Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-12-12

credit if he applied five cords of stable
manure and 800 pounds of corn fertilizers
to tie same crop. Mr.. Pierce said he
charged half the manure and all the
chemicals to the first crop,
The gentleman who asked the question
said his question was an exact statement
of an experiment he made the present
year, except that he left a strip through
tho center on which no chemicals were
applied and he was not smart enough, nor
did he find any one who was, to find any
difference between the yields of the two
plots.
Following Mr. Pierce Mr.. j. B. Moore
of Concord read a paper on Market Gar
dening. He commended sandy loan
for gardens, well drained, deeply cultva.
ed and highly MANFRED and what is high
manuring. The gardener does not con.
slider fifteen or twenty cords too much for
an acre. Market gardeners generally use
stable manure rather than commercial
fertilizers, which furnished vegetable
matter and had an excellent mechanical
Effect. The land in some portions of the
state, which is devoted to market garden
ing, is valued at from one to four thousand
dollars per acre He instanced one man
who applied thirty cords of manure per
acre. He impressed the importance of
pure, "well bred'' seed. He condemned
severely the system of colossal farming
in the west as downright land robbery
which should have no attractions for New
Englan farmers. Other gentlemen fol
lowed enforcing the necessity Of heavy
manurng and deep cultivation.
AFTERNOON.
The session was opened by paper by
Mr.. Goodman of Lenox, Jersey Cattle in
America, Their Present and Future
Forty years ago there were barely 200
Jersey cattle in America; to-day there re
of pure bred cattle 20 900 recorded on the
register of the Jersey cattle club and with
those of the herd book and the pure bloods
unrecorded and high grades, he estimates
there is now from $4,000 to 100000 Jer
seys in America. These cattle are early
and prolific breeders, are long lived and
are rapidly increasing. The price had
increased with their numbers, rather than
diminished. The Jersey is the butter
cow. From her milk is produced the bes'
and best selling butter found in the
markets OF the 10000 cows we have
800 tests OF cows yielding IA pounds and
over OF butter per week, more proportion
ately than is shown by the Guernseys or
Holsteips. The Jersey shows the maxi.
mum of yield with the minimum of size
Of the Jersey butter, there is sold 1000 "
rounds in Boston every week at from IS o
80 cents per pound, and in New York 1000 1
pounds at from 80 cents to one collar per !
pound. People who are able to grAtih !
heir tastes now demand the best and ar,
wiling to pay for it. To make such butter f
he COWS should be fed in winter on fresh d
weet early cut hay, with corn meal ana a
niddlings, and have pure running water. I
Win these she would need neither roots 4
II ensiage. She should be stabbed above :,
round; the best butter could not be made +
rom COW kept in any cellar stable, anc r
here should be no manure cellar under +
"r She should have pure air Stand OF SS
raised platform, and be 50 confined rs to
- comfortable. but So she canno, step
'rward into her feeding box. or back
ITO the dropplngS and get her fl INK, and
oder into the filth when she lies down.
}cntful bedding of saw dust should he
ad, and the floors should hc spriukl, Il
i'm g' psum every day. The milk Shout
. removed at once from The stable strained
clean vessels The best setting was in
la'low open vessel in Il "oom cool clean.
ld nIr,, kept ut Il temperature of 81 deg
'es 1t " and nigh, summer and winter.
II "a It was difficult to secure such a
'om except at great cost of care and
'ney, he thought the next best was II
nall room rs found in the Fergus 10
reau, Vermont invention which he
al adopted after trying them all. The
cam should be graduated (churned till
comes to small granues cf bu,ter,l
ashed in brine sailed Gf your customers
} not like it entirely tresh) one fourth of
4 ounce to the pound, worked into rolls
1T mSrketed twice "a week. Such butter
oud not keep at its best over three DAYS.
e showed models of the sanctions he
led and apparatus for setting his milk.
Mr.. Eldridge Cushman of Lakevil!e.
flowed, with Il paper, "How shall we
r,iize our farms"
We have uused all the plart foods and
rtiIizers in the market, and he believed
lat Massachusetts could never deyelop
II agricultural resources til more cattle
I'd sheep were fatlened Oh the farms.
e believed we should buy animal rather -
AN plant foods, and produce our own
rtiizers. One reason why plant food
'st so much is thai as it is mixed we are
'mpeled to buy what we often do not
sed. There is no better fertilizer in the
arket than stable manure. but he Womb
~ gypsum wood ashes, ground bone and
'tash. Any farmer could mix these
gradients on his barn floor, and have a
BOD fertilizer cheaper than he could buy
mixed
lie laid great stress on the saving of all
luld manures about the barns, and utilize
| the waste fertilizing material on the
rm. Arather pointess dcussion followed
i the close of the meeting.
EVENING SESSION
The evening session was taken by an
Idress by the secretary of the board,
'hn E Russell, Esq, on English Agrl