Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-02


dlings made 2S.4 pounds gain. The older
the pigs, the more food it requires to make
pound of growth.
1880.
Bran for young pigs proved too coarse and
hard to digest, but for other pigs it was more
valuable than corn meal. As before, or in
1879, cob meal proved cheaper food than
clear meal. Growth was made with the pigs
cheaper than with shotes. The giving of
bone meal prevented my pigs from Gripping,
as was before quite general The four years
feeding experiments with pigs show that corn
meal does not contain hesh-makers in sufh-
cheney that corn meal is too compact food,
and when mixed with more bulky food it is
more efficacious that pigs are more protita-
BILE than shotes to keep; that middlinEs are
more valuable than corn meal, giving more
flesh makers and more valuable manure that
100 pounds of middlings, corn meal, bran, or
cob meal will make pork in quantity to pay
for either of the foods at market rates, and
hence that through the pig we have cheap
and large resources of plant food for our hun
| cry soil.
NOS 3, 4 AND 5.-CHEMIcAL FERTILIZERS, 1879.
Fifty-six plots have been laid out for per-
manent continuance to various methods of
fertilization, and to various crops, chiefly
| corn and potatoes. This season is the sec
|
| fed by the same fertilizer.
| l. 1t is always noticed that potash salts
everywhere on this farm measure the crop,
showing n marked deficiency of potash in
this soil.
=. That phosphoric acid affects the guam
tity of the potato crop some, but barely pays
for itself.
3. That nitrogen used in four proportions
-1G pounds, 80 pounds, 48 pounds, and Ga
| IL ~, in
creasing the crop for 1G pounds and decreas-
ing the crop in proportion to the larger
amounts used.
4. For this farm chemicals have proved
quite profitable when rightly used, and as
eficacious as good manure.
3. Experiment sets have been put out
among our farmers, and the returns show q
surprisingly large proportion of our farms
that require potash, considering that the
trade has alone considered it necessary to
furnish phosphoric acid.
This will account for the frequent failure
of fertilizers without potash. Second, the
returns indicate for corn very small needed
supply of nitrogen, aud leave it doubtful
whether any nitrogen for corn will pay fair
profit. Third, they have been found to pay,
or, if not profitable by any reason, still as
efficacious as twenty loads of yard manure
under the same circumstances.
NO. 9.-FERArENTED VERSUS INTERVIEWED.
Results of fermented manure for corn, al.
though not as yet pronounced, are against
fermented manure
NO. 10.-METHoD OF APPLYING MANURE
Some three years work has been done up
on this question of method of applying ma
nure. Divided into equal parts, one lot haI
been turned under seven inches, and the 9th
er narrowed in at the top. For oats anC
corn, the amount plowed under gave thu
amount of straw and stalks, but less grain
than surface applied. For grass, the manur,
plowed under gave 8, S13 pounds, surface ap
, piled gave 1906 pounds hay per acre Soil
, heavy clay and moist The result for tn,
q fourth crop of hay has been ascertained anC
shows a very little wider difference thai
above reported.
NO. ll.-sEED POTATOES.
Large CeTSus small pototoes, seed-end Ger
SlS stem-end, one, two, and three eyes to tn
hill, have been used for the fourth year. Tn
+ seed of large potatoes has been selected from
0 yield of large potatoes, small from small, on
A eye from one eye, and 80 on, to see if tn
vigor eff the plant in few generations is al
, fected by seed selection. Result in favor
s first, of large seed potatoes whole, followe,
y by seed end three eyes better than two, an
+ two better than one. Whether the differ
q ences noJeu IN results Will widen, the results
as yet, do not clearly indicate. The differ
ence in yield is in favor of large potatoes
whole, very decidedly. Average for fou
+ years Large, whole potatoes for seed, prod
uct 255 bushels; from small, 1888; see
end, 1924; stem end, 1925; three eyes
q 154.l two eyes, 1898; one eye to hill s
: bushels per acre. The application of thes
u facts would save annually to the state enoug
u to start several experimental stations.
) NO. 12.-RELATIoN OF TEMPERATURE TO MIL
FLOW
This experiment covered long period, an
II included the weighing of the hay consume
If by couple of COWS in ceiled stalls and
,, couple in open stalls, also the weighing c
n the milk and the butter from the milk an
: also the weight of the cows was observed
the change from ceiled stalls. In brief, th
5 hay saved and the extra milk made were SUI
o feient to pay for ceiling up the stalls in on
r winter for fifteen COWS. This would give on
o hundred per cent interest on money invested
Many farmers have money at interest, an
open cattle stalls and cracks in boarding
/ barn behind cattle.
IL NO. l3.-oosT OF FEEDING STOCK.
II It was shown that young stock made Yer