No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 161 



him warm in winter and from getting hungry and thirsty I believe 

 I can do it. If 1 can, I get rid of a year's work, and if I sell |100 

 worth of steer twelve months sooner I gain $6.00 in interest, besides 

 that, my fertility is much better than when I take 36 months to 

 produce a three year old steer. This is a point in figuring soil im- 

 provement. 



I was talking along this line at a local farmers' meeting some time 

 ago, and after the meeting a farmer same to me and said he had a 

 shed where part of the barn manure was kept and the balance went 

 into the barnyard, and when put on the land he could see that one 

 load from the shed was worth three loads from the yard. On my 

 way to Chester county week before last, I saw from the car window 

 beautiful farms, with grand buildings, in good repair, fences white- 

 washed and everything clean and neat as a new pin. Many had 

 gone to the trouble and expense of putting a nice stone wall (not a 

 fence) with a shingle roof on it, around their barnyards, and I could 

 see the colored manure water coming through the wall and running 

 down along the roadside in a neat little ditch made for that purpose. 

 The day will come when this will be a thing of the past. You could 

 see the crops in the fields needed that fertility; the farm needed it 

 for the improvement of the soil. 



This is one of the mistakes of life that has a price to it. Another 

 mistake of life is raising 100 bushels of wheat for $65.00, and leaving 

 1100.00 worth of that which improves the soil run out of the barn- 

 yard and leak away. Taking care of the barnyard manure, the 

 fertility we have, applying it on grass as soon as possible after the 

 manure is made, always spreading it as hauled out, getting vegetable 

 matter as cheaply as possible to plow down, and holding on to, and 

 using our red clover before it gets away from us, is, in my opinion, 

 the milk in the cocoanut, the keynote of soil improvement. 



MANAGEMENT OF DAIKY COWS ON THE FARM. 



By L. W. LIGHTY, East Berlin, Pa. 



THE MAN. 



The first factor of success is the man or manager; hence no profit 

 can be made on a farm with dairy cows unless the man is a lover of 

 11—7—1900 



