Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-02-11

fore storing it; stores it by laying or
packing close in bundles and scattering
salt on every layer. Had long expert.
ence with corn fodder and thought best
time to cut it was when it emitted a kind
OF swedish fragrance when down.
A. j. Cook agreed with Mr.. Doolittle.
Never had used salt in putting up; had
only used fodder about four years. He
thinks the best method of disposing of
corn is the silo. The difficulty in OBJ.
tanning hay is what had driven him to
use corn fodder, and he found it pro-
duced good flow of milk in cows. His
neighbor johnson fed corn fodder, dry
shelled corn and raw potatoes to his
stock and it brought an average of 2,65
pounds of fat day to his stock. Thought
large farmers would use silos and small
farmers corn fodder, and that both would
be in the swim in dairying.
James Smith is an enthusiast over corn
fodder and has given the matter careful
and disseminating attention. He said
he cut forty acres of corn fodder with a
McC ormick corn binder; that out of this
he had fed 80 head of cattle, IA OF horses
and 35 sheep; commenced Dec. LIST and
has six months feed left now. Uses man
ger for cows two feet high and two feet
wide; feeds waste to horses and mules,
and they eat it all. The cost of putting
up forty acres of fodder IN barn and corn
in crib is $50 for corn and s75 for fodder.
Ii he throws IN time of one team and
himself and team, about $50 cash. In
making this estimate figured cutting at
81 per acre and $40 day for use of
shredder. Qaery: Can oats, barley,
rye, hay or any other crop be planted
and harvested that will give as much
real benefit at the same cost? Sore
mouth, he said, came from overlooking.
When you haul up load of fodder you
feed to ten or dozen head, but give the
same amount shredded to one; this will
produce sore mouth and you must learn
how to feed to prevent this. When fod-
der began to heat he covered 1t about
two feet with Timothy straw, and when it
was done heating, straw was not FL TO
bedding, though fodder under it was all
right. Corn fodder must be cut early
about the time the corn begins to dent.
and it is IN that state only about two
weeks. Fed eight COWS on this fodder.
with three quarts of oats and barley, no
hay, and obtained nine pounds of butter
per day. Uses salt on his fodder when
putting it in barn. The facts and figures
presented by Mr.. Smith created quite a
sensation, and all agreed that they up.
held his idea that corn fodder was q de.
cidedly profitable feature in securing the
corn crop.
AFTERNOON.
In the afternoon quite crowd as.
sembled to listen to the horticultural fea-
ture of the prog ram. @. F. Gardner of
Usage read very practical paper on this
subject In which he paid high tribute
to Cresco's nurseryman, j. B. Mitchell,
for having originated two or three varie.
ties OF seeding apples that were as good
as any and adapted to this climate. We
will publish the address, because in that
way only can we convey real idea of it's
worth to our readers.
j. b. Mitchell followed him in very
candid, modest and sensible talk. PEG.
pie do not realize what there is in the
science OF horticulture. In planting
home grown trees lies the only sure way
to propagate fruit, but the foreign fei-
lows tell our people ford tale, and
many bitter failures is the result, He
had men come to him and ask him to tell
them frankly the good as we'll as bad
traits OF trees, for you must know trees
are like men in this respect, he has tax.
gu them into his nursery, told them the
good and bad qualities of trees and had
them go out aud buy of foreign agents
trees that were failures from the start
because they were not acclimated. Get
the varieties that will stand our winters
you can have good fruit; but to secure
such fruit you must exercise the same in
telligent care in cultivation you use in
propagating corn or any other crop, or
the stock on your farm. Fruit trees
must be cultivated the same as all other
crops to secure good results. It takes
thirty years to perfect a seeding apple.
The process of acclimatation is slow and
it is only the survival of the fittest, that
is the hardest planted, that the seeding
is finally brought to fruitage. Have the
Red Warrior aud Cresco, which he has
propagated from seed that are regarded
as the best, though he has produced six
varieties, and they are no more liable TO
bllght.than is the Duchess. His talk
about trees was listened to with close at
tention, and more than one farmer pres.
emit picked up some valuable and useful
hints.
A. p. Bents followed in sensible and
practical talk; recommended farmers to
plant trees if for nothing else than adorn
and beautify their homes. The best win.
ter keepers in apples, said Mr.. Bents are
those produced in this section OF coun.
try. He thought grating fruit was a
good way to find out the hardest. Had
grated eleven varieties, bat only secur.
ed two that stood the test. In growing
strawberries, prepare the ground the
same as yon would for corn; mark IN the
same way and plant about eighteen
inches apart. Must have careful cult
walton and constant care; pillow them fire.
quently and give them close attention
and they will repay you by good yields.
Seedlings should be killed as fast as they
appear. By work and care success will
crown your efforts along these lines.
p. O. Bennett thought the horticultur.
list was the most unselfsh worker for the