.
The, COW of the fathers is passing out of
fashion. The coming cow is superior
animal