The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-03

IN this trial their weights were near
ly equal.
May was eating most hay now.
The results were more marked than
before. In spite of possible lack of
sufficient nutriment for the heifer
May, the yield stood in these rela-
tions:
Mays milk 65.48 per cent. more
than Bellies.
Mays milk yielded 22.67 per cent.
and Bellies 1852 per cent cream.
Mays milk yielded ID. butter for
each 3.68 lbs.
Bellies milk yielded lb. butter for
each IA. % lbs.
Bellies milk yielded 7.O3 lbs. butter
for each 100 lbs,
Mays milk yielded 731 lbs, butter
for each 100 lbs.
Mays milk yielded II .88 per cent.
more butter than Bellies during dur
ing the time of the test milkings.
Now, don't you think we need to
know such things as these? Don't
you think the needed scales to deter
mine them on the spot are capable of
filling a long felt want on the farm?
Perhaps we should not spend too
much time on one single simple test,
but I would like to burn into your
memories: 1st, that of two COWS of
the same age, raised together and
fed on the same kinds of food and
eating almost the same amounts,
there can be a difference of 55 to IS
per cent. in the yield Of milk. I'd,
that the flow of milk from one of
these two COWS can produce A to 70
per cent. more butter than that from
the other. Sd, that I consider the
greater amount of butter made in the
above trial worth 20 to 40 per cent.
more per pound in the market, if sold
on it's merit, for quality.
Ia connection with the live stock
interest the question of profit or loss
hinges largely on the use or abuse Of
the excrements and litter.
This to me is one of the most i'm
portant subjects with which we have
to deal. doubt not that it will pay
every man who has live stock to give
this question of saving the manure,
and all of 1T, some careful attention.
I wish there were time to take up
this subject in an exhaustive way,
but it may be better to try to crowd
too much into one paper, hence this
one of our most pressing needs, the
preservation of the fertilizing ele-
ments of our cattle foods after the
feeding values have been extracted
can have but passing notice.
You are probably all familiar with
Prof. Roberts successes in this
direction. If not, you ought to make
a pilgrimage in a body to Cornell
and inspect the University barn and
the method of saving the valuable
part of their stable manure.
At Geneva we have been attacking
the same problem. Ours is differ
ent method which is now being put
to practical test. Coming years will
demonstrate it's value. Luckily the
test of the dairy breeds now in prog
ress will give an abundance of ma
terial for the demonstration.
These are only hints, as it were, to
what any one may do in some other
of the many fields of work there are
open for us to acquire profitable
facts while pursuing our special voca-
tions. Station workers must show
the fallacy or wisdom of certain
operations and help lead out to
newer and profitable practices, while
practical farmers should be prompted
by self-interest to adopt the new, in
place of old practices, when it ap-
pears they are to his advantage.
There is no branch Of farming in
which the knowledge and skill of a
specialist is not needed to secure
success. And who will enumerate
in breath the number of specialties
in agriculture?
You may search the professions
and you will not find one other re-
quiring so varied a knowledge as
agriculture.
Not one which brings the prac-
titioner into so close relations with
phenomena, and not one per-
haps for which he makes so little