The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-01
MANY PRESENT AT FARMERS
INSTITUTE
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500 out of an acre. Glover should
not be planted in the season of the
year when weeds spring up. The
weeds get all the strength out of the
soil. Do not plant it in the spring.
Put 1t in when the weather is dry,
and when the fall rains are bound to
come. Give it light covering.
From six to eight loads of manure
should be put on an acre after hay is
taken off. Do not plow 1t under. 1t
is the most extravagant thing you
could do. Just as clover begins to
bloom cut the tops off with the
mower. A good seed mixture is to
use two and one-half pounds of al
kali, one pound of red top, five quarts
of timothy and six quarts of red
clover to each acre.
A good fertilizer to use is 3 per
cent. nitrogen to each one hundred
pounds of mixture, 10 per cent. of
phosphoric acid and 6 per cent. of
potash.
The many questions asked by the
men present at the close of DR.. De-
trich's talk bore witness to the fact
that they were interested and anxious
to make their own farms better.
In the afternoon there was a large
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H. Watts on Building Up the Dairy
Herd for Profit He gave a very
profitable talk on how to do this and
described the two only kinds of cows
as the asset COW and the liability cow
He told the farmers to weed out the
wrong stock and build up with per-
| feet cows for the dairy herd.
DR.. j. D. DIETRICH talked on "The
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the cow means much in the dairy
business" he said. Cows which
have sore backs never amount to
much, and they would not have sore
backs if kept in the stable. They
are only found on cows that are let
out in the pasture. A COW ought to
have a good bed. A good feed is lin
seed, bran and cornmeal. A cow
must have exercise and be watered
as regularly as fed. The dairy animal
must be cared for very carefully be-
fore as well as after becoming fresh.
Do not overfeed the cow. 1t causes
caked udder. Never feed a fresh COW
cotton seed. It's the care, not only
the feed and water that makes mon
ey in the dairy business. Keep the
barn warm. A cold COW will not give
milk. June is the month every dairy
man should study. The cow gives
more milk during that month than
any other month of the year. The
reason is that it is warm and the
COW has exactly the right kind of
feed-green grass. Have plenty of
light but do not let the suns rays
strike the animals. The dimensions
of model dairy barn should be-:
Height, eight feet; width, forty feet,
and contain about three hundred Gu
bic feet of space so that the room
may have proper ventilation. Never
change the cows feed. Have a
variety but keep the variety regular.
Howard Mitman talked on "Helps
and Hindrances in the Poultry Yard
He told of his experiences in raising
poultry and the difficulties he met
with before he was successful.
In the evening an audience OF
about fifty persons listened to a talk
by D. H. Watts on "Our Education"
He spoke of the influence of the
home, church and school on the
farm. The conditions he described
in his own county, however, do not
apply to Wayne county where we
have easy access to our high schools
and churches.
H. Mitman took the subject OF
Books in Running Brooks-Ser-
mon in Stones" which was very in
teresting. He spoke of the washing
away of land during the rainy sea.
, son by the brooks and rivers and as
a preventative to put such land in
grass However, this difficulty does
not bother Wayne county farmers tc
great extent and we have very
little washing away of land. Thai
| difficulty is met with more south o.
Wayne county.