Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-30

and is not we'll digested, as Il is when taken
into the FIRST stomach with the long feed.
Securing is oieeu produced by meal fed alone,
when much more can be fed without such
result If fed in connection with msistened
long feed. Even wet meal, IL fed nlone,
will 70 direct 10 the fourth stomach. You
cannot get the value Of your meal, unless fed
in very small quantities, when fed alone, be-
cause what goes into the fourth stomach is
never raised and chewed over in the cud
The meal may be fed with sliced or pulped
roots, with the same advantage as with long
feed. Would not grind CObs with the corn
to feed COWS. Cob meal is Of no value, aud
Injuries the stomach and bowels by its me-
chanical action. Mr.. A. said that corn fod-
der, even when we'll grown and we'll cured,
II not = we'll balanced food, in it's OouStitu-
ents, for milch COWS, but does better fed
With wheat bran, or clover. These supply
those elements in which the corn fodder is
deficient. The best time to cut corn for fod-
der is when It begins to blossom. 1t is al
ways better in its effects as feed il fed dry
than green. The most leafy kinds are al.
ways the sweetest, and most nutritious for
fodder.
Mr. Stewart confirmed these views from
his own experience. He thought the diff.
ference of opinion on the subject Of the val
ue Of fodder corn arose from the different
ways in which it is grown, cured aud fed.
Mr.. Tinkham, of Pomfret, related one ex-
perence with cobs as feed that seemed to in.
dictate that they possessed considerable nu.
tritive value.
THURSDAY EVENING.
The secretary announced that the Bullard
and the Blanchard butter prizes had been
awarded by the committee to Hon. Alney
Stone, of Westford. G. H. Hubbard, Esq,
Of the Committee on implements, &C., also
submitted a report Of considerable length,
which we do not consider Of sufficient gener-
al interest to insert here.
Hon. II. s. Gold,
of Connecticut, then addressed the meeting
on the Future Prospects Of the Dairy"
Mr.. G. said he attempted to draw some re-
liable statistics of past production from the
census returns, but found them SO imperfect
as to render any satisfactory statement inn
possible. He then went on to say that the
territory adapted to dairying was limited to
the section between 400 and so Of north
latitude, and did not include all Of this
We must have free growth of sweet, nu'
tritious grasses, and an abundance Of pure
water; also 4 careful, patient, and indus
trious people. The West is not much Of it
suited for dairying, because Of a lack Of good
water for cows. The grass is good, and
suited for stock growing, but without abun
dance Of pure water, dairying Of higt
grade cannot be carried on. Hardly any o
tho butter made in such region is evel
tolerably good. Portions Of Michigan auC
Ohio are well adapted to dairying, and ther
are limited tracts in other states of n simila
character. Yet even in such regions th
people often prefer to raise grain. There i
some good dairy country in Missouri, bu
the climate is rather too warm. Among thC
Rocky Mountains there are spots well sup
piled With grass and water, but these ar
very limited.
The New York papers have been for th'
last ten years talking about the coming ex
cess of dairy production, but it has neve
come, and is not likely 10 come, since tn
consumers increase more rapidly than tn
cows. Of all the great staple products o
the farm those Of the dairy promise to b
the most profitable for long series of year
/ in the future. Poor butter and cheese, in
deed, will soon block market, but the de
mand for a good article is not easily salts
fed. Let this be understood, and also tina
the good repute of locality for producin
FIST class article, helps the price Of all pre-
duced in that neighborhoOd, so that to hell
I your neighbor to make good butter or chees
t will help you to get good prices for you
/ own.
q Hon. Harris Lewis endorsed Mr.. Gold
0 remarks in regard to the limited capacity {
: the West fer dairying. Then, the peOpl
0 there are not, in most places, class Of pei
!. pie likely to make good dairymen. The
!. prefer an easier and less careful kind {
4 farming. There is no danger of 6rst cla
J dairying being sverdone, or ceasing to
profitable.
Mr.. Lewis said that he had been grossl
!. misrepresented on the corn fodder question
o He wished to say that what he had said WI
$ simply that COW might be driven by starV'
ton to eat rail fence, but that she woul
a prefer good grass if she could get it, to
h rail fence, or a stone wall, or even to col
t fodder. He used to grow corn fodder, al
/ fed it, and if his cows hadn't had more sem
!. than he had, they would probably be eatir
o it now. Corn fodder from Western corn ca
r be dried SO that one hundred pounds will OIL
a ly weigh eight pounds, showing what an G.
cess Of water it contains, aud the eigl
b pounds is mostly indigestible woody ibr
d But he admitted that he had sown bis col
too thick. The thin planting idea has con
70 up since he decided against corn fOdde
}. With common corn, and sweet corn, bett
.e results can be obtained than from Weste
corn. Yet on good grass farm he believ
d tito be cheaper and better to grow go
q grass for cows than any other feed. I
q COWS prefer it, and instinct teaches them b.
"a ter than reason sometimes teaches us. A