Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-02-24
FARMERS INSTITUTE.
Il Agricultural Rooms Il The
State Hons: Monday.
nix Protection Discussed at Length
and With Great Profit.
Interesting Tests Made Of Milk and
Cream Advantages Of Ensiiage,

The Fumers Institute held at III,
NAM, Of The Sts:s Beard Of A griculsure q
the State House Tuesday, vas . very inter
,st;ra md successful meeting, though th,
.,tsr,lsncs wss not what II would hsv,
been had there been less sickness in tn,
ra,al districts
Hon. Thomas Dssgett Of F. xcroft, 10 a
entertaining sDd practical speaker AID hi
talk 10 the meeting cor caYning bis expert
encs on the spbjec', Economic Production
a, Feed Grain Production. Corn Crop
How Preserved at Least Expense, vas OIL
usst value ard interest. In preparing biz
mound for the coin crop he said tina. h.
hauled he dressing en- ard br.ks it NJ der
He then .moothsd the grouad by CONS
srt.ih = roller and then = sprins
tooth harrow. which he previously Adjust.
ed With srsst care act TO turn over the
sed,, grass AIDE up. After the ground Va,
thoroughly pulyerized he pu, On BIZ,
Eci1se p's"'et h"at "foPs ths
super phosphate md the corn
better than il can be done by hand sad
much more rapidly. He plants bis corn ia
drills three T. e. apart the kernels Of corn
berg from four 10 six isches apart. He
then zoe, over tie field with Thoms.
,mooihing harrow ill The corn is two o.
three inches in height when he takes the
euliiystor utiug no band hoe at all. He
continues TO run the cultivAtor till the corn
is two or three feet high using care that the
cultivstor doesn't run deeply enough to in
iure the roots. He calculated that it cost,
him about thirty dollars AZ acre for manure
anil Of the value Of this dressing the corn
doe, not use more than ons-,hird Some ,ay
the land Is better by reason Of first CROP
tiog It with corn. lie believed that dressed
IN this manner The land was in the b.st Of
condition Tor ctopIIC /. with wheat the
following year. The applying Of manure
he thought cost INN abou. IS per acre,
plosing s., rolling and narrowing SO, seed
III, best OF seed should be
usel. Is cents, super phosphates
g. y. planting 81 hoeing SO, harvesting
S. 10 al he thought it cos. him about
$40 20 sD acre to raise this corn, cut it and
PIT II N the rio He bad found by expert
snee that 1t was impossible 10 get any such
.r,eun, % f,o,i f,nr, ,ha oii c,a,hod. IL
took the corn direct from the field and put
1t 10 the sllo. T. required tome eight or
moe men to 90 this. tn much u il was
light labor. lie though. the corn should
be cut before 1t was put in the slo. He
hsd ,uccteded set PIG the air out of his
nio. which VAS the whole secret of keeping
nice eusiisge. and when he takes it out he
is cEs fu 10 remove every time the ex.
posed parts, 80 that none Of it deeayed.
Great pressure IS brought upon silo and
be thought they should be strengthened
With iron rods. He would have the inside
Of the inner boards plsned, as he thought the
ensilsse settled better. lie had used tarred
shsahDg paper bei1een the two boird
partitions. and he put on the top straw, as
the top. from the moisture that is constantly
arising will be 10 poor condition anyway
and he rather loose the straw than the corn.
.lIo that would hold G5 tons he found to
cost $50 to build. lie weighted the top
LAYER Of boards. He hiss found the com
mon yellow iisd c1rD, cut when full grown
and Just as the kernels are beginning to
glaze, the beat lie had also found that the
cost Of kesplog 4 COW through the year. in
gliding the en.ilsgo fed them AMI the grain
and hay sud psstursge. about 1922 70. The
latter par: OF O sobsr he had found it
sivsntagsou' 20 turn the c,ss ITO the
dslis He sail hit h9 hid l.ned m)rs
milk and better milk from using the ensi-
lsge than from tho old method OF
tssdlrs hay and grain. II, believed
IA The rotation OF crops and
more especially The sowing OF grain
On the ground from which the previous
year be had taken corn crop. He believed
farmer should have sllo il he only
raised two acres % corn. II YOU'D not
farm without the slo. OF course there
"" good deal Of work entaied from
sesPlOs COW, but he had feu,d that those
Who were .uccesiul expected to work aad
did work. There was no reason Why q
man should feel any more ashamed Of milk
'us ac>" than Of prsc'icng law. Money
eould be made or the farm And the children
'uece"iul farmers were likely TO stay
on the frm. The way to have the children
eontentsd VAS to show them that farming
could be made to pay and then educate
them in agriculture .end them to the State
c'liege 'here Al education could be OBJ
tanned for small ostlsy.
The next subject treated vss the Care
ard Trestment of stock. on which Mr.. J.
II. fsstou ~ Chelsea spoke. Ia the course
Of his remarks he said:
when Is years Of sQe left home to learn
to build houses. hut l always had longing
for the farm. A soon IS could save
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