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wood, saw timber, bark, etc., and we believe that our present rate of 

 cutting will be continuous. 



Live Stock. — We are not handling a very large amount of live 

 stock on the farm. A small flock of sheep, and from three to five 

 brood sows are kept on the farm. 



The experience of the present summer indicates that our combined 

 pasture and woodland will furnish only limited amount of pasture, 

 perhaps less than one sheep per acre, and as for pigs, it does little 

 more than furnish a runaway lot, with perhaps a benefit from grubs 

 and worms picked up which serve to balance the ration. 



Giving the pigs the run of our 5-year-old sod orchard has resulted 

 in mitigating the damage from mice with little or no damage to 

 trees from the pigs. 



Spraying potatoes. 



The Farm an Object Lesson. — On the whole we think this farm 

 has amply justified its existence as a test farm, and the plans for 

 the future ought to make it more valuable. Costing as it does very 

 little above operating expenses, besides improvements in the way of 

 fences, roads, ditches, buildings, etc., that have been added from 

 year to year together with the increased value of farm lands, so 

 that on the whole, the investment is a good one from a financial 

 standpoint alone. If no loss to our crops for the present year should 

 be sustained, we will show a profit over operating expenses. 



This farm can be carried with profit to the community and the 

 State as an object lesson in what may be done without considerable 

 outlay, with the added value of all strictly experimental data we 

 may secure. 



Our familiarity with the apple growing sections of the western 

 part of the State, leads us to think a more suitable location as to 

 soil, slope, etc., can not be secured than that we have on this farm. 



