Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-01-22

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expense, and the results almost invariably
jsutifed the estimate.
s We allow for timothy, red top, and
similar grasses four hundred and fifty cubic
feet for ton at the top or upper half of
such bay, after it has lain few weeks
and settled. OF clover hay on sacaffold it
will take about six hundred cubic feet for
ton after it has lain three months. 1t will
be seen that the average of the full red top
and timothy will not be far from five hun
dred cubic feet to The ton, varying, of course,
somewhat by the circumstances alluded to,
that is, the season, the time of cutting, the
thoroughness with which is was cured, the
time it has settled, etc.
Testimony on this point may not be un-
interesting at this time. A farmer in Tx
bridge gives four hundred feet in NOW
twenty feet high, twenty feet long and
twenty feet wide, as the lowest number of
feet he ever estimated. He says: In
scaffold of hay eleven and a half feet square
and nine feet high making l, 1870 IA solid or
cubic feet, there was by actual weight
sob pounds of hay; or little over two
OBS and a half of hay. The hay was upland
interval, resembling red top. This gives a
fraction less than four hundred and sixty
nine cubic feet to the ton. Under ordinary
circumstances five hundred solid feet of we'll
packed, not very close, hay is considered
with us to he fair estimate Tor ton.
"A farmer in West Enosburgh, Vermont,
says: when there is large quantity
together, 400 cubic feet will make ton, but
where only a small quantity like a scaffold
is stored, it will take for ton not far from
500 cubic feet. 1t depends something on
the quality, but am speaking of good herds
grass hay. | saw a scaffold measured and
weighed few days ago 1t was twenty-six
feet long, eleven feet wide, nearly five feet
high, making ,430 cubic feet. 1t weighed
800 pounds SO you must see varied but
fraction OF 500 feet to the ton
= A farmer in Freeport, Maine, says: For
a NOW iorty feet long, sixteen feet wide, and
fourteen feet deep, well settled, the COM
mon estimate is 425 to 500 cubic feet to the
ton. For some fifteen successive years | have
pressed hay in my own barn for a NOW less
than the above, and the average namber of
feet required, including tare, which is about
five per cent. has been about 425 feet per
ton
1" 1t will appear from these statements ),
that as general average rule cube of
eight feet will make a ton of timothy, and
we should allow about quarter more for
clover. Ii there is a considerable mixture
OF clover, as there frequently Is, the proper
allowance must be made for 1t. and it will
require the exercise of some Judgment and
skill 80 get at it. So if the hay 10 very fine
and unusually solid, it will require less
number OF feet to the ton.
:" Now to make calculation as to how
many head of cattle it will do to attempt TO
winter, farmers call it in the rough about
two tons to the cew and make allowance,
of course, for other stock according to age
and size, and for other feeding substances,
like roots, etc. As a general rule, il Is well
to stock pretty well up to your capacity,
and if Likely - come a lite short buy
grain
The BETTER EDUCATION or FARMERS -
We are apt to take too much # dollar
and cent view of the question Of agricultural
education. In so many years young man
could earn so much money will 1t pay him
to give this up in order that he may get an
EDUCATION which will enable him IN later life
to make more money than he could lthout
1t? VIII any education that can he gained
at school make better m0ney-getter OF a
boy than would the same amount of time
and attention gwen to learning the practical
operations OF the farm?
Without stopping to answer these propo-
81 tions-which are foreign TO our purpose
we desire to call attention to other consider
ations that must have weight with all
thoughtful persons. The greatest prosperity
of farmers, as d class and Individually, must
come from causes which Will advance
farming as an occu patton. No permanent
and satisfactory prosperity can attend any
calling which Is not held In good repute, and
DO calling in these modern days can be held
IN good repute which is not represented by
a least a tar proportion OF men of education
and intelligence. In the sO-called " prOies-
sions, IN mechanics, and in trade, the ten
dency is toward better and better education
and more and more cultivated intelligence,
and the degree OF respec: IN which they are
severally held is in all cases proportlonate to
the intelligence of it's representative men.
In the future allotment OF honor and lntiu-
ence, and consequently OF prosperity, that
calling will take the lead whose representa-
tive men are the most distinguished for
education and cultivation, and that will fall
to the rear in which there has been the least
progress 10 these respects. The road of the
future Is an ascending one, and progress
over it is to be secured much more by the
aid of mind than by the aid OF matter
Those who take and keep the lead in the
race will do 50 because OF tnclr brains rather
than of their bodies, and the leadership vii
imply control over those who are behIuC
land therefore beneathI them. How IN
their rule will be merciful will depend OF
conditions which we cannot now fOreSee, bu
that they will rule is as certain Us that min.
has always ruled over brute force. 1t farm
ers can take the lead, farming will bt
a favored and fortunate occupation. Ii the,
must fall to the rear, 1t will be degrade
and an unfortunate one. W neither 1t Is on
or the other, depends on the extent to whc
farmers are educated and enabled to stand
lair chance in the " struggle Tor the lead
and our successors will be the lords OF th
land or down-trodden peasantry, accordin
as they a e educated or not. We assume, {
course, that sperlty and intelligence Wi
. 20 hand in hand, and that as we gam |
education we shall gain in wealth. At Oh
same time, We believe that the best chan(
- for the future of our craft lies in the abillt
of its representatives to take high star
for education and intelligence. Believr
& this, we long for the better general educ
e ton of farmers not of those OF the farmer
4 sons who are destined for other occupation
but especially for those who are to stay c
9 the farm Let Us bring better traln'
G brains to the performance of cur work, al
e shed the light of cultivation and refneme
~ over our "reminiscences and we may con
IDENTIFY look for a success which mere veal
Is could not Standardization Agricuiturlst
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