Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-03-18


and the total registration 1877. Abstracts
of the various papers that were present
ed follow:
WHAT CAN THE EASTERN DIARY
MEN LEARN FROM WEST
ERN DAIRYING?
I. Tho one big lesson Is that dairy
men should not cease to cooperate
even If the creamery closes and farm
ers begin to sell milk or cream to the
large cities. They then should organ
lie Cooperative Milk Selling associa-
lions.
.. The colonial farmer was indus
triously Independent. He made his
own farm machinery and lived on
what he raised. The good wife did her
share. They were rightly proud Of
their independence.
3. The present day farmer must buy
nearly every tool and machine he uses.
and much of what he eats as we'll He
sells his produce and he buys his food.
clothing and machinery both at fig
ures set by the other fellow His in
dependence is now dream. It exists
only in the small details, not in the
essentials.
4. Every other line 81 business
and labor is organized, in large groups
called trade unions, or in small ones
called corporations. One man cannot
fight regiment. The local co-opera-
tive company is the modern company
Of minute men. organized to stand to-
gether against a common foe.
.. Western experience indicates
that. although under pioneer dairy
conditions the centralized creamery
has dor" end Is doing good the fact
still re ms that these companies need
only the opportunity absence Of com
petitionl to discriminate in grade. test
and price Of cream thus hogsing the
profits.
c. Agricultural cooperation in buy
ing and selling is now more needed
than IS moro agricultural education in
technical matters. Successful Coop
Grafton Is n series of compromises; of
concessions on the part OF the individ
nal member for the welfare Of the
whole community.
r. NJ WASHBURN.,
Dairy Husbandman. Vt Ag. Col.
THE VERMONT DAIRY FARMER
AND THE MASSACHUSETTS MILK
LAWS.
Massachusetts and Vermont are inter
dependent IN the matter Of dairy pro
cucts. Vermont must always look to
Massa chusetts as Its main outlet. Hence
its seems desirable that Vermont farm
.ra have clear conception OF Massa-
| chusetts dairy laws.
The cleo and renovated butter laws
affect the Vermont farmer only In so far
as they increase his market. On the
role they are satisfactory and have
| markedly decreased this consumption.
The milk situation in Massachusetts
has changed profoundly within the pas,
decade Ten years ago there We're :.
| cooperative creamcries in Massa chu.
sotts; now barely 20. only four sent
cream to Boston. Thirty-s!x Vernon
crcameres send cream to Boston. tn,
proportion OF Vermont milk flowing int
| Boston and vicinity as milk and cream
! is yearly rapidly increasing
The number Of Massachusetts cow.
Las dropped in the past Is years Is PEI
cent and the amount Of milk coming I,
! ~ cars has dropped tremendously with
IN two years Yet. notwithstanding tn
milk supply the demand is increasing
The reason for this anomaly is that tn
sales price Of milk has not kept pac,
with the increased cost of production.
The two laws with which Vernon
rroducers must concern themselves ar
the anti-adulteration law and the stand
ard law. The former forhids skimmins
watering. or adding Of any foreign sub
stance This ny one Massachusetts iudg
has been construed to cover undu
amounts Of dirt. The latter calls for
definite standard: now 1915 per cent TO
tai solids and 80 per cent. Fat. Infrac
ton Of the former Is harshly dealt witt
,rhe latter Is sometimes q technical cr.ra
only and is dealt with according - cir
c instances.
p. NJ HARDWOOD,
Field Agent, Mass Dairy Bureau. Bos
ton.
THREE MONTHS EXPERIENCE T.
A COW TESTING ASSOCIATION.
The Morrisville Cow Testing assoc!atio
was started last October. Mr.. Helma
Rabild of the national department {
agriculture was an active agent
|
bcrship comprises &c men and nearl
, 500 cows The plan is briefly as follows
An employee a graduate Of the dair
school. passes from farm TO farm
samples; weighs: tests; records. Fro
, month to month he gives each nembs
n record showing the doinRs OF eac
Of his COWS. II costs a dollar year ps
COW. A profit and loss account ts kcI
, with each animal and already Yer
, illuminating figures obtained. As resu
Of this work In n comparatively sho
, time the members begin 10 get MOTTO
y OF what their various cows are dom
, and what cows are doing them"
As result Of tho three months VOL
, COW buyer has been able recently
buy quite n number Of cows for shil
ment to Boston. He boosted that he ma
= picked from certain dairy the crea
OF the herd. As matter Of fact II
dairyman knew from his records, whi'
he doubtless did not show 70 the buye
" that the latter had really got the skin
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