The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-01-26
DAIRY PROBLEMS
WERE DISCUSSED
MEETINGS OF FARMERS AT UNI
yERSITY OF GREAT GENERAL
INTEREST
Valuable Information Impaired by Ex-
cellent Speakers-SessiOns
Always Crowded

"
into the hall, the speakers scheduled
to discuss dairy problems this morn
ing aroused their hearers to. pitch
of enthusiasm never before reached in
the presentation of this branch OF
work. The farmers who are engaged
in the dairy business or who are con-
templating entering that field must be
unresponsive indeed, who did not
carry away with them today a fund
of extremely useful information re-
garding silage crops and the feeding
of COWS for milk production.
l.. w. Fluharty, who has proved
one of the great drawing cards of the
week, dealt graphically with the meth
DDS of seeding alfalfa and clover in
the Palouse. He advocated a light
nurse crop, declaring that wheat and
barley make the most satisfactory
nurse crop for the Palouse country.
The rate of seeding the nurse crop
uOC OO 1uOl . tHdn Ihii No
of the regular seeding quantity.
Glover and alfalfa should be sowed at
the rate of from six to eight pounds
per acre. Mr.. Fluharty demonstrated
that the chief factors causing failure
with the clover and alfalfa crop in
this region were lack of proper pre-
paration Of the seed-bed; poor seed;
foul land; and late seeding. Mr.. Flu
harty is a graduate OF the university,
and it is source of great pride to
his instructors that his career has
been so extremely successful He is
an excellent talker He has knowl-
edge and he knows how to impart it
and intelligibly.
Mr. Iddings's resume of the exper-
mental projects conducted jointly by
he departments of dairying, ami
nal husbandry, and field crops in sill
age production was most Illuminating.
5ilage of various compositions are
,eing tried out for their effects on
,eef and dairy cattle. Wheat, vetch,
,orn, peas, and oats were all COM
Jared. Excellent results have been
,btained in beef cattle feeding and in
milk. production by the use of peas
nd oat silage.
Mr.. Robb's ensuing discussion of
ultural methods in growing corn for
ilage was very interesting. He sug-
,ested planting an area of ground |
ather thinly for mere seed produc-
ion and planting it much more thick
Y when silage was to be made from
he crop. He displayed samples of
orn, recommending tested varieties
hitch matured early and successfully
l this region. He advised the use
corn that natures in from IS to
90 days. The time of planting
wn experiments demonstrated last
eason. He put his seed in on May
last year. He considers that June
lanting is too late, and that the COM
ION practice here is faulty in that
articular.
D. w. Working, in charge of the
,unty agents in the west gave an il
strated lecture showing the results
the work of county agents in the
)rthwest.
Yesterdays afternoon session filled |
e stock-judging pavilion and the in
rest in the lectures and demonstra- :
ms was marked Dean Iddings in
S judging demonstration used two
ydesdale and grade Shire which
ought out the most desirable points
the draft horse that is meeting the |
arket demands of today. The top
ares showed all the style, action,
distance, compact form and quality I
sired in the draft animal. I
G. W. Hickman brought out the inn l.
rtance of grading up the beef herd I
the use of good pure bred sires {
recommended carrying the Q
VS. through the winter in +
Cd breeding flesh so as to
oduce strong calves. He advocated S
t only the breeding of the calves {
t the proper feeding. He declared 7
It clover or alfalfa hay, silage or !
its and oats are the best of feeds \
make beef. Four university bred
YES were used to show the type
ired
;. L. Heller of the T. s. department