The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-10
THE DAIRlMEN's SECOND DAY.
Prizes Awarded-Attempts TO Palm Oh
OlcomargarIne With Exhibits of Gen
uine Dairy Butter Defeated.

OIeomargarIne With Exhibits OF Gen
uine Dairy Butter Defeated.
The second day of the Vermont
Dairymen's convention at Rutland
Wednesday had for its first business
the election of officers for the coming /
year. The following officers wer.
chosen: Hon. j. O. Sanford, prcsi
dent; S. j. Hastings of Passumsic
first vice president i. c. Smith OH
Pittsford, second vice president
George W. Piecre. secretary: III. W
Wall, treasurer; George Atkin an
Woodstock. auditor. The mornin
session was given TO the discussion OH
bovine tuberculosis. Hons. c. NH
Winslow and V. l.. Spear made th
addresses Of the morning. Their judt
ment was that Vermont diaries we,
in a much healthier condition the
those found by the commissioners
surrounding states. The afternoc
session was devoted to associate
dairying. 4. Gilbert. editor of Il
Maine Farmer, read an able paper
THE Farmers Side of Associate
Dairying." c. W.. Scharff of Burlin
ton gave an interesting talk on ole
margarine. The exhibit of butt
and cheese was superior in sever
points to that of last year. The
tries numbered only "A as against
last year, but the quality was far b
ter. The best butter score was .0
and the lowest SO. The best chef
score was 81 and the lowest SO.
The Awards. Hl
Dairy butter. class Item pound tubs +
premium, p B u Sorthrope of sheldon; secO I
tween j B Barnard, 5 j Northrope of shorel
and j Z sherburne of Pomfret:
Grass 2--Fiye pound tubs: First premium iIl
NJ Cameron Of MiddleseN; second, l. 8 Drew
South Burlington; third, p W strong Of I
fret. 9f
Glass 3-Fivc pound prints first premium
II Harrison of Piitsford; second, j A Ale,
der OF Guilford; third, q + Stafford of Chip
hook, creamery butter. 8fMi
Class 4 Twenty, four pound tubs: first sl{f
MUM, BrattlcDoro second, Lam f
Valley creamery; third, re Donahoe, II
burgh creamery.
ass 5-Ten pound tubs; Il F Jaynes, Ryel
Gamer second, st Johnsbury creamery; ny
Deerrield Valley creamery, Wilmington.
Glass D-first premium, III l. Warner, tbHs III
Pou;tney second, c II L Davis of Mount II
third, divided between Ed Bissonete Of f8
son and IL C. Gleason of Shrewsbury. MfRf
Cheese -Class A-Dairy plain, first prem
4 Mes-er OF Rochester; second, ID K Smit
Pawlet; third, IL NJ Rice of Westfield. q
Class B-Ditiry sage, first premium.
second, II II Rice. W i
Glass C-Creamery plaln, first, John PIls !
of East Rupert; second, Z IL Davis; thi
l. Warner.
The sweepstakes premium of the gold /
was awarded TO L + Jaynes, butter max
the Jersey Hill creamery, Ryegate, 10
pound prints scoring % "a. H
Special Prizes.
Special Worcester salt prize, gold watcl
TO K f Jaynes, 1est creamery; second be:
bloomsbury creamery, ,gogh watch, SO;
watch, best dairy, 10 l. NJ Cameron, MIDI
second best, gold watch, to W IL Harris,
ford; cash $50 prize, 10 RF Jayne, VI 4
Machine Co; prize, 80 TO Deerfleld
81 eluery; u ; separator, SIS to IL FJaynsf4 a
81 10 Lamuille Co creamery, f4 "
Wells Richardson & Co % r F Jaynes q
rreamery and l. NJ Cameron. best dairy $kS
ley & StOidard, best display Il Miller A
gate, s~harpiess Essay prize TO Mrs Luna !
iirookield, Sti, John Z Gale, GuIiford. 81
There was Il package of olet
from the Oakland Manufi @
Co.. of Providence, r. l.,
.led into the exhibit and entere
. dairy butter with the purpo 1
course, of having it scored as hi
genuine butter the scoring all al
lone by samples-and il the schen
succeeded il would have been
point for the oleo folks. BIZ
Judges. +. \. Harris and q. Nj. Do
Of Boston. the former, one
at the worlds Columbia hi.
Chicago. detected it as O 81
tasted it. but they scored it as tn
% everything entered and they ,B
vas one of the best samples of tit'
ne they ever saw. Its rating was
the lowest of any in the e H
The dairymen are jubilant ov
outcome of the matter, as the r.
nent from the highest a ii
y in New England and clearly f.
hat oleomargarinc is no COM
Vermont butter. FilNiSB H.
The evening session was devt
addresses by Prof. AH l
If Connecticut, c. j. Bell. ma
State Grange and othf tfi