192 ANNUAL. REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



GENERAL BUSINESS AND APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES. 



Nominating Committee: — Major Wells, 



W. C. Norton, 

 I. P. Thomas, 

 Mr. Reist, 

 J. P. Sharpless, 

 Henry Palmer. 



Auditing Committee: — John I. Carter, 



N. J. Monroe. 



Resolution Committee: — H. W. Comfort, 



F. P. Forney, 

 S. F. Barber. 



MILK MAKING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTLKV. 



JOSEPH Ij. hills, Director Vermont Aqricultural Experiment Station, BurUngton,, Vt. 



The press has been full of retrospect during 1901. The nineteenth 

 century and its wonderful record of achievement in every field of 

 human endeavor has been its theme. The legacies of the eighteenth 

 to the nineteenth centuries have been contrasted with the bequests 

 of the latter to the twentieth. The former methods of human commu- 

 nication, stage coach, sail boat, letter and beacon fire, have given way 

 to the Empire State express, the ocean greyhound, the long-distance 

 telephone and wireless telegraphy. Old Dobbin and the pedestrian 

 are distanced by the automobile, the trolley car and the bicycle. In 

 the realms of power and energy, the tallow dip and the horse-power 

 are superceded by the arc light and the dynamo. 



Most of these comparisons have had to do with inventions modify- 

 ing methods of transmission of thought, matter and energy. These 

 have wrought such vast changes in the affaire of the human race 

 that they deserve prominence. Yet agriculture has not lagged be- 

 hind in the evolution. Though long asleep with the other arts, 

 though still conceived by the professional humorist to be a back num- 

 ber among the industries, her triumphs of achievement of the last 

 ten decades have been notable if not spectacular. Specialization 

 rather than "all round" farming is common to-day. Machinery re- 

 places hand work; brains supplement muscle. 



Milk making has vastly changed since 1880. It is said by Prof. 

 Cooley, that the town records of Hadley, Mass., state that in the early 

 days of its settlement the cows gave so little milk through the winter 

 that the babies had to be brought up on cider. They were born too 

 soon. To-day the winter feeding of cows is based on accurate knowl- 



