The Newtown bee., 1905-12-29
CIRCULATION
COUNTY.
WASHINGTON

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TON DEPOT, THURSDAY, DECEMBER
81, 1905.
On account of the bad weather and
travelling which prevailed, only small
number attended as compared with
the number that would have attended
had the conditions been different.
The meeting was called to order by
the Litchtield County Director, Hon
H. q. Averill, who introduced H. o.
Daniels of Middletown, the President
Of the Associations; Mr. Daniels then
took charge of the meeting. R. j.
Averill, Master of Washington Grange,
extended most hearty welcome to all
present, and Mr. Daniels spoke in re-
Spouse. H. G. Manchester of Winsted
gave a very interesting, instructive
and practical talk on the problem of
feeding the dairy COW. He first spoke
of the composition of feeds, there be-
ing three important parts, protein,
being that part of the feed that con-
tanned nitrogen, and went to produce
the organic part of the flesh, bones,
skin, ETC., the white Of an egg being a
good example of protein; and the car
bOhydrateS being the sugar and starch.
He had large chart which showed
the analyses OF many Of our feeds, in
Guiding hay, corn stover and ensilage.
AS z 1000 pound animal needs TO 10.
OF protein, lbs. G. 81. and lilo 10. fat
daily for maintenance. we must feed
in excess of this ration according to
the amount of milk produced, an ami
NAL producing rs lbs. milk daily
should receive 5 lbs. Pro-, IL lbs. @.
digestable and not total nutrients.
Mr. Manchester advised the farmers
to stick to the standard feeds: bran,
coarse middlings, mixed feed, the glu-
tens, dried distillery grains, Iinseed
meal and cottonseed meal, the high
est priced ones really being the cheap
er; he also advised them to let the
Western provenders of cheap feeds en-
tirely alone as they are very poor feeds,
but sold for a good price.
Anyone may get the analyses of the
the Connecticut Experiment Station
at New Haven.
Mr. Averill spoke of the Connecticut
Dairymen's Association. Anyone
may become member for one year on
the payment of 81, or for life for IS.
A member has the privilege OF COM
peting in the exhibition of dairy
products at the annual meeting in
January, which is held at Hartford,
at which time about $500 In premiums
are distributed. The members elect
their president and one director from
each county, the directors elect the
other officers and have charge of all
the work done by the associations; the
secretary has the greatest amount Of
the work, securing the speakers, keep
ing the records, ETC., he receives a
small salary, the only official that does,
although their travelling expenses are
are paid out of the funds of the asso-
citation. Twenty or more Institutes
and field meetings are held through
out the state each year.
J. II. Putnam of Litchfield, Vice
President of the Conn. Pathological
Society, spoke Of the work of his socie-
ty, which is along lines similar to the
Dairymen's Association.
| J. D. DIETRICH spoke of his work at
FlourtOwn, Penn. In 1882, a farm Of
Is acres fell into his hands; on it were
two cows and ore horse and hay had
to be bought to feed them. He showed
how, by The method of soiling, he had
brought the farm up to such a high
degree of fertilization that in 1904 he
was able to keep 81 COWS and pair OF
horses on the Is acres and sell 27O0 OF
hay and 900 of rye straw. This shows
what can be done by intense farming.
When he started out in 1882 he did
not know the first principles of farm
ing, as had up to that time been
preaching as life work. He says the
farming at that time we're. "Tradi
ton, Superstition, and the Moon"
Prof G. L. Beach Of the Connecticut
Agricultural College treated the sub
ject, "Care of the Dairy Animal" He
spoke of the beef animal putting a
covering of fat on the back and over
it's internal organs and that it would
do better at temperature of 40 de-
grees or below: while the dairy animal
did not have this blanket of fat and
needed much warmer stables, SO de-
grees or higher AS the modern dairy
COW is a very delicate and nervous ami
greatest care, and cared for regularly
to get the best results; anything that
excites her will tend to shorten the
flow of milk. She should have the
proper food, water always before her
plenty of fresh air admitted to the
stable in such way that she will not
be in draft, plenty of sunlight tC
keep her healthy and diSinfect the
stable, and the walls of the stable
should be whitewashed to reflect the
sunlight, which will make the stable
lighter and healthier and enable the
owner to see the dirt and thus keep II
cleaner.
F. Il. Stadtmueller of West Hart
ford dwelt on the cost Of keeping the
dairy COW, which figured up to nearly
300 per annum, it was certainly {
very interesting and instructive talk
and showed the farmers what they are
up against in the production of milk
H. 0. Averill impressed the import
ance OF keeping a record Of the pro
duction Of milk of each COW, which