Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-02-27
:ARMERS' WEEK At
THE UNIVERSITY
Lectures Began Monday and In
clude Much of Interest to Wom-
en- as Well as Men.

rho annual Farmers Week opened IN
we'll Mt university yesterday afternoon
A, fair audience was present then, and a
considerabeonc I'm the evening. Addresses
were given by Dean J. L. Hills on Farm
Manurcs'; by Prof T. a. Rich on "The
Care and MANAGEMENT of the Work
Horse; by \. *. Peterson on war
Among Plants; and by DR.. G. Il. Lang
worthy Of the L. $ department of agri-
culture on the work of chat department
Cor housckccpcrs. About 100 persons were
registered last night.
Dean HIS spoke in substance as fol-
lows
Tho prominent manures are barnyard
manure, mucl, and peat and green crops
plovcd under.
Harnyard manures are highly variable
in composition, due to differences I'm ami
mails, their age, condition. food, tn various
methods OF storage, preservation. use OF
litter ana Of chemical absorbmeuts. etc.
The points stressed in the address We're:
% That feeds should be bought with
reference to their plant food contents as
well as to their animal food constituents.
CO That the five points of good manure
handling are: a) Well fed animals. %
Well Uttered anmars. C) Wcu pre-
served manure. CdD Wen comploted
manure. Ce) We'll mnd quicltlD spread
manure.
CD That it is wiser to conserve what We
have. and to use it moro judcously, than
to spend so much for commercial fcrtili-
zers.
Concerning peat and muck. the speaker
stated that the experiment station survey
of the state indicated its omnipresence;
that Vermont farmers do not appreciata
the plant food wealth they hav, at their
very doors, to be had for the digging and
the wcatherinS; that while it is a slow
purveyor of plant food, peat or muck is
well worth using and ought to be a bene.
A. to any soil.
Concerning green manurinS, the speak
err remarked that ii was procedure sell
dom resorted to in Vermont, but worth
considering in special cases. as I'm orch
ards as cover crop for lccChy soils.
etc.
Bulletins los, 135 and 1854 dealing re-.
spectivey with farm manures, with greer
nanurlng and Vermont poats ana mucks
were distributed at the close OF the adj
dress
FACTS FOR HOCSEKEEPERS
The Work o. the United states De-
partment of Agriculture for House
keepers" was the subject of DR.. Lang
worthys address. lie said thai the United
states department Of agriculture has
been engaged in the study of human
nutrition for some % years This work
originally was carried on. in corporation
with Wesleyan University and one of the
Connecticut Experiment stations and
under the direct supervision of the late
Or W. o. Atwater, formerly Of Bur-
lington and a student of the University
of Vermont.
or late years tine work has been sub
divided, part being done by the CARNEGIE
Institute Nutrition laboratory In Boston
and part by the department at Washiu@-
ton. The main line of work pursued hat
90 do vita the employment of til,
respiration calorimetor, a complicated
mechanism wherein food values ar,
determined, not simply by means o.
chemical analysis, but by measurement To-
.heir actual bodily usages. trials iu which
the inlet and outGo are alike measure
in terms of chomica. elements, o
nutrients and of energy. Several i'm
portant results have been attained in tn
use Of this mechanism.
The speaker showed several Lantern
slides illustrating the composition o
some of the common foods-bread, meat
eggs, milk, cereals, vegetables etc. Thes
graphic illustrations served to make clea
the relation of the several materials t
bodily needs. The dilution Of the vege
table, the limitations Of the egg, tn
similarity of the cereals the virtue q
the bean ard many other matters wer
clearly developed. The cost of high liz