The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-28

WINTER FOOD FOR cows
1t docs not pay to buy hay for cows in
mix at the present prices of grain. Oats
and corn are now cheaper food than hay
When / have had food to buy for dairy of
| cows, as | have sometimes had occasion to
do, found, by careful attention to weight
and cost of food consumed and milk pro-
ducod, that ke pit my cows as sa,isfa torily
on straw and corn at 81 bushel as on hay
at $40 ton. Feeding an equal cost of
corn and hay, got the most mix from the
corn. The straw cost but little, and was
paid Tor by the excess of milk produced
by the corn. Hay is now from $40 to $50
q ton according to locality, and state corn
about IS cents bushel Corn is therefore
considerably the cheapest food. But cats
are cheaper than corn. With oats at 40
cents and corn at Is cents, their cost per
pound is equal; but oats are much the best
| milk producing food when equal weights
are taken. think them better than corn
by 90 per mt. In days past have shared
in the opinion generally entertained by
darymen now, that the best course 10 feed
ing cows is TO give them all the hay that
can be crowded into them. Bat am fast
loosing my sympathy with this kind of feel
| ing. If the hay is early cut-in blossom
Or before--it will do very well to let cows
eat all they will, but not otherwise. Hay
cut later than in the blossom digests too
slowly add inperfectly to enable cows to
get enough out of it to give as much milk
as they would on more diRes'ihle diet
Pot. L. B. Arnold an New York Tribune.
TIE MOTTO FOR THE MONTH.
We wonder Why one of the almanac
makers never placed among their chunk
of wisdom" appropriate to the month, this
grain of good advice in the calender for
February: snow think" II is the month
during which, in this northern latitude, the
farmer should plan the coming seasons
campaign. He should think with delibera-
ton and fore,hought-and with II lead pen
Gil in his band Just see what there Is to
think about; Map out your farm into fields,
and designate the crops, with aIiernates
noted, to cover contingencies of weather,
seeding or help. DeCiie where your seed
is coming from, and otd-r II ear,y-always
the best Vf course. Apporton Your ferti-
lzers, with the purpose OF having as much
as you can, al d putting Them VII re they
will do the most good. fnspect 'ur fences
and walls with u ny n.oraudum ss to the
early repairs. See that all the farm nipple.
time 10 to save time" Derd- car. full, as
to the number and variety at fruit trees
y~u will s.t-which We hube may he many
and hardy. NJ Ike 4 pl If The place
where you will planr thrm; nj, wh,,n the
weati er admus, SAX y I'D ven Dig
the holss. Work III ugl hfirxh i, half
done. Improve these ! tsi tnig winfer
days 10 having your btziu- - tie WORK
ready for your hands in The pI think!
it is the haIdts, work 10 II AMI the
hest paying inv.stn.r, 4 i've line III the
world.-The Golden Rule
MORE FARMING EXPERIENCE
One Of ne Lougmeaoow, Mass. farmers
thus summarized Ills ext errnCe. 1T ynar:
He Kept eigh, cons, ivy oxen aud hor.e,
| ut an expen for foaGer and graiu OF SS95,
or on an av'ra.e of 1891 per he d. Ills
cows yielded % 900 quar.s at mIlk. IT 3, l29
quarts psr COW, when Is equivalent t. 81
quarts per day. A cents quart The
Iuilk amour, d 10 5000, ana ,o an average
of about $l25 pei COW. THIS i, betler
cow showing ihan fam sverage. and no
| one can attain similar rvsultsW lthput skllful
feeding and con lnued Gale. Or The gains
| in flesh and frrliz-is no mention WAS made,
because less WAS known If the axscl quan-
ties of each, but it may safely he assumed
these. J. L. Farnham OF TnompsoLv,lle,
| O., corroborated The recent Agawam ex-
perience ot setting tobacco vide apart. 10
| order TO give it sun, air ADD quail y Four
| rows were selected for the pxieriment.
One row, next the grass, had 04 plants 81
| feet apart, That yielded, when stripped,
! 464 pounds, about malt pound TO the plant.
| tn, coDd row contained lib plants, three
feel apart, and ytalded So pounds. The
third Tow hal 1877 plants, q leet apart,
aud Vi lded 53t pounds. I he fourth low
had lG0 plants, two feet apart, and strip
ped $50 pounds. The pants and land
were Treated as nearly alike as pnsslbe. but
the quality and v ue OF the tobacco great
| ly favored the inst row. Tue FACT that
Duth these experiments Iend 10 the same
conclusion ought to establish the prime pie
| tuat Tobacco IN particular needs elbow
room, aud feels injured by crowd.
| The drift of the conversation WAS on fer
tilizers, and Chicopeo veteran thus ex-
pressed himself IL has been nv praclice
IN preparing for corn crop Ia mark II the
land, 50 that the hills shali be four feet
apart each way. then pat shovtltuli of
stable manure in each hill, which takes
about three cords per acre. The weld is
about ~ bushels per acre. After the IN
10 cut up plow the ground and SOW rye
without manurng, and yet 90 bushels of
rye per acre. As This experiment can be
repeated without dininuuon OF or, p infer
there are elements of ierlility enough in
one cord Of manure TO produce 20 bushels
| grain TIE slower and straw raIeed In con-
nection wi b the grain has more variable
value and quar thy, a hence no estimate
| 10 made of II here. EXcrllelt coin can be
raised on turf land by the help IF about
n hell of n NOD sh.ss nd rla
| ter, but such a Course affects the future
productlveness of the soil. In estimating
The value of commercial ter'il zers, thu val
III OF the succeeding crnD should always be
taken into account. This matter { feitili-
zers is believed 10 he very pc Tly under
stood, ewes 10y th,se VINO Use them mort.
There is not likely ever to be any universal
panacea for the ills that soils and crops are
heir 10. There are ms ances or nearly
every fertl Ger increasing c ops, and fl. rs
nany instanc's of failure. A succ' IS one
year may fail the next, herausr Of rome
| variation OF 81 mate, texture aud compnsi-
| lion nf soil, or other circumstances aud
condition. Hence the reports of expert.
| nitnts on the value OF manu- es ARE 81 con-
| Il cling. Dunhllrs. the btst and certainty
| he most satisfactory nsnu,,-s are hose
that have The most INGREDIENT. st tble
manure holds high RANK Ia this regard.
aid seldom uls.pp, inis the farmer. In
steNd ot feeding plants vi h = &C al maui
ures Or ratinn-. bt>, q an III h,iie cn-nicsl
anil 81, 1T -nl plants and ralirs !, in ai-
vls Il Ia MAINTAIN N gem r'u> KEGS sup
ply all flrus of p'aol-tod and of II
ms'erial that experience pnves h-s K, Oh
fl C, IN VI g-iaio,. TIE hriul was,. in
| the seWrrag- # lsrse r wu~ IN riiles IA
Commented on. tlo 70 co onil tn sew.