VOL. XLVIII NO. 2064 NEW YORK, AUGUST 17 1889 prick five cents, 
_ __ l _ [ __$2.00 PER .YEAR. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, In the Year 1889, by the Rural New-Yorker, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at WashIngton.j 
Pain) J^asban'iJrv,. 
A VERMONT FARM HOUSE. 
Many of our readers will be greatly inter¬ 
ested in the picture shown at Fig. 204. It is a 
typical Vermont homestead. There are thou¬ 
sands of people all over the country who spent 
their childhood days in just such a house. 
The old New England ideas of comfort and 
convenience are everywhere evident in this 
picture. The wide, sunny windows, the pleas¬ 
ant porch with the easy chairs for the older 
members of the family, the carriage-house 
under the family roof—who has not seen them 
all in good old Vermont ? The front of such a 
house seems to light up with a sunny smile of 
welcome as the stranger nears it. And if we 
could look inside the house! It is the embodi¬ 
ment of solid, home-like comfort. Thousands 
of Vermont people have left the green hills in 
search of warmer climes. “I got tired of 
farming hillsides” was the explanation one 
Vermont man gave the writer 10 years ago on 
a western-bound train. He went to Iowa and 
before six months his oyes fairly ached for a 
sight of the hillsides he had found so tiresome. 
The picture we show is drawn from a photo¬ 
graph of the residence of Mr. J. C. Oliver, 
2d vice president of the Vermont Dairy- 
m en’s Association. We print it as a type of 
the pleasant old farm-houses that are scattered 
throughout New England. A portion of the 
dairy herd, composed of native stock, is shown 
in front, also a mare and her foal. The whole 
forms an accurate, home-like picture. 
DAIRYING AS A BUSINESS. 
J. W. NEWTON. 
Why farmers don't make butter-making 
pay, how to do so; proper feed; handling 
the milk and cream ; co-operative and pro¬ 
prietary creameries ; marketing the butter ; 
chicken meat or pork—which] “ The 
dairyman of the Juture. ” 
Butter is low. In the last Rural it was 
quoted at from eight cents to 20 cents, 14 and 
15 cents being about the average. The con¬ 
dition of the market is abnormal, owing to 
the unusually wet season which has caused 
feed in pastures to make an enormous growth. 
A drought next year would doubtless cause 
butter to be higher than it is at present, but 
there is every prospect that butter in the 
future will be low in price. To make a protit, 
it must be produced at the least possible cost* 
To make it at a cost of 16 cents pier pound, 
and sell it for 14 cents is to go to ruin. It 
would puzzle any farmer to make a profit on 
eight or 10-cent butter. The less of such stuff 
made, the better. The trouble with farmers 
is that they try to do too many things. There 
A VERMONT DAIRYMAN'S HOME. 
Drawn from a Photograph. Fig. 204, 
