Things Told By New York Dairymen

The importance of maintaining the fertility of the farms was pronounced at the late convention of the New York Dairymen's association as being the most important qnestion bef ore the dairymen. Mr. F. D. Curtís said: "Wemustengage in a mixed agriculture, not confinirig ourselves to one line. The silo is ote means of getting out of the rat. So also is the raising of grain and feeding the same on the farm where it is raised. It takes more milk to make a ponnd of cheese or a pound of butter than it did twenty years ago, and this comes from the lessened fertility of onr farms." A. D. Boker, of Aurelius, favored dairying on a grain farm. He had f ound it an advantage to raise the grain consumed instead of buying it. He said: "Any farmer who can raise corn cannot afford to do without a silo." Secretary Woodward explained the cost of keeping cows out of doors as follows: ■'It takes twenty-four pounds of hay to keep a cow twenty-four hours if she runs ont of doors. If she is kept in all the time she can be kept up as well with eighteen pounds of hay."