The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-19
DAIRYMEN IN
 CONVENTION
The Dairy Cow and Dairy Products Are Discussed

Dairymen's association in Hartford, Wednesday. the two days session of the. thirty first annual convention of the association having opened with a large attendance of men and women engaged in that department Of indus try. 1
 The banners and exhibits on the main floor attracted the attention of the dairymen. as well as the exhibits ok butter, milk and dairying and farm
 nachfnery in the lower hall. One of the banners read as follows;
 sDaily ration for the average Con- uacticut COW:
 Hay at $2O a ton; fifteen pounds. 15 cents.
 Corn stalks at ss ton; bundle. ? cents.
 Corn meal at ssO ton: four quarts, or six pounds g cents.
 Bran at $26 ton, four quarts or two pounds, 3 cents.
 Water. seventy-hve pounds at. A total of g cents
 Adjoining this placard was an ex- lDroduction of the average Connecti- cut COW and the average weekly. but quarts of milk and four pounds of
 On the other end of the stage was An exhibit of what another her eo9nefT1 daify
 
 Eproduction of A quarts of milk and weekly butter production Of twenty i on the stage was also shown the average daily milk production and the leverage weekly butter production or lmuother Connecticut COW for one year laverage production of milk was hf- Izeen quarts and the weekly butter legIes leeunds. ana the daily ration for this l@Uw was shown to be as follows:
 ..silage at $ a ton forty pounds,
 Hay. ten pounds. at s2O alton, 10 's Mixed grain. 10 pounds. at ssO ;tton 15 cents.
 President Davis spoke of the mar 5%etgI there are in this state for milk land all of the other dairy products gmnd in addition there was a demand Hairy farms from Rhode Island. Mas kmmchusetts and New York and yet IKhere are some who say that dairylng what the trouble. was. Is there some thing the matter with the conduct Eepffons in the minds of the dairy Maene If the business cannot be made profftabIe there must be something Eductf Of them. MT. Davis said that gConnectieut should have but four breeds of cows and 1t should be a
  Inc believed that Connecticut should have dairy counse1IorS and a dairy
 esting associatiOn ,iT MT Dsxis ,i, sn1 sSlIed led the difference in the production
 The next speaker was Professor 1T. 4 nofs. whose subject was "The Crow ing Of Alfalfa" The growth of all 1R1fa. he said. required the generous II1s about five tom to the acre That. he said, sounded expensive, but in the fFFVest. 1t meant .s6 and s7 for the rail- t.roa5a there saw far enough into the { future to see they must help keep Imp the farm lands to. get the later re- sults from the i1,,,I, farm proaSets; cas ana oS, I Ahe hauling Fof the necessary lims- { atone As he understood it, Connec- ticut soil was lacking s H in loth the PnoS7- 7- fa1fa The easiest way for the TCon- { necticut farmer would be to use acid acre It would cost something, to be surea but would not exceed $6.50 or $f i an acre. and alfalfa is worth $2O a Dhosphate and the limestone should | be applied in the spring. This could be done in the rankest field of weeds, Beginning by working out the weeds, fearing them. out and blowing; in the course Of a week or two, another { these out. and by the time this has fbeen done three Or four times the kweeds will disappear. There is no such thing as Spontaneous germination, must be developed by a process Of multiplication. He had never seen q SToR o11,d tna He bad 9pia .en fW it on March s1 in Southern Illinois fifteen inches high It is a crop that grows most rapidly when properly cultivated. In ! Favorable seasons one should raise tons to the acre. That would require as much nitrogen as would be found { 600 pounds of acid phosphate to sup- ] ply the phosphorus the crop would i take out for two years Once the soii phosph ort1s, it became the farmers Capital As the alfalfa was fed to the cattle the phosphorus returned to the manure, and so it was used over ana over again, and the ground. perhaps, ov-uld have to be treated about once fin four years.
 afrorn the floor that, according to the best estimate he could get. it would cost nearly $25 an acre with Connecss they could not produce the ground limestone for less than $4 ton. Pro> lessor Hopkins said he knew of twen- ty limestone plants in his state that produced the stone at $1 ton.
 Another wanted to know if ground oyster shells would answer the same purpose. and Professor Hopkins said 1T was a good composition To another he said ground lime was to be pre- TeTreQ to OuInS0 CL4C Ae~btCA destroyed the vegetable matter of the soil The conservation of the vege- table matter, he said, was one of the most important problems the AmerI- can farmer had to contend with. He saido1thatssvthe phosphorus in every form would have to be pIowed under for it usually remained where it was put and top dressing would not reach the roots.
 Y A member said that the freight rate lon lime from quarries in this state was $1.4 a ton to practically any sta tion in Connecticut. Baled alfalfa from zfIeW- York was worth $26. 50 a ton for the first crop and BPS for the second crop.
 Professor D. H. Otis of the Univer- sIty of Wisconsin spoke on "The Se- Heoton of Our Feeding Stuffs."
 The inside of a COW is a wonderful place, he said, when we think of the endless work she is doing, eating, fOOd into fat nrOdUcfS