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JAN. 3i 
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AMERICAN DAIRYMEN’S CONVENTION. 
The Convention of the American Dairy¬ 
men's Association, which closed its three 
days’ session at Utica, January 15, was note¬ 
worthy from the large attendance of intelli¬ 
gent and progressiva dairymen and from the 
earnestness with which information was 
sought concerning every improvement and 
“new departure” made in the several 
branches of Dairy Husbandry. There was 
not so large a number of persons from a dis¬ 
tance as at some former Conventions, buc 
New England, parts of the South, the North¬ 
west and Canada wore represented. 
The larger share of the time wa 3 occupied 
in discussing questions relating to butter 
making and the management of creameries, 
and it was complained of by many, and we 
think very justly, too, that the cheese makers 
had but little opportunity to bring their 
specialty before the Convention. It was 
really a butter makers’ meeting, und this in¬ 
terest was paramount from first to last. But 
at many of the former Conventions the 
cheese question held undisputed gwny to the 
exclusion of the butter interest, and hence 
the butter makers thought that no complaint 
should be made because their specialty was 
at this time the chief subject of discussion, 
Butter dairying, It is true, is a very great 
interest in this country, and in view of the 
vast quantities of poor and inf erior butter an¬ 
nually thrown upon the market, any in¬ 
formation or process of manufacture prom¬ 
ising improvement in this line, is important 
and timely, TYe must say this in favor of 
papers read :—They were for the most part 
by practical men who are or have been en¬ 
gaged in butter manufacture with their oven 
hunds, and, therefore, are supposed to give 
results drawn from then* own experience. 
But however valuable the facts brought out 
rnay prove, wc can hardly approve of the 
p an of running the Convention in one direc¬ 
tion and for one interest. 
The American Dairymen's Association was 
inaugurated for the purpose of representing 
every interest relating to dairy husbandry’, 
and ir so generally understood by the public' 
Men gather here from all parts of the coun¬ 
try and from long distances, expecting to 
get information on the particular branch of 
thr dairy in which they are engaged. It 
may be butter or cheese or condensed milk 
or tho furnishing and sale of fresh milk di¬ 
rectly to consumers. Again, there are me¬ 
chanical devices and other things pertaining 
to each branch upon which information is 
desired, and if all or nearly all these matters 
are excluded for the sake of favoring one 
particular class, great injustice is done to the 
other classes who feel that their time and 
money have been spent to little or no pur¬ 
pose. It may bo well enough for the several 
State Dairy Associations, as well as the 
county organizations, to take up specialties 
and give them prominence from year to 
year, or from time to time, as this'or that 
interest may seem to demand But the 
National Association, which claims to repre¬ 
sen. all branches, should be so menaced as 
to give the advancement, the progress of 
Dairy Husbandry, in all its relations from 
to year, G q desire to know where we 
Btaud to-day as to the progress of the dairy 
business generally. What new steps have 
been taken in one and all the branches of 
this interest. If anything new has been dis¬ 
covered during the year which lessens labor 
or improves the product, of whatever nature 
It may be, let it be brought out and discussed 
at the National Convention. We cannot af¬ 
ford to take uji one specialty at a time and 
wait from year to year for information con¬ 
cerning the progress of the others. Life is 
altogether too short to be wasted in this 
slow procedure. Wo have no doubt there 
V765 ti many persons at tlio Oonvontion eager 
to impart their knowledge of some progress 
made during the year. We know that 
many went away from the Convention dis¬ 
appointed in not getting the desired informa¬ 
tion lor which they had come. And in 
speaking of this matter as wa have it is with 
no design to cast any reflection on the officers ! 
of the Managing Board. They had difficul- j 
tie3 to contend with in arranging the Pro- 
gramme, since oil account of tlie financial 
embarrassment of the Association it was 
thought best to ask voluntary contributions 
of papers, and each was allowed to choose I 
his own subject. 
IVe think a better plan would have been to 
have divided the subjects into classes—but- 
ter, cheese, and milk and its production- 
devoting a day to each class, and requesting 
speakers to confine their subjects to one or 
the other class, as by them preferred, and I 
in the management of the Convention it 
should be distinctly understood that but one 
day could be given to ono class of subjects. 
