The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-11-22
FARMERS WERE INTERESTED
At Agricultural Meeting Held in East
Bethel Saturday Night.

The agricultural meeting held in
grange hall, East Bethel last Saturday
evening was attended by very good
and other people, who, apparently, very
much enjoyed the speaking on the va.
rious lines of agricultural work that were
discussed. The local orchestra, assisted
by Fred Parkhurst of Chelsea as violin
list, played a number of selections during
the evening
The first speaker of the evening was
&c, w. Fryhofer, dairying and creamery
expert employed by the United States
department of agriculture and assigned
to the state of Vermont at present. His
talk ran mostly along things pertaining
to creamery management and relations
of creamery patron and creameryman.
He emphasized very much the good re-
suits both to the patron and creamery
where both energetically and harmoni.
ously worked together to get the best
product possible He spoke at length on
the subject of "Churn Surplus" or
Creamery Overrun." bringing out that
the general composition OF every 100
per cent of butter manufactured in a
well managed and carefully operated
creamery is practically as follows;
Water l5.5 per cent, salt 3 per cent, curd
per cent and butterfat sos per cent
Saying in other words that the creamery
buys from the farmer sos per cent
butterfat and adds to it 1879 per cent of
water, salt and curd and makes 100 per
cent of butter. In making butter of this
the ehurn surplus, which is
really the gain per cent from butterfat
to butter is nearly 25 per cent In the
making of butter there are always little
losses that cannot be avoided, but Mr.
Fryhofer states that ii is expected and
the local creamery should get a surplus
or oyerrun Of % per cent. This would |
give gain of over seven cents a pound |
on the butterfat after it was made into |
butter.
He took for example the month of |
October this year when tub butter was
quoted at 35 to 3512 cents a pound, and
he market price for prints, the form in
which most Vermont creameries make |
heir butter, being one cent pound pre-
mum made the net returns for print
lutter 80 to 36l2 cents pound. Add. |
NJ to this the seven cents pound or
more surplus would give the creameries
rom 40 to A cents pound for their
eling price OF butterfat
Mr.. Fryhofer stated in his closing re-
marks that the creameries of Vermont
hould have paid 40 cents or more a
'ound for butteriat for the month of
october and a great many of them did,
ONE OF the well managed cooperative
reameries who We're getting a good pre- !
mum for their butter paying AZ cents
nd 43c pound for butterfat.
The next speaker of the evening was i
=. G. Otis, the Windsor county agent,
those subject was on the values of COM
lercial feeds. He showed by figures that
he real value of these feeds cannot be
etermined by their market price or deal
rs price per 100 pounds. That corn and
Drn meal even though it is very much !
igher than some other feeds, still fur
ishes more feeding value for the money
han many cheaper grains. Cottonseed
zeal appeared to be about the most ex- G
ensive grain for its real value, the real q
alue, the nutriment in this feed, cost
lg three cents pound against corn,
ran and some distillers' grains whose h
utriment at present prices cost "a cents n
pound. He mentioned the fact that
'me sections were selling hominy cheap !,
than corn meal and advised farmers !
} buy this instead, as the feeding value =
as just as good. a
The last speaker of the evening was .
r. Tolstrup. employed by the state of .
ermont department OF agriculture to !,
udy and assist in the marketing of \
farm products. He was very
itty speaker and kept the audience in ~
merry mood all the time he told of L
e conditions of marketing and empha- 8
zed over and over again the need for n
to do better job of pack n
g, sorting and grading their products q
order to add to their appearance and
on the markets.
There was free supper of sandwiches,
Ike, coffee and unfermented apple Juice
rived to everyone after the speaking a,
he orchestra played for a social dance
It'll the hour of the beginning of Sun
Y arrived Ii is hoped and expected
at other meetings of similar nature tn
II be held frequently here this winter. m
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