Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-02-28
Craftsbury Farmers Club.

at a meeting Of the Craftsbury
Farmers Club, Feb. 18th, Mrs. A.
Scott presented a churning of butter
with the following statement:
Mrs. A. Scott presents this club,
this eve, with churning OF butter
from a new mich cow-of IL lbs. in
just six days cream fraction less
than two lbs. per day, and is just as
nice and yellow as any made in June.
You can all examine it for yourselves.
1t is not colored with carrots or any
other coloring matter. #
Mr.. Scott then read paper on the
best time for cutting grass, and is as
| follows:
The best mode have found yet to
cut hay is to commence about the 10th
of June and finish by the 18th if |
can. Sometimes the weather prevents,
so cannot finish before the first days
of July. The quality of hay cut the
last days of June is worth but about
one half as much as that cut previous
to the 18th, when the herdsgrass just
put out their heads the last days of
June-then three Or four inches of
the butts have become hard and WOO
dy, and the nutriment of the grass is
rapidly leaving the stalk. Hay cut
the last days of June and first days of
July | do not feed to my cattle until l
am obliged to. The grass cut from
the 10th to the 25th produces the but
ter presented you this evening by
Mrs. Scott, is from an ordinary cow
and of undersize. This COW consumes
20 lbs. of hay per day, which at $40
a ton costs 20 cts. per day, and yields
in return a half pound of butter per
day, as that will be about the average
for the winter. Then deduct the half
pound to pay for milking, churning,
&C., then you have one pound of but
ter worth so cts. and safe at any time
!, at 40 cts. for 20 cts. worth of hay
: Now, Mr.. Chairman, ladies and gen.
tlemen, will you consider the above
= figures and ma Ike up your minds to lay
aside old customs and adopt better
ones, that will give you two to one,
instead of feeding 20 cts. worth Of
, hay per day, and getting nothing in
: return but your stock in the spring
without any gains. A. SCOTT.
? Feb. IL, 1868.
At the meeting of the Club Feb. IS
, the subject being, " What Crops shall
, we raise, and how shall we raise
them ?" Mr.. A. Morse said he thought
4 the grass crop was the crop, but tho'
a farmers should raise all crops. The
} corn crop was profitable crop; haC
E the best luck with corn by plowins
! green sward and manuring in the hill
t with old manure at the rate of twent1
: five one horse loads per acre get from
y 40 to 70 bushels per acre; thought i
a more profitable crop for his soil thai
| oats. For wheat he plowed his groun,
lie late in the fall, then spread on manur
n and let it remain till spring, then hal
K rowed in the manure and sowed whea
= y as early as the ground could be wori
70 ed. Found he got better crops o
l.. wheat and better grass and it bel
" out longer than when he plowed mi
nure under. In reply to question
P said corn should be hoed twice
~ ground was weedy, if not, preferre
az but one hoeing; thought corn shoul
or be planted when the proper time can
Id whether the weather was cold {
10 warm; believed in covering corn de
- per than most farmers did, say thrt
nv inches on dry ground.
Ic A. Collins got the best corn {
&C green sward; thought it should n
ne be plowed many days before plantin
~ if a good start Of grass was turn'
" under so much the better.
A. Scott would pillow in the sprir
ev. then spread on manure and harrow
of in; he believed corn was better
D. hoed but once when about 70
L. high if weeds come up afterwar
on chop them up with the hoe; thoug
hoeing the second time injured
corn by disturbing the fbrous ROOT
are had proved once hoeing best by
on pertinent.
' of |. d. r. Collins thought farm,
cct should raise all crops that were ad;
COW ted to their soil. Root crops for c
lrst tie feed was too much neglected;
an rutabaga was one Of the most pro
' W. able crops to raise to feed cattle
ais Would not raise grain to sell a
per- general practice, it took too M,
his from the soil. Believed that farm
an usually did not commence cutting tt
.:le' grass early enough; would CONNIE
i to the 25th Of June, cutting the heavi
tn clover, &c, first, and finish if posi-
sing by the middlesof July, then cut
got best of the rouen again in Augr
set believed that the farmers on Bl
a. river might raise good wheat by S
ter ing winter wheat; thought wheat