In this way the needed variety will be se¬ 
cured and all classes satisfied. We are in 
favor, also, of Imving a full programme of 
subjects and speakers issued by the Secre¬ 
tary several weeks in advance of the meet 
ing, that persons from a distance may know 
the topics that are to be discussed, and thus 
not be required to make a long and expen¬ 
sive journey on an uncertainty. Another 
bad feature of the Convention this year was 
the ill provision made for a comfortable hall 
for holding the Convention. By soma over¬ 
sight or neglect. Mechanics’ Hail, where the 
meeting was held, was not sufficiently 
warmed, and members were obliged to sit 
shivering in the cold in great discomfort and 
in danger of impairing health. If such a 
mistake as this be made another year, we 
fear the future of the American Dairymen’s 
Association will be sadly weakened in its 
usefulness. 
The social gathering at Boggs' Hotel on 
the evening of the 14th, and the elegant en¬ 
tertainment provided by the citizens of 
Utica to the Convention “en masse” was a 
pleasant and profitable feature — profitable 
because the members became acquainted 
with each other, and were enabled to obtain 
much information concerning points of prac¬ 
tice in their business which could not bo had 
during the formal sessions of the Convention. 
The large number of papers and the length 
of the discussions will not permit us at this 
time to give an abstract of proceedings In 
consecutive order, but we shall select such 
matters as appear to be new or valuable in 
the papers read and make such comment as 
each seems to require, in separate articles, 
believing this plan would bo more satisfac¬ 
tory to our readers and more appropriate for 
the limited space allowed us in these col¬ 
umns. 
In the election of officers for the Associa¬ 
tion during the coming year some changes 
were mode from those of last year. The 
following list embraces the Board for 1871: 
President — Hou. Horatio Seymour of 
Oneida. Vice Presidents — X. A. Willard 
of Herkimer ; O. S. Bliss of Vermont; S. A. 
Farriugton of Cattaraugus; John G. Cohoe 
of Chautauqua.* David W. Lewis of New 
York City; W. Folsom, New York City ; 
Alex. MeAdam of Montgomery; Chits. C. 
Horn of Lewis Co.; H. Fuvillc of Wisconsin ; 
H. Cooley Green of Pennsylvania ; G. B. 
Weeks of Onondaga, M. Y.; W. Blandingof 
Broome Co.; L. R. Townsend of Franklin; 
D. Hamlin of J effersou ; Gcu. B. F, Bruce of 
Madison ; L. R. Smith of Erie ; 11. Farring¬ 
ton of Canada ; J. Lewis of Cattaraugus ; 
Dr. G. F. Cole of St. Lawrence ; E. S. Mun¬ 
son of Delaware; J. M. Walden of Mhme- 
sota; John T. ElLsworth of Mass.; L. L. 
Wright of Oneida, N. Y.; W. A. Johnson of 
Erie ; S. Straight of Ohio ; A. B. La Mont 
of Tompkins ; Chester Hazen of Wisconsin ; 
Edward Norton of Connecticut; D. H. Bur¬ 
rell of Herkimer, N. Y. Secretary— L. B. 
Arnold of Rochestei*, X. Y. Treasurer — 
Harris Lewis of Frankfort, N. Y. 
THE LATE GAIL BORDEN, 
TH! DISTINGUISHED INVENTOR DF PROCESSES FOR PRE¬ 
SERVING AND CONDENSING MILK. 
agent of the Galveston City Company — a 
corporation holding several thousand acres, 
on which the city is built — and this position 
he held twelve years. Toward the close of 
this period lie began his experimental lahors 
in the production of a meat biscuit, and per¬ 
fecting his process, he embarked all his 
means in its manufacture. Just as success 
seemed almost assured, he was thrown into 
serious embarrassments through the artful 
plottings of parties interested in the very 
profitable furnishing of the ordinary bulky 
supplies for the army, and who deemed their 
craft imperiled by the threatened substitu¬ 
tion of a new food at once cheap, portable, 
and nut ritiousbeyond comparison. And from 
this contest Mr. Burden emerged penniless. 
Going North immediately after the issue 
of this enterprise, he at once turned his at¬ 
tention to tho preservation of milk. His 
experiments were pushed with indomitable 
will and energy until his object was fully at¬ 
tained. Recognition of its merits and recep¬ 
tion by the public came, however, by halt¬ 
ing and toilsome steps, until 1861, when the 
civil war made it quickly and extensively 
known, so that the demand rapidly increased 
until it exceeded the supply. 
