The Newtown bee., 1896-02-21

ATTENDANCE INTERESTING PAPER,
 PRESENTED.
 The Farmers' Institute was held in tht Town hall on Thursday of last week The drizzling storm of snow and sleet prevented the large attendance there oth crwisc would have been. T. $. Gold, sec retary of the State Board of Agriculture appointed Theron k. Platt of our town who is a member of the State Board chairman, Rev o. O. Wright in a few well chosen words gave the address of welcome, a quartet from Pohtatuck 1 Grange gave All opening song and then | Dr k. II. Jenkins of the State experiment station read an interesting paper pertain i ing to the dairy. Among other things he said Discussion between men who are looking at the same thing from diff ] ferent standpoint is what makes a Farm. rrs' Institute worth while. This is the l first farm institute believe l have at tended to discuss dairy matters among l farmers who sell milk off their farms to supply milk to cities, am more fAmil- far with the problems of those who pro duCe cream for C' eamCrics. At the cream l cries since the introduction of the B4b. ccck test system, man gets fuil credit | for the quality of the milk he makes so 1 far as richness is CoucernCd. Cows that give rich milk pay their owners best The value of cream for a creamery k rot measured wholly by it's contents of sol ids and fats. A large part of it's value lies in it's wholcsomcnrss, freedom from any taiut of disease, from aoy evil odo'S from any pxcc~s of those fe-ments which cause it to sour and spoil No system rf management has yet been All' 70 make ,,i tine cream u5 Who!r~0mc As It ought ID be. No method of payment has yet been devised which will ensure to the conscientious, clcanly patron money
 cward for his con cirnJious care of his .uilk or cream.
 In the New | IorI, participating that 'oks like milk and il ,ats a Iactometcr at d certain pint i~ m,lk at C much a cau. Anything that does not do it is wate~cd n"k and is cnldruLcd. IT is a wonder
 hat milk comes a swc"t aid clean aS it d, rs lu the city u~lumpr, but we know that ifs delicate flavor and 4ll that mIkee it most palHtabic i- gene after travelrg ,L the way from a CouDrrticut hill farm, shut ur in a nearly nir tight metal can, md the milk it-e}f must have absorbed tulIy the odor and Il ;vOr of he inside of rj3tt can. No COW that Us a su-piciou If tubcrculosis should be kept in the herd.
 Diseases may be carried from the cCun- Try in milk, distributed in cities, causing outbreaks of fatal disease, more virulent and deadly than they were a7 their -ource. Self interest as well as common honesty will press the milk farmer to care il respect to infection. If the milkcr's hands mud sleeves are dirty, or If he fol- lows the nasty hahjtof wct'iug his hands with the milk, a common practice in some places, if the COW is dirty, her n4rks col- not he clean and wholesome. The use of any chemicals to preserve milk is illegal u this state and is dangerous.
 Both the creamery patron and the man who sells his milk to the city strive t" make from the stock he has just as much milk per day az he can. The breed and the individuality of the animal most largely determine the quality, the com position ol the milk. Not uutil the feed enables the COW to maiorain her own live -veight while giving ruiik can she be K pected To pr" duce 'iLhrr as much mi k or as rich milk as she i~ capqhle of doing. When you increa-e the flow of milk by grnerous feeding you dn not make thc quality of 1t any po"re. but rather richer F..ed, care and h"u' h of the ct'w during
 n, tire, m0urh after calviug d"tt!m.irr. very largely Jbr record uf the COW srl unG
 0 the tiue of next cAiv!rg A '.', vs}uc is not always Grtermr,ed by r"' record duriig "uc Gi,k}hg period A" occasional changc in the ration is Go"d thing for the cows As well as for people Frc quenC charges are unwise. There are no better feeds for dairy stock than those which have always been standards, " heat bran, corn meal, linseed, cotton seed meal, gluten feeds, malt sprouts and the like. Cheap feed mixtures, like cheap fertilizer mixtures, are generally the most expensive in the end and l am com ing to believe more and more in home formulas and home mixtures of both feeds and fertilizers.
 Screenings, sweepings, refuse (because damaged) grain, huIls of oats, and husks of rice, all these things we have found in mixtures. If you want that sort of thing you can buy it straight from miller at low rate. But you don't want it for cattle food at any price. No consider able quantity of plant food is taken of the farm in the cream supplied to cream cries. Most of it is retained in the skim milk and goes back to the land or into beef or pork. Where milk goes off the farm the exhaustion of the soil amounts to considerable. A good COW from the time of her calving till she is dried of should give somewhere about 5000 pounds or 2300 quarts of milk. In that milk are about the same quantities of fer tilizer ingredients as in a ton of hay more nitrogen and less potash, but about the same money value. If you keep 8 herd of 20 cows and sell your milk off the farm the exhaustion of the soil is tho same as if you sold 20 tons of hay annu ally off the farm, (nitrogen 26 pounds phosphoric acid nine pounds, potasl eight pounds). In 8 ton of hay 20 pound of nitrogen, eight pounds of phosphori