Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-08-26


hay is so similar in character to grass
that the manure of his cattle in winter
was just like that when grazing, in COL
or and consistency. Mr. Scott feeds his
calves on skim milk mixed with warm
hay tea, and recently sold pair of
syearlings" (23 IL months old) that
weighed 2700 lbs. They were fed with
the hay tea up to the day they were sold,
adding lately about four quarts of meal
per day. A number of Craftsbury farm
ers follow the same system, and about
twenty calves were sold the past year
that never have been surpassed, if equal
ed, by any that have been shown at the
State Fair. Some Short-horn bulls have
exceeded 1000 lbs., at one year old. E.
L. Hastings sold pair of grade Short
horns one month younger than Mr.. Scott's
that weighed 22S0 lbs, and S. G. Corey
a pair of natives with little Devon
blood, "a IL months old, that weighed
200 lbs. Mr.. Scott's pair mentioned
above, dressed little over 1900. Mr..
S. P. Whitney had a calf that last fall,
at months weighed 800 lbs.
VIM. S. Thorpe, of Morristovn, then
read a very interesting paper on 'Rota-
ton Of Crops" So pleased was the
meeting with Mr.. Thorpe's paper that a
vote of thanks was spontaneously voted.
DIR. Hoskins expressed the idea that the
great lesson of English farming to Amer
lean farmers, as shown in Mr.. Thorpe's
paper, was the important system, to sue
cess in all the operations of the farm.
Too often our farmers lay no plans, and
take out their plows in the spring with
hardly settled idea of what they mean
to do. No success is possible in this
way, and the time is near when such
farming will cease even to yield a living
to those that follow it.
Mr.. Herrick spoke of the successful
wheat culture in England, referring to
the great increase of yield within the
last forty years, and said that by pur-
suing the same methods our own yield OF
that important grain hight be equally
increased, and it made profitable crop
in New England.
Mr.. Thorpe said that English farming
was founded on rotation. He referred
to the common way with us on loo
acre farm, of having 70 acres in pasture
to keep the stock five months in the year
and taking the feed for seven months
together with the food for the family
and crops sold from the remaining TWEEN
ty-fve acres. He thought this bad farm
ing, and believed in most cases that tn
right way would be to divide the who'll
Z farm into fields and practice regula
system of rotation. England has tn
advantage of US in some respects, sucl
as longer season and mild weather
which enable them to grow roots an
feed them off on the land This is don
by using movable fence, enclosing
portion or The land which is fed off b
the sheep, and the fence then moved un
til the whole field is gone over. 1t
left smooth by the treading of the shee
and enriched by the droppings, and
then plowed and sowed to barley. Clt
j yer seed is sown with the barley and
little rye-grass. The clover is sometime
: hayed, and sometimes fed off by sheep
if the latter is intended, white Glove
; seed is sown with the red The Glove
, is followed by wheat. In proportion
7 the turnip crop is the clover, and
e proportion to the clover is the wheat, {
that the English farmer if he gets GOO
$ crop of turnips, feels sure of IL
f rest of the rotation. In Yorkshir
| ON drained land, the wheat crop will a
e erage forty bushels; on lighter land
a is even better. The English farmers
e their work much better than we do; tn,
: are much more particular about plowin
It especially. His father, an old Engli
e farmer now living in Underhill, vt
), will not allow anybody to hold his pie
e but himself, and says he can get
e good crops on land plowed in the En-
e fish manner, without manure, as |
d Yankee neighbors get with manure. I
1t test of good blowing in England is
have the burrows straight as line, a
1t to lap with perfect regularity so as
Of form an angular depression at the Ii
,e called the seed furrow. Under-draini
" had just begun in Yorkshire when
it left there in 1914, and on his recent v
~ it he took pains to visit two six az
as fields that had been tiled just before
it left. They were no more like what til
I'd were before, than nothing; the soil v
s. loose and light, and seemed to have !,
,g dergone an entire change. The crt
be were very much increased. In Engla
nine-tenths of the meat is fattcned
he turnips. In this country we do not
IS. high enough, but turn off our cattle
RS just the point when the English farr
a. begins, and when he makes the m
ed profit not only on the increased weie
at but the improved quality of the me
en- and the profit comes on the quality m
he than ON the mere gain in weight.