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head of hogs if the season is favorable. To get this amount of grazing- 

 it is very necessary to keep all stock off the pasture from the time the 

 frost is out of the ground in February until the grass is well headed out. 

 The pasture is well manured from the cow barn, the manure being hauled 

 from the barn wdiile fresh. Pure water is very essential in a dairy herd. 

 "From my registered herd of Jersey cows, seven in number, for 

 the past year (part of the cows with first calf) I have made an average 

 of 400 pounds of butter per cow, which was marketed to private families 

 at 25 cents per pound, realizing $709.95, besides supplying the family 

 of four with butter and cream. The skim milk was mixed with shorts- 

 and together with corn was fed to registered Poland China pigs, of 

 which I sold to the amount of ^26.y$. Besides I have left the World's 

 Fair prize winning herd of Poland Chinas under twelve months of age 

 that was fed from this ration, and they are worth at least $300. Pre- 

 miums won on this herd amounted to over $165. I have realized $150 

 from my Jerseys in other ways. My total receipts for the year were 

 $1,657.50. The expense of feeding all of my stock was $819, leaving a 

 net profit of $832.50." 



REPORT OF EDMUND HOSMER. MARSIIl'MELD, MO. 



"Some fourteen years ago when we moved upon this farm, the 

 products of the place did not exceed $200 in a good year. We got one- 

 third for rent and after taxes and repairs had been paid had left about 

 $20 net, on an average, per year. Since the first of last March, less than 

 eleven months, our sales from this farm have reached $10,106.80. When 

 the year is up and we add to our sales the value of increased stock, the 

 total proceeds for the year will amount to something more than $11,000. 

 When we moved to the farm, our family physician said to a friend : 

 'That old man has gone to the poorest farm in Webster county to starve.^ 

 Then we thought we could see the possible farm. We still see the pos- 

 sible farm but our trouble in the future will be ouv age." (^Ir. Hosmer 

 is now 78 years old.) 



REPORT OF .T. W. LEE & SOX. MEXICO, MO. 



"We have been engaged in the dairy business for nineteen years 

 in Mexico, Missouri. We began the business without any experience and 

 with very little capital, but have succeeded fairly well. We keep Hol- 

 stein cows, mostly thoroughbreds, a good Holstein bull from one of the 

 best families of the breed. 



"Our method of feeding is to keep our cows on pasture in summer 

 and when they are put in the barn at milking time (4 a. m. and 7:30 p. 

 m.) each cow is fed a small ration of mixed feed which she eats while 



