Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-12-27

'emarks. He advocated the utmost clean
mess in every part of the dairy work.
Recommends the use of barrel churn,
washing the butter as soon as it separ-
ltes from the milk and working the salt
n while gathering the butter in the
,hurn. In wintering dairy stock, give
them warm, clean quarters and plenty of
good nutritious food. Give a variety of
feed, corn stalks, straw, hay, roots, grain
and meal should be used in proper
In feeding straw and corn
stalks it is better to cut and moisten 1t.
The cows should be kept housed the most
of the time. When kept warm and in good
flesh cows give healthy milk, which they
do If frozen and half starved. In |
the spring the stock should be turned |
out as soon as the ground is bare, and
taken to the barn nights. When the feed |
begins to fail in the fall, give the cows |
and grain at night all summer with good |
success. The COWS should be driven to
yard at least fifteen minutes before milk
ing. While milking do not allow loud
talk in the stable. In order to do we'll
cattle must be contented. If you get a
cow that is always uneasy, sell her, for
she will do more damage to the rest than
she is worth. This was followed by
spirited discussion, in which it was prov
ed that the best way to feed stock was
twice day, giving them water once, at
9 a. M, and giving them time to digest
their food in the middle of the day. APP
peals were made to the farmers to raise
the average. number Of pounds of butter
per COW. Grade Jerseys were considered
the best COWS to keep. Wednesday p. m.
was taken up by Hon. Henry Lane of
Cornwall, who thinks that raising and
feeding farm stock leads every other ag-
ricultnral industry in the state-in fact,
all other branches Of farming are Incl
dental to this. This industry is capable
of extension, but this extension will de-
pend largely upon the intelligence with
which this business is pursued. The
most Important and profitable branch Of
farming in the future will be the raising
of farm stock and the production of meat,
wool, milk, butter and cheese from this
stock. Farmers should understand the
relative value of the various fodder and
grain crops put on the farm, the amount
and proportion of food elements they
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| duce profitable results. When the farm
| er has decided what he wants to produce,
| he should understand what kind of food
| nutrients will give the best results. The
constituents OF animal bodies must be de-
rived from the food they consume. No
crop can thrive without sufficient supply
of each of several elements of plant
| growth They cannot live on any one of
these elements, nor can they grow if any
one is wanting. What is true of plants
is also true of animals. Food that does
not contain albumen can sustain animal
life but a short time; neithercan food
containing nothing but albumen sustain
life. Food containing both the albumin
oids and carbohydrates will sustain life,
but if fed out Of proportion of the wants
of the animal will not give growth OIL
production. When the farmer decides
what he wants to produce from his stock
he shonld understand the kind and pro-
portion Of food nutrients that will give the
results desired, and in what forage OIL
grain these can be obtained, and how
mixed and fed. Young animals need fooC
containing larger per cent of digestibl,
albumen than the horse or OK, producing
labor. If the nutrition ratio is too wide
like feed of straw, there is not sufficien
albumen to give perfect digestion to tn,
excess Of carbohydrates in the straw,
the nutrition ratio is narrow, like pea O.
linseed meal, there is not sufficient of TIN
carbohydrates to give digestion to al
the albumen. Oftentimes Slight chang
in the relative proportion of food nulrient
without changing the cost changes tn
maintenance ratio to producing one.
The object Of the stock farmer is to oh
| tain the most valuable returns from hi
: crops, and best maintain and increase tn
l fertility of his farm. There is in ever
/ kind and breed of animals those which
, with the best care and feed, will not pa
, the cost of keeping. Such animals shout
f be weeded out from every flock and hero
and only such retained as will pay pre-
fit on their feed.
3 This was followed by discussion.
e At 7-3O Prof. w. A. Derring of Vernon
University read very interesting pape
t ON Forestry and Arbor day. He claim
t that the only way to cure the evils result
: ing from stripping our forest was in ed,
> catitg the people. The laws will not reac
a mans private property SO but what
e can devastate his wood land if he sees ii
!, More knowledge of the nature and growt
i of trees should be given people and mol
Information concerning the effects of TO
! ests upon the climate.
IL The forests of Europe are all under tt
control of government and men are CO
| tluudli} CupioyCu III 1ooAiuS aioC@ ohC
r welfare. If man wishes to build hou,
/. he makes an estimate Of amount Of lur
u Der required and with the help of 70
IS est selects and pays for the neecessar
is In this countery there is large amour
4. of waste land either on the farms
D rough hills which might;be planted 10 tire
~ with profit, although trees are sensiti
in and easily killed, by CAREFUL study
rs their nature and soil adapted to the
Of growth they may be successful transpla
IN ted. Although there is more wood lal
lg in New England than so years ago t
S. trees are of an inferior quality and t
n value is much lessened. By the cleari
lie of our forests we have gained in pastul
ne and farm land and increased in populati
n but we have lost in climate land millio
Id in the value of lumber and wood. T
to storm clouds passing ODER our naked hi
on discharge their contents in torrents viii
an 60 rushing down the parched hill sic
d. and cause freshets in the valleys.
Is If there were forests on the hills
lily moist re would be taken from the clor
he more gradually and taken up by
DIS earth, part to be fed to the streams, 8
is part to sink down and finally reappeal
Ih- wells and springs. The naked hills offert