News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-01-07
The Farmers Meeting.

a the products OF
ls5eakers We're all we'll
s10f1ie17 and we are assured by those
no offended that the meetings wei e
Pf ggeat benefit to the farmers. Wal
o Brigham presided over the meet
bgs. Mr. Smith OF the board was
the first speaker.
His subject was Feeding farm
stock" Mr.. Smith said the furnish
iLg iced for farm animals had al
ways been an interesting subject for
burners to discuss and was getting
to, be more so. Pastures that once
played so important part in Oul
nusbSndry were of much less VALUE
than formerly and growing poorer
every year, and farmers especially
dairymen, were feeding many more
days in the year than formerly Full
Darns are not always guarantee OF
fat stock or full pals OF milk. Feeo
that produces mix will make growth
If fed to young stock. Hay cut i'll
August, though of more bulk, is nol
so valuable as early cut fodder.
Keeping a winter dairy teaches tb,
farmer very much in regard to tht
worth of different fodder crops. A
change in the coarse feeds affects the
milk sooner than a change in grain
feed With the present high prices OF
of grain it cannot be fed .prOfitably
unless the coarse folders are good.
In answer to questions Mr. Smith
SAID: [ water my cows only once a
day, but feed ensilage; should water
twice day if they would drink. |
warm the water, but should not if
the trough was in the barn. Mich
COWS should not receive achill. Whel e
cows are turned out into a yard i
will pay to warm the water. | raise
the temperature only to 600; others
raise it as high as 950
Mr.. Clement Smith of MorristOwn,
one of the most successful dairymen in
Lamoille county, gave his experience
in dairying. He is at present using
a baby seDara tor, a No. 2, will separ-
ate 300 pounds per hour. This is
run by a yearling heifer Jersey in a
one-horse tread power Mr. Smith
says the working of the machine is
complete and the heifer enjoys the
work. All he has to do is to unhitch
her and she goes into the power of
her own accord. By having this ma
chine in the barn he can feed the skim
milk warm from the COW to his ca YES
and hogs. and considers it more
valuable when fed in natural warmth
than when warmed artifcially. He
has tested the separator with the
deep setting several times by taking
seven milkings with each system and
alternating, and finds the present
way will make about two pounds a
day the most 1t is not so much
work to keep the separator clean as
the cans in deep setting. He sends
his butter to market in prints, and it
averages about 26A cents per pound
the year round.
He waters his cows in the barn and
does not warm it; churns twice a
week, cooling the cream to 4S0 till
ready to ripen, then raise to 7O0 and
cool down, churning at $40. Thinks
the cream from separator is more
easily churned than from deep set
ting; Is pounds of his milk will
make a pound of butter. He has
sold from his dairy 500 per COW of
butter alone and fed them $10.65
worth of grain each. Skim milk is
worth nearly as much as the grain
fed the COWS. The separator takes
the lead of all others.
Prof. Cooke-It depends more upon
the man than the system, though
the separator ought to make a pure
article. The hand separator is a new
element in farm dairying and has
come to stay.
Mr.. Sanford in answer to questions
said: 1t is a great mistake to let
land deteriate. Land should be
made to grow three tons of hay or
Is tons of green corn fodder per
acre. 1t costs So to cut an acre of
hay. Each ton has five dollars worth
fertility in it and is worth so per
ton. Land that will produce three
tons per acre is worth 500 per acre.
Wewant proper barns to save all the
manure. The liquid portion is worth
so cents more than the solid.
Mr.. H. A. Beecher of johnson said
he had kept so hens the past year
from one to four years old; they pro-
duced 1885 eggs, which if all sold
would have amounted to over 500.
He paid for feed, scraps, ETC., $23.13.
If all the feed had been paid for it
would have cost less than a dollar
per hen.