Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-03-07


keep
Ansper Grade Durhams, but believe
they can be improved by dash Of Jersey
blood.
Question: What is the yield from your
cows, per head
Anscer Counting in everything, includ-
ing nine three-year-old heifers in herd of
25, have made $500 pounds butter during
the season, averaging from 36 to 3S cents
Making 1865, which, reckoning the head
equal to % good COWS, would give an aver
age Of S75.65 each. Does not feed much
meal or roote, only good hay and grass. Has
his COWS come in usually in April. Raised
% calves, aud fatted 5000 pounds of pork.
Mr.. Sumner | wished to bring out by
these questions, that Mr.. Douglass has done
no more than any common farmer can do
with profit aud advantage.
Mr.. Willard, Of Westminster, said some
time since MIR. Bliss, Secretary of the Dairy
mems Association, had been here, and tried to
make us believe there is no such churn as
the Blanchard churn. Perhaps somebody
mere will try and tell us there is no such
churn as the old fashioned barrel churn that
Mr.. Douglass uses.
Mr.. Douglass said he liked the barrel
churn ON account of the complete uniformity
and perfection with which it sgitstes the
cream. There are other good churns, The
Blanchard is the best patent churn in the
country. Had trial of that, the Sanborn,
aud the barrel cburu in my dairy Time,
Sanborn, IL minutes barrel, II minutes I;
Blanchard, Is minues. In q uantity Of but
ter. the SanbOrn gave the least, the barrel
the most, aud Blanchard intermediate. The
Blanchard man Ohurned very slow, and the
Sanborn man very fast. The barrel churn
If filled too full, or turned too fast will not
bring butter so soon.
FRIDAY MORNING.
Mr.. z. L. Jameson
read an address upon Grasses" illustrated
with many specimens of the various cultivat.
ed and wild grasses,
Mr.. Douglass liked to pillow twice before
stocking to grass, so as to bring the surface
soil back to the surface before sowing grass
seed Also by handling the soil got it
into better condition, raising we'll MANFRED
crop upon the land.
Mr.. Sumner said it was a truth that we
cannot cheat nature, or get paying crops
without liberal manuring. But he was sat
is6ed it was wrong to turn deeply under a
heavy coating of fertiliziug matter, either in
manure or sod. In warm, wet seasons il
works well, but not in dry, and as princi
pie it is wrong. Manure does best applied
to the surface This is practical fact. Was
satisfied he had entirely lost manure by pillow.
ing it in. Would manure high and seed with
grain. Science is not like the politician
which will always change to suit the popular
opinion, if you let them know in time. Sci
ence is the same every time, if you rightly
understand it. But that is the point, and i
is not always easy to get to the real meaning
of our observations in the field. Narrated
success and failures in cropping, even wheE
he tried to do the work in the same way
showing the difficulty of knowing all thu
principles and controlling all the conditions
In regard to irrigation, Of which Mr.. James
on spoke as important in grass growing, hi
approved of it highly wherever practicable.
Secretary Collier did not believe tina
manure powed deeply under was lost, in an,
retentive SOIL even when the crops did no
show the benefit the next year. 1t might b
spread over many years but the fertiIizin
material was there, and the plants in tim
7 would find it,
Mr.. Hubbard, Of Springfield, narrated a
experience illustrating the benefit Of pillow
: ing in sod late in the spring, when tn
! grass had made considerable growth, 70
corn. A very light dressing on the piec
: gave better results than heavy dressing o
!, the same field, plowed in before the gra,
started.
Professor Collier spoke of the benef
:, aside from supplying plant food, of turDin
under coarse manure or green crop, in ii
o fermentation of this organic matter, whic
u warns the soil. But sometimes when thel
o is an excess or perhaps deficiency, OF rail-
u this organic matter sours, instead of ie
3 menting. In this case the result may
d injury instead Of benefit Still he did nj
y believe that the fertilzing material was 10
TO the soil. though the benefit OF the termet
ton is lost.
a. The Professor went on to speak of Il
y occasional apparent Inconsistencies in the r.
suits Of chemical analyses with practical e.
r, perience, as in the instance of immatu
3. grass proving more nutritious than that lat
n cut which may show, chemically, more u
i'd tritious matter. The reason il that thoul
+ the former may not contain 10 much nutr
ID ment, yet it is so much more easily digestC
at and assimilated that it does most good to II
in animal.
be Nlr. KimbaI asked Mr.. Sumner if /
lis farm is on Otter Greek, or back on the hill
r. Mr.. Sumner replied that it was on a sw,
OF land, and was somewhat stony.
he Mr. Douglass spoke of Mr.. |. d. r. Oc
ut lins's paper, read at Morrisvile, in reieren
er to experiments with early cut hay made
Mr.. Scott, Of Craitsbury, as worthy the |
m rusal and earnest consideration of eve
re farmer in the state.
nm Mr. Jameson rnmark ed thAt many pri