Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-06

ing mills, 10; IN 0Flck ana Tile yafds, 10;
in other industries of manufacture, 10.
Total 26O. OF this number 105 hands are
employed in the several establishments in
Hitchcock & Fisk's buildings. In making
up this list no account is made Of the num-
Der Of blseksmiths, carpenters, etc. We
feel safe in prophesying that the number Of
hands employed in Legitimate" manu-
factures in our little city by Jan. 1st, 1881,
will be nearer 500 than the present ggures.
N. f. o. Dairymen's Association.
This body began its fourth annual meet
ing, at jefferson, on Wednesday last As
cur dairymen and farmers have a deep in
terest in the deliberations of this body, we
take an early opportunity to give the first
days proceedings from the Leader as fol-
lows:
A large number of dairymen and farm
ers from this and adjoining counties are
present, and a great degree of interest
is manifest.
The carefully prepared addresses and re-
marks of leading butter and cheese makers
and of stock breeders indicate that the
dairymen of this section of the State are
fully aroused to the importance Of concert
ed action and rigid and long continued ex-
pertinent in order to obtain better grades
of stock and increase the quantity and
quality of the milk produced. A scientific
course Of breeding is necessary. A good
COW can be raised as easily as a poor one,
and while one is a source of revenue to the
farmer, the other will hardly pay for Its
keeping.
The meeting was called to order at 1876
A. N. by Vice President N. V. Miller, Of
New Lyme, who presided at the meeting
in the absence Of the President, Hon. n. E.
French.
On motion of Henry Talcott Of Jefferson,
Committee on Finances1 was appointed,
consisting of T. W. Wise, b. Talcott and
II. A. Reeve.
The following named gentlemen we're ap-
pointed Committee on Election of Off
GERS: Mr.. johnson, Henry TalcOtL and b.
A. Reeve. The following topics were discuss
ed to day, 3 large number of practical
dairymen participating in the debate:
What is the best way Of treating ma
nure made on the farm to avoid loss, and
how shall the quantity be increased, and
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piled to give the best and most permanent
results?
2 Should not the dairy farmers through
out the country begin without delay to
create for their own use a special breed of
dairy stock, making rigid experiments with
the animals bred, both as to quantity and
quality of the milk produced for the manu-
facture of both butter and cheese, and would
not such 5long-continued experiments
result in giving better breed Of stock for
the dairy than anything we now hsYe; and
can we reasonably expect to attain to per-
lection without a scientific course Of breed
with this object in yiewf
3. How shall our land be handled to
produce the best wheat, and what are
the best varieties for the farmer to grow?
Mr.. Miller, IN announcing the topics for
discussion, said that the farmer should
know first what crop he desires to produce,
before applying the manure or fertilizer.
If he desires a crop of grass he should
spread the manure during the winter as
1t accumulates. For corn he should plow
course manure under, or il the manure is
fine and well rotted it shonld be applied
in the bill.
For wheat he should spread it on the
ground and harrow it in when he sows
the wheat. His opinion was that barn
yard manure shoul q be used for spring
crops and phosphate for wheat. In order
to yet the greatest benefit from manure it
should be applied to the field as fast as it
aecumulates.
In regurd to the cultivation Of stock, he
said the general condition Of all stock
might be improved if the cattle were kept
cleaner and better fed.
A COW will not produce milk at the ex-
pense of her flesh. By good, gener Gus
feeding, he said, he obtained a much lar
ger quantity of milk than his neighbOrs
had obtained from the same COWS.
A little care on the part Of the farmer,
in cutting weeds when they are in the
flower, more than repays the labor expend-
ed.
Mr.. John Reeve, of Rome, said there
were decided objections to spreading ma
nure in the winter. A great deal of 1t is
washed away if the ground is frozen.
Mr.. Henry Talcott, of Jefferson, contrib
uted greatly to the interest of the meeting
by the following description Ofa test which
he made during the past year of the merits
of the different sorts of fertilizers:
Mr.. PRESIDENT: Under this head l
offer for the consideration of this meeting
my test, the past season, of several differ
ent kinds of fertilizers used on a field of
corn. To ascertain if possible, the true
value of each, took one acre Of ground
Of as even quality as l could select out Of
a six-acre piece. planted fifty rows to
the acre, sixty hills in each row. l used
eight different kinds of fertilizers, plant
ing five rows OF each, making 300 hills Of
each kind.
1 left five rows on each side of the piece
without using any kind of fertilizer, in
order to show the true increase Of quant-
ty by the addition of these manures. The
first five rows in the piece next TO the
fence, l planted without anything, and
my team, in turning around each time, on
this would tramp down and destroy some
of the corn, but on the other side of the
fence I also left five rows without any
thing, and the middle of the field was a
fair test to 90 by. The cultivation of it
was as perfect as we could make it. 1t
was plOwed, fitted, planted, cultivated and
hoed each time always the same day so as
to make the test correct. made map
of the lot and statement of each kind used,
and put it up in the lot so all who chose
could 90 and examine for themselves dur
ing the season and know which each kind
was, and note the result for themselves.
Very many did so.
The order they came in the field was as
follows, and the result in yield of corn, as
measured by my hired man in a basket
used. The following is the result:
Ashes per bushel, hel,............------.. 121Eo
Lime, per barrel 49,, ..,..................: 90