Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-01-18

Mr.. Lane exhibited a chart showing the
average result Of some 1900 analyses, giving
the composition, digestibility and money
value Of feeding stuhs, according to DR..
Wolf Of Germany. The table was prepared
in 1880. The average Of analyses in this
country are found to vary somewhat from
those Of Germany. The quality Of the soil
and its fertility influences the chemical com
position of the crop Mr. Lane thought Yer
mont hay had higher ratio of nutritiye value
than that shown by several analyses made at
the Connecticut experiment station. The
German analyses make timothy hay of nearly
twice the value Of that raised in Connecticut.
The value of hay, Of course, depends largely
upon the time Of cutting A great number
of experiments, and the experience Of prac-
teal farmers, seem to prove that the greatest
nutritive value is secured when the fodder
crop is cut at the time Of blossoming-cer'
tainly not long after. The result of other ex'
periments was opposed to that Of Prof. San
born of the New Hampshire college. Mr..
Lanes own experience as feeder had been
in favor of early-out hay. He advised the
buying and feeding OF concentrated food as
means of improving the farm, rather than
buying fertilizers. He had fed COW bush
ell of potatoes a day and eight quarts Of corn
meal, but was satisfied that that was too much
for profit One-haf bushel day, with two
quarts of cotton seed meal and four quarts of
corn meal, fed for fattening and milk at the
same time, wac as much as could be fed with
profit Young animals gave the feeder the
best profit Do not grow and then fat. He
quoted from the report Of the committee at
the Chicago fat stock show, from which it APP
pears that the greatest gain in proportion to
the cost Of feeding was uniformly on steers
under three years old.
Mr.. Lane showed from the chemical com
position of the various feeding stufs, as illus
trated by the chart exhibited, how to use the
coarse fodder, poor hay, straw, etc, which
supply the necessary amount of carbohydrates
and can be made available by feeding with
concentrated food rich in albuminoids. He
advised feeding oats to develop force and mus
Gle in working horses Horse-railroad com
panies had carefully investigated this subject
and found that corn meal alone, as Il concen-
trsted food, does not make the best working
horses. He exhibited on a chart the follow
ing feeding standards for ten lambs for the
first winter l. Six pounds of red clover, 10
pounds of medium hay, three pounds of oats,
one pound of peas; ?. Fifteen pounds of me-
dunn hay four pounds of wheat bran, two
pounds of linseed meal, one pound of oats !;
3. Ten pounds of good hay, four pounds of
oat straw, three pounds of cotton-seed meal,
| two pounds of bran.
Mr.. Lane is able to exemplify his theories
in practice. At the conclusion of his address
he was asked how he fed a calf to make it
weigh 1900 pounds at one year old He re-
| piled The calf was fed new milk three days,
then fed on milk set - hours and the cream
| taken of. The second week a very little oil
meal and wheat middlings we're added. Dur
| ing the second month one pint of oil meal.
one half-pint of wheat middlings and one gill
of corn meal were added to the milk. The
meal was scalded with one quart of hot water
u hours before feeding. The meal was in
creased as the calf would take it and the milk
| increased until one common sized pailfull was
| fed at each feed. Besides this it had grass in
the summer and good hay in the winter.
| From another source We find that this calf
was weighed each month for one year, weigh
|