Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-10-04
Fodder Corn and Sugar Beets.

the members of this society of the rel
ative profit Of fodder corn and sugar
beets:
n. 81. Stiles remarked that when a
farmer steps aside from the regular
course of farming, to raise crop that
will increase the amount of food for
his cattle, he naturally inquiries what
is most profitable. Fodder corn is
well adapted to summer feeding, and
if properly cured would be a great
addition to the winter stores; but
sugar beets will probably yield crop
of equal or greater value by the acre,
require no curing, and can be fed not on
ly in the fall, but through the winter and
spring, when such succulent food
proves very beneficial to all kinds OF
stock. One thousand or fifteen hun
dred bushels of beets, besides the tops,
from an acre, must afford such all
amount of food as to give a decided
profit.
G. B. Brewster had had no expert
ence with beets, but did not doubt
their excellence for winter feed. He
believed fodder corn good enough for
COWS at all times. He had now fed
fodder corn one week, and his %
COWS have gained two pals (six or
eight gallons) of milk a day over the
amount they gave before, and his
cheese are an inch thicker than those
made previously to feeding this corn.
Without this fodder, the COWS would
have diminished in milk, Another
thing: this food causes the cattle to
keep in better condition. He mows
a swath about I feet wide and 90 long,
morning and night-feeding twice a
day. AS there is a larger increase in
the size of his cheese than the extra
quantity of milk would lead him to
: expect, he thinks the quality is i'm
proved in q greater ratio than the
quantity. Mr.. B. sowed two bushels
of Western corn on about half al
acre on which he had yarded his COWS
when milking, and the growth was
| enormous.
W. L. Locke, ir., said he sowed five
e pecks of Western corn in drills, anC
he thought of curing it for winter tod
i der, as his COWS are doing we'll il
their pasture, and he had heard tina
. one-fourth ofan acre sowed with West
}. ern corn will produce enough to win
y ter a COW.
= s. Yaw observed that he had fe(
corn stalks to cattle with decided
benefit.
Z. Z. Jameson said that he s0weC
I one and a half bushels of Western corr
o broadcast on about a third of an acre
e the 28th of June and exhibited a singl
stalk which weighed one and fourt
pound. He also showed a suga
beet, planted five weeks earlier, whic
e weighed three and a hall pounds. !
f beet occupied about foot square o
e ground, but several stalks of cor
IS grow on a square foot He had te
. his cows just one week with cor
stalks, and they have gained tire
+ pints each per day in milk, and pin
n each in the quantity of cream save
s. during the week. He thinks it
r. more work to sow and hoe beets BIT
. less work to harvest and store thel
safely than fodder corn.
81 J. B. Fasset stated that the field {
1t corn sowed by Mr.. Brewster suite
as him. He had never raised any hin
.r self. The idea of sowing in drills an
= hoeing had heretofore deferred hin
but lift can be 'sowed broadcast, lik
oats and yield such a crop, it mu
E. be profitable.
in Mr.. Brewster feeds out about on
N square rod day, and the gain
10 cheese is perhaps seven pounds, an
! the gain in condition Of the cows mu
;" be about a dollar a day, which wouI
U6 SIOO all dCIc' IL 10 lCdul IOl vi
# just at the time when there is usual
n, a scarcity of feed in the pastures
ne Next year he shall endeavor to ha'
e both fodder corn and roots.
W. L. Locke, jr., said he had seve
d al times sent to B. K. Bliss, Springfield
D. Mass, for seed. Thi3 year he @
he dered one-quarter of a pound of Skin
be ing rutabaga seed. He thought eveI
is seed was good, as there were plan
J. enough for an acre. 1t was job
III hoe and thin them out. They are d
,e ing well now. The land where
Id planted them did not yield last ye
of over 500 lbs. of hay per acre. {
at plowed it in the spring and put (
nj the scrapings OF the barn yard, al
- | narrowed it in; then marked the dri
gu with a pillow, and scattered in t
ed drills the droppings of the hen roo
a of which he had wagon load. I
MS then covered this manure with a lit
Dr. dirt, and dropped the seed in hills
!. foot apart.
On the 18th ult., a patent was graz