Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-11-16

bushels last winter and could ne:lhe
smell or taste favor in the milk or tn
butter. f G. =
l fed at noon, always having understood
that feeding before milking would maxi
the milk taste.
1. A. Dwinell. Some years ago sole
milk in Boston, and | could tell wheI
those who sent in the milk fed turnips
When the milk became a little old il
would smell and taste.
w. s, Thorpe. In England we fed q
great many turnips, mostly tops, and al
as they came from the field and all times
of the day as many as the COWS would eat
and the butter tasted Of item. Since
came here have not fed so many, and the
tops have been cut off generally, and have
no trouble.
l feed in the middle Of the day. Nine.
tenths of the beef and mutton raised in
England is fattened on turnips. When the
animal is nearly fattened, little grain
to harden off and finish with, as we put
hard finish on our houses to make them
look smooth and nice.
When I left England, in 1912, not
many roots were cooked, but most are
there now.
J. P. West. think pumpkins are
good to feed; they do not increase the
quantity, but they do tie quality Of the
milk.
l think, however, the loss in corn rails
ed is equal to the value Of the pumpkins.
o. II. Cooke. If there is class of
men in the world who do not kno,o but
guess, it is the farmers.
l think the pumpkins raise are worth
as much per bushel as turnips; my cows do
as we'll on them.
My pumpkins are small and very sweet,
some people call them ''my oranges" but
| get more loads than of any other kind
| ever raised. Got half wagon load
from one vine which grew among the tur-
nips, but the turnips did not grow there.
[ do not think they sap the land very
much, none of the broad leaved running
vines do. | fed SOW with pigs on pump
kins boiled without any meal and she did
as we'll as she would on all the sour milk
she wanted.
D. N. Farrand. | believe it is best to
remove the seeds from pumpkins. have
tried both ways, and think the result pays
for the labor. We usually feed pumpkins
when grass is short, and if they keep up
quantity and quality Of milk they are
good feed. We lose most Of any way by
trying to keep too much stock and poorly
feeding them.
[ think roots should be fed in the fall
md early winter, and corn and oats in
the spring before and after calving, as
cows need hearty food at that time Of the
year. feed twice day, feed my meal
in slops with good results.
| had rather have oats than corn, same
value of each. for mich cows; think
nearly or quite as much pound for pound.
| think we should soil our cows more
than we do. beginning by the Goth of
June aud continue through the season with
clover, oats and corn, and would begin to
feed roots in early fall Am feeding two
|arrow cows now on potatoes, give peck
A day to each and they make as much
butter as they did in the summer.
Think about two hundred pounds of but
.er per year is doing pretty well, but be-
ieve if we had the right kind of stock
Ind gave the right care we could make
hree hundred. | make two hundred
ny cows are natives, and not very good
,ncs | think. .... .
l. A. Dwinell. do not think it pays
o feed grain on purpose for the butter.
Milk dairymen in Massachusetts, say the
milk does not pay in winter although there
8 rise in price Oct. LIST. feed grain,
or by 50 doing keep my COWS in better
,onditiun and the manure is much better.
feed oats and ears of corn ground to.
,ether / think we undervalue oats as a |
iced for all kinds Of farm stock.
At this period it was was voted to post
pone the discussion of the remaining sec
lions Of the topic to the next meeting, and
al further exercises for the evening.
The Club requested Gov. Hendee to