The Republican journal., 1899-12-07
Waldo County Crop Reports.
Estate Board of Agriculture Bulletin.

| Estate Board of Agriculture Bulletin
LIBERTY. The yield of all planted and
sowed crops is good. l never remember
SO good yield of potatoes since l was a
boy. The quality is also excellent. There
are no apples in this immediate vicinity.
but few miles from here there are a few.
mostly Baldwins, l think. No plums,
and lew pears of any kind. The pastures
have been very dry and the grass short,
VIM H. Moody.
MORRILL,. My experience in feeding
| stock-largely cows for butter-has not
methods. AS soon as pastures commence
to fail, | feed a ration of grain consisting
of parts mixed feed and / part corn
meal. Generally feed fodder corn at this
time also, and later on pumpkins, which
l always grow with my corn. After
threshing is done, | have four bushels
oats and two bushels corn ground to-
gether, and feed quarts of the mixture,
with pint of cotton seed meal twice a
day. They are generally being fed from
the barn at this time, and | find that they
eagerly eat the dry corn fodder, the bulk
of which is fed during the months of No
vember, December and January. By US
ing liberal grain ration (and this is the
only way | can make my cows pay in the
winter), | find no difficulty in feeding out
my oat straw. OF course they pick it over
and leave orts, but none too much for
bedding. The only trouble have in feed
ing good hay is that [ am apt to feed too
much. What can you tell me about the
merits of the Aquatic Cream Separator?
ID. o. Bowen.
(NoTE. We presume you refer to what is
sometimes known the Wheeler Gravity
Separator. Our Judgment is that it has no
merits whatever to commend it to the at
tention of our farmers. We have no faith in
any system of Dreaming milk which does
not take into consideration the use OF ice
OF the power obtained by centrifugal force.
Secretary
WALDO STATION. We feed our stock
three times per day, giving the poorest
fodder at noon and night. Grain is fed
morning and night, after the rough fodder
is cleaned up. We raise carrots, beets
and rutabagas for young stock and dry
COWS, oats and corn are raised for COWS
giving milk. Two bushels Of oats and
one of GOru are ground together, one
fourth as much cottonseed meal, bv
measure, is added, and from four to six
quarts OF this mixture is fed to each cow
We feed some proyender all the year to
mich cows except through the month Of
June We do not pasture our moving
fields. J. G. Harding.
MONROE. A large part of the grain
fed here comes from the West and South
It is still an open question whether Or not
this practice is the most profitable one to
follow. II some way could be found BY
which all the grain needed could be grown
at fair profit there would be more
satisfaction in feeding it, Under present
conditions, it seems necessary for most
farmers to buy, at least, a part of their
grain feed. But before buying, be sure
to raise all you can. 1t may be doubted
if the common practice Of growing market
crops and putting the proceeds of the Same
into stock feed is good one for dairymen
to follow. Better, by far. put the labor
and capital into the growing of the needed
feed, and thus make the business as nearly
self sustaining as possible. What is the
feeding value Of carrots for mich cows?
Are they worth more than the ANALYSIS
indicates? E. @. Dow.
(NorE. Carrots do not have 80 high a
percentage Of dry matter as potatoes, the
percentage of digestble matter being ner
cent. of protein, I per cent, OF carbohydrates