The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-26

l. Education: "As the twig Is bent,
the tree is inclined" The inclination
caused by the country schools until re-
Gently has been citywards: nowadays,
and increasingly, it is countrywards.
| The lower schools are not so much
concerned with giving technical instruc-
ton in agriculture, as in attempting to
ineulcate the country point of view; to
put their scholars in sympathy with
country life; to stress its advantages
rather than disadvantages. Then in the
secondary schools vocational training is
rapidly fitting the farmers of the next
generation the better to cope with con-
ditions, the better TO understand how
to farm. Lyndon and Randolph in this
state; Mt. Hermon, Northampton and
Pctersham in Massachusetts; the three
great New York schools; the scores in
| the South; and the hundreds in the
West; all these agricultural high schools
! evidence the fact that "the morning
! light is breaking" and that genera
| ton hence, men specially trained, with
| broader outlook, wider sympathies, and
! clearer understanding, will be agricul-
| tural leaders in their several commune
! ties.
2 Energy: That is to say human en-
ergy as evidenced in the shaping of
new projects and methods. One may
expect in the farming Of the future, bet
/ ter crops, better products, better sales.
| Farming operations and farms will be
definitely planned; rotations for a series
of years definitely determned and fore.
thought will replace haphazard methods.
There will be more such hay crops as
Clark OF Higganum, Conn, grew for
seventeen years, with acre averages
ranging from nearly -four to five and
two-thirds acres the best acres in some
cases cutting over eight tons; more
alfalfa; more corn crops such as were
grown in the recent corn contests, where
over two hundred bushels to the acre
were haryested more orchards like that
of Holmes of Charlotte; better seed as
the result Of the establishment Of seed
breeding associations and the like We
shall see perhaps less, but better, cows
Cow test associations viii flourish
throughout the dairy districts; the sheep
viii come into its own again; commu.
nifty breeding will be the vogue rather
than miscellaneous breeding. A larger
proportion of the consumers dollar viii
reach the producer because there will
Wv IlNit fbllENlNtHtHH dHtDuR IIt ihA III ]
eTs of the next generation There viii
be an increased appreciation of the fact
that the man is greater than his crop, |
and that the cultivation OF ones men.
talfty is of more Importance than that |
OF ones acres.
1912 Dairy Feeding"
AT the same conference, Prof. A. A. |
Borland gave talk on "l9l2 Dairy I
Feeding" saying in part as follows:
The present high prices Of grain and /
roughages make pertinent the inquiry I
OF what ration shall we feed the dairy /
COW in order to secure the best results /
at the least expensey"
The roughage problem is best solved
by an abundance Of corn silage with
alfalfa or clover hay Next in order is
the milk stage and lastly, timothy hay.
Corn silage is OF primary Importance
sInce, without it, COW win require at
least twice as much hay and a more
expensive grain ration. Grain should
be fed in proportion to the amount OF
milk or butterfat the COW. gives
good rule is 20 feed the COW one pound
OF grain for every three or four pounds
OF tmlk she produces.
Prices Of grain and the character Of
determine the kind of grain
to be used. 1t does not pay
to feed any kind Of farm grown grain
to cows without grinding it, Whole
corn fed to cows shows loss of % per
cent of the grain. The loss in feeding
whole oats is nearly as great. Frequent
ly, it is economical to sell certain grains
and buy others in their places. Oats,
for instance, are high priced. Since
oats are about equal in feeding value
to a mixture of equal parts of corn
and wheat bran, it is not difficult to
determine whether oats should be sold
and bran or other concentrates bought
to take its place.
The dairy COW uses food for five pur-
poses: maintainence of body, making OF
milk, development of foetus, growth il
animal is immature, and for gain in
weight. For each of these purposes,
three classes OF food are required
Protein for muscular tissue and the
material OF milk; 2, carbo-
lydrates and fats for heat and energy;
;, ash or mineral matter for growth
IF bones. In ordinary feeds. the last is
supplied in sufficient quantities so that
{ is with the first two classes we are
,hiefiy concerned. The most economi-
'al feed is the one that supplies the
most protein and energy for one dollar
expended. Some feeds selling for for
" dollars per ton are really more eco.
lomical than Others selling at thirty
iollars. At present prices, cottonseed I
neal is the cheapest protein feed on
he market, and corn meal is the cheap /, !
'st energy feed. Hence grain mix
ure should be made up largely of these
eeds plus some light grains, such as
Iistillers dry grains or bran to give bulk
o the mixture. Dried brewers grains.
ried distillers grains and gluten feed
re about equal to one another in feed I
NJ value and are more economical than
nan or oats. A satisfactory mixture
0 go with corn siage and mixed hay
nay be made up of four hundred pounds \
orn meal or barley, two hundred pounds :
f dried brewers grain, dried distillers' /.
rain, ajax flakes, or gluten feed. one ! J
hundred pounds of wheat bran and two '
undred pounds of eottonseed meal. (
timothy hay at twenty dollars per ton 7
! Verv expensive roughage Clover