92 VERMONT AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



Haying began June 6, about 190 tons being harvested. 

 The hay cut from one piece of new stocking of ten acres, 

 weighed thirty-six and one-half tons ; the rowen crop 

 was fed green and was not weighed. Sugar beets gave 

 a high yield as compared with other varieties, but 

 proved very acceptable to the stock. An acre of arti- 

 chokes were raised and fed, the results of the trial are not yet 

 ready for report. Foul meadow grass was sowed on low, wet, 

 heavy soil with gratifying success. Delaware and White Star 

 potatoes were planted the middle of May. We used the 

 Aspinwall planter which drops potatoes and phosphate, covers 

 and marks next row and does good work. The potatoes were 

 sprayed with Bordeaux mixture after adding one-half pound of 

 Paris green to forty gallons of the mixture. The rows sprayed 

 three times yielded 238 bushels to the acre, those sprayed twice 

 1S5 bushels, while those left not sprayed bore but in bushels 

 to the acre. They were sprayed the first time with the fungi- 

 cide on, July 22, Paris green having been used twice before. 

 The tops of rows which were not sprayed were dead by the 

 first of August, while the rows sprayed three times were green 

 until the frost of October 10th. The Bordeaux mixture is 

 composed of four pounds of lime and six pounds of blue vitrol 

 to 40 gallons of water. Other commercial mixtures were tried 

 but all proved less satisfactory than Bordeaux. 



The stock consists of fifty- one cows and heifers in milk, 

 three dry cows, twelve heifers under two years old, one bull, 

 Mint 10th, purchased from Hood's farm, one yoke of oxen and 

 six horses. The cows are fed from sixteen to twenty poundsof 

 hay, twenty to twenty-four pounds ensilage and seven to eight 

 pounds of grain daily. The feed of each cow is weighed 

 daily, oats weighed and deducted, the milk weighed and sam- 

 pled for testing. For instance, the cow Flora on March Sth 

 was fed sixteen pounds of hay, twenty-four pounds of ensilage 

 and seven pounds of mixed feed No. 2, and left uneaten one 

 pound each of hay and silage. She gave 44.7 pounds of milk, 

 which tested 4.28 per cent. fat. A similar record is kept of 

 each cow throughout the year. 



At present seven kinds of feeds are used in the feeding 

 tests of the winter. • 



No. 1. 3 parts bran, 2 parts corn meal, 1^ parts cotton- 

 seed meal, \% parts flax-seed meal. 



No. 2. 3 parts bran, 1 part corn meal, i l /> parts cotton- 

 seed meal, i l / 2 parts flax-seed meal. 



No. 3. 3 parts bran, 1 part corn meal, 4 parts buckwheat 

 middlings. 



No. 4. 2 parts bran, 2 parts corn meal. 



No. 5. 1 part bran, 2 parts corn meal. 



