The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-09

small importance.
METHODIST MINISTER INTERVIEWED.
A pleasant chat was enjoyed with Rev.
w. e. Douglass, the Methodist pastor, who
showed his interest in things temporal by
subscribing for the WATCHMAN. MIR. Doug
lass is young man, one whom It is no dis
paragement to call hustler" During
the year and a half that he has ministered
to the people of Waitsfied and vicinity his
labors have been peculiarly blessed, and he
has seen the fruits thereof in large access
sions to the membership of his church.
" The best thing about it," said member
of his congregation, they all stick" Hard
work haslno terrors for Mr.. Douglass, and he
is constantly in demand for some kind of
pastoral labor outside OF Waitsfeld. He
has the confidence and affection OF his peo-
pie, and unless he should will it otherwise,
may consider himself settled until April,
1897
wAIrsFIELD's CREAMERY.
One of the first questions that was asked
the reporter after he had brushed off the
dust Of travel was Have you seen our
new creamery" AS this was one of the
prime objects of the trip, a refreshingly quiet
nights sleep was disturbed at five, o'clock
for the purpose of a visit to this new in
dustry while the farmers were delivering
their milk. On arriving there the long line
OF farmers wagons, loaded with huge cans
of milk showed that the work of the day
creamery is located was erected by L II.
Joslin. S. G. Fitch and j. B. Norton of
Richmond put in the machinery, costing
81 800, and are running the business The
first milk, only seven hundred pounds, was
delivered May 9, last, and before the first
week was over 5000 pounds daily were
taken there. With only few weeks trial.
1t is very evident that the creamery at
Waitstield has come to stay" At present
seventy-two farmers take the milk from
oh fhar a.,
daily.
The stock objection to creameries, that
farmers who owned high.fed Jersey herds
only stood an equal chance with skim
milk " diaries, is obviated by the use of
Babcock tester, Every mans milk is tested
once week, and he is given credit for all
the butter fat it contains. With seventy
| five as the standard in July, some Jersey
diaries, among them that of Judge Jones,
ran as high as ninety, while others fell 10
| sixty, and the farmers who take their milk
there are learning by experience that they
get what there is in it and no more. The
building is equipped with a ten-horse-
| power engine from the Erie City Iron
Works, and twenty-horse boiler, large
sized DeLaval separator, and Blanchard
| square-feeding churn, manufactured at
Nashua, n. H., with capacity of 800
pounds to churning. Each mans milk is
weighed every morning, then emptied into
a huge vat, whence it is pumped through
the separator The milk from which the
| cream has been extracted is run into a large
tank outside, and is taken home by the
| farmers in their empty cans, The separator
has capacity of 300 pounds of milk an
| hour.
OF course the figures vary with different
months, but during July the average was
twenty-five and one-half pounds of butter
to one hundred pounds of milk. The farm
ers pay the creamery men three and one
half cents per pound for making the butter,
the creamery furnishing the tubs. Each
mans butter is delivered to him to sell for
himself If he chooses, and when the business
was started most of them took it away
They have learned, however, that better
| prices can be realized by letting the cream
cry men ship it, and at present only one of
| the seventy-two customers sells his own
| butter. The average net price to farmers
| for July was twenty and one-half cents
| The building is equipped with large cold
storage room in which the butter can be
stored as long as desired. Most of it is
shipped to Boston in carload lots. A branch
separator was put in at East Warren last
week by Messrs. Fitch and Norton, which
does away with the necessity of hauling the
milk from that locality. After the cream is
extracted one man can take it from several
diaries to the creamery to be churned.
In Waitstield, as well as elsewhere, the
| creamery was an experiment when it was
started last spring, and the best evidence
that it does all it claims to do is its con-
stantly increasing number of customers
The reporter is under obligations to Mr..
| Fitch, who, between churning, working and
| packing butter, watching the separator, and
| serving the farmers with their daily supply
of butter, found time to answer an avalanche
| of questions, some of them evidently sense
less ones to him, and from his intelligent and
cheerful replies the pencil pusher, mex
perienced in such business, was enabled to
extract the cream of the facts in the case.
wAITsFIELDs NEW SCHOOL BUILDING.
"You must go up and look at our new
school building before you go home, F" said
| Will NJ. Strong, the architect and head car
penter. A stroll to that part of the vii
lage showed handsome building now rap
idly approaching completion The old
building, burned last January, had served
its purpose for forty-seven years, and a COM
modious structure costing $500 has arisen
from its ashes. 1t will be ready for occu-
pancy September l. 1t is to be equipped
with single seats in both the upper and
lower departments, and slate blackboards
will be placed on the walls. 1t is built with
Mansard roof, slated and timed. Hard rift
pine floors are laid in both departments,
and it is to be heated by furnace. Alto
gether, the building is admirably adapted
to the purposes for which it is intended.
While the expense of the new building is
heavy, it is not burdensome for town with
finances in such excellent shape as are
Waitsfeld's. A fifty-cent school tax will
pay for the building in two years and sup.
port the school meanwhile. The town had
81 300 in its treasury at the last annual
meeting, and voted town tax of only nine
cents. The entire tax this year, including
the special tifty-cent school tax, is one dol
lar on dollar of the grand list, and half OF
more of this will be done away with after
the school building is paid for. Hard times
do not Cypress very heavily in a town thai
is out of debt, has plenty of money in its
treasury, and only votes town tax of nine
cents
STEAM CLAPBoARD AND SINGLE MILLS.
. Among the other new industries in Waits
field worthy of note are the steam clapboarC
mill of George b. Berry in the west part o
the town, started last year and already do
ing large business, and the single mill o
c. III. Mehuron, also built last year w
and ID. Moriarty have the material on tn,
, ground for clapboard and shingle mil
, that they are to put up this fall in the cas-
. part of the town.
RAILROAD Is NEEDED,
All that is needed up through this vale,
to inaugurate healthy boom is a railroad
3 and the industries mentioned, with other
sure to be opened up, will render TIN
= screech of the locomotive necessity befor
MANY wears at least The distance from