Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-09-03
FARM NOTES

(Sent the Monitor by Louis A. Hazen.
Irasburg, VT, Officia! Tester OF the Mem
phremagog Cow Testing Association
The Irasburg Cow Testing associ-
alton unloaded car of winter bran
Friday, saving over fifty dollars.
The quality of the bran surpasses
any thing fed around here and the best
of it is you can see little flour on
the outside of the sacks which shows
what is on the inside. The members
are considering ordering car of
cottonseed to be shipped in October.
Those wishing for it should give their
orders in to the officers of the associa-
ton as soon as possible. Why not
cooperate and buy all our grain, lime,
seed and fertilizers.
Don't just talk about it but go
ahead with it.
The potato crop with few exceptions
looks very promising for large yield.
A cow weighing from 700 to $50
pounds, giving ten to 20 pounds milk,
requires two pounds digestible protein,
if she is allowed nothing but pasture
grass, 80 pounds will have to be eaten
each day, not considering all the
energy used up walking all over fifty
or more acres, switching flies to get
it. Wouldn't it be more sensible to
feed twenty pounds of millet, ten
pounds of peas and oats or one pound
of cottonseed and only make that cow
hunt for considerable less grass.
The farmers that have fed grain all
summer say that it paid them and they
will notice it more this winter than
they do now as far as profit is con-
cerned.
It is very interesting to hear the
different opinions among farmers re-
garding feeding cows grain in summer.
Those that have fed literally one sum-
mer seem to follow it UP anyway. A
few feed while cow is dry and if it is
a good cow any authority will agree
with them as the cow is answering
three purposes which need good pure
bookkeeping her own body in good
condition. getting ready for another
years strenuous work and developing
foetus. No wonder farmers dom t
feed enough if they don't keep cows
good enough to pay for what they eat.
The herd averages for the first
month Of the testing association
ranged from a. Ia per cent to 5.48 per
cent and you can be sure the 5.48 per
cent one was member of the associa'
ton last year, and discarded what was
found described as mot wanted"
Stop and think minute how you are
coming out ten years from now if you
are not either owning or going to own
some purebreds. There will be some
grades but record will have to be
shown with them if you get anything
besides beef money for them.
The Grange Blacksmith shop of
Irasburg cooperative is doing unex.
pectedly we'll for this time of year.
That and the cooperative creamery
: look as though they were going to stay
| with US.
Some very interesting fertilizer
experiments are being carried on by
Charles Metcalf of Irasburg in his
4 corn and potato patch. The company
furnished him the mixed chemicals anC
he does not as yet know what he use(
but an agent will come and tell hin
and take points on the results. There
is certainly a vast difference in the
plots and the results would be interest
ing to the Monitor readers this fall.
A good deal of acid soil is being
+ found by the litmus paper test.
5 A motto used by some farmer
would apply we'll here: more lime
more clover, more manure"
Some grain feeders seem to thinl
, that the market price decides what t.
: buy to feed but that is very wrong
1t should be bought on the digestibl
! protein and net energy values. Fo
| instance, cottonseed meal at $1.85 i
' cheaper than gluten feed at S1.45
> There are IS. Is lbs. digesrible protein
in every 100 lbs That will make 10
lbs. protein cost $500, while in tn
, gluten there is 1895 lbs. digestibl
, protein and 100 lbs. will cost S7.27
The gluten should be fed to make VI
variety in the mixture rather than t.
: try to economize.
Each farmer should read bulletin No
: 152 of our own experiment station, il
? fact they should have their name o.
the mailing list and read and stud
: their printed matter. You help pa.
for them through your taxes and VIII.
= shouldn't you have them when the.
J are given away for the asking. #Ss
Y Louis Hazen has resigned his posi-
t ton as operator of the Testing associa
o ton so he can attend Michigan Agri
cultural college.
O Of inspiration and thought that the