Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-12-26

make use of and care for the forest
in such way that we shall not rol
: posterity of their benefits. The plant
ing of trees is practicable in some sec
tons, but will not be here soon if some
| protective method is not adopted gen
) orally. Our forests are not only yalu
, able in themselves, but, on account o.
Il retention of moisture, are beneficial
: to climate, conducive to good crops
and productive of constant water
J power ON our streams, thus making
J the welfare of our state dependent on
them. Mr. Winslow ssid many ex-
hausted pastures should be allowed to
and aided in growing up to forests,
that they may thereby regain their
fertility The sentiment, "Woodman
spare that tree" was voiced by Mr..
Arms, w. S. JENNIE and others.
In the afternoon,H WAL of Pom
fret, the we'll known dairynan who
received gold medal on the quality
of his butter at the Madison Square
exposition last fall, gave talk on
dairying, dividing the subject into
three heads, the COW, the man, the
feed. A COW is a dairying machine
If a cloth manufacturer can afford to
sell his machinery for old iron and
! buy improved because it reduces the
cost of making lis of cent, the far
mer can afford to make use of the
most correct tests in culling his cows.
| The milking organs being a part of
the cows nervous system, and most
of the milk being generated during
the milking, care should be taken lest
the COW become excited, thereby less
ening greatly the amount of milk and
percentage of butter fat. A new man
in a stable, though a good mixer, will
cause COWS to shrink; therefore avoid
such changes, If possible. AS to feed,
June grasses are undoubtedly the best,
and the nearer winter fodder APP
proaches this summer feed the bet
ter. For this reason Mr.. Vail recon-
mends early cutting of hay Feeding
of coarse, dry hay demands a supple
ment of grain (cottons seed meal and
wheat bran, and gluten are the best) |
may be proportionate, viz, five parts
of the former to one of the latter. |
The best COWS for making butter are
the Jerseys and Guernseys. Mr.. Arms,
Mr.. Stanford, Maj. circuit and others
added weight to what had been said.
M. A. Adams reported an increase
during the last ten yrs. OF from 40
lbs. of butter to COW to about 27O
lbs. annually. It was generally con-
ceded that only small per cent of
the COWS in VT. are kept at profit,
that COW should go dry six to ten
weeks and that creameries are an ad
to the average farmer.
At 7:15 p. m. j. o. Sanford of STAN
ford addressed the assembly on Gin
tensive Farming" He tells us how
our fathers came here years ago,
cleared huge tracts, rich with the
large scale; this he terms sextensive
But now the natural fer
tility is exhausted and we are COM
PEELED to the intensive plan, that is
focus our energies on smaller spot.
Too much land is the curse of the
farmer, for while building up one part
another goes down.
Wednesday morning "Sheep Hus Z
oandry'' was treated by Victor I
Spear of Braintree, the following be-
ng the substance of his remarks: 1t
S question whether sheep raising in ,
vt. is profitable to- day. Sheep are
beneficial to pasture. The best of
sheep for this State is some breed of :
mutton sheep, with a strain of Meri- :
10, and the flock should not number !
over forty. If a farmer has good Z
sheds it is best to raise lambs for the
early summer markets. Several spoke I
IN this subject, Judge Fletcher of =
Holland reporting gross income of i
S16S from thirty mutton sheep. f
The most interesting of all were the y
emarks by Prof. J. L. Hills of the
state Agricultural school, on "Milk
and the Illustration with the r
>abcock, the most perfect of testing t
machines. Mr.. Hill in testing milk in = =
wenty creameries of the State, failed .
n but one to discover tempered milk. q
lie believes one fifth of butter fat is b
wasted before reaching the firkin, if L
he shallow setting is used. He also h
pproves of large separators for
reameries and the baby separators, r
f which we have more in Orleans t.
10. than in all other counties COM a
ined, for fair sized dairies. Mr.. Hill +,
avs the use of the test tube is de- "