The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-27
WASHINGTON COUNTY FARM
BUREAU ASSOCIATION.
Report for Week Ending Feb. "a.

Circular letters. ................. IL
Miles Travelled 1872
Especially good meetings were held
this week Wednesday at South Wood.
bury and Saturday at Worcester The
attendance at South Woodbury. was 50
and at Worcester a. The forenoon sub
ieets were dairying and breeding. The
ladies served dinner at the halls and in
the afternoon talk was given on the
county farm bureau This was followed
| by informal discussions of rations, till
lage, etc. Such meetings as these pro-
mote community spirit along the most
interesting lines of agriculture and CO.
operative community spirit goes a long
way towards success. Several new mem
bers enlisted in the county farm bureau
! from each town.
/ The feature OF this week. however. was
the meeting at the barn of payson Wal
bridge in Cabot on Monday afternoon.
| This was the first meeting that has been
devoted entirely to the dairy project
The meeting was generally advertised
but special invitations were given to
members of the COW testing association.
Twenty four out OF the 80 members were
present and Prin. Mayo OF the iunior
high school also came with several of the
boys from the school The object of this
meeting was to urge further use of rec
ords of individual cows to accomplish re-
suits in increase Of herd production and
TO explain the simple and inexpensive
method that can be employed in SO doing.
There are nearly 10000 mich cows in
Washington county. Less than 2,00o or
10 per cent OF these cows have been
checked up as to production TO see wheth-
er they are profitable. IL is absolutely
necessary to obtain production records
before the facts can be established that
will lead to improvement. This is the
reason for urging membership in COW
testing associations and the keeping of
private records.
Mr.. Wslbridge's herd shows what can
be done in the relatively short period of
three years, as regards improvement in
production. Following is the interest
ing tsbulation OF the production of this
herd for the first year records were kept
and also the last year, 1915;
1914. 1916. |
Herd Average.
Production buttertat. . 200 227 !
Profit per COW ............ $1,000 $4l.l7 !
Best Cow.
Average production butter
rat .....,... .....,....... 5Uz.f 3ns.I /
Profit ..,.,.........S 6O.45 S6s63
Poorest Cow.
Average production butter
tat OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1919 1874
sThere were two poorer cows than this
in the herd in 1916, but they are for sale;
so this report represents the herd as it
stands to-day.
The, 1914 figures include the records of
three cows with their first or second
,alves. The 1916 figures include the rec
,rds of IL cows with their first or second
,alyes. The best COW in 1914 was also
he best cow in 1916.
This improvement was brought about,
briefly. as follows: On the strength of the
1914 records IL of the 81 cows were sold
Turing 1918. These were replaced by
our purchased two yearolds and by sew
N heifers raised in the herd from reg
stored bull. The average profit per COW
n 1916 was Sl0.57 more than in 1914.
This means then that $220.97 in extra
,rofit was realized in one year, while
lit tAHthotH ehituhtth w I'm " tNi
ow per year. You can afford to act on
he strength of these records. Much
redit is due Mr. Chandler, the COW test
r. for these results, as it was through 9
lis advice that the changes were made.
The weeks program includes meetings
t Middlesex on Wednesday night, the 7
Iarre VI. r. A. Thursday night. the East t
Til Farmers club in Mortified Friday J
ight and the Pomona grange at East I
lontpelier Saturday.
+. II. Abbott, o
County Agent. {