Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-02-01


the average selling price 1887 being $3 90 against
sss The farmer has, therefore gain
1t well this connection to review the changes that have
taken place the fertilizer market of this State the Expert
Station began sampng testing
In 1885, the valuation of the fertilizers sold this State
Experiment Station was and the retail pce per- ton
while 1885, the third year of the work of the Experiment Station
therefore been in the valuation Of s2s7
Of the IF ~e s the ne or
figure of 100000 per year,
single Of fertilizers There
the Station making the tests and circulating the results broad
cast the State has been powerful factor this favorable
result
with the raising
the feeding of them stock, large
number of chemical analyses of these folders determine both
Nv % S see his ao
obtained from them by actual feeding The Station has also under
person. prize the exhibit
of the Daymens Association Montpelier last winter asked
his best quality hay These analyses not completed but
hoped that from them shall be able to arrive at fairly
knowledge of the character of the hay of Vermont
The Station has analysed everything that has been to by
likely to be of benefit to those sending samples and the
of the State large deal Of time the laboratory has
milk butter milk and butter During all feeding trials the milk of
each analysed for the last eight days of feeding PERIOD
weighed and analysed The milk of each whether
pertinent not weighed at each milking throughout the
The Station has analysed quite number milk
for crea% nen and md tor private farmers -
Since March LIST the Station has analysed the following number
unlicensed fertilizers 80 folders, waters, muc
liz whole mks so sEmmiks So butter Is creams II
buffers insecticides, miscellaneous.
During the months of last the Station made
quite extended tests Of the work of various
of the State The design to find out how much of the
original fat contained the milk saved by the
and will be for as and poS
ably the after It found that these
losing much than they the
well
ought the butter milk less than per
of fat left in the butter milk that it would pounds
of such to make pound of butter On the contrary
of the have found this cent largely
increased even up to dozen or more pounds OF butter
larger than most people There hardly
tested which the loss at least pound
been saved the ceameries would make eleven butter
for each ten that they now produce.
The Station sos divided into two
compartments The materials put these pea and hay
Hungarian fodder before frosng and that had
frosted Covering quickly tried and also allowing
the Of actual loss feeding material in
the o the relative Of the different methods of filing
dried compared with the fodder put into the o it's
Our figures feeding nearly completed
and they show loss OF from 20 to 30 cent The
the layer Unfortunately figures
ter compared with the enage not satisfactory could
be desired samples taken but lost by accident
What figures have obtained indicate that the loss from
standing the shock for about two months and then bringing
the although the fodder appeared be good condition.
least third Of the total feeding
original fodder What the will concerning the relative
the two through the medium of their milk flow has yet
determined have the figures the
of the frosted and unfrosted these will all be given future
reports As regards the question of methods
the s the enslage has kept perfectly where weighted
and also where allowed heat before weghng
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been claimed that apple pomace has feeding
and the practice of almost all the cider mills throwing the
shows that this belief in its worthesnes widespread
Chemical has said that there considerable
ing material in pomace and the Station undertook find
whether this As the from the mill would not keep
if determined into the so and whether by exclu
air could be preerved the result perfect
About of small sio six feet square,
load eveed and amped down firmly and when the last
load the whole allowed
then and weighted with about pounds the
foot The heat decreased at and when the
month later the pomace found of perfect