Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-12-26
WILLIAMSBURG FARMERS INSTITUTE
foverfiow from Last Week.

Stutu UfcI bu6 tuCCrlbE, oiptinE cttChp 0A0
still, and though one Of the older folks
thought the effgy was one of the speakers
awaiting her turn, it was only part Of an
old time garden scene arranged by the femi-
nine committee on decorations.
At her right stood table bearing jars Of
wheat, eggs, lettuce, corn, onions, milk
egg-a rebus shat spelt out, acristically, the
royal welcome extended 30 the two hundred
who Jared sumptuously at the tables set
below where farmer women folk served the
happy institute crowd.
Director Dye was at his best, and the star
speakers were Mr.. HI. E Cook, 100 COW
3O0-acre dairyman of Denmark, N. Y, aud
Mr.. ] G. Curtis of Rochester, N. Y, who
raises hogs aud hay extensively, using, at
present, so acres Of alfalfa that yields six
tons Of hay to the acre. He said =
alfalfa should be more grown because
it will be high for twenty-five years yet
owing to the difficulty in starting it. Farms
in Onondaga, N. Y, haye increased in value
from $35 to 500 per acre, in a few years,
on account of their adaptability to alfalfa
Twenty COWS can be kept on ten acres of
alfalfa, producing milk a cent a quart
cheaper than on any other ration. Alfalfa
hay is richer in protein, IS TO 20 per cent.
than any other of the legumes-so that an
acre cutting six tons season, at $22 per
ton, is worth 1892 with little expense after
is is once started, and may be moved ff-
teen years.
"These values are not set by agricultural
schools or the laboratory, but by the cows
themselves in actual dairy practice, accord
ing to Professor E Voorhees,, of the New
Jersey Experiments Station. The leaves Of
alfalfa are worth, pound for pound. AS much
as wheat bran at $50 per ton. Is cannot be
grown on poor land, but is adapted TO a
great variety of soils if we'll prepared and
enriched. Alabama sand, much poorer than
those of New Jersey, growing big crops
under the direction of the Tuskegee Insti-
tute, by negro farmers. Hammonton, a
sandy locality of our own South Jersey,
raises fine alfalfa.
1.-THE nodules on alfalfa have different
bacteria from other clovers, and although
good crops may be raised without inocula-
tion the increase of at least twenty-five per
cent. may be gotten by spreading 400
pounds of finely sifted soil, from a field
where alfalfa has been successfully grown.
You must use the best seed obtainable, free
from dodder, which is alfalfa's worst enemy
II. E Cook created lively interest
speaking on clarifying at Present Prices of
Feeds" bringing out many responses and
inquiries from the audience.
"There is great difference between being
IN the dairy business and simply keeping
COWS, and yet the dairy business of the
whole country has been gradually built up
on the poverty plan. We haYe been con-
sidering the whole dairy as unit, but the
time has come 20 consider the single cow as
the unit if we would attain to the highest
profit.
''What kind Of a COW makes the most
milk on the least feed We used the scales
to determine the amonnt of milk given by
each COW, and the Babeock test for butter
fat. The man who weighs will not keep
COW giving only 5000 pounds of milk year
upon the same amount of feed with which
another cow produces 10000 pounds. Hol-
stein and AYRSHIRE breeds are the best for
milk alone, while the Guernseys and Jer-
seys are best for butter, the country oyer.
Many man who eats to much himself
feeds his COWS too little, and many poor
COW 90 the verge of collapse with tubercu-
losis, is simply starving to death from lack
of proper food. The greatest agricultural
blessing of South Jersey, cheap corn, be-
comes your worst enemy unless you make
it into ensilage, an ideal dairy ration"
Mr. G. G. Halsart, market gardener Of
Matawan, N j., explaining the culture
and marketing of asparagus, predicted that
green grass would superoede the white.
Mr.. Edgar T. Dickerson, assistant State
Eutomologist, spoke on insect enemies and
methods OF fighting them, and Mr. F. Fl.
Valentine, of Ridgewood, N. j., spoke on
poultry breeding.
The evening lecture, illustrated by fine
colored dissolving views from photographs
made by the lecturer, Colonel George Nox
Mccain, was largely attended and highly
appreciated as he showed the primitive So
eial conditions still existing in southeastern
Europe.
The exhibition of farm products was the
finest ever given here.
James D Tweed, Boston squash, corn,
Baldwin apples.
w. Fl. Lawson, Cross Keys, apples, Cort-
land and Winesap varieties, corn, popcorn.
James NJ. Tweed, apples, Spy and Smiths
cider, Keiffer pears, milk.
Richard Evans, Cross Keys, Paragon
apples.
J. Harper, Ceoss Keys, Bellhower apples,
red corn, Green Mountain potatoes, pump
kin.
Charles Magnuson, red and yellow vari-
cites Of sweet potatoes.
Harry Keen, apples. cabbage, carrots,
Chinese rose radish.
George S. Truncer, Dutch butter lettuce
Albert Lewis Cross Keys, Hayes apples.
G. Ford, Tice corn.
E. G Richie, celery, Winter Queen corn.
Edward B. Cant, Cross Keys, potatoes,
Griswold Seeding, and Stray Beauty.
William Mcintyre, Falawater apples and
ruta baga turnips.
Mrs. David Laughlin, popcorn.
Mrs. Clark Sauster, Cross Keys, canned
corn, asparagus, peas, picked lima beans
flag pillow
Mrs Abbie Nicholson, reticule trimmed
with cantaloupe seed.
Mrs David Richards, of Bunker Hill,
received the first prize for solving the rebus
and Mr.. J Hampton Leonard. the famous