PROFITABLE DAIRYING 



CHAPTER I 



A MODEL DAIRY FARM 



J. D. DETRICH 



THE American Agriculturist of 

 New York, published the first com- 

 plete account of the remarkable 

 dairy farm of the Rev. ]. D. Det- 

 rich, in Montgomery County, Pa., 

 in the vicinity of Philadelphia. In 

 a recent letter, Prof. W. G. John- 

 son told the author that his atten- 

 tion was first called to this farm 

 by a friend while he was attending 

 a meeting of the Philadelphia Milk 

 Shippers' Union in August, 1902. He then arranged 

 with Mr. Detrich to visit the farm that fall, and wrote 

 up the story which appeared in the American Agricul- 

 turist, December 6 and 13, 1902. Never, perhaps, has 

 the description of any farm caused a more profound 

 sensation in the agricultural world than did this series 

 of articles. This dominie was doing on fifteen acres 

 with a dairy herd what most farmers could not 

 accomplish on one hundred. 

 The story was copied from the American Agricul- 



