News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-05-27

horses. Last year, beside wintering this
great stock, IS tons of standard nay was
sold at the handsome figure of S23 per
ton, loaded on the cars at Rutland.
From 80 to 60 cows are constantly in
milk and they have yielded maximum
product of a ton daily. At present $50
quarts of milk, at seven cents per quart,
are sold daily, while considerable guam
tity of cream and Is pounds of butter are
produced each week, from the surplus
milk. The COWS are first MIXED in the
morning with the four milking machines,
then fed ensilage with grain. About s or
o'clock they are turned out into the
yard and drink as much warmed water as
they require, are again tied in their easy
stanchions, and soon after fed their hay.
They are again watered and currled
about 3 in the afternoon, fed little salt,
| MIXED and fed their suppers and grain.
| The grain mixture consists of 400 pounds
choice bran, $50 corn meal, 200 cotton
| seed meal, 200 of LAX and 100 of Climax,
and the amount fed is suited to the ind-
vidual needs.
DR.. Mead was the first in this part of
the state to adopt and successfully apply
the milking tubes. About 800 feet of
tubing is used and the electric power in
the barn is supplied by the r. r. Light
and Power Company. The cows con-
tentedly chew their cuds while the sub
stitute calves draw their milk in short
order. They are splendid lot, in the
pink of condition, most of them pure
breds, for a high-class registered bull has
always been kept and as business herd
of producers they are very rarely equalled.
D. D. Hewitt, formerly of Pomfret has
charge of the creamery, using the De-
Laval separator and the Simplex churn.
Six men are employed on the farm, all
residing in modern tenement houses on
the farm, and all of the products of the
farm are weighed on a set of Howe scales
and an accurate record kept. The resi-
dence is massive, antique brick mansion
with immense old-time chimneys and
fire places, and has seen the suns and
storms of more than century.
After what we have noted, it seems al
most supertluous to add that DR.. Mead
takes a deep and abiding interest in
the agriculture of his native state. His
public and his business record is an open
book, but few facts regarding his early
life may seem appropriate.
He comes of distinguished and patriotic
lineage. His great great grandfather was
iment, leader of the Green Mountain
Boys at Bennington and Hubbardton.
John A. Mead was orphaned in his ear
lest infancy and achieved his education
by his own strenuous efforts. He at
tended Malone Academy and later Mid
dlebury College, from which he enlisted
in Co. X, 18th Vermont regiment. He
received his medical degree from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of
New York in 1868, and practiced his
profession at Rutland, with unusual sue
cess until 1888. He then assumed the
onerous task of recognizing the Howe
Scale Company, then in receivers
hands, and up to that time repeatedly a
disastrous failure. His directing mind
has been the potent factor in rehabili-
tating and establishing that great enter
prise on a sound and profitable basis, and
it now employs 600 men at Rutland. DR..
Mead has found time to serve his city
and state in many and responsible ca
pacities. Elected senator in 1892, he
secured the city charter and was elected
the first mayor of the city of Rutland in