Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-01-13

Yesterdays sessions of tho forty-siXth
anuua. meeting of the Vermont Dairy
mems association had n much larger at
| tendance than those of the first day. Inc
morning session was devoted to an IN
,crcsting discourse on increasing IN"
profits of the dairy COW. given by &. NJ
| Putnam. Il live wire ON farm subjects IN
! Ncw Hampshire, the remainder of tn"
/ meeting being devoted 20 the annual
meeting of the State COW Test associa-
| ton Professor g. +. Warren of the New
York State college CAV. Interesting ad-
! dresses at both tho afternoon and owe
nincmoetings Commissioned OF Agriculture
| Brigham read paper in the afternoon
and Fob Seeds, the Chautauuua lecturer.
nut those who attended the evening scs-
sion in a most humorous mood. The
! Woman's Auxiliary hold their annual
meeting in Tia" afternoon.
The greater portion Of the morning Sos
! sion was given over To the Vermont state
COW Test association. previous to which
a talk Of heart interest was given by
q. NJ Putnam Of Contoocook, y II, who
is pr sident Of the M"rrimack County
Farmers association and who told of his
own personal experiences and profits in
keeping a strict card record of his hcrd
NJ Jersey animals.
| The troasurcr's report showed receipts
% sl.7soS7. with balance on hand ON
December /. 1918. Of s,,a} o3 Tho sum of
s1t5sS was drawn from tho general fund
and placed in the premium fund to make
the latter fund balance. The president
appointed J. L. Hills of burlington. \ T.
Curtis of Georgia and T;oniam min Tucker
of TunbridGe a committee on resolutions
EXPERIENCES or NEW HAMPSIIIRt;
MAN.
Mr.. Putnam said in part: come tefore
: Won ae ono who is trying to get a living
off from my cows. I'm lS3c We had the
average good cows Of town, at least
they wclc SO considered. but no record
Of their production was kept. In 1902,
with tie increased cost Of grain and labor
and increased taxes, realized that my
income becoming lc7s yearly and in
l9n2 | found y couple Of hundred dollars
ON the wrong side of the ledger. This
, proved 10 me that there WAS a leakage
= and It was then figured up approximate
y ~ what each one Of my COWS was cost
= ing each ycar. 7 bought a tester and A
sot Of scales and went to keeping a re-
ord, Weighing my milk every day auo
u testing tvico n month.
. MT. i'ti NAM 1Ilell. WIN tNc dlfl 'll
~ number Of charts. showed tho relativ,
= cost OF bringing his dairy cows from til,
IT point to whore they wore not paying fu
> Themselves back to n proiit-makinC herd
~ The COWS who are not paying for thc
board should be wccded out and hoifer
=. raised form the pront-m1liinS COWS. usini
70 sire from good dam. II is no
i necessary to throw away grade COWS an,
in got pure bred cows, but to see to thei
20 breeding that they come from good mill
IN producers. Mr. Putnam put into his tai
A. much that was of vital interest to tn
;, dairymcn. as To feeds. care. ctc.
Of COW TESTING ASSOCIATION.
Tho meeting of tho Vermont stat
in Cow Test association was preside
m over by j, B. Candon of Pittsford. tn
X president
H. The president in his address urge
ty every member of the association t
y study his records, weed out the COW
which do not pay their board and civ
O. tho ones that are left little bette
d. feed and care, IN order to increase tn
ed production The test association mus
cd be the means of bringing to the atter
tion of the dairymcn tho fact tha
ut many are producing milk at loss \
We a means of chcapening production III
nd first great factor is better cows an
er the second is raising rouGhaGe on III
I'M farms to feed the COW so she may pre-
nd duce with economy.
We r. r. NORM. assistant to Commi'
ut sioncr of Agriculture Brigham, ali
Ike who Is in charge of the test assoCif
we tions work gave resume of the wol
which is being carried on. and advise
ho 90 hnIr
IS, not for one year and then. after wee'
- ing out the poor cows found. dro
them, hut keep them longer and ke'
the standard up to its highest note
-. Dana Jones of MddlehurY also spoil
of the trials of "a tester. speaking att
five years experience.
The meeting Of the COW test associ;
" tion was closed with the election
officers as follows: President, j
:" Candon Of Pittsford, vice prcsidcn
Ia Ralph DEMO of Bristol secretary al
treasurer, T., IT, Jones Of Waitsheld.
=, TIE WOMAN'S AUXILIARY.
the The business meeting of the Won
10Y ans Auxiliary was held Yesterday a
,rs tornoon at the Van Ness House and o
,x dccrs for the year ensuing were elect'
iry as follows: President, Mrs. Luella Bicl
nod ford of Bradford; vice president, MI
md H. * Brooks of st. Adams; secretar
aid trea asurer Mrs, II. y. Farnham of Mon
nm, pelier. new constitution ana u
zoe laws were submitted and adopted. T.
i,,. women of this city are cordially u
~ yited to meet with the auxiliary at 4
IL, Van Ness House at two o'clock I'll
49,, afternoon to hear an address by j
i Mitchell Chapel on The Farmer
,i Wife" Mr. Chapel is editor of &
National Magazine and his address
expected to be of exceptional intere
AFTERNOON SESSION or DAIRY ME
len. Yesterday afternoon showed IN" Ial
.as- est attendance of any of the sessions
ten to the present time. There were l
. n speakers, Commissioners of Agricultt
to T.. s. Brigham of 81. Adams. who spo
on tho improvement OF Vermont da