1891 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
97 
Pigs for Manure.— Pigs are kept on 
the farm of Stephen Hoyt’s Sons—see pages 
81-83 this issue—because they are the best 
possible manure makers. George Ville, 
the great French advocate of chemical fer¬ 
tilizers, gives an interesting account of the 
cost of different sorts of manure on a large 
French farm, on which separate stables 
were kept for hogs, sheep, cows and horses. 
The statement for the hogs is as follows : 
COST OF MANURE RAISED FROM HOGS. 
March 1, 1887, to 81, head valu»d at.$ 317.00 
March 1 to 31. tools and implements, value... 815.00 
During the year foods of various kinds were 
fed and amounted to. 954.1)5 
Labor required to keep them. 117 53 
Making total. .—$1,708.58 
Other hogs purchased during year, and 
freight on same. 107.87 
Entire cost. $1,806.45 
By hogs consumed on farm. 285 60 
By hogs sold. 526.70 
By hogs on hand February 23 1838. 513.JO 
By implements on hand . 317 20 
By work and service.. 51 no 
$1,643.20 
By 92 tons of manure.$ 163 25 
Actual cost of manure per ton. 1.7814 
The cost of the sheep manure was figured 
at $5 31 per ton. In an account of this 
sort, prices of feed and labor as well as 
prices for live stock and products must be 
taken into account. Pigs do not pay best 
everywhere, but they do at New Canaan 
and at most other fruit farms. 
The great Jersey cow, Landseer’s Fancy, 
died December 15, 17 years old. She pro¬ 
duced 936 pounds of good butter in one 
year and carried a calf nine months of the 
time. 
Any finer feed for dairy cows than a 
little pea meal ? 
A. R. Cohoon writes to the Breeder’s 
Gazette that he believes dirt, grit and 
gravel are absolutely necessary to assist 
digestion in hogs, especially when fed on 
whole grain. When fed milk, ground or 
cooked feed the hog does not seek for gritty 
food. 
A Cool headed Horse. —A subscriber 
in Ohio sends us this note : “ On the 
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad, which 
runs through Harrison County, Ohio, there 
is near Union Vale a trestle 811 feet long 
and 45 feet high, over which a horse deliber¬ 
ately walked in front of a passenger train 
a few days ago, and many persons witnessed 
the feat.” 
Foot Rot in Sheep.— In small American 
flocks the usual treatment for this disease 
is to take each sheep by itself, pare its foot 
and apply ‘‘blue vitriol” or some other 
ointment. In England, and in many 
of the larger flocks of this country, the 
sheep are driven through a trough contain¬ 
ing a solution to act on the sore feet. The 
following plan given by Mr. Butler, a large 
sheep-owner, is taken from the Journal of 
the Royal Agricultural Society: “ Pass 
the whole flock twice during the year 
through a solution of arsenic, which is thus 
prepared : Boil two pounds of arsenic with 
two pounds of potash (pearlash) in one gal¬ 
lon of water over a slow fire for half an 
hour. Keep stirring, and at any signs of 
boiling over pour in a little cold water; 
then add five gallons of cold water. Put 
this solution to the depth of one inch to \}4 
inch (just sufficient to cover the hoofs of 
the sheep) in a strong, well-made, water¬ 
tight trough, 15 feet long by 18 inches wide, 
and about six inches deep, with narrow 
strips of wood nailed across the bottom to 
prevent the sheep from slipping.” The 
feet of the sheep are first well pared and 
then the animals are quietly walked 
through the trough, which is fenced in 
with a small inclosure at the end in which 
the sheep are kept for half an hour before 
they are turned out to pasture. 
A Morbid Sentiment. 
“ ‘Tis a misery to be born, a pain to live, 
a trouble to die.” Rather a dark picture 
of the world that many of us find so al¬ 
luring. We think a course of the Com¬ 
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and hopeful view of things. But read for 
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it to any one suffering from pulmonary 
diseases, insomnia, indigestion and loss of 
appetite.” C. E. Ely, Lerado, Kan., Oct. 
18, 1888. 
We have given a few testimonals above, 
but our brochure and our quarterly, 
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enough to convince the most “ refractory 
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Philadelphia, Pa., or 120 Sutter Street, 
San Francisco, Cal.— Adv. 
