The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-05-03
iii. Production for Feeding Purposes

Of soy beans and corn silage. Ad
wise the use Of the Medium Gree
soy beans at any reasonable pric
for seed; or, if the medium gree
seed is not available, use Roosevelt
Mongol, etc. (See VT. Exp. Station
bulletin 204, free for the asking
Address Experiment Station, Bur
lington, Vermont.)
b. Recommend the breaking up o
thin meadow land to be sown to oat
and peas as hay, grain or silag'
crop.
c. Encourage the growth of wheat
including wheat and buckwheat, fol
poultry.
ID. Advise an increased acreage Of
barley, oats, buckwheat, India
wheat and corn for grain for the
stock. Especial emphasis should be
placed on the advisability Of raising
as much grain as possible. Public
ity should be given to the compara-
tive food values of the different
grains, their probable acre yields
and the cost of growing them.
E. Advise the growth of dwarf Essex
rape for hog pasture.
F. Where silage is not available for
the summer feeding of dairy cows,
outline a system of summer soiling
which shall include as many le-
gumes as possible (peas and oats,
soy beans.)
G.. Recommend strongly the inocula-
ton of legumes, the testing of and
selection of all seeds as a means of
obtaining large yields, especially in
view of the decided shortage Of
labor.
Nv. Control of Plant Diseases and
Insect Pests
In view of the vital need for maxi
mum production and because Of the
high cost of seed, fertilizers and labor,
farmers should be unusually careful to
avoid loss of crops from plant dis
eases and insect pests. The observ-
ance of every possible precaution
against these losses is called for, be-
cause the gain is usually far greater
than the cost, either in money or
work.
County agents can help in the fol-
lowing ways:
A. Treatment of oat seed for the
prevention of smut; treatment of seed
potatoes for the control Of scab.
Dealers should learn the value Of
formalin and corrosive sublimate in
treating seed and should be encourag-
I'd to deal in these supplies.
B. Farmers should be warned
against the use of blight-infected seed
potatoes or anthracnose--or weavil-I
infected beans.
G. Orchard spraying should be
urged by timely articles and demon
strations where advisable.
D. Potato spraying (bugs and
blight should be emphasized. If
blight is serious this year, the loss on
unsprayed fields will be enormous.
Use $3.50 bordeaux mixture and
spray thoroughly.
Demonstrations of proper methods
of preparing bordeaux mixture should
be conducted whenever advisable.
E. Cooperative spraying should be
encouraged whenever possible.
F. Losses due to insect infestations
should be minimized by spreading in
formation in regard to their control
and by conducting demonstrations. If
serious grasshopper infestations are
communities should
promptly organize for grasshopper
control. Information in regard to the
use of the state funds appropriated
FOR the purpose Of demonstrating
Of grasshopper eradication
should be spread wherever needed.
G. Persons interested in gardening
should be kept informed by timely ar
.icles in regard to the control of cut
worms, grubs and other troublesome
Insects.
v. Efficiency Methods
A. Farm Manure
1. Encourage the use Of more and
,etter absorbents, the use of waste