Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-01-29

feeding in winter is of the utmost import
ance, nj re than the frequency Of feeding.
lie advocated feeding young stock and
dry cows with hay twice a day but with
milch COWS he cuts straw and stalks. wets,
puts on meal. and feeds once a day. Cows
should have salt where they can have az
cess To it ut any and all times summer and
winter He prefers wheat bran, rather
than corn meal. which does not generally
affect ut the immediate time the flow of
milk. Meal may be fed in the spring to
keep them in condition whe, they come t"
grass, which is of the greatest Importance.
Mr. K. Waite. of st. Lawrence Co., N
Y. read II paper on MAKING MILK fod-
der of all kinds should be cut while green
and nour shing. Clover doubles its woody
fiber in but Il few days af er bio -Oming;
cut I'll fodder green. and raise roots to
feed with it, and you have food nearly
| equal to summer grasses. DR.. Hathaway
spoke of fodder corn, naming n kind OF
corn which was very leafy and we'll fitted
| for fodder. Mr.. Stewart, of the Agricul-
turiSt. said the corn named would not ri
pen. Mr. Smith, of Peru. said lie had
raised fodder corn for twenty years, and it
never riprned kernel except to the Diet
riment of the fodder.
H. Horace Hubbard has raised from
three to five acres of fodder corn per year.
Sowed the small yellow corn three and one
half feet apart; commences to cut when it
ttssels, but had always noted a marked
Il tcrioration in the quality of the milk
| Mr. Bliss thought fodder cJrn fed gre n
| had no place in the dairy. Mr.. Arnold
related I'm experiment in feeding straw and
grain, corn and oat meal, instead of hay
First fed straw and the meal aft,r, and
then wet the straw and put the meal on it,
and found the quality of his butter largely
increased by the change. A change to the
first way diminished it to the old standard.
A change to the second way brought it up
again, and the experiment several times
repeated, gave like results every time
/ He found the reason to be that meal fed
alone went directly into the fourth stom-
ach, while if fed on the coarse feed it
went into the first stomach and was fully
digested No animal can digest much
more than two quarts of meal fed alone,
either wet or dry.
EVENING SESSION.
| The president announced the awarding
! of the Blanchard and Billiard prizes for
| best summer and winter butter to Judge
Stone of Westford.
Mr.. Gold, of Connecticut. spoke of the
future of dairying.
The dairy region is comparatively limit
ed, being only 10 degrees of latitude
! Good grasses and pure water were indis-
pensable, and the great west does not pos
sess these advantages to any great degree.
Mr.. Lewis agreed with Mr.. Gold The
whole of Illinois was unfit for dairying 1t
is impossible, where COWS are forced to eat
rag-weed, to make good butter. There is
no danger of the dairy business being over
done if properly conducted No good but
ter could be made south of the 10th paral-
lei. Said cows might be driven by hun
ger to live on rail fence, but he thought
grasses preferable. One hundred pounds
of green corn fodder, after drying in the
sun three days, and then baked in an old
fashioned Dutch oven. will shrink to eight
pounds. lie would not allow cows tc
strive, if he had to raise corn to keep them
alive, and he found better results from
sweet corn and the smaller roots than the
large kin S.
Mr. Witherell agreed that grass is the
best feed.
Ohio cheese in Boston market is nearly
rs y ,od as New York an We mont cheese
while there was no hTit to the demand fol
I good quality of The product