Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-01-09

Ine editor uf Hoari's Dairvmau doubts
that one 900 Thousand of all who keep cows
for regular business takes and reads a
dairy paper of and kind
Three different experiments have been
IN ide at the Wisconsin station. under the
superintendent Of Prof W A Henry. to
test the efficacy of feeding ashes and bone
meal to hogs TO one bot was given moth
ING hut corn. Co another was fed a little
ground bone daily and the third had free
a~ress 90 a trough of wood ashe. Where
nothing bu' the ordinary food was given IL
took G2g pounds of corn meal to make 100
uluuis of pork where ashes we're given
4Hl pounds of corn made 100 pounds Of
pork and where bone mea was fed 49,
pounds of corn meal made 100 pounds of
pork The ashes and bone-mea each
caused "a saving of about - per cent Of the
feed
Distinguished speakers have been engaged
for the annual meeting Of the Nermont
Dairymen association TO be held at St AL
bans Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday Of
next week Among them are SIX govern
ors and ex- governors including Gov. Hoard
of Wisconsin and ex-tIov Holbrook Of
Brattleboro Wednesday evening will be
Governor night when. according to the
announced program after music by the
Farmers Giee club "Farmers organiza
lions will be considered by ex Lieut. Gov
HYIf b..
ten minute speeches by Gov W j Hoard
Gov. G. : Page. Lieut. Gov H. A. Fletch
er, ex-Lieut Gov L A Woodbury.. "a
Gov. j l. Barstow. ex-Gov Frederick
Holbrook Hon. y q Smith Of St Albans
will open "A discussion on ensilage and DR.
q H. Sholes Of East Dummerstou will
speak on Tuberculosis
A writer IN the Independent urges a
point DO the breeding of horses which de-
serves 20 be emphasized over and over
again-that of cultivating and developing
the walking gait of horses Farmers. he
says, are far more interested in the walk
ing gait than in the trotting gait Of horses
a horse that can walk fast will do more
work IN day than the slow walker it is
unnecessary TO say that A horse will &c
compllsh "a long journey quicker by fast
walking most of the distance than he will
10y trotting some and walking slowly the
balance of the time A farmer doesn I
need span of trotters 70 draw his mower
or reaper but lac does need "A good brisk
walking team. So on the plough and the
harrow The most. in fact. all of farm
work Is done at walking gait. not at the
trotting pace, consequently those VINO
hreed horses for the farm should breed TO
the fast-walking gait The horse that mas
a good walking pace has IN it the earnest
OF a good speed in the trottiug pace The
fast walk is the foundation of nearly all
horse exreliences
A New Hampshire correspondent Of
ii ards Dairvmau Wisconsin. very well
says Judging from reports Of the farm
ers institutes for 1890. Wisconsin people.
as farming community. are a success
io winch the Dairymau replies We'll.
taken as a whole. We are not as d people.
N 1pluE round wearing sackclotl. he
sprlnkied with ashes There Is solidity hack
OF an assessed valuation of SIX hundred
millions of dollars Better vet. there is a
healthy equIpoIse between the mighty pro
ducuons Of the soil. the factories the
mines, and the forests so that home mar
ket, AMI the employment of labor walk
hand m hand in Wisconsin In Nermont
we have about the same proportion of per
sons engaged in other industries than farm
ing as IN Wisconsin but the greater de
velopment Of other industries would heir
our farming interests As TO the "solditv
blck Of all assessed valuation of SIX nun
bred millions Of dollars. Vermont Is pro
poruonally more solid than Wisconsin
Wisconsin would have to nave an assessed
valuation Of about eight hundred million
dollars 10 equal III proportion to the popu
latlon the assessed value of property III
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