Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-24

the COW, to $50 degrees, winter anu sum
mer, making butter from the cream amer
standing twelve and twenty-four hours
and cheese from the skinned milk, adding
he butter-milk; he sold his cheese at
about two cents per pound less than full
milk cheese.
On October 18th, twenty.seven pounas
of milk made IL pound of butter, and nine
and half pounds of The skinned milk
made u pound of cheesei feed, short NOW
ings, some corn fodder, and eight quarts
Of coarse shorts; he considered coarse
shorts the most valuable feed Tor cows
irving II good flow OF milk and Keeping
he COW in good flesh. His cows were
trade short horns. His COWS for 1879 net
ed him S97 QUO each besides the calves
Mr. Wood of Pomfret stated that from
milking some of his cows two years with.
mt drying off before calving, they nae
been little better than farrow COWS. lie
said he was satisfied that he would get
less milk from Them in the twelve monIllS
from having milkel them around the year
.than he would have got in six months
when he had let them rest. His cows
were in GOOD order. Mr.. Wood said that
meal feeding was IL particular matter, aud
he had dried cows by feeding meal.
Mr. Stoddard of Poultney gave as the re-
results Of his experiments that from May
| 10Th to July Isl it took twenty-five and two
birds lbs of milk to pound of butter; July
thirty one and IL half pounds, August
wenty seven and II fourth. September
twenty three, October and November
nineteen and half pounds His milk
nd neted him 81 IS 2-8 per hundred
pounds His neiglhors who had carried
the cheese factory had received 80 cts
per hundred pounds,
Mr.. Obed Whipple Of Pomfret had
milkel sixteen co $ this sptso chad madt
hree hundred pounds per COW; his COWS
were Jerseys. partly full b'o0lS; feed i've
quarts of meal the year round, and IN
addition of six quarts Of shorts, added in
winter with cut feed and warm water.
Mr.. Williams of Connecticut said that
hearing on the subject of feeding meal
30 ne of his nei9hbors had used bran and
meal for fertilizing Tor tobrcco, direct
without passing it t rough the animal
tndthought it more profitable at % dollars
per ton than any other fertilizer they conlo
bny for the mOney-rassing the meal ol
bran through the COWS took out only about
ell per relt of the value us II fPrilize
which made it II very cheap feed, consid
erng lis fertilizing value remaining,
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The evenings exercises were opened by
paper by A. w. Chervpr. Esq Editor
of the NeW England Farmer, on solin-
cattle, which paper we shall publish ii
ue time in full, us it will come in reason
lblv later, when we have less pressure OF
our columns. The discussion on MIR
Cheever's paper was opened by Prof
Stewart of Cornell U ,iverSity. lie was
rlad TO hear Mr.. Chepver commend grad
ual change from pasturing to sojlng liz
commenced the practice by soiling hi>
team horses. and found it took only one
sixth It's much land to soil as to pasture
For three succeeding years he used one
fourth of an acre, and found it would give
sufficient feed for the equivalent of one
COW one hundred and sixty days. Prof
Stewart gave other instances showing the
profit of soilng and while there were argC
areas Of land in Vermont on which soil
ing could moi be probably carried OIL, he
still believed there were few farms where
partial soiling could not be profitable lle
was able by soiing to keep II larger stock
than his neighbors, and still have more
forage left than they raised.
The Germans raised the beet, extract
ing the sugar which they sold for price
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