Pecuniary as well as manufacturing suc¬ 
cess in due time crowned his lahors ; and un¬ 
counted thousands of soldiers in camp and in 
hospital —of citizens both well and ill—of 
city-bom infants, pining for pure milk fit 
for babes, hold its inventor and manufac¬ 
turer in grateful remembrance and esteem; 
and if we attempt to estimate the value of 
his achievement,, taking into account the in¬ 
creasing number of children annually born 
in our large cities, and t4ie larger proportion 
of them w’ho will, in consequence of his dis¬ 
covery, grow up to manhood and woman¬ 
hood healthy and strong by reason of a sup¬ 
ply of pure milk in place of tho dilute and 
adulterated trash or the vije secretion of dis¬ 
eased cows fed upon distillery slops, so often 
sold for pure country milk,” and these 
ehildreu in their turn to become fathers anti 
mothers of our race, the benefits conferred 
by it enlarge immeasurably. 
The incidents here given of Mr. Eorden'r 
eventful life are condensed from a sketch of 
Mr, B. and his inventions written by Mr. 
Goouaie of Maine, an intimate friend of 
longstanding. We knew Mr. Borden well, 
and have heard him repeat the story of his 
experiments, his failures and his successes. 
Ho was a warm-hearted, Christian gentle¬ 
man, giving largo sums to charitable pur¬ 
poses, free from ostentation and universally 
beloved liy' all who knew him. We saw him 
for the last time in tho winter of 18711, on tho 
eve of his depjarturc from his home in White 
i loins, N. Y., for Texas ; and we remember 
well his parting injunction : — “ Strive to do 
all the good possible for mankind.” To do 
t his and be a sincere Christian had been his 
highest aim. His loss will be mourned by a 
c >rele of friends and acquaintances as a 
truly good man who has benefited his race 
by liis works and by his example of a pure, 
life, full of Christian virtues. 
Horseman:. 
PERCHERON AND NORMAN HORSES. 
M. Simons of Orne, France, connected 
with the Department of Agriculture and 
Commerce in that country, in a letter writ¬ 
ten to Mr. J. J. Parker of West Chester, Pa., 
states that the true Pereheron hors® is now 
V( r y scq.1 co, that thosr* who r^iiso liorscs loi* 
sale as Pereherons in the neighborhood of 
Chartres—the center of the Pereheron horse 
trade purchase foals in Belgium, Flanders 
and other places, and after feeding them un¬ 
til old enough sell them as Pereherons. But 
these are far from being the true race. Tliis 
is but an enlarged Arab, with all the good 
qualities, the soundness and endurance of 
the Original race from which he springs. 
His color is a gray white or a silver gray. 
He must be kept under nearly the same con¬ 
dition of climate as in tho Perehe to do well. 
Being gentle, he must, have gentle treat¬ 
ment. He must be well fed. His rations 
arc 17 pounds of straw, 22 pounds of hay, 
and 20 quarts of oats. These remarks, which 
wc know to be well founded, are worthy of 
notice by those who are purchasing- heavy, 
coarse-boned, largo-footed, lymphatic, and 
necessarily unsound dark gray horses, which 
ai e called Normans or Percliorons, at high 
prices, with the certainty of future disap¬ 
pointment. Not long ago we saw an impor¬ 
tation of several so-called Pereherons of 
which only two could justly claim the till®, 
and the difference between the true and 
false Pereherons was abundantly cloar. For 
the improvement of our native races we 
must have animals of pure breeds, or we 
make a failure.—Am. Agriculturist . 
WORTHLESS WARRANTEES, 
The National Live Stock Journal explains 
that tho word “ Warranted,” used in tho sale 
of a horse, extends only to soundness, and 
“Warranted sound” goes no further. It is 
a common practice with dealers to use the 
terms “warranted all sound and right.” As 
it is uncertain wfiat such an expression 
would cover in law, it would, to avoid possi¬ 
ble controversy and misunderstanding, be 
best to use tonus more definite and compre¬ 
hensive; for instance, the following:—“ Re¬ 
ceived of A. ii. $200 for bay mare Rato, war¬ 
ranted only six years old, sound, free from 
vice, and quiet to ride and drive.” The war¬ 
ranty, to bo valid, must of course be passed 
at the time of the sale, and constitute part 
of the transaction. A warranty after the 
sale is void, for it is given without a legal 
consideration. 
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NOTES FOR HORSEMEN. 
We hear with regret of the death of Gail 
Borden, ut Borden, Texas, on the llth of 
January, 1S74. Mi-. Bokden was widely 
known in connection with various forms of 
concentrated food, but he was especially 
known among dairymen for his experiments 
with milk and his eminent success in con 
deusing that fluid and putting upon the 
market the most perfect article of preserved 
milk that has yet been known to the world. 
