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MODEL DAIRY FARM IN THE OZARKS. 



(A. A. Coult, in Journal of Agriculture and Star Farmer.) 



Colonel W. H, Phelps of Carthage has proved that dairying in 

 the Ozarks of Southwest Missouri is the quickest way to get big 

 dividends on the money invested if the plant is equipped with 

 modern utensils. His faith in the business is so great that he has 

 invested about $100,000 in live stock, buildings and land in Jasper 

 county, where his Meadowmere Dairy Farm is located. 



Dair.\- barn and part of herd owned by Colonel Phelps. 



Three years ago Colonel Phelps began to invest in unimproved 

 farm land and was gradually putting it in condition for raising 

 large grain crops without intending to take up the dairy business, 

 until he heard Dairy Commissioner W. P. Cutler give a talk on 

 dairy farming at the Jasper County Corn Show in the fall of 1911. 

 He became impressed with the possibilities of that line of farming 

 and immediately began to make plans for building improved dairy 

 barns and purchasing cream-producing Jersey cows. 



He had plenty of rock on the surface of his land to build the 

 walls of the main barn, which is 101 feet long, 42 feet wide, 14 feet 

 to eaves and 33 feet to gable. By putting the rock into the walls 

 he got it off the fields and can grow larger crops. The walls are 

 18 inches thick set with plenty of windows to give natural light to 

 the cows inside. The entire floor is concrete, with drains behind 

 the cows connecting with sewers which convey the liquid manure 

 to a concrete cistern, twelve feet long, six feet wide and six feet 



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