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condition and fertility of the land, and 

 in equipping the barns for a modern 

 dairy business. The herd consists of 

 one hundred head of fine dairy stock, 

 Jerseys and Holsteins. The milk finds 

 ready sale in nearly every market at 

 fifteen cents per quart and cream at 

 one dollar per quart delivered fresh by 

 automobile delivery. Surplus milk is 

 made into butter and retailed at fifty 

 cents per pound. We have found that 

 consumers are ready to pay a reason- 

 able price for dairy products from 

 clean, healthy, tuberculin-tested cows, 

 handled under modern sanitary condi- 

 tions. We hesitated before we allowed 

 the state farm to do any mercantile 

 business, and have been criticised by 



ried on as directed by the professor in 

 charge of those respective departments 

 at Storrs, and by the work done largely 

 by advanced students in the depart- 

 ment in which he is especially interested. 



A student is better fitted to cope with 

 the problems of farm life either on a 

 farm of his own or as a manager, if 

 he has served a term at Gilbert farm. 

 We endeavor to make the work as 

 scientific and practical as well as in- 

 structive as possible. 



The first Friday of every month is 

 visitor's day when all who are interest- 

 ed in agriculture are welcomed at the 

 farm and may inspect its work and pro- 

 gress. On that day a professor comes 

 from the college at Storrs and lectures 



THE MILKING MAID. 

 ' "Nobody asked you, sir,' she said." 



shortsighted friends for deciding in 

 favor of the business. But we feel that 

 we would not be demonstrating prac- 

 tical farming if we did not make a prac- 

 tical disposition of the farm's product, 

 the sale of which nearly pays the run- 

 ning expenses, leaving the endowment 

 for permanent improvements, experi- 

 ments and instruction. We have also 

 Shropshire sheep and Percheron horses 

 and expect to establish a poultry plant, 

 and to do some demonstrating in the 

 way of orchard setting and forestry. 

 The various operations will be car- 



from two to four P. M., and gives prac- 

 tical demonstrations. On November 

 third, Professor J. M. Truemand had 

 for his subject "Production of Market 

 Milk." On December first, Mr. W. L. 

 Ganigus will discuss farm horses and 

 Connecticut sheep. Every one inter- 

 ested in modern farming is cordially 

 invited to visit the farm on these days. 



The photographs in this article were 

 taken by Edward F. Bigelow. They 

 are intended to be thoroughly "prac- 

 tical !" 



