Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-16
Meetings Of the Board Of Agriculture.
AT RANDOLPH.

AT RANDOLPH
The meeting of the board OF agriculture at Ran
dolph commenced Tuesday, February 9Th, in the
town hall, which was well filed. N. L. Boyden,
Esq, presided. Dr. Cutting read letter from
Charles II. Cole, asking how he can kill the lice
on his cattle. Mr.. wabridge and others recon-
mended the use Of kerosene oil. DIR. Cutting re-
marked that he did not favor the use Of oil,
Though 1t would kill many lice, but favored the
use Of fine dust. It was natures remedy. Cattle
would paw and roll in the dust, and fowls also and
| while he considered fine road dust good enough
he used coal dust, he believed 1t disinfectant
| and conducive TO health In the animal. He found
1t to kill as It was drawn into the spiracles or
breathing pores Of the insectit killed. as all RENE
dies did, by stopping the breath OF the louise A
letter from Mr. Hubbard OF Nova Scotia and dis
cusson brought out the fact that naples do not
always yield sap, but no reason was assigned
Mr.. d. ii. Morse gave talk upon grass, In which
he advocated top-dressing He had doubled his
crop In that way. lie advised keeping fields in
grass rather than blowing. A general discussion
followed upon the proper dressing DIR. Cutting
advocated that they first try the experiment on
small pats Of one-sixteenth Of acre, using va
rous things like lime, ashes bone-black, plaster
etc. and by q careful estimation OF the amount
per acre and increase Of crop discover what the
soil needed, and then use only what was required
to make good crop without buying complete
fertilizer and thus pay for several ingredients
not needed. Mr.. Bass said he uses bran in his
corn hills but should be glad to get the fertiliz-
ing power in cheaper way. DR.. Cutting sug-
gested that cotton-seed meal had been thought
hat thut a.
but advised that it be fed to cattle and both the
liquid and solid manure saved and applied to the
land, and that man so doing would have good
farm any way, as it was thought that the liquid
portion Of the manure was worth more than
the solid. Be that as it may, it is better and
cheaper than to fertilize by bran. The meeting
was then adjourned until two o'clock p. NJ.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
DIR. Cutting opened the afternoon session with a
lecture on the timber supply. He apprehends a
scarcity of wood and timber unless some meas
ures are taken to prevent it, He spoke Of the
great destruction of forests for wood and timber
and gave the percentage of the land in forest in
the state by counties, varying from eighteen per
cent In Grand Isle, to forty-nine per cent in Essex
the largest-and the average probably about
twenty-five per cent, which is about the aver
age OF the United States. He quoted from the
London Times, which calculates that the third
coming generation will see the supply of coal
exhausted in Great Britain, and pictured her
condition without coal, when her wood land
is but five per cent of her area. He gave the
heating power of different woods, maple at
sixty per cent of hickory, which is placed at
one hundred, and beech at 6f.y-6vo Por cont,
l.aa.1 .a1n fhaw.
| we had generally supposed He explained the
benefits OF extensive forests, the decrease Of
| water, both in rainfall and in streams from
their destruction, instancing brooks In his
knowledge which now were dry or nearly 30,
where thirty-fve years ago there were good mill
| streams. He gave many other instances where
the rainfall had nearly ceased or been much de-
creased by stripping off the forests and thought
we should learn from the disasters Of the world
without going through the same disastrous expe-
| riences. Mr., II, C. Gilbert read a paper upon
Apples and Apple Culture in New England" He
| was asked how to kill bark lice He recon-
| mended washing thoroughly with soap-suds. He
cures blistering on the trunk by cutting away
until fresh bark is reached, and then covering
with dressing of fresh cow-manure. As to the
profit Of feeding apples to stock, there was di-
versity of views, Dr. Cutting thinking it would
not be profitable; Mr. Nutting had tried it and
thought it paid Mr. A. A. Storrs OF Randolph
read paper on the making and marketing OF
butter. He preferred a dry, cool room, about
sixty degrees for setting milk lie colors his but
ter in fall and winter, and uses annatto and car
rot mixed; thinks carrot Injuries the keeping
quality of butter in warm weather. Feeds meal
only in winter and when feed becomes short in
summer. Some discussion WAS had on the mat
ter of colorinp. with the usual number of advo-
Gates OF coloring and non-coloring.
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