Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-26
agricultural department,
STATE BOARD OF AGRI-
CULTURE.
MEETING AT ENosBURGH FALLS.

address of welcome. M. w. Davis
of Westminster delivered an address
on the "Wastes of the Farm" He
remarked that these wastes were
great but it was the desire of every
good farmer to make them less. In
some sections, as by the Wood Pulp
Co., of Maine. sawdust and shavings
are made into pulp with water alone
and pressed into pals and other
utensils for household use. In an
adjoining state smoke from coalpits
was utilized, and creosote and wood
alcohol, which is used in the manu-
facture of spirit varnishes is made
and the residue is sold to the lead
manufacturer to adulterate his prod
uct; thus obtaining as much value
from the smoke as the wood was
worth before burning. The farmer
should take hint from this and util-
ize his own products. The waste of
time is another item for our consid-
Grafton. Plans should all be made
for work beforehand and carried out
as far as possible.
In the afternoon, Rev. j. I'll. Wins
low of Lunenburgh gave an address
on Experimental Farm Education. "
He remarked that the time was when
education or brains were not consid
cred as necessary part of a farmers
outfit. But now things are changed,
and the farmer is OF should be the
best educated man in the community.
Farming is to-day in reality sci
ence, and requires as much or more
thought than any other vocation. If
the farmer, by actual experiment,
finds out what he can do and acts
upon it, he can even make farming
bllStu Investments III
banks or stocks. Thus, with thought
before work he can make profitable
investment upon the green hills of
Vermont. A few years ago he lived
in the Connecticut River valley, and
two meadow farms were divided by a
board fence. No. 1 cut three tons
to the acre No. 2 one-half ton. No.
l rejoiced in good crops; No. 2 COM
planned of drought. No. farm sup
ported it's owner and had for three
generations No. 2, just as good if
| it was farmed as well, necessitated
that the owner watch nights for the
railroad company to gain subsistence
for his family. In Lunenburgh,
where he now lives, two fields are di-
vided by a line fence. One field cuts
three and two-third tons per acre
the other about one-half ton. Thus
| it is in life; success and failure is
often only divided but by a line
fence. In selection of seeds there
should be the greatest care. One
man plants little potatoes year after
year and the result is as he plants
another, like Hon. j. Brooks of Lu-
nenburgh, who originated the Brooks
seedlings from his selection, raised
about 400 bushels from one-hali
acre. He sold the same for foul
dollars bushel, and many farmer
felt too poor to buy, while those tina
did rejoiced in over five hundred
bushels per acre as the result of tina
yield. Thus success is in judgment
substantiated by experiment, backed
by education, that comes from ex
detrimental farming judiciously con
Quoted; and makes the Vernon
farmer substantially the most in
dependent of our citizens, and farm
ing the most reliable road to sue
cess.
G.. S. Fassett asked in relation t,
the average of butter and the relativ
, value of COWS.
1t cropped out that some farmer
here did not make over one hundre,
, pound per COW, though they wer
10th to own it.
: Mr.. Fassett believed the averag
| 125 pounds.
A. L. Hall of Bakersfield though
4 the average too low, though it migt
| be true this year; he believed it
| bad year for pastures.
S II. Dow said he made over %
pounds to COW; kept II COWS an
n fed the best he could. His pasture
4 are good, better than ever. before
He always cuts up every bush an
v needless thing in his pastures. Bree(
f Jersey grades.
G. S. Fassett makes 215H pound
per COW; keeps 20 COWS; feeds COZ
and cobs and barley meal mixed, al
now and then puts in shorts; fec
l. about two quarts of this mixture
s winter; feeds less in summer, sa
e one pint of barley meal. Cows, Je
: seys.
# The next address was by Hon.
IS NJ. Goodwin of Hartland, on Il
d Couture of Corn" He describe
d the manner and growth of Indi;
, corn, and method OF, cultivation, pro
, it. etc.
20 In the evening DIR. HI. A. Cuttil
W presented for the consideration
N the farmers German milk-teste
h which at glance tells the richne
If of-milk, or gives an approximate id
,s of it. He then gave lecture on t
At ''Means of Fortelling Storms. t
10 attendance was large, and the doct
T as usual allowed himself to be que
n toned: and those holding to the