The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-10-11
agricultural department.
BY ALBERT CHAPMAN
Selling aud IIigh-Feeding.

soiIing and IIigh-Feeding.
Z" The world moves" and even the far
mers move with it.. This became pleas.
antly evident in our trip among them
lately. Having been called O 4" Book
Farmer" fifteen years ago, because we
believed it quite unnecessary to devote
three to five acres to pasturing a COW,
and then demonstrated that one-half acre
is abundant land on which to raise her
summer food, we were agreeabiy surpris.
to find many farmers in Erie county who
became converted practically TO the soil.
ing system.
Since the factory system of making
cheese came in, farmers are measured and
weighed and inventoried as never before.
They seem for the first time to have dis.
covered that the COW is a chemical abo-
ratory to manufacture food into milk and
that to make her profitable she must have
all the food that her digestive system can
work up.
When they come together upon the
factory scales and find that A. has pro-
duced nearly twice as many pounds of
milk as b. from nearly the same number
of cows, b. suddenly exhibits an eager
curiosity TO know what sort of cows A.
has, and how he feeds them; and thus
comes improved feeding. j. s., in Brant,
doubled his number of cows this season.
He added eight two-year old heifers of
his own raising, making sixteen mixers.
He has eight acres Of poor pasture for
them to run in and take their exercise !;
feeds all the green clover they can eat
twice per day in stable. In June he pro.
duced three hundred and eighty.four
pounds of milk, or twenty-four pounds
each per day. Ia July they are doing
nearly as well.
He says they are producing twenty
per cent. more than the same class of cows
have ever done for him.
He had FIVE acres of clover and was
able to feed only about one-half of the
first crop, the balance cured for hay.
The second crop is now being fed and is
abundant. He expects a third crop,
and is prepared with green corn for fall
feeding.
Mr.. M. f. W., of Gowanda, gave the
results Of soiling twenty-five cows (seven
them heifers) in 1869. file had thirty
acres of pasture, and ted them night and
morning in stable; had three acres of
clover, cut it three times. Began cltting
the Goth of May, and fed till the middle
Of August, after which he used green
corn fodder, with some clover. The re-
suit was highly producing
four hundred and fifty pounds of cheese
per cow, besides early and late butter.
He received for his cheese s65 As, and
about 81 for butter per COW. This was
better than he had ever been able to do
before. This present season he is soiling
more and pasturing less, and is more fully
confirmed in its economy.
We found w. very conservative on the
question of feeding bran, meal, &C., in
summer. He believes the farmer should
produce all his feed on the farm, and his
result was, certainly, satisfactory.
But here is his brother, j. W. WILDER
Of Collins, who wrote me the result of his
experiment in soiing during the season.
he says: 81 have sixty acres tillable
land; have kept twenty cows and three
horses. Ten of the cows were two-year-
old heifers, and part of these did not
come in till July. used twenty acres
for pasture and twenty acres for meadow,
fifteen acres of planted and sowed corn,
three acres of oats and two of wheat. Be-
gan soiling with clover the 2Sth of
May; fed clover at night, and whey and
four quarts Of bran to each in the morn.
ing; continued this till the 18th of July,
then fed green oats till cold weather.
Sold cheese and butter to the amount of
s!,215, besides supplying the family
with milk and butter. l fed three tons
OF bran; the rest of the feed was raised
on the farm. am well pleased with
this experiment, and shall pasture less
and soil more next season-1S70. |
think there is more milk in clover than
any other green food"
1t will be well to note this last state.
ment regarding clover, as being quite op-
posed to the theory of l.. B. Arnold,
mentioned in the Rurol Nev Yorker,
few weeks ago. If we are to be deprived
Of red clover by the experiment Of Mr..
Arnold, and of green corn fodder, oil
meal, and corn meal, by the authority of
Professor Loring, who can tell where it
will end, and what the poor COWS are to
he rcd upon.-Rural New Yorker.