The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-28

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Some time has been spent this week
with the boys who entered the pig CON
test under the supervision of Mr. Ingalls,
OF the state department of agriculture.
The county agent is using score card
for each OF the pigs, which places en-.
phasis on form and constitution and
gives fully as much credit to these fea.
lures as TO the gain in weight OF the pig.
Ii Is noticed so far that the Chester
Whites do not score as high as the Jer-
sey Reds or the Berkshres or do they
make as rapid gain or mature as early.
IL seems that great deal can be made
OF this kind OF work with the young peo-
pie, as in most every instance IL seems
to have encouraged the boys fathers and
has taught them to watch the different
methods of feeding. In one instance the
boys pig was in a pen next 20 his ia
theirs pigs and the boys pig was nearly
twice as heavy as the fathers pigs. They
came from the same litter. The boy
feeds warm feed mixing his feed with
warm milk or warm water. The father
says that the boy has got the pig edu-
Gated so that he will not drink cold wa
ter However, the gain is all in favor of
the boy, One boy worked eight days for
his neighbor to pay for his pig and he is
so interested that he wants to keep his
| pig and raise some more next year. BY
ha hnx nv faI in,
ner we are bound to increase their ap-
probation of agricultural pursuits and it |
will tend TO make better farmers of |
them and encourage them TO stay in Yer !
mont and help build up our farming
communities
The canning demonstrations held by /
Miss Thayer included three separate
meetings. The first at Barre. under the
auspices OF the Barre Woman's club, for
the girls who are interested in canning.
There were 25 in attendance at this
meeting and much interest was shown.
The second meeting was at Cobble Hill I
grange with an attendance of 80. This
was also a very interesting meeting
The third was held at East Montpelier
and was classed as folow-up work, as
there had previously been demonstra
tions of this kind in the agricultural
school held there last winter. Miss
Thayer expressed her appreciation of the
attendance at the meetings and the in
terest shown in them. She remarked
particularly upon the progress that had
been made by those who had followed
out some of the suggestions given at the
school last winter. Such meetings bring
science into the farmers wife's domain
as well as to the farmer. 1t must Ger
tainly have q great influence on the
building up OF our communities. :
The county agent attended the sum
mer meeting of the state Guernsey
breeders association held at the farm OF
Col. johnson in Bradford this week. with
an attendance of about 200 enthusiastic
Guernsey breeders of the state. Among
the features of the meeting was a talk
by Prof Storey of the state college of
agriculture on the possibilities OF breed
ing up grade herd by means of using
purebred sire of merit To illustrate his
points the herd bull at the johnson farm
was shown. This bull is Beau Brummell :
Of Linda Vista He is seven years old
and weighs ] 500 pounds and walks like :
the lord of creation that he is. His con
is nearly perfect. His feet \
md legs have been kept in nice shape
md he is as dociIe as a lamb. This
shows how proper treatment OF the herd
,ull will result in being able to keep
hem to greater age, until we can de-
ermine their value through their indu g
nee on the herd. After discussing the :
qualities of this bull there was brought or
nut one of his daughters, the result of .
|, Co. II,
the characteristics of the :
guernsey sire. She had a fine udder and :
In contrast to her there
vas brought out with her, her half sis 81
er, the daughter of her own mother
ired by a scrub bull instead of the full n
Hooded Guernsey sire. This hefer was
eeidedly nondescript, showing the great
dvantage to be derived from using a
urebred sire on grade cows. Col. John
ON states that this bull has raised the
utter fat production OF his herd from
i per cent to over per cent Suppos-
~ you had 10 cows, with an average
reduction of 800 pounds of butter fat
year and then suppose you bred these
0ws to a purebred sire who had the
bility to throw his influence on his
aughters to such an extent as to raise =
ne butter fat production OF the 10 n
aughters of these cows to 400 pounds. b
his would make an increase in your to-
Il butter fat production for the 10 cows
1000 pounds worth 80 cents pound,
about $500, which would pretty near
pay for the bull or at least would
lrnish interest for long time on the
vestment This is a lesson which we
rmers must take home. There is no
her way of improving our farms that
i'll show up as well as the improvement
our herds and the process is so simple n
at it seems we should take advantage
it Immediately by buying purebred =
re who has female ancestry of high pro- 81
icing qualities.
F. II. Abbott.