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the silo, a larger amount of stock fodder was raised each year. 

 This rotation continued till 1900, increased the stock carrying 

 capacity of the farm so that it produced coarse fodders enough, 

 including pasturage, to carry an animal to the acre. In 1880, 

 with eighty-five acres, including the pasture, only fifteen animals 

 were kept. In twenty years, with the pasture out of the farm, 

 it produced coarse food enough to keep thirty-five animals the 

 entire year. 



As was stated in the beginning, the farm is now being 

 managed along practically the same lines. The cows are con- 

 fined in the pasture less however, and the summer silo, built for 

 that purpose, takes the place of quite an amount of soiling crops. 



This is not phenomenal work. It is equalled and exceeded 

 by many New England farmers today. But it shows what may 

 be done on good New England soil, without large expenditures 

 for feeds or fertilizers, and when so much of our area is lying 

 practically idle, much of it in sections with many natural attrac- 

 tions and near food markets, it may possibly be an example that 

 shall lead some others to go and do likewise. 



