Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-01-11
MOrrlsi0wn Farmers Club.
MEETING OF FRIDAY, DEC. 9, 1870.
Essav nv ID. N. Farrand.

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Essay by D. N, Farrand.
am often asked if have an extra lot
of cows; how | make so much butter,
aud how l feed my cows. | do not think
my cows are extra they gave respective
ly az follows, in number of quarts, when !
measured their milk last summer: 0, 0, II,
IL, IL, IA, l6, is, per day. 1t will be
seen that the last three gave nearly
half, as to 81 quarts); those | call
very good cows. l have made from the
the above, six cows and two heifers, 400
pounds, besides what we have used and
milk sold; We have used about 25 quarts
Of milk and from two to three pounds OF
butter per week, and have sold 326 qts.
of milk. l want to so Improve my stock,
feed, and manner of feeding, that l can
make from seven COWS and two heifers
2000 pounds of butter to sell.
| would commence to milk all my COWS
in March aud dry off in January, if [
could.
During January and February I feed
straw and my poorest hay, with few
roots. Don't intend to have the cows
grow poor any. About two weeks before
calving | commence to feed meal, COM
mence with about one quart and increase
to two quarts each day; after calving
increase to four quarts for old COWS and
less for young ones-two quarts for heif-
ers feed meal until grass and break Of
by degrees, cease feeding by the first Of
June, Scald my meal and feed twice a
day so as to have the feed more uniform.
like oats for feed better than corn but
would mix ole bushel of corn with two OF
three of oats, would begin with rye instead
of corn.
My method of feeding and care is-1st,
feed I'd, milk 3rd, feed sgaiu,--this
before breakfast. After breakfast feed
slops, card, water and tie up again, and
feed all the hay they viii eat up clean,
and feed no more until o'clock, then feed
and leave them to cat half or three-quar.
tiers of an hour, then feed slops, water,
milk and feed again. On sunny days
leave them in the yard till noon after the
morning watering. 43
| want plenty Of early cut hay and cal.
culate to feed it as long as the COWS will
eat it, if it is until clover is fit for soiline
which is about June Goth, then feed clio.
yer or some other green food un il the
corn is tasseled, then corn until frost,- -
plant a little corn for fodder for five OF
six weeks in succession. Don't care much
about corn to feed dry, prefer oats mown
green or rowen. After frost 1 do not let
my COWS upon the meadows at all but feed
roots, average four quarts potatoes to the
| cow or other roots as to value until Jan
Good early cut hay is my principal feed,
BY early cut hay mean cut when in the
blow or before.
When the pasture is good and the COWS
will not eat hay | milk early and turn in
to the pasture again for the night.
Nothing new was brought out in the
discussion. '
An extemporaneous speech was made
by S. Harris, on Raising and Fatteninp
Pork" the pith of which was: keep pig.
growing all the time, and to fatten feed
with scalded corn and oats three times t
day what will be eaten clean. Who,
hogs get off their feed sulphur and W. |
nolasses are good to restore their appe
lite.
The attendance was small.
Next week. 81 anA la
Essay--W.S. Thorpe.
Discussiop--topic lst Sec.--The bes
method Of making ard saving manure
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