The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27
A Wise Board OF Health.


ship of Bovina, next to Delhi, is q set
Element of all Scotch. They are intel
ligent and thorough in business meth
DDS. AS a rule, everything pertaining
to their diaries is almost perfection it.
self. This influence extends into the
county seat, and now Delhi proposes to
have pure milk or know the reason
why. The board of health of that
place has adopted rules requiring all
persons who retail milk in the village
to have the COW stables cleaned at least
once day, whitewashed twice a year,
and to have them well ventilated; to
have milk rooms entirely separated
from stables, we'll ventilated and light
ed; and to furnish milk from none but
healthy cows. Cows are to be inspected
at least twice year by veterinary
surgeon appointed by the board. In
this country this is something new in
the line Of village action, and it is to be
heartily commended. Innocent pur-
chasers of milk have right to demand
reasonable assurance of the purity of
the article. This is of much more
Importance to them than quality as re-
CARDS content of "butter-fat' or "sol-
ids" This feature might well be emu
lated by every incorporated village in
the land; and also in the cities, too.
CORN sILAGE VS.. DRY CORN FODDER.
Director E. B. Voorhees,, of the New
Jersey Experiment Station, has made
careful, comparative tests of corn silage
and field dried corn fodder for milk and
butter production, with following re-
suits:
l. That the cost of harvesting, stor-
ing and preparing the dry matter con-
tanned in corn was greater in the form
of silage than in the form of dried fod-
der.
2. That the changes that occur in
the composition of silage were not such
as to decrease its feeding value in a
greater degree than those which occur
in the process of dry curing corn fod-
der.
3. That for milk and butter produc-
ton the feeding value of the dry matter
of the silage was greater than that of
the dried fodder corn. The yield of
milk was 1873 per cent greater, and the
yield of butter fat 1914 per cent greater.
4. At one cent per pound for the
milk produced, the value of the corn
crop was nearly $40 per acre greater
when fed in the farm of silage rather
than in the form of dry fodder.
This test was from a field of fifteen
acres that yielded only 11.25 tons of
silage to the acre. From this it will be
seen that when one has ten acres of
fair growth of corn Q12.5 tons), it
would pay for hundred dollar silo the
first year, to ensile it instead of feeding
it dry. Sometimes little figuring on
correct data reveals some bad "sink-
holes" in ones farming operations.
NO GRASS FOR YOUNG CALVES.
Dairy Editor L. S. Hardin, of Home
and Farm, is generally regarded as
sound writer. Recently he published
pamphlet on the DAIRY Calf" which
some dairy writers criticize in not a
complimentary manner. Below is what
Mr.. Hardin says about it.:
In my pamphlet on the Dairy
Calf" page 10, say: "Calves over
four weeks old should be fed twice
day, and be kept off of grass until they
are four months old, giving them all
the skim milk, clover hayland dry oats
they will eat without getting too fat"
Some dairy authorities have taken issue
with me on this point, and know it is
the custom, especially at the South, to
always let young calves run on pasture.
For these reasons l have watched this
matter with considerable interest this
summer, for we have had the very best
of fresh pasture up to the latter part of
August. The calves on Bonnie View
dairy farm show very plainly that l am
entirely right in my instructions. The
bull calves and some of the heifer
calves were allowed to stay in pasture,
with trees and sheds for shade and
water to stand in, but for greater pre-
caution the most choice heifer calves
were kept in the stable with two or
three in box stalls together. Those in
the stables are fully third larger than
the others, are we'll and thrifty, while
the outdoor ones look more thin and
rough, while number have" passed in
their checks" The flies and hot sun,
along with the evil effects of eating
grass was too much for them. That is,
grass is not good thing for the young
things until they get old enough to be
able to assimilate it. They do better
on dry food where the amount fed can
be limited. Then, too, the flies are
simply awful, as they swarm on the
tender sides, legs and backs of the
young things. A dark stable gives re-
lief from these torments that rob the
calves of vitality.
entirely agree with Mr.. Hardin
that young calves should be kept off
from grass at least four months. The
difference he notes in calves between
grass and no grass comedies with my
experience. 1 would not put spring
calf on grass until fall.
THE REINs ARE TIGHTENING.
An Eastern paper says truly that
milk producers may as we'll begin to
prepare for general crusade against
their business methods-or lack of
methods-by the various Boards of
Health in the cities of the entire coun-
try. The press has said 30 much in re-
cent years about lack of purity in milk
generally, that the consuming public
have come to look with suspicion upon
any milk furnished it that has not the
favorable endorsement of some &C.
knowleged authority. This feeling is
haVi.,p reflex influence unOn BOARDS