Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-29

and the soil is richer, IN theory aud prac-
tice, after than before the crop. IL is best
for young animals aud mothers
Afternoon.
Deacon BufFum, Of Winchester: l do
not know more than you all know, but what
you do not know. The object Of farming is
to make money think We can do il fast
er by raising grass, which calls for stock to
work it up. As there is a difference 10 ma
chinery, so there is in stock. Some of il Is
worthless. A mistake is made in buying
high priced sheep. We breed backward. Di-
rect cross breeding is failure; It cannot
be depended upon. Some men have been
successful, but their stock ran down when
out Of their hands. Make up your mind
what you want and adapt your means to IT,.
Do not use scrub. If breeding for oxen
use Hereford they are poor mixers. If
for beauty, use a Devon; fair for milk and
butter. IL for family use, an Alderney OIL
jersey If for all three Shorthorn. Don't
change the breed Of bull, but the family.
We cannot secure good breed suddenly it
takes two or three hundred years. Use
long inbred animals, which can be afforded
by noighborhoods uniting. Keep the herd
we'll and kindly. You cannot make good
butter from an ill.used COW. Butter is the
most profitable. One man got S62 per COW
at % cents per pound. The state will not
average half Of that, which don't pay. In
Conway are 1000 cows paying s140 each I;
they make butter all winter. Tobacco rails.
ing pays when they sell tobacco, but butter
making pays any time. One man got $3.50
per COW at 40 cents. Milk must be kept
free from the presence Of smells. If you
want yellow butter give it light. Do not
use wooden pals; they check and sour.
Butter making is better than cheese making
because skinned milk is better than whey I;
calves may be raised on it. Whatever you
raise, have good one.
DR.. Kingsley have love for the
sheep have been interested in it for its ma
ture. Believe it is most profitable, except
near market. Want Deacon Buffum to give
the figures of cost they will leave a small
margin. All farms are not adapted to sheep,
nor all farmers to be shepherds. To-day it
is butter; yesterday it was sheep. Cows
will 60 down. Keep both. have made
money by questionable enterprises. Get
animals with good constitution, or they fail /;
to keep it good requires wise treatment. Be
kind to them they are timid, do not scare
them. Keep in dry, warm, ventilated
place. Leave sheds open to the south or
east. Have good breeds-old races. The
Vermont fine woods were an injury. The
wool was heavy aud greasy, but they had no
constitution. Cut grass for sheep before it
blossoms. Such grass alone is better than
ripe grass with grain. Never wash sheep
it is an injury to them. Shear early; the
fleece Is burden in hot weather. Shearing
is generally done in very bad way-abu.
sive to the sheep. They should be placed in
comfortable position, and care taken not
to clip the skin. BE careful they do not
take cold; do not let them be exposed i'm
mediately.
Deacon Bufum: Keep sheep, but don't
sell COWS. The market for butter is never
overstocked.
| Evening.
The secretary, j. o. Adams, spoke upon
various topics, particularly the profits Of
poultry raising.
Mr. Sanborn gave an address on tho fu-
ture prospects for prosperity Of farming in
New England, saying among other things
that discomfort, haste TO be rich, was the
deluson of our people.
Others exhorted the boys to study bot
any, geology, and entomology, and the
young men to remain on the old farm.
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