The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-01-11
Vermont Sugarmakers' Asso-
citation in Burlington Today
DAIRYMEN'S ASSN. MEETS
Principal Feature Of the Opening Ses-
sion of the Latter Was Annual
Address of the President
By Fred L. Davis.

DuliNRluIs bdI~ lls77-7A ttt ' q htttiN
Sugarmakers association, at its annual
business session this morning, elected
the following officers: President, George
H. Soule of Fairfield; secretary, H. B..
Chaplin of Middlesex; vice presidents, II.
H. Martin of Rochester and w. +. York
of West Lincoln; treasurer, Homer w.
Vail of Randolph; auditor, i. B. North
rop of Shelburne. At last nights ses-
zion of the convention, Miss Anna Mes
ser of Randolph read paper on "The
Necessity of Care in the Production OF
Maple Goods with particular reference
to filtration of sap.
A. Hugh Bryan OF Washington, d. c.,
spoke next, dealing mostly with the in
tluenee of the manufacturing process
upon the finished product A. r. Phil
lips of Chagrin Falls, Ont, spoke on
"Your Industry and Ours Compared"
The Vermont State Dairymen's asso-
citation opened its annual convention this
morning, the principal feature of the
forenoon being the annual address of
President Fred L. Davis of Hartford
Mr.. Davis said in part as follows; 0ur
meeting marks the 4lst annual meeting
Of the Vermont Dairymen's association,
at once the oldest and / believe the
largest, state dairymens association in
the United States. Our membership now
stands at $50. In addition is the ladies
auxiliary, which organization is unique
in the history Of the dairymen's associa-
tions.
The value Of agricultural products in
creased enormously over the last year.
Since the year 1891, farm products have
increased in value ~ per cent, while the
articles required for the farmers use
have increased but twelve per cent. in
the same length of time
Vermont has proved there is money
in potato raising. for last year twenty
four thousand acres gave an average
weld of ia bushels, making total Of
100000 bushels. If these had all been
sold for fifty cents bushel the returns
would have aggregated 81 ,4SS,000. And
yet some people have not regarded po-
tato raising as profitable in Vermont
Mr. Davis said he was much impressed
with the possibilities of agriculture in
Addison county. He believed that the
land in this county, II cultivated proper.
~, would produce in values the equiv.
alent of two-thirds the cost of support
ing the state And yet in the last ten
years this section of the state has
actually decreased in population. It
would be better if the farms were di
yided up so as to make six times as
many and more intensive farming done.
Mr.. Davis spoke particularly of the es-
tablishment in Randolph Center of
school for teaching agriculture and of
the advance all along the line of agri
cultural training in other ways, tIe
thought that Governor Mead deserved
much credit for his attitude on this
question and his work for the passage
of the bill A similar school as the
one to be established at Randolph is
needed on the west side Of the state.
Mr.. Davis spoke with enthusiasm also
Of the private agricultural school at
Melndoes and the state horticultural col
lege also came in for a kindly word
from Mr.. Davis as he spoke of the ex-
cellent work of the institution and of
its splendid influence. Cow testing as
sociations We're strongly advocated
The bovine tuberculosis problem was
the subject of considerable comment by
the president. He urged the produc
tion and sale of absolutely pure milk.
Caution against weakening the oleomar
garine law was given.
In closing his address, Mr.. Davis had
some interesting things to say in re-
gard to the dairy outlook. Vermont
still holds her welI-made reputation Of
the finest favored butter made. although
the amount has greatly decreased in the
last ten years. and especially is this
true of the past two or three years.
This situation cannot be explained, for
the price of butter has been high, al
though lack of help on the farm homes
must account for some part of the fall
ing of. And from this cause our dairy
men are selling their milk to city deal |
ers-to the great loss of the state.
do not blame the farmer for selling his
dairy product in milk, provided he gets
enough for it and is enabled to buy
back his fertilizer he is losing by so
doing, in the way of raising his heifer |
calves and pigs. Selling our milk to the |
cities and condenseries has resulted in /
scarcity OF cows and hogs all through +
the country. ! believe that the skim /
milk from 25 good cows Is worth five /
hundred dollars year to the owner /
for feed to heifer calves or for feeding /
pigs.
Mr.. Davis urged those present to en-.
courage their children TO become up.to-
date farmers.