The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-27
WARDSBORo WINS.
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|of every particle of the fertilizing
products. He urged the raising of bet
ter and more corn silage and clover so
as to reduce the amount of expensive
concentrates necessary to produce dairy
products. To emphasize the Importance !
of the dairy industry in the state he
+ gave figures which showed that the
lproducts of this business amounted to |
more than $4,000, 900 a year, which is |
considerably more than the combined |
/ valuation of all the marble and granite |
produced in the state. He discussed the |
great change from home butter max
ing to the manufacturing of butter by
the many creamery plants which can
lproduce better product and market it
to much better advantage. He empha
sized the fact that the individual re-
sponsibility in the care of milk and
lcream was none the less than formerly
because no creamery buttermaker
|, could produce the very best favored but
ter unless he had clean, wholesome
product to manufacture it from. Mr.
Brigham drew very striking compari-
son between a creamery plant owned
by the farmers in the community and
| the milk car operated by city milk con-
tractors. He brought out many points
2 to show that the cooperative creamery
plan of marketing dairy products was
$ by far the better one, and urged the
: creamery patrons to support their
| creamerles in every way possible. He
spoke of the opportunity for improving
the creameries and stated that if all
of the creameries in the state should
!. run their plant and business so effici
emily as the average of the best 10
n creameries the value of the product now
produced would be increased over a
lmillion dollars year, which is more
) than the total valuation of the maple
II sugar and syrup produced in the state
{ of Vermont. He complimented the fed
y Grafton on the work which they had
J, started and hoped that these field meet
= ing would be continued.
q The chairman then called on G. L.
u Stickney, of Brattleboro, treasurer OF
u the Windham County Farm bureau
who explained briefly the arrangements
necessary in order to have a woman
! county agent or home demonstrators il
+ Windham county. He stated that il
- Windham county could raise $500 il
- could have the services of such
:. demonstrators until July |, 1918 TIL,
- United States department pays all othe
! expenses IN connection with this work
i. The work of such an agent would III
~ clude canning demonstrations and sim
IN liar work IN connection as sewing, tn
- selection of foods. meat substitutes. ney
he Uses of dairy products, etc. This wor
j, beng taken up at meetings and throuc
az personal visits. We hope that this mon
70 ey might be raised through new men
m berships in the farm bureau.
NJ. a, Sondergaard, creamery spe
cialist of the United States department
of agriculture, offered a few remark
and stated that the Wardsboro cream
ay cry was the neateSt and cleanest tina
he had seen in the United States. H
ne complimented the federation on til
he work which they had started and tn
Brattlehoro board of trade on til
lou Creamery Improvement cup which the
ew had offered. He said that they ha
taken the lead but that he hoped tn;
.Ir similar cups might be offered in otht
zen places Mr.. Sondergaard urges cream
Nv. cry patrons to cooperate with the
~ creamery and do their very best
+ furnish clean, sweet product becau,
no he knew from long experience that /
buttermakcr could make the best qua
lty Of butter unless he had clean, swc
- cream for foundation
N. K. Tolstrup, marketing speciali
of the United States department of A
} rlculture, responded with few witt
~ remarks which emphasized the 900
~ which might come from the creame
federation and the Improvement club
sv Y. r. Jones then reported the I
sults of the cream exhibit and award,
first prize of s to f. c. Bates of Gu
ford. The second prize of IS cents we
to Frank Bellows of Wilmington, al
III third prize of 30 cents to Henry Adam
W also of Wilmington.
~ ~, The program closed with the sin
~. ing of America. There was much int,
~, est throughout the meeting. The Wis
ors all felt much indebted to the peoy
III, III" of Wilmington for their kind hospital
-; and everyone went home feeling til
-" the day was well spent.
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