Year: 1875

haI ht present prices we cannot affOrd TO
make butter. What shall we do? Because
some say It does not pay, shall we give il
upP That will not do. Perhaps those who
do not owe for their land can afford to hold
on for awhile; but now there are great
many who owe for their land, aud am one
OF them, and | mean to keep at work aud
pay for il those who have kept dairy and
stuck to IL through thick aud thin have
come out all right. l do not agree with
Mr.. Lewis when he says this fodder corn is
no better than brown sticks. know it pays
me to raise IT, We should read and get all
the information we can, not that believe
everything we see or read and grasp after il
at once, bat study it out. Some object to
The confinement OF keeping dairy. hear
wise boys say they wont work on the farm
OF for such man, because they must be there
to milk on Sunday. Talk about confne-
ment Is it not better that your boy should
be at home milking, than in some gambling
room There are a thousand worse places
for young man than the milk pail and
barnyard. | raise some veal calves, think
It pays about as well as anyway to use up
the milk. Have fatted eight on one COW in
season usually sell them for eight or nine
dollars at four or FIVE weeks old. | do not
know much about the Jerseys, but would
not recommend any one to sell off their COWS
toreplace them with Jerseys My belief is
any breed, il good COW. We should try
and raise up boys and girls that will fill the
places Of men and tcomen. Strive to elevate
ourselves. Do all we can to improve the
farm, raise more and better crops, and lastly,
my motto is, more milk and less whisky.


Adjourned to sun.down.


WEDNESDAY EVENING.


The subject of Mr.. Smith was resumed.


Remarks by G.. S. Easset: This is n
question OF interest to all in the northern part
Of the state. We bought our farms at high
price, expecting good price for our butter
and cheese. We ought to see that our COWS
are paying. Some dairies do not make over
two tubs of butter to ths COW, while others
make three, so you see we ought to exert
ourselves aud do the best we eau. Like the
Jerseys the best for butter.


Mr.. Bliss, of Georgia, related an instance
of dairy of about ifty cows that were to
be sold, but the family had the choice of one
COW, so the old lady, as she supposed, picked
the best COW, but after keeping the milk
separate she found it to be the poorest.


THURSDAY MORNING.


At $3.50, the meeting was called to order
By the president. The persons appointed for
the first in the morning. not being present,
the question Of last evening was resumed
viz: The General Dairy Interest


| NJ. uo.ooo Hnkhanl osLal &c on,, ana
has tested if butter is changed any by the
change Of food or increase.


Mr.. Fassett asked Mr.. Hubbard to answer.


Mr.. Hubbard said it has been my practice
to stock my farm more than it will support
Of itself--so have bought, some meal and
hay. Have bought meal for $3.50 per
hundred when hay was s24.0O per ton, and
fed six quarts day, per COW, and not much
hay. Was careful not to feed my full blood
cows too much meal. The result was a large
increase in richness of milk, not much increase
in quantity, and the COWS did not increase in
flesh much, but the meal went direct to the
making of milk.


Dr. Hoskins said these experiments ought
to be made with caution. believe there is
a point where We cannot go beyond in the
richness of milk


A paper by II. G. ChafIee, of Enosburgh
subject, Butter.making This is a great
subject for me to present to you, knowing
as | do that | am surrounded by large
dairy country. The manufacture of butter
is vast field Of thought and needs our care.
ful attention and study to make good butter,
and large amount OF it. We should strive
to keep up the flow Of milk, furnish plenty
of good feed. once saw statement OF
an experiment made in regard to the relative
value Of butter from good and poor feed
From good feed the per cent was four, from
poor feed three per cent. should recommend
large pans, with means to cool the milk Set
in good, pure milk.room, kept at tenn
perature of sixty degrees, the milk should
stand about twenty-four hours. As for
churns l could not say which is the best
Some use the barrel churn with good salts
faction.


Next was paper by w. II. McAllister
of Enosburgh, subject, tho probable cost Of
making pound of butter. He thought il
cost about thirty cents per pound, to make
butter now,


Mr. Smith, in answer to a question, said il
paid to feed COWS grass or corn in the last ol
summer and fall,


Mr. Oramton, of Swanton, being present
was called for, to give his way Of breeding
and selecting cows, and the amount of butter
he makes. He said in the FIRST place have
family of thirteen to support, have twenty.
one cows, and the last year ! sold 5,7Sl
pounds Of butter; received for pork $3.50
put 900 pounds in store for my own use
making Sll1.00 per COW; for grain, paid
S420.70, or about $2l.00 COW; feed fine
shorts. when the COWS are dry feed about
four quarts, when in milk about eight quarts
buy il by the carload for S22.00 ton, dc.
livered at St. Albans, where they charge me
S34.00 by the ton for the same. Now ia
have COW pay for the meal, she must be o
good COW. Half Of the COWS in this county
do not pay their way.


Mr.. Olmstead, of Franklin, said he did
not believe in feeding meal but let the
COW have all the good grass she wants, and
he can make the butter.


Other short remarks were made by Cram
ton, Fassett, Smith and Olmstead.
O. Horace Hubbard, member Of the Board
and agricultural editor of the VERMONT
FARMER, was called upon to read paper
upon the subject Of Breeding Farm Stock.
Mr.. Hubbard said that his paper had been
read at previous meeting Of the Board,
and he brought it here Though he had not
consented to have his name announced in the
programme) because it was prepared by
request to be read at this place last winter
. at the meeting which was deferred on &C
count of sickness in the town.


He said that VIC must recognize the differ
ence in principle which governs those breed
ing fancy stock and that which must contro
the farmer who wants stock to pay him thu
best income for the food consumed. Thu
/ farmer must resist every temptation to dis
regard or overlook utility in breeding Th,