The independent-reporter., 1909-12-09
DAIRYMEN'S MEETING.
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very best quality for dairy feeding.
! namely, clover, and handled in such
rotation that the clover does not
have time to run out and the land
yields two heavy crops in a season"
Director Woods spoke again on "Ec
onomical Feeding touching on the
following points:
Familiarity with scientific terms
does not always mean understanding
Chemical analysis, alone cannot
determine the value of food-It is on
ly by giving the food to animals that
we learn its value--Legumes are more
valuable than grasses for feeding and
manure-Green crops AS IL supple
ment to pasturage are essential. 81
lage has an enormous advantage over
field curing.-Owing to loss of leaves
and delicate parts of plants in cur
ing dry fodder is less digestlble than
green.-The more rapid the curing
process the better.
He discussed the relative value of
different kinds of food and their adul-
teration and closed by showing the
advisability of using cottonseed or
linseed meal. ton of cottonseed
meal costs more than a ton of oats
to feed, but the protein in the former
costs less than four cents a pound,
and ten or more in the other" He
then presented table which showed
the number of pounds of protein that
ton of a few average feeding stuffs
carries, and the cost of a pound of
protein at the usual range in selling
price.
The annual banquet was held in
Grange hall, Thursday evening. Every
seat was occupied and the occasion
was a most enjoyable one. The post
prandfal exercises were as follows:
New England Farmers of Today,
Professor ]. w. Sanborn; "The Fu-
ture of Fruit Growing in Maine DR..
G. NJ. Twitchell; reading, Mrs. Maude
l.. Jewett; Our State" Roland T.
Patten MY State" Lowell Roude-
bush; reading, Mrs. C. E. Tripp;
Sure Cure for Kicking Cow" C. e.
Tripp; Somerset County's Debt to
the Cow" G. w Cover; New Eng
land Farmers of the Future" l.. c.
Dodge; reading, Mrs. Maude l.. Jew
EFT; The Possibilities of Somerset
County" j. w. Packard.
FRIDAY MORNING
The program as announced for Fri
day was carried out. The first
speaker as Dr. Twitchell and he at
once plunged into experiments made
on his Monmouth farm. He said that
In all farm work that there must be
an Individual standard as we'll as a
general standard. Every man should
develope his own seed so that the en-
gironments may be natural and cor
rect. The selected seed should aim
to eliminate the skips and this could
rarely be done with seed from some
other environment.
To detassle the corn means fewer
immature ears andincrease the amount
of product. The matter of type is
largely an individual affair as tastes
differ The idea of sending away for
seed corn would usually mean fail
ure A variation of ten miles would
change the character of corn.
DIARYMEN ELECT OFFICERS
The following officers were elected
at the closing session of the annual
state dairy meeting held by the Maine
State Dairymen's Association: Presi-
dent, w. G. Hunton, Readfield; vice
president L. e. McIntire, Waterford; !;
secretary, Leon S. Merrill, Solon;
treasurer, Rutillus Alden, Winthrop;
trustee, W. K. Hamlin, South Water
ford. Mr.. Alden was also chosen to
represent this association on the staff
at the Maine Experiment station.
MILK AND CREAM PREMIUMS.
Premiums in class TX. $50; class X,
$50; class TX, $25. These premiums
will be divided pro rata among the
sample scoring 85 points and over,
the same as last year.
Names of Somerset parties having
required score
Glass IX.-T. d. Salley Madison,
90.5; d. F. Smiley, Skowhegan, 90.5;
c. II. Gardner. Skowhegan, 80; w. A.
Soule. Pittsfield. 90; Ralph e. Dodge,
Skowhegan, S7,5; w. S. Bemis, Har-
mony, 81.
Glass X.-Ingraham C. Pierce,
Bingham, 925; Fred Magoon, Solon,
90; D. F. Smiley, Skowhegan, 81;
Drury Bros, Solon, 80; J. NJ. Brown.
Solon. 81.
Glass XI.-Somerset Jersey Cream
cry scored 92, being first; Ferndale
Creamery, Hartland, 89.5.
Among premiums for corn we find
under Glass ". best single ear flint
corn grown and exhibited by man 1st,
F. L. Grant, Fairfield.
The following is an abstract of the
address of Leon S. Merrill, given at
the Dairymens meeting. This is the
only full report of his address TO ap-
pear in any Maine newspaper, The
subject was of such vital interest to
the farmers of Maine that the editor
of the Independent-Repor asked
for the address In full. Through the
courtsery of Mr. Merrill, the follow
ing is published:
COOPERATIVE BREEDERS AS
SOCIATIONS.
The purpose of the Cooperative
Breeders Associatio Is to promote
the breeding and improvement of
high grade and pure bred cattle, to
establish and maintain cordial rela-
tions between It's members and by
cooperation to improve the general
dairy interests of the particular COM
munity In which the association Is
located. When we consider the gen.
eral admixture of blood lines in our
live stock 1t must be apparent that
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