Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

interested in the department of agriculture and the
workings thereof under State commissioner AS matter
of fact housewife well of food sup
plies has direct and lively interest in the way in which YER
d are e eo of
Governor Graham and the Legislature to increase the eff
ress. This is particularly true Of our dairy interests.
In seeking solution the food problem O for all and 6e
demands of population of 5ooooooo people in the United
States in the future may be surprised to now
the dairy Many Of think of the only producer of
mix or as the more remote source OF meat supply AS mat
whole country involves the dairy that in addition to milk
and butter and cheese and beef and veal and pork
to keep production Of grain and other food pred
uct derived from the soil and so dependent upon
For long time people discussed butter and cheese from
political standpoint largely strange as it may now seem
campaigns over the tariff question Farmers were told they
must have customs duty on dairy products or be over
then went on milking the same old scrub making
buer and cheese in the same old way realizing only rne
amount of labor inelgeny directed.
Then the work of the College of Agriculture of the State
make its influence felt in the spread of the idea that costs
no to feed and for highly productive than half
creased fertility of the soil and profitable production of
grain and other commodities well Of dairy products
sible way.
Another factor leading to present general interest
the dairy situation and the milk supply generally the
publication of figures by the United States department of
$4,000 inhabitants to be 2 quarts capita
It appears that the average consumption Of milk higher
cities of $4,000 than in smaller communities There is
also less variation in the amount consumed in different
months in large cities than in smaller communities.
An important conclusive factor in helping darymen to
adopt tests for individual to determine the degree Of
productivity and profit the publication of the results of
the New YORK Cornell experiment station tests and
People who complain because they have to pay 81 or
more per hundred may be treasured to learn that this survey
per pounds. Butter produced at per
pound The average profit for milk was only 81 cents per
hundred pounds and the net profit per cow was only S2O9
The cost of feed and the labor cost on
average $23.12.
One of the helpful facts brought out that the
profit from yielding 10000 pounds of milk
81 cent greater than from those yielding 5000 pounds
practically the to nothing of the satisfaction of
doing profitable business.
When people generally to realize the difference be-
tween the profits from good producing cow and from scrub
it was an easy matter to induce uptodate darymen to Join
of discovering for themselves what paying
them profit and what ones were being fed and cared for at
Thus far have considered only the producing problem
1t is thing to produce but entirely different thing to
sell inegeny and we'll During the past year in partc
ular the Vermont daryman has been brought sharply to
upper and neither mill stone When he his milk to the
city he found the market controlled by combination of
product When he sought to hire to help him for
his dairy and other farm interests he found himself forced
was higher but the milk companies insisted that he should
get little more, if any for his milk
CARNATIONS springing all Vermont and other New
England States and New York having for their object the
facilities That is Of the ends long advocated in these
columns The dairymen of Vermont should into d-
rect contact with the individual possible saving
for both producer and the mddemens large profits
The danger in this connection that dairymcn will
rely upon control of market through organization Just they
formerly relied tariff protection instead of seeking
increase production and improve their commodity every
possible way thus holding their market merit also That
is of the problems which will confront the commissioner
of agriculture in Vermont and of the most rreachng
has been truly said that Vermont must raise hay
and and vegetables and other
But to do this must also maintain larger diaries in order
keep up and increase the fertility of SOIL We thus
have both direct and indirect incentive to increase dryng
We the demand for constantly higher grade of
products.
Commissioner Of Agriculture Brigham has made a
splendid beginning in promoting better market facilities for
Vermont products but dairymen upon
ing foreign situation in the future. Under the
Payne law of 1909 Canadian butter cheese and sub
stitutes for either coming into competition with
in markets of the United States paid protective duty
pound The Wilson Underwood tariff of
the tariff imported butter and substitutes
half cents pound and upon imported cheese and substitutes
to a duty OF 20 per cent, according to the value
The European has diverted large quantities Of Can
adian butter and cheese to England that otherwise would
have sought markets in the United States During eleven
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