Year: 1874

convenient Ii Is safe enough to 20 hy.


The Association then adjourned for din-
ner.


AFTERNOON.


At the opening Of the afternoon session,
Mr.. T. 5 Gold, of the Connecticut Board Of
Agriculture. gave some practical remarks
on the subject of Feeding of s'ock"


NE. COLDS REMARKS.


The most natural food of stock i, grass in
the Summer, and dried gra-s in the Winter,
nothing else Is necessary il there lie plenty
of that; but We are under the necessity Of
varying 1t somewhat. Grass fails some
times. The pasturage has 10 De supple
mente1 even IN mid summer. and the SOW
lng of corn Is the most common. This crop
should be Sown in Succession - that IL
may be used from time to time, as
needed. and should be cGt when 1t i in
the bloom in order To make it of the
greatest value for feeding. Formerly he
was accustomed to change his cows lrom
one field TO another, but he found that they
became uneasy and looked a thOugh they
We're hankerIng for sill other green
pastures; and shraak in their milk His
neighbor kept his in one pasture and they





product always good Feeding should be
regular. This was OF more importance than
frequent feeding. We feed our dry stock.
he said, twice day, bat milk stock should
be fed oitener. and will do well on poor
hay, Oat straw, cut and put into feed
box, wetted, and with portion of salt,
meal or bran 10 lay with this ad-
ditiOn over night and led the
next day. Cattle should have Tree ac-
cess to salt. Authorities decided that it
had some influence on the secreting organs,
precisely what was not well understood but
especially upon the milk secretion. Meal,
unless mixed with water does not increase
the flow of milk, and yet some cows will
thrive well under its use, and seem - re-
quire 1t, aud 1t will increase their milk.
Meal may be fed to advantage in the spring,
bringing the COWS to grass IN good cOndi-
tion. Quality Of milk is affected by the
food used. Bran makes good milk, but
should not be fed alone, but in connection
with cut feed and meal Bran costs $50
to S25 per ton. Its manurial value is
Sli per ton, making a cheap fertilizer tor
the soil. \ ton of meal does nut add rs
much 10 the value ol manure ~ bran.


Mr.. Waite of St. Lawrence county. NY,
read paper on the time for cutting fodder
1t should bs cut when green before it loses
Its strength, and then the stalk will start
again and protect the soil. and at the same
time yield a secondcrop. Clover III blossom
will yield only p per cent of nutritious
matter, while that in full head yields 40.
There is much more waste matter in Il ton of
the former than the latter. which only fills
the animals up without benefittmg them.
This paper closed with short poem
which caused much laughter.


Dr. Hathaway, of Milton, gave the rela-
tive value of Sanford corn for fodder and
yield, one acre giving seventy bushels OF
corn and eight tons Of fodder Ears are
frequently fifteen inches long.


Mr.. Stewart-lIad tried this corn tour
years and spoke very highly ofit Do not
think it would have ripened had it not
been Cor the frost.


Mr.. Stafford SAID fowls aud ANIMALS would
not eat it when they could get other


Mr.. Stewart-Think very highly of fodder
corn if properly raised; should not be sowed
broadcast. should be sowed in drills and at
some distance apart. Have found it an
economy to cut feed. Cut it day or two
before feeding, so as to give it Il chance to
wilt.


S. X Smith had raised corn fodder
in drills for twenty years, but had never
found the fodder as good where the kernel
has formed


Mr.. Hubbard fed much corn fodder and
began to cut when in the tassell


Mr.. Arnold related an experiment tried
some time ago with barley straw, oats and
meal; wet the straw and applied the meal
increase Of milk in quantity and quality.
Meal went into the fourth stomach when fed
dry, but when the straw is wet meal ad-
heres to it and stops in the first stomach,
where it is digested and the result is per-
ceptible. Tried this many times with same
result. Two quarts of meal is as much as
an ordinary COW should have at one feed.


Straw in the above case not eat would
have been better cut. Would not grind
corn and cob together 1t is much better
to allow the fodder to dry lest the COW be
compelled to carry around u supernatural
ance of water.


Mr.. Stewart Thought u COW should have
OF. Of salt per day. 1t should be kept in