VERMONT AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 27 



Prof. C. W. Burkett; New Hampshire, Soil; Stock Breed- 

 ing", Agricultural Colleges. 



John Gould, Ohio, Individual Types of Dairy Cows; Soils; 

 The Men Farmers Meet ; Changes in Feeding the World ; Birds ; 

 Silos and Silo Building. 



Prof. J. L. Hills, Member of the Board, Some of the New- 

 er Ideas in Agriculture; The Man With the Hoe; Proverbs 

 27: 23; The Agricultural College and Kxperiment Station, Its 

 Objects and Work; Science in Agriculture. 



J. K. Curtis, Member of the Board, Farm Barns; Our For- 

 age Crops; Silos and Corn Growing; Road Making; The 

 Grass Crop. 



Prof. L. R. Jones, Grasses; Weeds; Spraying Vines; and 

 Trees. 



Prof. C. H. Jones, Fertilizers. 



Hon. Cassius Peck, The Working of the Agricultural 

 College Farm. 



Hon. W. B. Viall, Roads and Road Making. 



George Aitken, Soils; Fertilization; Stock Breeding. 



R. H. Holmes, Bee Culture, and the Industry in Vermont. 



J.W. Titcomb, Fish Culture (Illustrated by a stereopti- 

 con. ) 



T. L. Kenney, Commercial Fruit Growing. 



Mason S. Stone, The Education of the Farmer. 



Dr. H. D. Holton, Farm Sanitation. 



George H. Terrill, Bees; Fruits and Vegetables; The 

 Dairy Cow, Her Care and Feed ; Farm Fertility. 



L. B. Harris. Sheep Raising; in Vermont. 



D. H. Morse, The Grass Crop; Farm Help. 



Ernest Hitchcock, Farm Barns; Forestry. 



C. F. Smith, Dairying for Profit; Breeding and Feeding; 

 Farm Fertility; Soils; Clover and Ensilage. 



C. A. Chapman, Wool and Mutton. 



T. B. Harriott, Vermont Cheese. 



There seems to be increased interest in farming. Dairy- 

 ing is the leading industry and is carried on more or less in 

 every town in the state. 



The co-operative creamery and cheese factory have a ten- 

 dency to increase the size of the dairies, the average dairy- 

 man procuring better quality and price for his product by 

 having an experienced man to handle the cream and manu- 

 facture the butter. The growing of wool and mutton is 

 again on the increase, and it is hoped that the sweet grasses of 

 many more of our hill pastures will be used in growing the 

 Shropshire, the South Downs, the Cotswolds or the Spanish 

 Merino. 



Vermont should again pay much more attention to the 



