Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-12-15
farmers INSTITUTE
At WILLIAMSBURG.


county was held at Williamstown last Fri
day The day was an ideal Winter one
and the farmers of that section of the
county were out in goodly numbers
The entertainment by the wives and
daughters OF the farmers, served on the
first floor of the Town Hall, was all that
could be desired, and while the speaking
program had to be departed from to me
extent by the enforced absence of some of
the speakers, notably Mr.. VanAlstyne, the
Institute was as productive of the objects
in view, as the most earnest farmer could
desire
Secretary Dye was in his usual good
humor and filed up all the gaps created by
the absent instructors. The talk an the
care Of the horse; by Mr.. Broadhead, eyi-
IDENTIFY received as much attention as any,
because the questions directed to him we're
continued into the afternoon session when
the DEMOCRATS representative arrived
on the scene.
One question that every horse driver is
interested in was us it any aid to a horse
to receive larger feed preparatory to an
unusal days work or extra exertion.'
| Mr.. Broadhead's answer was positive
no. Rather he said, reduce the feed, be-
cause the animal under an unusual strain,
is less able to digest the increased quantity
of food, and is more subject to fiatulency
Many horses are killed by such practice.
| Successful Dairying, which Mr.. VanAl
| styne was scheduled to discuss, was taken
up by Mr.. Dye, who asserted that one
third of the cows kept in Jersey dairies,
were Improbable. Weigh the product of
each COW and the feed she consumes, he
said, and see if she is yielding you a profit.
The second essential he said was TO grow
more of our own feed-mor clover, and il
you can alfafa,
Then have siio, and when your corn IS
just glazed. fill it,
The true balanced ration for cattle, he
defined, as ''That combination Of foods
that will enable the individual COW to pro-
duce the largest quantity OF milk at least
cost
You can't afford to waste your time on a
cow that don't yield profit. II you have
four profitless cows in herd of ten, they
will eat up the profit of the six profitable
ones, and then yon will say, 'dairying
don't pay Sell the proitless ones and
saye your. time and labor.
Prof. Lipmau gave very scientific talk
on the proper feeding of farm crops. He
said 100 pounds of milk contained 81
pounds Of water, 13 pounds of solids, about
j 81 pounds Of butter fat, of milk sugar,
and 81 Of casing. No amount of feeding
will change the proportion of butter fat,
some COWS have less, Others more and the
evening milking win be slightly richer
than the morning milking, but food will
not change cows production of butter
fat, only as it increases the flow of milk.
Milk that contains most butter fat will
sour quickest.
i Mr. Jeannin, "a York State potato grower,
told the farmers about raising potatoes,
planting, fertilizing, cultiyating and
spraying for blight. Last year, be said,
the York State potato growers lost $40, ,00o,-
600 by blight
In a general way his advice was to plant
deep in drills. cover shallow at first, and
/ then fill trench by means of peg tooth
harrow to kill the first weeds. Raw ma
nure, he said, encourage scab on potatoes.
/ He advised use of fertilizer in the drills
! just before the first narrowing the one
that filed the trench Cultivate frequently
to stir the top soil and thereby retain the
moisture in the ground.
He advocated the use of large seed;
selection of the largest eyes, which he said
were the strongest and most productive.
j Mr.. Ennis. a Monroe township farmer
said he had planted second crop seed, the
potatoes no larger than pigeon eggs also
Maine seed, side by side, and the yield
i from the home grown second crop seed was
larger and finer than the Maine seed. Mr.
i Jeannin Salu NC KNEW hop'iuS dooue aSooho
crop seed, but believed best general results
would be secured by planting the Maine
seed. Said he would rather have one eye
from a big potato than two eyes from q
small potato. Planting small potatoes
i deterioates the stock, and finally it will run
out.
i He gave the net results Of spraying with
Bordeaux mixture, by twenty five farmers
as an average Of 624 bushels per acre.
] He told Of a York State farmer who sent
two Of his sons to the Agricultural College.
They came home and worked the farm. He
i didn't believe in spraying or any new fam
gled notions, but permitted them to spray
ia acres Of potatoes. This they did five
il 4ines at q c,at If of 80 cents Der acres The