O PROFITABLE DAIRYING 



nishing milk and cream for a family of five. I found 

 ready market for this butter at 42 cents a pound, and 

 could have sold much more if I could have furnished 

 it. This cow, registered No. 2028 in the American 

 Jersey Herdbook, bred seven heifer calves in succes- 

 sion. From two of these cows and three heifers with 

 their first calves, I sold sixty-five quarts of new milk, 

 had cream to use for a family of five, besides making 

 and selling 1565 pounds of butter during the year. 

 Thus encouraged, I began a more careful study of 

 dairying, and soon found there was opportunity for 

 many improvements on my farm." 



SOILING AND SILAGE 



" Your perfect system of soiling must have been 

 developed only after a most careful study of your 

 surroundings, and a close application to the princi- 

 ples worked out by others ? " 



"At first the soiling problem was more puzzling to 

 me than the management of the dairy herd. Through 

 the splendid bulletins issued by our agricultural ex- 

 periment stations and colleges, and a most careful 

 study of 'Josiah Quincy on the Soiling of Cattle,' 

 which was the best work I could find at that time on 

 the subject, I laid the foundation for my farming 

 operations. This book by Quincy has since been 

 superseded by more recent, up-to-date works by Prof. 

 Thomas Shaw on ' Soiling Crops and the Silo/ and 

 'Forage Crops Other Than Grasses/ But with 

 Quincy as my guide, I began a perfect system of ro- 

 tation and soiling, using rye, scarlet clover, red clover, 

 timothy, oats and peas, corn and barley, in succession. 



