| Matthew H. Buckham, the president
of the University of Vermont, addressed the Vermont Dairymen’s
Association in Montpelier on this day in 1874. He stood before hard-working
farmers and told them that Vermont’s ‘most important
products’ were not butter or cheese.
Buckham continued that neither were wool, horses, marble or slate.
Buckham recalled a phrase from an old Vermonter who, when asked
what was raised in Vermont, responded, “As the soil is rather
hard and the climate rather cold, we have taken to raising men.”
Buckham acknowledged Vermont ..as the mother of men.
Historic image courtesy Vermont
Historical Society, from The Vermonter. Cheese us a Vermont
Book Of Days photo
|
Matthew H. Buckham, president of
UVM, told a gathering of farmers that
cheese was NOT Vermont’s best product.
|