The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-01-08
FIRST DAY.

The thirty second annual meeting
of the Vemont Dairymen' 5 Association
was opened at a. m. today in Arm
ory hall i'll this city. Though the at
tendance was not large at this first
meeting there was a spirit of good
will and comardeship shown which
gives good insight into the makeup of
the organization. Every member is
an enthusiastic believer in dairying
and all work together for its advance
ment
President M. A. Adams of Derby
was chairman and introduced the sew
eral speakers. Rev. c. o. Judkins
of Montpelier offered an earnest sup
plication for the success of the meet
ing and for the continued success of
the association in the good work
which it is doing for all
Mayor Joseph c. Brown in few
well chosen words welcomed the mem
bers of the association to the city
He felt glad to have people from vari-
Gus departments of life come to the
city and thus work for the best inter
cts of themselves and of others.
The president then introduced Hon.
II. W. Vail of Randolph, who re-
sponded to the address of welcome
He called the dairymen of Vermont a
brigade III the great industrial army
of this country, which is slowly and
surely advancing along the road to in
dustrial prosperity. Today intelli-
gence is required of all trades and pro-
fessions, even of those which in the
! He trusted that the dairymen would
! u6v Of nil o,,1
| ture at this meeting and thanked the
city for its cordial welcome The sec
retary of the association, F. l.. Davis
of North Pomfret, read the reports of
| the secretary and treasurer. The
treasurer's report was given in detail
and showed the association to be in a
prosperous condition. The total re.
ceipts for the year were Sl502. 78 and
the total expenditures $13S5. 12 leav.
ing a balance in the treasury OF
SIT. &C.
The annual address of the president
was delivered by NJ. A. Davis. He
opened with few statistics which
showed the great amount of business
that is done by farmers along dairying
lines. He made an earnest plea fOl
advancement along the lines of pro
gressive farming. He said that he
knew of farmers who worked year af
ter year with no hope of ever doing
any better than before and died will
their lives wasted because they haC
never become alive to the fact tina
their business is a noble one and on,
that requires active, earnest work
With that earnest, we'll directed labor
farming is a noble and most agree
able calling and he hoped every on,
of his hearers would so treat it. TIL,
meeting adjourned at / 40 until ~
p. IN.
Afternoon Session.
The afi uoon session began at S,
late an hout the Journal is unable t,
give only brief outline of the pro
ceedings.
There was much larger attendanc
and the audience was a representativ
one of the progressive farmers of Ver
mont. At 2 :l5 President Adams call
ed the meeting to order and at one
introduced j. B. Condor of Pittsford
as a young man who had taken nearl
carload of prizes from former meet
ings of the association.
Mr.. Condor spoke for clean, whole
some milk and butter and said if farm
ers would look out for that they woul
have no need cP pasteurizing thei
milk. MIX 'ha. needs pasteurizin
is not v v1c't me Some day ther
will be l1o'.e IN coction and testin
of milk ha gccs 10 creameries. II
gave some pra cal advice to farmer
to advertise and to put their name
on all packges Of butter sent out.
A general discussion followed. Otl
er speakers were H. H. Dean {
, Guelph, Ont, on "Cheese curing,
and F. w. Culbertson of Benson, @
Commercial Culture in butter NAL
ing. p"
one of the most interesting objec
at the exhibit of the Vermont Dair,
mems Association is a mechanics
COW in miniature at the booth
Wells, Richardson q Company of Blu
linrgon This animal lows in pc
fectly natural manner and when mill
ed yields the real article.
The exhibit of the Montpelier Cream
cry Company also attracts crowds, e
!. pecially the large bowl of golden bu
ter in granular form. This creame,
has ON record test of cream whit
is acknowledged world beater II
average test, Manager Cameron stat
is from so to 6 80. The latter
considered a good test but there "A
COWS which will sometimes run ov
7. The other day Manager Gamer
made test of a certain dairyna1
cream and it registered s 20. III
u result was so extraordinary that a sc
" ond one was made with the same !
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