Year: 1871

SECOND ANNUAL MEETING.


The second annual meeting of the Yer
mont Dairymen's Association met Jan
18th, at II a. m, at the Court House in
the city of Burlington, and was called tc
order by the President. Hon. E. D. Macon
of Richmond, who spoke as follows:


Gentlemen: The interest felt in the
great and growing branch of State indus
try which this Association represents, has
again brought us together for Consulta'
ton and discussion. What plans should
be attempted in the future, contemplating
new objects and involving new response


bilities, will probably be subjects of dis


cussion at this meeting.


| We live in progressive age; the world
| is teeming with new discoveries; the arts


and sciences are advancing in rapid


strides; the march of improvement is on


ward toward the goal of perfection and


'man hath sought out many inventions


to benefit his fellow man. There proba.


bly, has never been period within the his
tory of the world in which so much ha>
been done to benefit and ameliorate the
condition of the human family, as is being
done at the present age. Every year
gives birth to new associations, the objects
of which are the promotion of human
happiness. This Association was formed
to give to the markets of the world better
dairy products and better prices to the


producer. Dairymen of Vermont, let us
all associate in the broadest and best sense


of the word not simply to control prices


but to get first rate reputation for Yer.
| Let al


to make the very best quality of goods il


the markets; let ms at this meeting re
| solve that the leading interest of oui
State shall be put in better standing in
the markets of the country. There is nc


danger of over doing the business or over


stocking the markets with first olaes -
ticle. The supply of good cheese ans.
butter Is far behind the demand. The
great cry of onr city consumers Is tor


better class of goods, hey hunger and
thirst after the good thiugs OF the dairy. In
the name of the good people of this Asso-
citation let it try to -uppiy them with
good cheese and butter when they are
willing to pay prices that -rrm fabulous
in comparison with the prices that we
have been obtaining. Twenty-Five cents


per pound for cheese and s"venty-fiVe
cents or one dellar a pound for butter are
prices that sound strange to most of the
members of this association, and yet
there are dairymen that obtain the above
prices for AL they en- make. and | ven-
ture to say that it costs them no more to
produce pound of butter or cheese than
it does the dairymen in Vermont. 1t
does seem that there is something wrong
about the manufacturing OF butter and
cheese in this community.


Condensed milk has not yet been con-
sidered one of the common products of
our dairies or factories WHEN II shall
become such one of the commone+t OBJ
jections to our factory system will be ~
waited, which is, that they do not use the
milk fer cheese making, either at the be-
ginning or towards the close of the milk
ing season. Ii our factories would learn
the method, acquire the right, and obtain
the necessary apparatus for coudenstng
milk, and adopt the practice earlier or
later than cheese making would hp profit
able, it would probably prove remuneta-
tive to the factories and A gre at c0nve-
nience to patrons Butter factories in
connection with cheese factories | have
no doubt would be one Of the mot profit.
able arrangements to manufacture the
milk of town or neiRhborhood.


What a rich reward would the dairy
men of Vermont reap if they could obtain


the prices Just named for their dairy pro-
ducts and can see nothing to prevent
them if they will avail themselves of the
means that are at hand There is no
secret about the manufacturing of this
high priced butter and cheese. Every
dairyman that makes these fancy goods is
willing and anxious TO give his method of
manufacturing to any one that will take
the time to enquire, which Is in short the
right temperature, great care and perfect
neatness in all the operations. This sub
ject, trust, will be fully discussed at
this meeting by those that are better
qualified than l am. Here ia wide field
for earnest, energetic workers, A land
that flows with milk, if not with honey
a field that is white for the harvest. Here
the Lucy Stones, the Susan B. Anthonys,
the Livermores, Howes and Dickinsons
can have their just rights with no male
tyrants" to lord it over them. Will they
enter upon this great and good work,
where all their Just rights will be secured
to them? | fear rot For forty years L
have not been an iuattentive observer Of
the rise and progress of the great dairy
interests of the State. | we'll remember
the time when butter was worth only
from six to ten cents per pound in 'store
goods," and Of cheese 80 little wac made
there was no established market price for
it. Most of the farmers were in debt for
their farms they went to meeting and
market in OK carts and lumber wagons.
Ihe changes that have n zen place are
wonderful. Your lumber wagons are
still on the farm, but when you take your
wives and daughters to church or the
market, they ride in comfortable carriages.
You are generally out of debt, Tor ought
to be), and many of You have money at
interest. or what is better, have some of
those pictured promises of Uncle Sam,
called national bonds. Most of your sons
receive classical, or at least a high
school education, while many of your
daughters graduate at some of our excel
lent female seminaries. What is the AL
addins lamp that has produced all these
,hangesp At the head stands the dairy,
aided by the production of onr other
agricultural interests. These branches of
would have been much less re-
but for the construction of
the work Of the last quarter of
| century. These great works have
,pened up for you the markets OF the
world and doubled the value of your