The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1895-11-28
East Thorndike, Nov, ls95.


Maine Board Of Agriculture Bulletin.
LIBERTY. The young stock III Waldo
county is On the increase, and it seems as
though the present low price of hay would
tend to still further increase it. We look
for better returns from all farm labor than
fol some years past. William Ii. Moody,
(Member.)
MONROE. 50 far as | have learned.
there have been no experiments III spray
ing or growing new grasses. plants or
seeds. As to the cost of growing crops, |
can only say that conditions are 80 vali-
able that the cost Of any given crop on
one farm will prove OF no value as a stand
ard by which to measure the cost on an
other. Is it good business policy to be
constantly telling the consuming public
What our products costa No shlewa bust
ness man will make a practice Of adver-
Using the cost Of his goods: and the farm
er should be good business man. 1t can
do DO possible good to make our profits
and losses public knowledge If a man
continues in any given line Of work wear
after year, take it for granted that he
makes it pay, and get all the useful knowi-
edge from him that you can. But to know
the size of his bank account won't Held
you any in your business. | make i prac-
tice Of applying the Whole amount Of fer
tilizer at time of planting and consider
this the most profitable method. re. c.
Dow.
FREEDOM. My orchard for two years
Las been a failure. This season nv trees
started web and bloomed well and the
blossoms did not blight, 50 | have as good
Baldwins as ! ever had. All | have ap-
piled to the trees was a few wood ashes.
Intend to mulch the trees with strawv
manure. Next year | shall spray with the
Bordeaux mixture and use ali the wood
ashes | can obtain. D. B. Johnson
MORRILL,. What course should one
adopt to make his farm sself-sustainingo'
Is it in the line Of progressive agriculture
to buy so largely of commercial fertilizers
and western feed stutfs? Will it paw to
feed oats at thirty cents per bushel to COWS
in milk? ID. o. Bowen.
NoTE.-Plant as large a variety Of fodder
crops as possible. For summer feeding,
those that mature at different seasons, SO as
to be provided with a constant supply of
some one Of them in just the period of
growth for the most profitable feeding For
winter feeding, oat and pea hay, oat hay,
hungarian, and ensilage, will add to the
variety, increase the stock carrying CAPACITY
of the farm and lessen the necessity for using
western grains. NO progressive farmer will
ever go beyond the limits Of his own farm
for fertilizers or feed stutfs until he has ex-
hausted its capacity for producing them, has
husbanded every particle Of each, and used
TO the best possible advantage. Oats do not
differ materially in composition from roller
process wheat bran, and may be fed for the
same purpose. They have about two-thirds
the amount Of protein, about the same
amount Of carbohydrates, and nearly twice
as much fat. When the total food nutrients
are compared they will be found To BE- about
in the proportion IF eight for oats to ten for
bran. Therefore, when oats are thirty cents
per bushel bran should cost not tar from
81 70 per hundred pounds. We have allowed
enough in favor Of the bran to equal the toll
for grinding the oats, and each farmer must
figure for himself the expense Of shifting his
oats for bran, the danger Of getting adulter-
ated bran and the risk of losses ia weight.
The amount Of oats that he Has iii proportion
to his other grain feeds should aiso govern
his selection somewhat. Lit will readily be
Seen, however, that with oats at thirty cents
per bnsflel, one dollars worth would contain
tine same amount of food nutrients as one
dollars worth of wheat bran at 81 II per
hundred. and that their comparative value
differs as the price OF bran varies from that
figure, Secretary.