Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-01-27


| land can be plowed for that particular
crop, but | recommend it for convenience
sake. Then draw on the manure any
tine when you can. If the manure has
all been put on in the winter, after the
ground becomes dry enough to work you
will find it much more pliable and easily
worked then if applied afterwards the
disc harrow takes hold much more readily
and you can till with less cost. This is the
time when the real work of the corn rails
ing comes in-the proper lifting OF the
land-and have but one rule to 20 by in
this fitting, and that is after it has been
| narrowed till it seems perfectly mellow
and all right, get on to the harrow and
90 over it again, tapping half the harrow.
Then with the smoothing harrow and
marker the land is soon lifted. Always
mark both ways and if your land is so you
can run a smoothing harrow over the
corn as soon as it comes up, and as often
as once week after till too large Tor that
practice, do so. Keep the ground level
and four spears are enough in hill.
Corn should be planted as soon as the
ground is warm enough aud not before {;
the sooner it comes out of the ground the
better and this is one of the crops that
does not want to stop after once started,
and hundred days from planting should
mature the crop and often less.
| Fodder corn is another crop that pays
well. especially in sections where the pas
| lures dry up early and in any section for
| winter feed If cut before the frost and
properly cared for the Only objection be-
ing the labor in cutting and feeding. The
kind of corn for sowing should be looked
after Stowel's evergreen is the best
have ever used, but we should avoid too
large variety. There is too much waste
in that, too much that grows so large 1t
| cannot be fed ont.
Ia the evening the WASTES of the
dairy were presented in forcible man
ner by II. w Vail of Pomfret, and Prof.
w. A. Deering of this city read an excel
| lent paper on 1.-The farmer and the farm.
| The session Friday morning was opened
with an interesting paper by W; Chapln
of Mddlesex on Forestry and maple
| sugar making"
WILLIAM CHAPIN'S PAPER.
Much has been said and sung of the
| beauty and grandeur of the woods aud of
their influence on the climate and health
| fuluess of the people. There are good
| and substantial reasons why we should
care for and protect forests They are
one of the great sources of money income
to Vermont. There is no very reliable
data to base an estimate upon as to the
value Of the annual product The census
| OF 1850 gives the value obtained from the
| farms and forests of the State at about
! S2,OOO,OOO but this does not include any
| cost Of manufacture or any of the lumber
! or wood cut by non-resdents, mill com
| panies or lumbermen who are not farmers.
| The steam mills in the State cut nearly
1900 600 feet of lumber and the smaller
mills nearly as much more. The manu-
featured value of it all cannot be less than
| S6,OGO,COO. Add to this the value of the
maple sugar crop. the hemlock bark and
other minor products we have n grand
| total OF fully $40 600, OOO as the product of
| Vermont forests. Or course there is much
labor involved in getting out this great
amount of timber. The forests of Yer
mont are decreasing all the time. We
have more bushes than trees, more second
wood growth than first growth. Let US
cut only those trees that are fully ripe
and done growing and those beginning to
decay. We should also cut down all those
oH Ell grown trees that are Liable to fall and
crush many small and thrifty ones. Let
us encourage and Increase the value of
our second growth woods and groves by
ludlclous thinning out. Sometimes a
young tree can be pruned advantageOusly
If taken soon enough, but il is better gen
orally not TO cut of many large mbS. A
large increase of desirable forest trees
can he had by setting out and planting
them, or in many cases by simply protect
ing them where nature has already plant
ed. Mr.. Chaplin gave some individual in
stances OF remarkable growth in trees
that were properly cared Tor that had come
under his observation. Our original
woods may contain trees from 100 TO 500
Yeas old, but think that most OF them
gained the larger part of their growth in
the first 100 years and many of them in
the first three score and TO- SO we net d
not be kept from setting out trees by the
thought hat other generations must reap
the benefits of our labor. And while we |
re p beautifully from the growth made
IN former generations, let us not fail to |
leave our inheritance of fertile fields and
dc mir i-a.d
lshed To our pOsterlty.
The making of maple sugar may fairly |
be called the leading agricultural industry |
OF Vermont. The amount made in the |
state has been constantly increasing and |
has nearly or quite doubled since 1880. In |
1850 we made IL, 80, 600 pounds and at the |
same ratio of Increase that has been 60
ing on for the past 40 years we must be |
making now nearly 10 100000 pounds an |
nually With probable price OF 10 cents
per pound the annual value of this crop |
is 81 ,250, 900, an average Of S42 to every |
farm III the State. On the basis of 500 |
NAPLES fit to tap on the average Vermont |
farm, we might make at leas- 63 0oO,O |
pounds and have 80 00O,0 GOO pounds to sell |
aller giving to every man, woman and |
child in the state, 40 pounds for his or her |
own use. This money realized from the |
sale of such product, if scattered among |
the farmers in Vermont would give to |
each head of family $40 with which TO
start out on his summer campaign. Let |
us reach forth to the grand old maple !
woods and get as much as we can of this |
increased income Although other States |
have the sugar maple, few If any have |
the same favorable climatic influences |
and other circumstances in aid of its use |
as our own State.
Mr.. Chaplin then briefly outlined some |
of the main points of success in the man |
ufacture of maple sugar If there is OPP |
portunity for choice of location, choose |
a sunny southern slope, or a plain that is
by other woods or hills on the |
north. An early sugar place Is better |
than late one. Cut ont all other kinds |
of trees, especially evergreeDs, as fast as
possible Have a good, clean and conven
lent sugar house. A good brick arch with |
a cast-ron CRATE, or 10 inches from the |
bottom, makes good boiling place. |
Have plenty of dry wood, no matter what |
kind. For boiling pans use what you can |
afford, though au evaporator will prob |
ably make the best sugar. For tubs get |
tin every time. In tapping trees y incn
or "a inch bit bored to the depth OF = to
214 inches, according to the size OF the
ha For thnra IL IA