The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-11-17
FARM CHATS.

To-day l met neigbbor b. and the con.
yersatiop turned upon COWS and their feed
Neighbor b. keeps 35 common grade
cows, and raises milk and sells in town at
six to eight cents quart. We keep lG
to 20, Jerseys, Ayrsbires, and the crosses
of the two breeds.and make and sell Jer.
sey butter, for which sc fud market in
Pittsfeld, New York. and St. Louis, Mo.
Says ncighbor b.: How are your cows
doing this fall n Very we'll You
feed some, 1 suppose" Yes. What
are you feeding now ?" Sowcd corn and
cabbage leaves. Have you got them in
the fall feed yet !" No. | never fall
feed the meadows. Would rather grow
some crops to help out the pastures, than
to feed stock on the meadows. Well,
have had niue in fall feed some time and
as soon as flush feed was of, the cows
went down in their milk. We then fed
sowed corn, but they did not give out
much, or ms much as | thought they
should, so we changed and gave them
fresh cut clover, but they shranS still
worse, then went back to sowed corn.
and after a few days they did better and
are now giving good messos. D." Exactly
the same in my case. We had lot Of
second crop clover just wited when
rain storm was in hailing distance. and
We put it in the barn, and fed the cows
with it through the storm and after, as
long as it lasted, and our cows dried up
rs long as we fed it, but after going back
TO corn few days they gavo out again
This does not agree with DR.. Loring, or
that eminent dairvman, Hon. Harris Lew.
is, that sowed corn is worthless for feed.
ing mich COWS. 10 my experience fpd
sowed corn to be very valuable as feed
for mich COWS, both while green and
when dried. Good. early cut. well cured
clover hay, find to be The best of all for
mich cows in winter, aud generally sec.
oud crop clover or rowen l., considered
one Of the best feeds Another neighbor
has fed his cows fresh cut clover all the
fall, and he says his cows do not do WE'LL
that they dry up fast, and keep drying
up. 1t is claimed that fodder corn to be
worth much should ear some. My fodder
corn never ears any, and is geneTaily late
sown. Nei1hbor Il. put 10 two acres.
and he used our drill to SOW it with The
rows eight inches apart, corn covered two
inches, three bushels of seed per acre, CD
inverted sod with good coat Of muuure
narrowed in. White Southern corn was
the variety. His crop is big one, and
is still growing 1t was sown about the
25th Of June. Mine was the same kind
of seed and planted on inverted sod rows
three feet apart. Drill opened with q
PettenRill horse hoe, and MANFRED with
q light dressing of compost made up OF
e little manure. lcached ashes, plaster,
lime and muck. Seed dropped by hand
and covered with a Thomas harrow
Sowed June Sd, and used three bushels
Of seed per acre. Horse.hoed three times
The crop was cut Sept. 3. hayed few
days, then bound and shocked, and after
short time put in the baru. A part Of
the piece was turned and hayed. then
pitched into cocks, and after a few days
in the sun put into the barn The cows
eat and clean it up full as well as they
did when we fed it fresh cut, and they
now give nearly as much milk and butter
as they did in July aud August. We
had IA acres and began to cut Aug.
Is. The crop is now just about half fed
ou:, and with the waste from our cabbages
will carry the COWS till the middle or last
OF November. Way Nor.
Vermont Farmer.