The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-09

corn, will weigh ten pounds and be worth
dollar and forty cents, and leave the
feathers for profit, while the first Is fed at
a loss. | fed six hundred geese last fall
that weighed ten and half pounds each.
sold them in Boston at eighteen cents by
the case TO dealers who sold them as Rhode
Island geese. Comparatively few farmers
fatten their poultry properly. bought
some lots last fall that paid the feeders well,
others that were fed at a loss sold at loss
and | think must have been eaten at a loss.
RAISING AND FEEDING
The birds should be Matched as early as
possible, they will not take on fat until
they are fledged. Feed light, but enough
to keep them growing. Let them feed on
insects through the day, feeding little at
night AS they get larger, feed more, UNI
til they are full feathered, then would be-
gin to fatten them feed meal and corn
and some coarse feed, giving all they will
eat, in this way they will gain about a
pound a week. They should be dressed
very nicely, without tearing or bruising.
Pick clean and lay away to cool, but not
to freeze. 1t is not best to pick with a
thresbing machine or handle as you would
a pile of cobble stones. Turkeys are some
times injured two or three cents pound
and chickens twenty-five cents each by bad
handling and dressing.
In conclusion would say, feed well, dress
well, and sell well, and there will be good
balance on the right side. In answer to
questions, Mr.. Andrews stated he would
fatten geese on whole corn, Turkeys on
| meal mixed with warm water. Turkeys of
large weight sold higher than smaller ones
quite as fat, and in quite as good condition
lie thought turkeys quite as profitable as
chickens. He would never raise..a blue or
black legged fowl for market-largc yellow
legged ones sell much the best. Would not
advise keeping too large q number, thought
| two or three hundred turkeys could be
raised on farm profitably. He had fatted
thousand turkeys in year, but the num-
Der was too large. The last year he had
fattened six hundred geese and four hun
bred turkeys-lost but two.
| Mr.. Powell stated that he had paid a
man in Underhill sixty-five dollars for eggs
laid in one season from thirty or thirty-tive
hens, and the man told him that his wife
made more on the poultry than he did on
| the COWS.
Meeting adjourned until evening.
FRIDAY EVENING.
The meeting was opened by Prof. Henry
NJ. Seeley of Middlcbury, on the "OIiginai
Vermont plow."
| The speaker stated that he did not pro-
pose to confine himself entirely to consd-
ering the old Vermont plow, with its
wrought iron point, that had TO be so often
sharpened by the same blacksmith that had
made 1t, but to one that had been used at a
much earlier period in the history of the
world, and before Vermont was fitted for
the use of the one mentioned, that many
present would remember. One that came
in before our world was fitted for the high
character of life, animal and vegetable,
now upon it. Prof. Secley then in an able
and plain manner explained the manner OF
creation aud the different changes that
probably took place as strata after strata OF
rock was formed, cooled and deposited
and by geological phenomena and chemical
action hardened upon the surface of tht
earth, then by internal fires and cOmmo
tons upheaved and left in lofty mountains
and deep chasms without soil, and although
it might have been fitted in many charac
teristlcs for dwelling place for man. il
was not quite. At this period the want OF
pillow came in, to pillow down these lofty
mountains, pulverizing the material and
prepare 1t to produce higher order of veg
citation, suitable to sustain man and the
other higher order of life now upon it,
Where was the pillow strong enough, with
| shire sharp enOu sh, and power strong
enough to do this great work
The formation of glaciers, or ice rivers
was then ably and plainly explained, theil
great work shown. and how these grea
plows finally accomplished the task of flow
ing down the mountains pulvcrizing then
up into soil with the help of other natural
agents and the field was finally fitted for
the vast crop Of vegetable matter that ha(
since grown upon it and converted it into
place where man could use plows of more
modern construction, after he had CLEARED
off the great forests, where by the swea
of his brow he might eat his bread.
This lecture (Which we think one of tn,
most interesting ones We ever listened to
was explained by drawings of differen
kinds, that excellent judges pronounced
very beautiful. At the close Prof. Seely
received rousing vote of applause.
Alter this lecture Mr.. C. G. Pringle reat
paper upon "Vermont grasses" the Sam
as read at Springfield, and of which shOr
and imperfect abstract was published II
THE GLOBE.
At the close of this paper the meeting
adjourned sine die. This meeting was yer
successful The attendance was not large
but the interest was very manifest, an
both attendance and interest constantly in
creasing until its close. The citizens wer
very hospitable and entertained the men
bers of the board and their guests wit
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