Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-12-21

| Yes; do
Mr.. Cheney-Did you ever feed roots
Yes | have filed the Slo ~ years. Be
fore that | used to feed roots. and found it
too hard work to raise them, while cnsilage
| is really little better than roots for cows.
What do you find to supplement pasture
in summer
For several years | have ploughed and
fortified my pasture and re-sceded and So
have not had my pastures fail me. If ! had
not had this fine pasture ! would feed early
cut hay twice day, after the pasture fails.
| Fine ground hone used as a ton dressing to
pastures will greatly help them, and make,
a very lasting fertilizer. use raw bone
with phosphate--about 1900 pounds phoS-
phate and 500 pounds Of fine raw bone per
acre.
EVENING SESSION.
The evening session was opened with an
address ON the Successes and failures in
farming 10y Mr.. W. V. Henry of the
board One of the successes of farming is
the result of good roads making the traffic
and access between points more readily ac-
Complished Contentment is one of the
best assurances of success and in no other
occupation is there such hope of success and
contcntment. We must admit that we hold
as farmers much smaller per cent of the
wealth of the nation than was the case one
generation ago, owing to the shlnkage in
the value OF real estate. inequality of ex-
change is one of the worst featurcsIof our oc-
cupation and creates much ofsths discomfort
that causes many failures in agriculture
Office seeking being admitted to be a
wrong, then profit seeking is wrong too.
Office seeking being the adopted policy, we
must, in selfdefence, adopt the same policy
The time has come when we must plan to
get our commoditie, a. direct as possible
from the producer to the consumer and get
a more remuneratiVe compensation for his
labor. This may not he the result of Il days
thought, but until the time comes when we
can attain this result we must expect not
only successes but failures in farming. Mr.
and Mrs. Mooney gave beautiful selections
of music and were encorcd Mr.. Arms of
the board spoke on the subject, Vermont
at Chicago. Mr.. and Mrs. Mooney gave
another beautiful selection of music Adj
joulmcd.
The morning session of the second day of
the farmers meeting was opened by Mr..
Arms of the board. with an address, ON the
"Outlook for Sheep Growing He referred
TO the threatening attitude of the present
administration, but was encouraged to be
ieve that we cannot afford To give up the
sheep. He thought that few sheep
would be an actual benefit to a large COW
range. Mr.. Sanford did not agree with this
opinion Several resident citizens spoke,
and most of them favored a few sheep of
middle or coarse wool class.
An animated discussion on sugar making
followed, and the making of an arch to set
evaporators upon was discussed by Mes,rs.
| Cheney. Fisher and Chase
AFTERNOON SESSION.
| An address was given by Mr. j. W. Wal
bridge of West Concord. In order to dis
Cuss intelligently, the outlook we must I'M
derstand where we are ana what our present
| condition is. We rs farmers do not have 50
| much of financial success As we ought. nor
as do some others of our profession in other
| sections of the country. Our situation here
is about to be improved by the introduction
of "A creamery in our midst, SO that locally
We are to be greatly helped in our dairy in
terests. If the men conducting creamery
are honest men, we will get all there is in
the business. ! foresce anobstacle in the
general desire of all farmers to rush into
dairying and shall not be surprised to a
glut in the butter market inside Of three
years.
He would advise mixed farming SO that we
| VIII have something ON top when u crash
| comes. ! believe real estate in Vermont has
reached the bottom, and we will see better
times in the future. Our tax law is not fair
We should not beforced to pay a taxon what
we do not own, but we have one relief of our
personal property very little pays any
tax, and it throws all the tax on the real
estate, which is often heavily mOrtgagcd.
| Towns which are taxed for the benefit Of
/ /.
on the road-bed that runs through their
town, Our state officers are pad too large
salaries. One of the great advantages we
have here is the cheapuc>s of educational
literature.
Mr.. Sanford opened the subject OF Fer
tllizing. Our fathers has left us WORKOUT
farms and we find it difficult to produce re
muneratye crops. We are forced to Use
| our best efforts to get back what We have
! lost in fertility. Our State buys of two
! fertilizer agent, 5000, 900 worth of fertilizer
and 50 much money goes out of the State 10
| bring that amount Of potash and nitrogen
| back into it. While we are paying out this
| sum for commercial fertilizers every year.
| we are allowing more than So 900, 600 worth
of manurial value of our homemade ferti-
lizrrs to 60 to waste When we u feiti-
lizcr, it should be in the form of feed for
our stock which is the by product of some
manufacturers. Wheat bran adds to the
fertility of the farm at the rate of So per
| ton. Cotton seed meal adds $50 in fertilizer
foi each ton fed The gospel of clover
should be advocated, It's the best crop We
can whether for milk or for the
| growth of our animals,
Mr.. Cheney favored the growing of clover
and referred to instances which showed the
value of clover in retaining land.
Mr., Walbrdge asked Mr.. Sanford if he
used the mammoth clover.
No. am using "A smaller clover, and
also add some alsilic seed
Do You ripen your corn
| bring it to a roasting condition and put
| II entire into the silo.
Mr. Fisher believed we could make II large
profit on carload of grain, if We viii only
take care of the manure heaps and liquids.
Mr. used one-half corn meal
and one-half wheat bran, and asked if cot
ton-aeed m'a would iniure the flavor of but