The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-01-08
FARMERS CONGRESS
contin,,ed From Fonrlh PAae.

commencing HUOuI t1e TOdhttI taI
stage, go filling until the glaze stage for
the Silo, until your vetch selling the
spring following, about one acre Of corn,
and as we have 10 cows, we will need 8
acres more, making 10 in all. Also We
will need to SOW in the early spring, s
acres of peas and oats at intervals; say
the acres divided into three sowings,
two weeks apart.
IL you find any OF your ieed is going 10
waste at any time on account Of too
much, cut it into the Silo, and then
1t is safe, By analysis, we find
in the glaze stage corn ear and
stock contains it's strongest nutiritve
power, hence at that stage IL should be
placed into the Silo TO secure the best
results. For seed we have found in the
valley grown, the germ is not as strong
as seed from Southern Oregon, or our
Northern, MiddIe-western states. We
like the large yellow dent, as we have
been more successful with it.
In planting, the ground must be
thoroughly plowed. narrowed and
pulverized. We usually plant one way, (,
narrowing and smoothing either by
roller or clod.masher, until the corn is
large enough to pillow, blowing shallow
and thoroughly.
Now silege of any description, does
not make what we call balanced ration
for dairy COW, il being deficient in
portein element.
Corn silage contains about one per
cent and clover and vetch about two per
cent of pOrtein element.
You see it il impossible for COW to
consume sufficient silage to get the re-.
quired amount Of portein, one TO six or
one TO five what ! mean is one OF portein
TO five or six of corbrobndrates and fat (;
thence you must not expect 10 get re-
suits from silage by piling great mess
of silage before COW giving milk, II you
do you will be deceived.
It takes great amount of good, hard
studying, judgment and experienced to
obtain good results from what we call
feeding for profit.
Mr.. Thielson read an excellent papor
on "Roads," in which he advocated
more uniform work aud especially re.
commended wide tired wagon. lie
stated in the discussion that gravel
roads properly compacted with roller
would last three times as long. He
favored building only good roads, but
was opposed to bonding. Ho thought
a road ought 10 be graveled foot deep,
with ,the little apertures thoroughly
filled with sand, and packed. This kind
Of road on thoroughly drained ground
ought to last many years. Mr.. Weeks,
Judge Davidson. Mr.. Groner, w. IL. Egan
and others took part in the discussion,
all bringing out good points. Mr.. Gro
ner, who is one Of the heavy Taxpayers
OF Washington County. iavors the
bonding system.Dr. withycombe con-
CURED in this. Mr.. Egan wisely advo-
Gated that man bc employed in each
district TO go over the roads during the
winter and let off the water as we'll ~
repairing where needed, Judge David
son deprecated the bonding system.
Judge T. l.. Davidson read a short
paper on "Does II pay to raise French
Pink and Dogl Fennel?' lie gave neat
historical sketch Of the early flowers, ma
tive and imported, and showed that
farmers we're gotting poorer from year
TO year rs result not alone OF taxes,
but OF weeds as we'll Ile gave some
advice on killing weeds, and established
eth axiom that killing the oeed lie the only
way 20 have clean land llo advocated
rotation OF crops as the best general
Wethod of killing weeds.
Geo. Weeks spoke OF the awful beds
OF Canada thstles on Puddin River.
Another gentleman said that the first of
these thistles were found where some
years ago Cinnamon had their camps,
and thought that possibly these were
not the Canada thistle, bnt some Asiatic
importation, One gentleman said the
only way 10 kill the thistle is ITO dig
il mp and slit the soil. Mr.. J. B. Early
stated that Angora goats will kill off
the thistles il fenced up closely where
the pest grows. lie also stated that |
common weeds were easily killed off by
a crop OF field peas.
The EVenlas Session.
DR.. rJas. Whithecombe of Corvallis,
was the first speaker, treating the sub.
iect Of dairying, in which he is much in
terested, having assisted in establishing
several dairies throughout the state
during the past year. He anticipates
great future for dairying in this state
aud even prophecies the time when
creamery butter will be shipped from