Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-10-28
FIND VERMONTERS
READY TO ORGANIZE
Officials of National Holstein-
Friesian Association Meet
Breeders of Black and White
Cattle and Show Value of
United Effort

A meeting Of much importance to the
breeders of Holstein cattle was held
Monday at Morrill, Hall. The meet
ing was in charge of officials of the
National Holstein- Fresian Association
Of America, sent here for the purpose
Of organizing the breeders of the black
and white cattle in New England. 1t
10 planned to organize the breeders OF
New England into ono unit, just rs
some Of the larger States of the Md
die West have organized their breed
ers because the New England states
ore much too small to have strong sep
arate organisations.
President D. D. Aitl<en Of the associa-
tion, Secretary L. Houghton OF Brat
sfleboro and p. c. Pollock OF the Extern
sion Service who have the work of or
ganization IN charge. together with
Dean Hill Of the Agricultural College.
and Thomas Brad1ee. director of the
Extension Service. were among the
speakers
An attempt was made to show the
farmers the value of keeping only
pure bred cattle. a scrub COW of the
black and white type yields only about
1000 pounds of milk per year. The
first cross with pure-bred male
will give about 5000 pounds and
the registered pure bred will average
ten to twelve thousand pounds. The
latter COW. while costing a little more
in the beginning, will cost no more to
keep and the extra milk will be just
so much more velvet in the farmers
pocket This is the lesson that must be
impressed upon the farmer. When peo-
pie realize that It Is Just as cheap to
maintain machine that will manu-
facture over twice as much milk as the
poor machine. pure-bred cattle will be
kept exclusively. The lesson IS that
better machinery will mean more milk
to be disposed of at better rates
Mr.. Houghton, secretary OF the a.
ISOLATION, who has charge each year
OF over one million registrations and
transfers, spoke briefly of the wonder
ful growth of the organization in the
last few years and encouraged the
farmers to better methods of organiza-
ton to keep up with the popularity
and demand for the Holstein cattle.
President Aitken told of the results Of
organization in Ohio, Michigan. Mime.
sofa, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois He
urged particularly the Improvement OF
the present milking machine. the use of
improved sires and community breeding
stating that It is better for a community
TO have one good pure-bred bull than
for each farmer to have a scrub He
compared the dairy possibilities of Yer
mont and the Mississippi valley. He
showed that the rural district Of Yer.
mont must depend upon the dairy as
even now over 769c of the gross receipts
OF the farms come from the daries He
stated that the farmer Is the only inde-
pendent man in the country. In showing
the benefits TO be derived from the use
OF milk, he told his audience that malnu.
triton was the cause Of IS of the deaths
among children In this country Boston
at the present time is using only three.
fourths Of a pound per day, when It Is
taught that two pounds per person SHOULD
be used for the proper care of health
Mr. Pollock. the next speaker. told
Of the benefits to be derived from tht
proposed organization. He spoke of the
work accomplished in Minnesota. which
is generally recognized as one Of the
foremost producing and shipping asso
Citations in the country. The Twin Cities
Association alone produced and shipped
four million dollars worth of milk prod
ucts during the last year under one
management and coming from $500 farms
Pointing out that one would hardly give
the management of an inheritance OF
four million dollars to $500 managers
the speaker asked the assembled farmers
why they should do IL in the case Of thai
much milk. The association keeps three
men constantly working to help the far
rer in the proper selection and breednf
Of their stock and the selling of the sur
plus stock. This is one of the big results
to be obtained. The south is beginnins
to wake up to the possibilities of pure
bred cattle and Is buying from the breed
ers Of the middle west, because OF theil
more aggressive selling methods. New
England might just as we'll get som,
Of these sales, and they will. when prop
erly organized to take care of big order.
and orders that can be guaranteed. TIL,
day of the Yankee Trader" has gon,
by. The associations are chasing ou
the crooks or making them play til,
game squarely
Vermont should be particularly activ'
IN this work. Eighty per cent of tn
milk used in Boston and New York Il
from the Holsten cattle, of which ther
are thirty thousand in New England ant
one-third of these are In Vermont Thes
men, who are sent out by the Nationa
| Association, came to Vermont expecting
TO find opposition, MS they were tolc
that Vermont farmers could not be or
ganized. They found, however. that tn
Vermont farmer was very much interest
ed in the proposition, and report encour
aging meetings in all of the communitie