The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-16
TALKS TO
CREAMERY MEN
State Commissioner of Agriculture At
tends Wardsboro Meeting-Pre-
miums for Best Cream.

About 60 creamery directors and pa
irons of the Wardsboro creamery met
in the town hall in that town yesterday
when State Commissioner of Agricul-
ture Ebert s. Brigham of St. Albans
gave an address, and Mr.. Bremen of
Montpelier, state supervisor of COW
testing work, scored samples of butter
pnd cream and gave an interesting
talk.
Commissioner Brigham spoke in the
meeting of directors in the forenoon,
btressing the importance of the butter
industry and of increasing the consump-
ton of dairy products in this coun-
try through advertisements in the light
of the recent discoveries made by DIR.
McCollum and others ii regard TO the
Vitamine contents of dairy products.
He laid emphasis on the fact that
America is a milk-fed nation and that
the national success is due very largely
to the fact that dairy products have
been present in abundance In all foods
huring the past several generations.
He spoke of the continued effort
which Vermont ereameries must exert
if this state would hold its place in the
market as regards its reputation for
the production of a grade of butter
and dairy products which excel. The
Importance of careful breeding of dai-
ry stock was gone over and the nation
al drive for purebred sires was ex-
planned in detail. Occasion also was
taken to explain the new tuberculosis
laws of the state, which are said TO
constitute the most comprehensive plan
yet drawn up in the United States for
stamping out this dread disease, and
| Commissioner Brigham stated that an
encouraging number of dairies have
now been entered for state and federal
accredited herd test work and that the
state of Vermont has sufficient money
to test 900 herds the first year. 1t il
hoped that in 10 years it will be posi-
BILE to entirely free the state of bovine
tuberculosis and place this territory
high up in the list of American dis
tricts from which tuberculosis-fre'
dairy stock can be bought.
He mentioned as important subject
to be considered by dairymen tn
question of more economic production
the putting out of a relatively higl
quality product and general organiza
tion among dairymen and inereasin
the consumption of dairy products s
that when the present expectation
l following the war conditions ceas
the country will be in a position t
consume the three billion pounds c
t milk which are now being shipped al
+ nually across the water.
OF Much interest was manifest in th
It scoring contest of samples of butte
' and cream from the several creameri'
l. represented, also in the talk given b
Mr. Bremen, in which he told of h
i work in Michigan in the production {
}, navy butter during the war,
dI In the business meeting which fo
g, lowed Commissioner Brigham s a.
J. dress temporary plans were made f
co operative rental of cold storage f
cilities for Windham county cooper
: tive creameries The Londonder
creamery announced its plan of payil
a premium for high quality cream
as to raise the quality of its butte
lg This plan already has been adopted
re Jacksonville and is expected to be c
fective in bringing the quality of t
st. Windham county products up to hi
ST. standard.