The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-12-11


you must rely on individual points, testing
each individual cow upon her daily record of
ration and milk production. Each individ
ual animal must be retained in your herd or
eliminated from it, upon her record not only
of quantity Of milk produced and quantity
OF food given her. but what is even more
important the quality of milk given by her,
whether it be above or below the required
standard of profitable butter production.
He treated a COW as you would machine,
and illustrated his argument by citing a loco.
motive Of a given horse power. To get its
maximum power you must give it all the fuel
it requires. You want the maximum produc-
tion of the COW just as you do of the machine
Therefore, you want to begin with COW of
physical power, with strong lungs and a
strong breathing, wide open nostrils and all
the physical points, including hneness of
skin, that the practiced eye of the dairyman
so readily notices. Having selected your in
dividual animal you test her milk producing
quality by the use of the proper ration. 1t
then becomes question how to successfully
feed your COWS, and what daily ration is the
DoSl. lHuldu COIu VI lldllb, Wlltu 10 So sue
cessfully raised in Maryland, containing so
much sugar starch and fat, is not alone a
good daily diet Even in the use OF any
ration, the individual tendency of the COW
must be considered whether her food tends to
meat and fat production or whether her food
is perfectly assimilated and goes to milk pro-
duction. If her tendency be the former you
must get rid OF her, as you are only fattening
beef and not in the dairy business. He cited
in this connection the wonderful three-year-
old heifer, Brown Bessie, shown at the
Worlds Fair at Chicago, as illustrating the
strong able animal, with the food assimulat-
ing power in milk production, whose record
is 1000 pounds butter and daily food record
27 pounds of grain. Also the case OF the
celebrated Pauline Paul, the great Holstein
butter-producer She also was tremendous
COW physically, her weight being over 100
pounds and her butter record about equalling
her own weight. These two animals illus
trated his views as to the necessity of a vigor-
GUS animal for big production, and the power
to consume daily ration big enough t. war
rant big results, and illustrating further his
idea. that proper feeding is even more i'm
portant than proper breeding. Corn then
as above stated. being too rich alone in sugar
starch and fat, it becomes nice question to
give your milk-producers Il suitable and
profitable mixed ration. He thought pos
sibly the best ration was from 1900 pounds
corn meal, 500 pounds gluten meal and 300
pounds linseed or cotton seed oil these pro-
portions making the short ton of 200O pounds
He impressed upon his audience the neces-
sity Of every dairyman fixing a standard of
production OF each individual COW. This
must be done with mathematical accuracy to
know exactly from the daily record of each
animal whether you are feeding her at a loss
or at n profit You cannot build up Il profit
able dairy herd by haphazzard. 1t can only
be done by systematic and methodical
handling of each individual COW in your herd.
Mr.. Powell was followed by Mr.. James Z.
Rice. of New York, who spoke on the cult-
vation of corn. He congratulated his audi.
ence upon the great adaptablity of Mary
land soils for corn production. How much
easier you can raise II magnificent corn crop
as you have this year, than we can up in New
York State. Corn is king. 1t is the founda.
ton stone of your dairy, and the great stock
feeding grain. Now as to planting. 1t is Il
strong grower and needs heat and moisture
with "A soil rich in vegetable matter. For the
latter reason he wanted good sod ground to
produce Il good corn crop. 1t is Il sun plant
and revels in the burning rays Of a semi
tropical sun. Cold impedes its growth
while on a hot summer night you can almost
see it grow. In his State, whore he must
confess much ignorant corn cultivation is
still done, three ways of planting it are OBJ
served, planting in the hill. drilling in con-
tnuous rows and broadcasting. He preferred
| as between the first two methods drilling
and working it always one way. How much
working it required depends upon how it
was put in. He believed in cultivation and
the use of the smoothing harrow at planting
following if you will by the roller to gently
pack the soil around the grain. You notice
how much quicker the corn comes up where
you have gently pressed down with the sole
OF Your boot the newly planted seed. This
illustrates the advantage of packing the soil
hi'"i' ''O Si"ih ii'P'ily. II you HuNt lt-
duced your soil fine with the harrow and
planted tho grain compactly, the use of the
harrow, will have largely anticipated the
needed use Of the hoe. He condemned the
use of the plow in throwing too heavy
furrow over the young plant, and by going
too deeply tearing up the tender roots. As
to the best time to cut it that was before the
leaf had lost its shirnmer of green. Mr..
Rice closed his very interesting and instruct
i've address by briefly referring to ensilage
and its uses. and the cheapest method of
building silo.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Rice's remarks,
Director Amoss announced that in June next.
after the closing of the school term at the
Maryland Agricultural College an Institute
would be held there to which he extended a
general invitation to the farmers of this
county and their wives. That the college
building would be available for lodging and
visit to the agricultural department of the
government would be feature of the In
stitute.