The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-14

ratio. (3) That ensilage produces a
much softer butter than does good
hay, but it is also favorable to the
flavor and texture of the butter pro-
duced. (D That skinned milk has a
very favorable effect upon the churn-
ability and quality of the butter fat,
and in single trial apparently reversed
the general rule that the volatile, fatty
acids decrease as the period of lactation
advances. (5) That cotton. seed meal
tends to produce an unusually hard
quality of butter, and that cotton-seed
meal and gluten meal might be used to-
gether with excellent result. CO. That,
contrary to general belief, the melting
point of butter fat is not good indica-
ton of the commercial hardness of but
ter That while in general soft but
ter melts at a lower temperature than
hard butter, there is no definite rela-
ton between melting point and actual
hardness. -
WE are receiving good many kind
letters, of late, from those old friends
whom we have been meeting, at least
once year, at our Dairy and Board
meetings, until recently. If we are
never again able to risk those pleasant
journeys, which have in years past
brought us personal acquaintance with
hundreds of the best farmers of this and
neighboring states, and even of states
far distant, yet we greet warmly and
appreciate highly these friendly mis-
sives. Within the past week we have
welcomed letter from Professor
Cooke, who is now at the head of the
Colorado experiment station, and pro-
fessor of agriculture in the agricultural
college of that young and vigorous
state; and from E. r. Towle, of the
st. Adams Messenger, who is, we think,
the oldest in service of any agricultural
editor in Vermont.
PROFESSOR COOKE seems to be very
happy, and we'll pleased with his new
position. Referring to the strange va
ration in the percentage of fat in the
milk of COW recently referred to by
us, he says: " 1t is evidently the care
of Mr.. Drew's Ayrshire cow, that made
the change in quality when moved from
the home farm to the fair grounds.
The feed in both cases was the same;
and the wide change in quality was an
entirely abnormal result, for which no
sufficient explanation has yet been
given" -
THE Professor goes on to say that
the Colorado institution is strictly an
agricultural college, in which manual
labor is compulsory, but is divided
between the farm, garden, greenhouse
and laboratory, the engineering build
ing and machine shop; so that each
student has to work at something in his
course in all of them. They have a
large horticultural department, with
everything required for thorough work,
and thirty acres for its exclusive use;
300 acres being left for the farm. He
adds that COLORADO is just waking up
to the fact that there is lots of money
in fruit" -
Mr.. TowLE kindly writes about the
recent Dairymen's Meeting. We wish
that we could give his letter in full; but
Mons. Crevat's treatise has cut our
space short one column, leaving US
rather cramped for room. Mr.. Towle
speaks of Mr.. Cheever's excellent pa
per, made up of "reminiscences of past
meetings; and remarks to one who had
attended all these meetings, and seen
and heard the men mentioned in his
review of nearly quarter of a century,
it was treat; and surely it was. Mr..
L. also refers to Mr.. Gabrlson of Iowa,
a Norwegian, we believe, by birth, but
a thorough Western American in char
acter, who read most useful paper.
We feel pretty we'll acquainted with
This gentleman, as he is a constant
writer in Rural Life, one of the very
best of our exchanges.
lT is thought by some that the Asso-
citation is to some extent drifting away
from its original design-the real dairy
interests of this state-and getting too
general and discursive. Still, the at
remains good, and the audi
ences are interested. Mr.. Towle re-
marks that the lecture of Mr.. Gilbert of
Maine was excellent. We should ex-
Dect nothing less from such a man.