Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-05-26

per cwt.. or 81 cents n hushel the skim
pounds is worth 20 cents. Adding the
manural value OF the milk fed. about u
cents per cwt. or 10 cents for the IS
pounds We have then total OF SITS. as
tho conservative estimate Of the value Of
milk:
a per cent Iersey milk Is worth about
g. on same basis, or s. Ga to s? 50. IL butter
Is made on the farm. To even this must
he added the extra cost and difficulty Of
raising hotter calves for the future dairy
and pigs ia use up the many by-producte
of the balanced farm. The people of tho
cities want Vermont milk: but tic farm
"rs Of every county where there is
q camery should hold on 20 it for many
Years vet and never sell milk until they
can secure price above what can bo
figured in other ways
TO this must BE- added the increased
value of the heifers raised from the best
dairy cows in the herd-.a business that
is far more profitable than beef raising
The writer has no trouble in getting from
$50 TO sl5 for coming two-year- olds-sired
by thoroughbred sire aud from his
poorest cows. iieifers from the best
| COWS are HOT 1Ul safe al any price until
! they have been tested out At the pres
ent writing have sold off everything we
| could possibly spare-and SAN buyers are
| coming and coaNing us to make prices on
animals We have saved for our own herd.
| What one man can DO another may do,
All this means dollars of profit TO the
man who mixes few brains with
INTENSIVE DAIRYING.
And to-day 1t Is being demons ra ted BY
! hundreds OF Vermont farmers that 10
dairy tyne cows wisely selected and bred,
| properly fed and care for. the products
clearly and neatly put ny and judiciously
marketed will yield a monthly net income
of 800" Who can ask for more"
Two things and two only are requisite
to this end VIZ.
KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE.
The greatest black blotch on the fair
State of Vermont is that while her farms
with their herds and hocks pay a very
large per cent of the taxes OF the State
the State in return pays not one mill TO
impart that practical knowledge abso-
lutely essential to enable our sons and
daughters 10 apply themselves with zeal
and discretion TO successful develop
ment Of Vermont in the one thing the
Almighty has fitted her to excel in--In-
tensive Dairying. with It's sure compan-
ion. Intensive Agriculture.
Brother Farmer, how long will YOU al
low this state Of things TO exist Think
Of this-Nermont pays only s4,oS for her
department Of aericulture-and out of this
must come the commissioner SALARY and
expenses and the little balance that IS
left may be used in institute work, etc
etc.
Look al few other States: Indiana
pays $1,000 for this very lire OF WORK
, we are advocating. Benighted Missouri
= $1,000. Nebraska $4,000 New Jersey
( 24,oGH: New York-almost an indefinite
q sum; Pennsylvania, $3.50; Washington
sl0,s0O, Wisconsin. $40, o00-besides a yer,
much larger sum for her agriculture
2 schools.-an SO on with the other States
p I, Oh, Nermonters, the bravest and grand
q est men of earth is not this enough t.
t make you wonder that Your boys an'
= girls--full OF inspiration and vim. go T.
= other States where they can learn thing
and measure up to the full stature o
! manhood and womanhood? And thel
, Vermont has no creamery or a dairy in
spection law. These things ought not $,
{ to be.
, What is TO be done? | can see only on,
way out of this ruin and disgrace. lie
: the dairy farmers of the State see to i
! that the men who are elected this fall I,
, go 70 Montpelier he pledged, an iron claC
pledge. that they will work and vote
and work and vote until the appropria
ton for dairy and agricultural work shall
, be increased about five fold-untl a Law
, Is passed authorizing one or two county
agricultural high schools, until a law Il
passed compelling instruction In the ele
ments of agriculture In every common
school and until a dairy and creamery In
, spection law is passed.
, Let US then get 10 work as dairy farm
, ers. and see that the right men go IL
| Montpelier Mex fall, Let the lawyers
politicians and men out OF Jobs stay a
home and send little good common
, sense to the halls Of legislation and in
, few years we will have new and gori
. Gus Vermont.