The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-03-19

ments to develop his possibilities anC
No hetter chance is afforded than in thu
Grange.
The query is often prop0unded,
What good has the Grange ever done?
In wears since the order was founded,
What victories grand has 1t wonF
From center to uttermost border
| Where brothers and sisters COMBINE,
| Each member of our noble order,
Will recognize password and sign.
Such wide distribution of forces,
Extending through many degrees,
| Provide with abundant resources
| M limit INIT CULTS, lakes and seas.
| We're first in each forward movement
In every praiseworthy cause,
We join in the march OF improvement,
| We favor all good wholesome laws.
Our order is like strong tower
| That stands for nations deIenSe,
| The government well knows our power,
| The might that it yields is immense.
| We've battled 'gainst all things immoral,
| We've striven for truth and for right,
| Thrice armed for we had just quarrel
And we have prevailed in the fight.
| We've helped to extend education
| Throughout all the breadth OF our land
| We've righted some wrongs of the nation,
| And these are our victories grand.
| We have the best fraternal order
That exists beneath the sun,
Its missions and developments
Are hardly yet begun.
Again in the bonds of friendship l
bid you welcome, and may each feel IN
their heart to say: Happy have we met.
happy have we been, happy may we
part and happy meet again..
| Long and appreciative applause greet
ed Mrs. Hardy. o. B. Dow of Morn
| ing Light grange was called on to re-
spond, which he did in an able and
| pleasant manner. He said in part that
he had always wondered why he had
been called on so often for this partic-
ular duty and had at last come to the
conclusion that it was because he had
the shortest name of any one in the
Pomona. and it was less trouble for the
committee to write it. He thanked the
members of Northern Light for courte
sizes and cordiality and also thanked MI.
Libby, master of said Grange, for his
assistance in procuring curtains for
Pomona degree. He closed his inter
esting remarks with humorous story
that brought good laugh and we'll
merited applause.
The question for the day, how to less
EN- the cost of the production OF milk
and cream, was opened by II. Il. Glenn
ents. who said he would give three
essential points to be considered and
filled in by those to follow him, viz,
early cut hay in preference to the late
cut hay usually fed out by farmers
to their common Stock-saylng that
many thought the poorer the hay was u Q
more they was saving in feeding 1t out
at home. Second point have the cows
! freshen in the spring, and what is taken
/ Il 4 tlr
months is almost clear profit Third,
Keen better COWS. test the milk and
find out if any are not up to paying
standard; if so dispose OF them ana re-
place with good stock.
At this juncture song was enjoyed
from the choir of Northern Light,
"When the Roll is Called Up Yonder.'
The topic was then resumed by remarks
from n. L. Littlefield, who is connols-
seur in Jersey stock, having exhibited
stock and taken premiums at several
fairs. He said he did not come to talk,
but to listen, and he did not want to Say
much about cows anyway; that what
| little information he had he would like
to keep for his own use. But he thought
/ that half the farmers were too stlngy
of the care and bedding they give their
COWS. He said that every year before
he exhibits his cows at the fairs he
cards. scrubs and washes them, and
| that this treatment never fails to in
crease the flow of milk. Take some
pains with your cows, give them good,
clean straw bedding up to their knees,
and they will be so tickled they Will
give out the good rich milk
W. S. Littlefeld favored the silo, and
said that ensilage properly cut, cured
and stored was a great saving IN other
feed. He had filled siio for about five
wears and though he said he did not
claim to be dairyman, he knew that
there is profit in it, G. H. Clements, the
next speaker, has had considerable ex-
perience in the dairy business, having
made dairy farm cheese for number
of years. He said he didn't want to
talk on the question as he had just
gone into the hen business, but that ON
an intervale farm like his it was I'M
possible to raise the proper feed for
cows, and he had to depend on grams
to make a balanced ration. Past Mas
ter Parker favored early cut sweet
clover hay for cows and said that was
about the most profitable stock tar
mer can keep to run the farm and fur
nish money for the house.
Worthy Lecturer Clements said that
the State of Maine is sending the poor
est cows to the Brighton market OF any
State, and that he did not believe there
was first class dairy cow in the whole
town of Winterport. 1t might be said
in passing that he was casting no re-
Elections on the town, as he is a Winter
port man himself. He said that the
trouble is not with the cows, for it any
one got pure bred COW, and wished to
raise heifer, the poor little thing was
raised on skim milk and turned out to
get her living in the summer, fed all
through the winter on straw and sWale
hay, and yet farmers expected that
heifer to make a frst-class COW. He
said the trouble is you don't feed your
heifers right; you don't begin soon
enough. This brought Bro. n. l.. Lit
tle6eld to his feet, and he said that Bro:
Clements was all right, as far as he had
gone, but he didn't begin soon enough
himself. Bro. Clements replied by say
ing that he began before he did. "Oh,
nor said Bro. Littlefeld, 81 began 40
years before you did" G.. H. Libby
aid he believed it paid to have cows
freshen in the fall and have grain and
good feed through the winter, coming
out in fine shape in the spring, SO that
two would make more than a shadow,
and that they would do as well through,
the summer as those half starved
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