Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-31


said the profit of these luxurient lands were
absorbed BY the absentee landlords, who
had no mercy on their tenantry, while they
spent the proceeds in luxury in London.
Gov. Smith next by request gave the re-
suit of an experiment made by him in the
application Of lime to land. lie had an old
pasture nearly barren, bearing only sOrrel,
mulleins, and an occasional tuft Of June
grass. lie applied to this about eighty BUSH
els per acre of lime hot from the kilns.
After carefully preparing the land and the
seed, it was sown to wheat which had been
picked over by hand. The wheat came up
looking very nice, but when about four inches
high, most remarkable crop of pig weeds
came up which soon entirely spelled the
wheat. The weeds made a prOdigious
growth and before they ended, he put on
heavy roller and crushed them down and so
luxuriant was the growth that the juices
from the crushed weeds would spurt out
and the team was wet with them. These
weeds were ploughed under directly and the
ground again sowed to wheatand seed led down
which gave the next season an excellent
harvest. The succeeding hay crop was esti-
mated at two and half tons to the acre,
duu iJl ullCtu NtdIS ~
crops. The soil is gravellY loan.
Mr.. Whitaker asked if he knew the effect
of lime on clays. He related an instance Of
equally remarkable success of an expert
meat made on clay soil, by gentleman in
New York.
Following Gov. Smith, Prof Atwater
took up the scientific description of plants,
their component ingredients and their fitness
for their several uses. No abstract can do
Justice to this address, which we hope to
give in full at some future time.
EVENING SESSION.
The first paper was by Mrs. f. G. Greene,
of st. Albans, on s.Glimpses of Home and
Home Liie," in which she sketched the
homes of nearly all nations in vivid and
interesting manner, touching on the condi-
tion of women in each on their social Gus
toms and national peculiarities. We regret
that its length prevents our publishing it in
full.
The next paper was by Capt. Strongit-
harm, of Liverpool, England, on "Palm-nut
Meal, which is being largely introduced in
England as feed for dairy cows and young
stock, sheep, etc, as supplementing or tax
ing the place of linseed cake or cotton seed
meal. lie read authorities giving its value
as feed which, in comparison with linseed
cake, shows by analysis less moisture, more
fatty matters, while linseed cake gives more
mineral matters and 1esh-forming material.
The consumption in England is rapidly in-
creasinS, as in 1864 the amount imported
was 1900 tons, which had increased to
| 10 900 tons in 1874. lie cited instances of
-, sf,1 srnnk
sheep and swine and palm-nut meal bids
fair to be valuable addition to our feeds
especially for dairy cows as it is said to in
crease the yield of butter while it does not
injure the flavor or keeping qualities.
Following this paper Prof. Atwater took
| the stand to answer questions. He had
seen the palm-nut meal spoken of, and he
believed it would fill an important place in
the feeding stufs which our Vermont farm
ers might probably buy to help out their
| poorer feeds of straw, eorn-stalks or meadow
hay. He explained very clearly the mate
rial for a good food which was lacking in
these poor folders, and how By adding some
of these richer materials, a mixture may be
mad, which will be equal to good hay, oil
better, and at a cheaper rate. and will util'
ize these coarse folders which are now
largely wasted.
DR.. Hoskins was called on to give the re
suit of some experiments he had made il
raising cream. lie spoke of the change il
sentiment in the tast few years regaring th'
raising of cream, as shown in the adoption
Of the Swedish system Of raising at a low
temperature. Hisexperiments had convinc
ed him that the temperature made no differ
ence. All that was necessary was to keel
the temperature at fixed point.
Mr.. Wood thought it was not necessary t
keep the temperature at a fixed point.
Mr. Bliss said that cream had no pOwe
in itself to rise, it was forced up BY tn
heavier milk falling, forcing the cream up