SAYINGS OF VERMONT DAIRYMEN. 
Special Rural Report cf the St. 
Albans Meeting. 
There is certainly one steadily successful 
organization of farmers in New England. 
Each annual meeting of the Vermont 
dairymen tests the seating capacity of the 
hall in which they assemble; and this 
limits them to the towns and cities which 
offer the widest accommodation in their 
public halls and hotels. The recent meet¬ 
ing (January 13-15) was no exception. 
Indeed it would have been strange if it had 
been, seeing that Franklin County is the 
‘‘banner” dairy county of New England, 
and St. Albans the leading market for 
dairy products. 
It is impossible for The Rural, with 
justice to its other duties, to give anything 
like the space to reporting such meetings 
that the local press affords. It'can only 
attempt to sketch their prominent features, 
and after the lively interest of the at¬ 
tendance, perhaps the most marked feature 
of the present meeting has been the 
presence and speech of Gov. Hoard of 
Wisconsin. His address was listened to 
by all the dairymen and dttirywomen who 
could pack themselves into the largest and 
best hall in northern Vermont, and his 
elucidation of what he styles “The Dairy 
Temperament ” seemed to give the pro- 
foundest satisfaction to every one who 
heard it. Though dealing with the funda¬ 
mental principles of breeding the dairy 
cow, and sparing nothing of truth in his 
lucid exposition of facts and principles, 
the native tact and delicacy of the speaker 
enabled him to do his work in a way that 
offended the delicacy of no one, in this 
showing that the imputation, of coarseness 
so often thrown upon farmers, is, as usual, 
based upon ignorance of the facts. 
Perhaps the next most important sub¬ 
ject discussed was that of the paper read by 
Hon. H. K. Slayton, of Manchester, N. H., 
upon the foreign market for American but¬ 
ter. Deeply impressed with the fact that 
there is getting to be a considerable over¬ 
production of this article (increased in ap¬ 
pearance by the large quantity of spurious 
imitations thrown upon the market), Mr. 
Slayton has for several years exerted him¬ 
self to induce steamship companies to fit 
up cold storage for butter transportation ; 
but he has been met by a call for proof that 
the goods will be forthcoming when the 
steamers are ready for them. This has 
thrown him back upon the dairymen ; and 
he is now earnestly urging them to the 
work of cooperative butter-making, fixing 
the standard of production so high and 
making it so uniform that American but¬ 
ter can successfully compete in the English 
market with that of the Scandinavian 
countries, which now hold the bulk of that 
trade. Mr. Slayton makes the claim that 
this can be easily done, if the farmers will 
set themselves to the task with an earnest 
purpose. The only counter argument of 
any force seems to be that such an improve¬ 
ment in the average quality of our butter 
would insure such an increase of the home 
consumption of that grade as would leave 
an insufficient remainder for foreign ship¬ 
ment. However that may prove, there can 
be no doubt that any gain in the quality 
and uniformity of his butter will be of ad¬ 
vantage to the producer. It is not yet suf¬ 
ficiently understood that butter differs 
from most agricultural staples in being a 
luxury—a thing which can, when of the 
requisite grade of quality, be sold at a 
price far beyond its mere food value. The 
same is true of cheese; and the farmer who 
fails to fully understand the bearing of this 
fact fails to live up to his privileges or 
profit by his opportunities. So long as this 
is the case the cry of “farmin’ don’t payl” 
is but wasted breath. No business pays, 
in these times, unless it is “run for all it 
is worth.” It is not groaning over hard 
times that will help the business of any 
one nowadays. The world leaves the shift¬ 
less man to the consequences which follow 
him, with perfect unconcern. 
In addition to what Governor Hoard said 
about his main topic, he gave, at the request 
of his hearers, the chief points in profitable 
pig feeding. He put before them the evi¬ 
dence of many tests showing that the prof¬ 
itable gain of pigs is greatest at the start, 
and continues to lessen, day by day, no 
matter how free or careful the feeding, 
until a point is reached when there ceases 
to be any profit, and loss begins. From 
that point of view alone, said the Governor, 
the most profitable time to kill would be 
when the pig would not dress more than 50 
pounds. But as larger pork must be had, 
he thought the limit should be placed at 
from 175 to 225 pounds. 
