Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-01-27

nifty OF the land intended for beets. Int
land should be manured at least % load
to the acre, one-half before ploughing ant
one.half on top a. a dressing. Gosrsi
manure should be avoided. Tie sami
land IL not to be used ior successive yeasa
The best time for sowing is the VERY frs
suitable weather.
Planting is the cheapest and best mode
of depositing the seed. One and bal
pounds per acre are sufficient seed. Each
pound contains 1900 seeds, and eacl
seed will produce from one to FIVE stalks
The distance between the rows should bt
not less than two feet; this will give III
tons per acre, considering each beet te
weigh four pounds. The middle of Octo
Der is the best time for harvesting the
crop. Twenty-eight to thirty-two tons
per acre is the average crop Guano
salt and super phosphate increase the
crop. The fair average cost of raising il
eight cents per bushel.
Mr. Lane held the attention of quite 9
large audience for nearly an hour, and
thoroughly demonstrated the utility Of
the sugar beet for feeding COWS.
The Secretary of the association, Mr.
O. s. Bliss, then gave some of his obser.
vations in Addison County, which is char.
acterized as the root center of Vermont
He had observed that farmers in that
county fed sugar beets to almost every
animal with success.
Col. J. B. Mead of Randolph, remarked
that labor was the great bugbear in the
way of raising ,beets, as weeds troubled
the farmer. He was satisfied that farm.
ers raise too mnch corn and not enough
roots. For his own part he was eneour.
aged by the address, to raise more roots.
Mr.. Mason, the President, had raised the
long Mangle beet, and was satisfied that
roots fed with hay to COW, brought the
COW through the winter muchbetter than
hay alone, and that it was no more trouble
to raise an acre of beets than an acre OF
corn.
Mr.. Lane, was of the opinion that the
weeds. Did not trouble the beet more than
corn by cultivating certainly twice there
was no trouble. If sowed in ridges he
would have them low and fat. The beet
was not so good for fattening purposes as
potatoes or corn.
Col. Mead said the dry soil of eastern
Vermont was not so favorable for beets a.
turnips; he related his experience in rails
ing beets.
Edward Clark of st. Adams, said hi
was familiar with the cultivation of roots
in England and Ireland, tnrnips were not
sown, beets less.
Mr.. A. r. Bailey of Elmore, inquired
as to the relative value for milk, of pota
toes and beets.
Mr.. Lane replied, that beets were bet
ter for milk than potatoes.
z. E. Jameson of Irasburg, correspondent
of the New England Farmer, said that q
farmer in his vicinity had raised 60 bush.
els of turnips by putting seed near the
hills of corn-turnips weighing seven OIL
eight pounds and no detriment to corn
Another scattered turnip seed upon the
manure in the cart that he applied in thu
drills for corn, and this raised good tur
nips with no expense.
The Association then adjourned til
evening.
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
JANUARY 10.
The following was the address on dairy
farms and dairy management, by Hon.
X. A. Willard, dairy editor of Rural
New Yorker, formerly of the Utica
Herald:
at is great pleasure to meet Yer
mont audience, and to have the privilege
of saying a word upon the great interest
which you have come together here to-
day to represent.
The diaries of Vermont are not un
known Your butter market here has
become famous. The report of the sales
in ST. Adams, are watched by many anx-
ious eyes III New York and other States,
and l think you have done we'll to inau-
gurate an association for promoting i'm
in this branch OF industry.
Progress is enc Of the great features OF
the age, and no section can afford to lie
idle upon its laurels, and allow other Sec
tons to win in the race of improvement.
Mr.. Willard than took up the subject
Of dairy management.
American dairying now represents a
capital of more than seven hundred mil
lions of dollars. The cheese product last
year 1850 sold for more than thirty mil
lions of dollars, and the butter product
for at least an hundred and fifty millions
1f dollars. In 1865 the butter product of
New York alone, was estimated at sixty
year thirty millions of gallons of milk
sold in the State, which at four cents per
quart would amount to nearly five mil
ions of dollars. l estimate the cheese
product of 1869. at 240,000,000 pounds,
At fifteen cents per pound this would
amount to thirty millions of dollars. The
outter product can not be far from 700,
100000 pounds, for in 1860 it had
,eaehad over 450,000000 of pounds. At
30 cents per pound the product the past
year ON the above estimate would be
These figures show the
of dairy farming, and is great
y increasing and furthering the CONNER
,ial interests of the country.
Associated dairying originated in Eu-
.ope, but differs from American. Euro
oean system was not generally adopted
among the nations. In America the first
,uccessful movement in this direction was
instituted. The American system seeks
% reduce the practice of dairying to a
science. 1t is new application of an old
principle, adapting the rule to farming,
which has been successful in commerce
md manufactures. New principles are
brought to bear upon the farm labors. and
,rains are found to be of more account
han muscle. 1t is hopeful sign of pro-
,ress that farmers everywhere are organ
zing societies for the purpose of obtaining
Useful information. 1t necessitates i'm
proved manufacture of dairy products.
The speaker then pointed out some of
he most important requisites for dairy
He first gave the constitu-