St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-11-15
HoLsTEIN-FREsIAN CLUB MEETS
Business Meeting at Noon is Followed
by Banquet For Members and
the Club Guests-30 OF State
Association Present Besides
The Invited Guests

The Vermont Holstein- Fresian club
held their regular semi-annual meet
ing at the st. Johnsbury House Wed
nesday afternoon. The business meet
ing commenced about noon and was
followed by a banquet for the mem
bers and the club guests. The speak
er of the afternoon was Gen. G. w.
Wood of Worcester, Mass, ex-presi-
dent of the national association. Fol-
lowing the address, pictures of ma
tionally known Holstein cattle were
shown and their pedigree given
At the business meeting held be-
fore dinner, minutes of the annual
meeting were read and corrections
made. Other necessary business was
transacted. About 80 members OF
the state association were present be-
sides invited guests
The association president, G. r.
Gregory of Dummerston, presided at
the business meeting and introduced
the speaker of the afternoon follow
ing the banquet. In introducing Gen.
c. w. Wood, three times president or
the national association, Pres. Greg
ory said, that the speaker was with
out doubt the best informed on the
subject of any man in the country, as
well as having talked before more or
ganizations than any man in the
United States.
Gen. Wood spoke in part as fol.
lows:
Gen. c. w. Woods Address.
l am going to speak to you today
upon the subject of Degrees" but
there are various degrees in all things
and am going to talk on degree in
which many of you perhaps have all
ready been instructed, and which 1
think the most important of all,
The Superlative Degree"
First we all of us live, as far as
want is concerned in superlative
degree. There is no country in the
world that brings the blessing. the
prosperity as the United States o.
Ameffea. 2 rife The fact that we are
aoEsta voring to make po-
ifcai the steady in
se pulation for whom
1pected of us and
for them.
regard ourselves 30
and most upright
Dbe. 1 am today ad-
no are plying voca-
Re trying to ply II in a
rec. No vocation tends
E physical and mental
ol man as he who Is
brought into direct contact with ma
ture.
Talking to those who are working
in this club in the superlative degree,
he spoke of the COW as the greatest
of all domestic animals, and one
which most generously responds to ali
that is done for it and further said,
man has appropriated the uses of her
body to various uses and there is no
creature that is utilized to the profit
aibleness of man as is the COW. There
is no man who can be associated
with this work and be a good breeder
for many years without being a better
man.
He then went on to show the sup
eriority of the Holstein over other
breeds, and gave statistics from lead
ing experiment stations throughout
the country showing the great milk
producing qualities of the Holstein.
and further showed the high stand
ard of butter fat added to large
amount of milk a COW produces.
He warned the breeder against be
ing carried away" with official re-
ports, but further said for them not
to be discouraged with results of an
experiment If it did not measure up
as only by much practice could rec-
ords be made. He then went on To
advise the building up Of the dairy
to a certain high standard which IL
was possible to maintain without
seeking for records. but which would
give the greatest income. He showed
how many good cows had been spoil
ed in the past by pushing beyond its
Individual abilities for a time.
i He also said the annual record Of
the Holstein has in his idea done more
to place the breed on the high pedes-
tai which it now holds than any OF
the shorter records. The breed has
a great future ahead IL it can be dem
onstrated that large production can
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