Mr. G. S. Fassett, of Enosburgh, Vt., 
was the leading speaker upon the subject 
of Farm Dairy Butter. He thought it a 
doubtful question whether a farmer could 
afford to hire his butter made. That he 
found any advantage in doing so indicates 
that he has something yet to learn. 
Though Franklin County has so high a 
reputation for its butter, it is still a fact 
that a large number of its dairymen have 
not yet passed the annual average of 125 
pounds of butter per cow, while some do 
not exceed 100 pounds. “ A cow,” said he, 
“ which makes 250 pounds of butter in a 
year is six times more profitable than one 
which makes but 125 pounds.” It is said 
that Mr. Fassett’s product from a large 
herd passed the 250-pound limit a good 
many years ago. 
F. K. Moreland, of Ogdensburgh, N. Y., 
read a very acceptable paper upon Dairy 
Schools, showing how they were improving 
the butter and cheese products of those 
countries where they are in operation. He 
gave a sketch of what had been done in 
New York in this direction, and expressed 
the belief that these schools had a useful 
future in America. 
Editor T. D. Curtis, of the N. H. Mirror 
and Farmer, read two papers before the 
Association—the first upon “Some Points 
in Cheese Making,” and, the following 
day, on “ Common Sense in Dairying.” Mr. 
Curtis is full of the wisdom of a wide and 
ripe experience, and his modest, yet pointed 
and effective way of stating his facts, adds 
much to the interest of his instructions. 
Like Mr. Fassett, he is a warm supporter 
of the farm dairy, though admitting the 
usefulness of cooperative dairying in the 
disposal of the larger part of the milk, 
under present conditions. Mr. Curtis is 
much less dogmatic in his statements on 
dairy questions than the majority of 
speakers and writers, but this in no way 
detracts from their force. It seems rather 
to heighten it, and in this respect his ex¬ 
ample is not without use. 
One thing that came up, and excited a 
good deal of attention was the statement 
made by M. S. Huugerford, of Swanton, 
Vt., to the effect that the proprietary 
creameries fail to do justice to the farmers 
in the matter of prices. He charges that 
while the price paid the farmers did not 
exceed an average of 17 cents per pound, 
the creamery received as high as 
35 cents for the bulk of the product. He 
thought, before the farmers put their milk 
into such concerns, they ought to have 
some guarantee as to just treatment. He 
complained of the middlemen generally, 
stating that in June last, when the highest 
price paid at St. Albans was 13 cents, and 
tho general price 8 to 12 cents, he took 
pains to learn what the consumer was pay¬ 
ing in Boston, Fall River, and other lead¬ 
ing centers, and found by the local prices 
current, and personal inquiry, that fair to 
good dairy butter fetched from 22 to 30 
cents, and that very little eatable butter 
could be bought for less than 25 cents—an 
advance of over 100 per cent. This state 
ment produced quite a sensation, partic¬ 
ularly in view of the effort now being 
made to establish a vast central creamery 
at St. Albans, where the cream of the 
whole valley of the Missisco River would 
be manufactured by a stock company. It 
is probable that the Franklin County farm¬ 
ers will look into the matter pretty thor¬ 
oughly, before committing themselves to 
this arrangement. 
Resolutions of regret were passed in 
reference to the death of Hon. F. D. 
Douglas, the late president of the Associa¬ 
tion, and Henry M. Arms, Esq., of Spring- 
field, Vt., was chosen his successor, with 
James K. Curtis, of Georgia, Vt., as 
Secretary. 
The exhibition of dairy appliances, im¬ 
plements and machinery, which was held 
at the St. Albans Rink, in connection with 
the meeting of the association, and under 
its control, was a marked success. Every 
inch of the space was occupied, and the 
Rink was crowded from morning till 
night. If it had not been for this dis¬ 
traction it is evident that the Opera Hall, 
where the meeting was held, could not 
have contained all the people who were 
brought to town. The exhibition of butter 
brought out by the premiums offered was 
very large. Expert judges, had each ex¬ 
hibit brought to them separately, in an ad¬ 
joining room. Every precaution was taken 
to avoid the suspicion of any unfairness or 
favoritism in the awards, and, so far as 
the writer was able to learn, no com¬ 
plaint was made in regard to them by ex¬ 
hibitors. T. h. h. 
Orleans County, Vermont. 
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