Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1885-02-06
Jadlci0uS Feeding.


At the recent meeting of Tie New
York State Daryman's Association
many very excellent points wei: made
by men evidently thoroughly familiar
with the matters of which they spoke.
From a report in the Tribune we
select the following as ofrrime impor-
tance:
'Mr. T. d. Curtisc called attention
to the vast territory, over 6c2, 900
square miles, in which da1ying is prac
ticable Even the Gulf, States can cas
ry on the business successfully il WIN
Ter. and Mississippi IS the first to es-
tablished a Chair of Dairy Husbandry.
The increase of dairying in the Wess
is limited only by the supply of COWS
Professor |. B. Roberts favored high
but judlcious feeding; urged wedding
out the poorer COWS; showed by igur-
es derived from his own experience
that, estimating milk at one cent a
pound, there IS difference between
the value of the product of one of his
poorest and one OF the best COWS of
over $50 year. It pays to give such
food only in the Increased aud better
quality the product. but in the extra
richness OF the manure. He found by
analysis and careful estimates that the
accumulations of sixteen horses and
thirty-feur COWS for six months were as
valuable for manurial purposes as 81
900 worth OF commercial fertilizer.
The manure was collected in a COW
cred barnyard, and never exposed to
rain and atmospheric action, which &c
prived the manure produced on most
farms of large share ofits value. A
cotton.seed meal, costing about $27, is
worth $34 to use as fertilizer on the
University farm. He cut and dr,ed the
second crop of clover and found by
analysis and careful estimate that it
was worth as fertilizer not far from
SIS per acre. The roots dug up,
washed and dried, showed a material
value of over SIS per acre-a total of
$34 in round numbers. He finds
Lawes and Gilbert give the value of
such crop. for manurial purposes, at
$50.
Mr. B. D. Gilbert presented COM
mercial view. The exports from this
ointment since May I to December the
I were 100, 272,275 pounds of cheese.
OF this So IA per cent. was shipped
from New York, 42 IL per cent. from
Mon real, and the rest from other
points. The receipts in New York
during the same period were ,o24 Oh
boxes, which is 72,77S boxes less han
for the same interval last year The
export of butter from January to De-
cember I was I4,6I6,Ss6 pounds a.
gainst 17,439,I37 pounds last year.
Canada has experienced a similar
decline in exports of butter. The
home market S willing to pay better
prices than the foreign. England gets
cheaper butter from the continent.
The use Of the skinner in the
cheese factory has done great damage
this season, and brought our cheese into
disrepute abroad In addition to this,
it has proved 20 be losing business IN
dollars ard cents. Whole milk cheese
factories have netted their patrons more
for milk than those that made both
butter and chese.
Mr. F. S, Peer said mich cows eat
most and keeps poorest; the best beef
COW eats least and keeps fattest. Ali
good qualities cannot be combined in
single animal, any more than in a
machine. He fayors the Shorthorn
for beef: "She gains two or three
pounds day until she weighs a tom
The least cost per pound of product
is secured by judicious high feeding.
He had best results with wLeat bran
and middlings, using both by weight.
Feeds corn only for pork and beef.
Cotterseed meal is cheaper than corn
meal. An economical mixture is four
pounds brand and three pounds of
ground oats to one pound of cotton.
seed meal. *s* Professors Law call.