Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-11-28
AGRICULTURAL


The editor Of the -iHlcricda Ddiryn1di'
recently paid visit to the farm of Mr.
Wm. Crozier, of Queens County. New
York, and gives lengthy description OF
his dairy management, especially soiling.
On his home farm Of 40 acres he carries
40 head of cattle, 4 horses, % South
down bucks and 20 hogs, the latter being
fed on the refuse of the dairy The past
season he sold $50 bushels Of wheat cut c
acres of oats for green fodder, g acres of
field corn cut green, 6 acres mmgel wurt-
zels, which yielded about A. tons peracre,
6 acres Hungarian (after oats and the
remainder of the 40 acres in clover. He
gets two crops of corn and two of cab
bage. He plants corn mixed with Cana
da peas, 3 feet between rows. 1 bushels
per acre, manurinG heavily III the row.
When the corn has been horse-h hoed twice,
and is about four feet high, he runs fur
rows between the rows and plants see
cond crop of corn, that comes in for fall
use. When other fields of corn are cut
off, they are heavily manured and planted
in cabbage for fall and winter use. The
cabbage is taken up before frost and car
ried to the stock yard, and there piled up,
roots uppermost, and covered with salt
hay foot thick. The mnGels are taken
up and put in oblong pits 4 feet long and
4 feet high brought to a sharp ridge. and
covered with straw and / inches of dirt
until cold weather sets in, and then
! inches more ale put on. This dirt is
nicely patted To shed the rain. and tiles
inserted in the ridge of the pile for ven
tilstion- These .;!cs are stopped with
straw on cold nights, and left open in the
daytime. These mangels are cut by an
English pulper, that reduces them to the
Consistency of apples ground for cider.
Cabbage treated the same. Corn stalks
cut two inches long. All mixed with
ground oats and coarse bran and salt
This is all fed twice day to cows, horses
and sheep. Enough is cut ON Saturday
TO last week, slight fermentation set
ting in. He has abandoned the practice.
followed for years. of steaming the food
for this purpose He is of the opinion
that his calves are stronger when drop
ped, and they thrive better when in
strange hands.
He has two acre grass lot or paddock,
To tuIn the cattle in, nights, until Sep
tember, keeping the cows in the stable i'll
day time In winter he turns into the
paddock from ten till three in the after
noon. They are always fed in the stable.
with fodder corn, mangcls, cut oats, and
cabbage. The Summer feed Is, first,
green rye, fed long, and some dry-ground |
oats with bran, for a change, to keep the |
bowels regular The rye lasts till clover.
and with clover he feeds oats and bran. \ |
medium-sized COW gets eight pounds of |
the mixture per day, with her green food.
This feed he considers the backbone of a |
COW, no matter how strong she is In
June when the grass was dry and woody. |
he followed clover with oats and peas,
green, with dry ground feed, followed |
with green corn-fodder.
He made 1l5 pounds of butter per week |
Five customers paid him 60 cents per
pound, the year round, and Il grocer III .
New York sold the extra butter in winter .
at 30 cents. The skim milk is fed to .
calves, with a little mixture of oat meal .
porridge, ground linseed meal, and salt,
fed blood warm, with little bone meal |
in it.
He thinks sweet milk makes too much /
fat, which is the end Of a good dairy ami |
NAL After nine months, they are fed /
same as the old cows.
Mr.. c. S influence in his neighborhood .
has been good Ten years ago, he said,
nine Of his neighbors, only, demanded
service from his Thoroughbred bulls this
year he had 81 cows. at 81 head, and
this paid for the rent of the home farm.
The reporter noticed that some of the
farm hands possessed more than orlinari-
ly intelligent countenances, and asked the
reason. Mr.. G. replied:
81 keep a kind of farm school here.
Gentlemen pay me three hundred dollars
a year to teach their SONS my method of
farming. Iput them right at hard work,
cleaning out hog pens or milking cows.
If they don't like it, they do not stay, and
ii they can't stand that part Of the work,
there Is no need of them trying to make
farmers Of themselves. They generally
have the pluck to stick through II few
years, and then go with them 10 help
buy their farms and start them right. As
a rule, they have hcen remarkably sue
cessful farmers. | had, n few wears ago,a
young Englishman, Il graduate of Cam
bridge. He said several years with me,
and Is now one Of the best farmers in
Georgia" "