The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-17

in size, and is kept up more for the
benefit of students than for profit,
although Mr.. Howe finds ready local
market for all the lettuce, cucumbers
and flowers that he can cultivate, realiz-
ing as much as S13O per month, some
months, for them. In room adjoin-
ing are the rooms of Professor Jones,
the botanist, where he explains to
the students the reason and remedy
for any disease or vermin on the
products of the greenhouse. In this
room Professor Jones does much ex-
detrimental work with bordeaux and
other mixtures for the determination of
potato-bugs, etc.
THE CREAMERY BUILDING.
The next room is the lecture apart
ent of the creamery building. In
This room is the milk laboratory for
testing milk with the Babcock tester,
the churn, butter-worker, etc. This
apartm ent is as clean and sweet as it is
possible to have it, as we're, in fact,
every room and building visited. This
department is equipped with twelve
horsepower engine, separators and
Cooley creamery. Two kinds of butter
are manufactured to meet the home de-
mand-from sweet cream, and ripened
cream. The butter is all put up in two
pound bricks, stamped Experiment
Station" and is contracted for sale in
Burlington at twenty i've cents for sum-
mer and thirty cents for winter butter.
No better can be made, and it easily
commands gilt-edged price.
THE HORSE BARN.
The horse-barn is fitted with patent
ventilators, and, in a shed adjoining, all
the farm tools and machinery are kept,
thoroughly cleaned and in perfect or
der, whether in daily use or not.
THE HERD OF JERSEYS.
One of the most interesting sights at
the Experiment Farm is the celebrated
herd of Jerseys. A recent acquisition
is the full-blood Jersey bull, "Earle of
Montague" brought two weeks ago
from Glen Cove, l.. l. This bull was
present to the institution by Hon.
Charles M. Pratt, friend of President
Buckham, and it was through the in
fuence of Colonel Robert j. Kimball
of Randolph that this splendid animal is
now at the Experiment Farm. His
pedigree is a royal one. He is half
brother to the noted COW 'Elrotisama,"
who made over 945;pounds of butter in
a year, great-grandson of "Eurotas,"
the first of the great test I'd cows max
ing IT'S pounds of butter in year, and
his great-granddam was full sister of
"Mary Ann of st. Lambert" who made
667 pounds of butter in a year. He
thus combines in an extraordinary de-
gree the blood of three of the greatest
cows ever raised. His pedigree for six
generations back, with their get, is
sprinkled thickly with COWS giving
more than fourteen pounds of butter
week. The Rioter and Stoke Pogis
lines of blooi APPEAR at their best in
the "Earl's'' pedigree. Individually, he
is noble-looSing animal, and would
score well in the ring. He wa, bred by
d. f. Appleton of Ipswich, Mass, and
for while headed the registered Jersey
herd of Colonel Kimball at Randolph.
OF the thirty three sleek Jersey cows,
eight or nine are eligible to registry.
The butter record of each one will be
published in the annual report, as each
cows milk is weighed and tested. The
milk of the herd will average more than
FIVE per cent of butter fa', while that of
"Golden Rod and "Jersey Lily" will
60 over six per cent. The latter is the
"star" of the herd, and Mr.. Howe was
obliged to smile, the other day, when a
lady from the city, who took fancy to
her, offered him 1875 for her. Six
times that sum could not purchase her.