H8 was born of New England parents, in 
the town of Norwich, N. Y., in 1801, and in 
December, 1814, removed with his father to 
Cincinnati, Oliio. In the spring of 18L6 the 
family settled in Indiana, ten miles below 
Madison, where Gail lived until 21 years of 
age. In 1820, having married, he removed 
to Texas. A few years later ho was appoint¬ 
ed, by Gen. Austin, to superintend the of¬ 
ficial surveys, and he compiled the first 
topographical map of the colonies, and up to 
the time of the Mexican invasion had charge 
of the Land Offlee at San Felipe under direc¬ 
tion of Samuel M. Williams, then Colonial 
Secretaiy. As the war came on which led 
to a separation from Mexico, Mr. Borden, 
with two others, procured a press and print¬ 
ing materials and published the only news¬ 
paper issued in Texas during the war, he 
having its chief management. 
In 1837 President Houston appointed him 
first Collector of the Port of Galveston, and 
Mr. Borden made the first surveys of the 
city prior to taking charge of the customs hi 
June of that year, In 1839 he was appointed 
HUNGARIAN PIGS. 
The London Field, in^noticing some Hun¬ 
garian pigs shown at the Vienna Exposition, 
says they attract great attention on account 
of their extraordinary size. 
One measures three feet six inches high, 
and six teet six inches long; of this probably 
about ono foot six inches is nose. They look 
very coarse and have such a horrid odor 
about them that one cannot think of bacon 
the rest of the day without disgust, it must 
be 1 ather difficult to adapt a “scale of points” 
to such a structure. 
Another breed is spoken of as “ the wooly 
race of pigs exhibited by Hen* Barnard 
Deutsch.” They are said to be far more 
inviting, and we understand that then - flesh 
is very choice. The wool is almost white 
but tho skin is of a reddish brown. They 
take several years to come to maturity, but 
when fat they carry a great weight of flesh. 
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Mange in Swine. -Mange like the scab in 
sheep, is a cutaneous eruption, arising from 
the pres«ice of minute insects called acari, 
and occasioned, in the majority of cases, by 
to cleanliness. It appears"in the 
f ? 1 k b,ot( i h y H01 'cs t on different parts of 
the body, and is accompanied by a dreadful 
state of itchiness. The best local application 
is the sulphur ointment, consisting of sub¬ 
limed sulphur, three ounces, and prepared 
iard, eight ounces. If this should not bo 
sufficient y powerful, a dram of the common 
mercurial ointment may be added to every 
ounce of the former. Internally, from two 
to tour drams of the alterative powder should 
be given daily. 
To Remove. 0 Film in the Eye. of a Colt.— 
In the Rural New-Yorker, Dec. 27, H.asks 
for a safe remedy for a film on the eye of a 
colt. Let him take hen's oil, put some into 
a phial; take a feather from a goose or hen’s 
wing, put the feather end into tho phial; 
then take hold of the la-h of the eye with 
his thumb and finger, raise it a little, and 
with the other hand give a slight brush 
across the ball of the eye, giving two appli- 
catious a day tor the first day or two; if tho 
eyo is much inflamed, then use once a day 
till the eye is well I have tried it 011 horses, 
on cattle, on sheep, for over twenty years, 
and never knew it to fail. I wish that all 
who deal in horses would apply this simple 
remedy; if they would there would be fewer 
blind horses. I wish all who see this notice 
would try it on any dumb beast if the eyes 
run water.— Clyde. 
Sweeny Remedy. —A correspondent of the 
Cincinnati Gazette says.—-*’ I will give a cure 
which 1 have scon tried with success. Tako 
a piece of May apple root about an inch long 
und put it under tho skin where it is sunken 
the worst. Give your colt rest, and the 
sweeny will toko care of itself.” It will 
probably take care of itself with rest quite 
as well as with the May apple root added. 
Horse with Cough,. —I have a valuable 
horse that lias had a bad cough for over a 
year past, ever since he had the horse dis¬ 
temper. He coughs the most while eating 
oats and after heavy draughts. Can any 
one who reads the Rural tell howto cure 
or relieve him? He has a poor appetite, and 
will not eat condition powders in his food.— 
K. st. 11. 
The Rest Scratches Remedy, says a veteri¬ 
nary surgeon, after thoroughly cleansing 
with castile soap, either a solution of carbolic 
acid, tweuty parts of acid to one part of 
water, or carbolic ointment made of. one 
ounce of acid to two tablespoonfuls of lard, 
and nibbed in. 
