Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-15

wire has to he stretched very tight so as
to avoid sagging The pipe comes in
lengths of four feet. seven inches. and
Mr.. Teer has one main line which brings
two orchards together and which is 500
feet in length. Ali along those main
lines. branch lines are attached and 10
these in turn are attached other branch
lines making net work of pine The
branch lines are connected to the main
lines by goose neeks as they are called
BY the use of the gooSeneck and two foot
lengths OF pipe tree can be tapped al
any place.
Mr.. Teer said that ne had found nv ey-
perience that ii is advisable TO have the
lines run on the east and south sides of
the trees SO when the sun come up in
the morning il will strike tho pines and
prevent them from freezing. During the
time that Mr. Teer had been using the
system he says that he has had only
three or four limbs strike the pipe and
he has seen in the same woods buckets
Knocked down by limbs and spoiled and
more than Is buckets blown down in a
single hour. In the height of the runs
he has seen the main pipe nearly full
running in the tub and this sap came
from 90o sples
After run Mr.. Teer takes = tank
full of water into the woods and goes
to the ends of each branch and pours
a pail fun through to wash the pipe
out Then at the end of the season.
just as soon the sap is through run
ming. he collects these pipes and
washes them before they get sour Then
they are put in tho evaporator and
boiled. Then they arc secured out.
boiled again and rinsed and dried and
f,,fs
the spring the are scaldcd again
Mr.. Tecr said that he would take
three mon besides himself and they
could tap about 800 trees a day He
bores the trees himself as he prefers
10 use his own judgment about where
70 bore them. Mr. Teer is using 10000
rect of this piping. which is equivalent
10 400 buckets He estimates that 400
feet will do the work for 10n buckets
if the trees are anywhere near to-
Sether As two of his orchards are far
apart he has to use 1900 feet Of eX-
ira pipe
Mr. Teer said that he sold only the
poorest of his sugar to the stores. the
best going to private trade.
PURE BRED STRES
.. NJ. Camburn of the extension de-
partment of the university was the next
speaker and he told of the importance
of pure bred sires He said that al
though there had been "A decrease in
the number of dairy herds i'm this
country. the number is now coming
back. due to the encouragement given
by the high price of butter and milk
and the fact that so many people now
realize the value of milk Then. too
many OF the countries overseas lost
many of their cattle and are looking to
America Tor pure bred stock and dairy
products This last demand however
VIII decrease as these countries re-
sto'k their farms, South America how
ever. is looking to the United States
for dairy cattle. In the South the neo-
pie are taking up dairying and thov
are looking for high quality animals
so they viii have the right sort of a
foundation
The question s. are we able to sun
ply those demands? The consumer is
ASKING FOR lower prices so that he NAV
use more dairy products and what are
we as dalrymen, doing about that de-
mana we should try to lower the
prices so that we will become more ofr-
Gent producers. There are three wovs
to do this. The first is better feedinc
the second wedding out the anim,Is
which are not profitable, and the third
is to have better sires and thus insure
more prof able herds later.
One way to tell whether an ANNA, &c
prontable is by the COW test records
These show that cows are divided int,
three classes. those that are nrof,,bIo
those mat are not and the average Tho
tendency seems to be toward the class
wh1ch Is not profitable. if the herd is left
alone II is true that the more profit
aoie COWS eat more hut their production
'"ore 'han balances this extra expense.
Now if you use sires of the same LIND
vi 'nese cows with low production
your herd will not improve, but if vo,,
use pure bred sircs on low producors ,,n,,
VIII md that YOU Will get an increas.d
production in their daughters. and IL
this system is continually followed I'M
the grade of the whole herd win in,,rov,,
There are three reasons why mon aro
M the business of breeding better dair,
cattle. The first is that they may do.
Velop animals that will stand ont .rd
mus make "A record tor their breed. rho
second is that they may raise the stand
ara OF their own herd. and the third 10
the man who is trying to raise Grad
nerds. The cost of the feed &c obon.
one-half the cost Of producing mill en-
don't figure whether an animal f.. nros,
able or not by comparing its uroduc.
ton and the price Of its food
Mr.. Camburn deplored The fac, ,h.. -,
tentimes many sires were sent ~ tho
butcher when there was no more use ,n,.
them on a particular farm and later -
was found mat his daughters had ,
much higher production than tho 49,,
He said that if a man wanted to ,et rid
of a bull with high production behind /,
he should let the farmers of his comn,ur-
ity know that they might cluI, ,og.tha,,
to keep that bull in the county and 90,
rid of the less desirable ones He en-
phasized the Importance of kno,vinr ,ho
ancestry of the bull and lIeepinr records
and said that when you get good buIIs
keep them in the county or State and thev
will be the making Of someone's herd
NEW IDEAS IN CONCENTRATION
As + A Edwards Of Richmond who
was to speak on Cooperation i'm Ver-
mont Creameries' was called away from
the meeting his place was taken nv q n
Ormsbee of Montpelier who was IN sneal,
this afternoon. His subject was "New
Ideas in Concentration" and he said in
part:
"One can hear upon all sides the old
story that It does not pay to handle ma
ME sugar. and some men nave grown tn
believe that Last spring "A man in
Nortpelicr. not being rushed with hush