Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-02-19

hundred dollars on SAID farm last year.
The people of this vicinity are jubi-
liant over the verdict rendered at the
present term of the Orleans county court,
in the case of Octava Gardner VS.. Henry
Reed of Hyde Park, for breach of prom
Use of marriage Verdict for plaintiff,
$4,000 and costs, showing her to be a
lady of untarnished character, which is
fully endorsed by the people of Crafts
bury.
The discussion before the Craftsbury
Farmers Club. Tuesday evening, Feb.
6. ToPIC.-General Farming.
G.. ". .Seaver. [ would ike the
opinion of the Club about feed for cows
in the fall after the feed fails. Shall
we sow western or sweet corn for feed ?
NV brother in Massachusetts asked me
why we sowed western corn here in pref
erence to sweet corn he said sweet corn
was worth as much again as western or
southern corn to feed. If we could get
some seed to start with think it would
be more profitable to raise, but they ask
an exhorbitant price for it in market
[ don't think we can raise as much on
an acre as we can of the western, but
the small ears of corn and the suckers
make it very extra feed. The western
or southern corn is profitable to raise, but
if sweet corn is as much better as it is
claimed we ought to raise it. Our COM
mon corn is very profitable to feed, and
[ can make more butter on it than | can
on the same amount of western. Oats l
consider a very good feed, but don't get
enough from an acre.
j. McAMster. | have experimental
on different kinds of corn, have used
the western and the best l can do is to
have COWS hold their own. got some
corn from the south part of the state,
sowed it and by the side on the same
piece sowed some of our common corn.
| could not see any difference in the two
kinds as far as feeding, but that kind [
had from the south grew much larger
l had a package of sweet corn from the
Agricultural Department, [ planted it in
the house in the spring, when the wealth
er was warm enough | transplanted it
and covered it up cold nights and in this
way it ripened, and now | can plant it
as [ do other corn and it gets ripe. |
have sowed some of it for fodder, and
cannot see as it is any better than our
common corn. | have this season fed
four COWS three months, all they would
eat twice day, from one-fourth an acre
of this large kind of corn. [ have tried
the second crop of clover, but don't think
it any better feed in the fall than our
common corn but much better than the
western.
President. The only objection [ ever
heard to western corn, was by a noted
farmer in Massachusetts, who said it was
good for nothing, for the reason it does
not come to maturity here. [ have a
kind of corn the seed of which came
from Grand Isle, it is very early and
grows large, think it would be good
kind to sow for fodder. l never had any
corn which suited me as we'll as this.
H. Allen. | think the seed we get
does not all grow.
H. McAtLister. When | commenced
feeding my COWS this corn l spoke Of
they gained one third in milk in short
time.
E. Weber. [ think if we are to SOW
common corn we ought to drill or plant
it. | have sowed it broadcast and it ha:
proved failure, when at the same time
western corn sowed broadcast has done
well.
=. W1UiamS I have lived in Mas
sachusetts, there they soil their COW.
more perhaps than they do here. Their
object there is to make milk no matte
if there is no cream. They have useC
western, southern, and sweet corn, bu
they prefer common corn rather thar
western or southern. They now U.s.
what they call Witches; it is like o
something like small pea, and sa,
there is nothing like it for producin!
milk. There is no doubt but oats Gu
before they come to maturity woulc
make good fodder, but do not produc
enough to the acre to make it pay t
feed them. [ don't think western corr
good to feed, it contains too much water
have used common corn and think it fa
-ahead of western [ think sweet corr
preferable to other kinds think Their
would be no trouble in getting seed here
There is no use in bringing seed fror
Massachusetts, as it will not ripen here
l carried corn from Vermont to Massa
chusetts and planted it by the side Q
their corn, and it was two weeks later
l | think Vermont the best farming coun
try l have seen.
j. AAen. Have never tried any bu
the western or southern corn, think thi
pays me; have fed it in the winter.
7 would rather cut it one day before
: feed it so it may wilt; think it better
q A. j. Smith. Have never raised onl
the common corn for feeding, think
: profitable. If it is not sown too thic
: there will be small ear of corn on mos
every stalk, and this | think will max
up the difference in bulk between it an
western.
The discussion now turns on to muck
:. b. Webber In the spring before
0 could get muck, | used horse manure i
! my hog pen and let the hogs work it owe
a while, then threw it out and put i
muck which laid in the same length
time, these two piles used on my cor
s in the hill and that which muck was
: produced the best corn.
President. Referred to the number
. loads of manure made by Mr.. Cory
t He stabbed his COWS, put muck benin
S them through the summer, and in tt
s fall he drew out one hundred and eight
loads. He had some twelve COWS.
Il. j. Smith. Think [ have done be
, ter than that with four COWS and tv
J. hogs; have made one hundred and fift,