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crowd down prices and thus deplete our profits. If we sell 

 milk at our doors there are the irresponsible pedlers who 

 fail to take our product according to contract, or with sadly 

 deficient memory forget to pay for that which they have 

 taken. But I forbear. I feel that I need not allude to the 

 pleasures of milk farming, but will pass on to say that so far 

 as I comprehend the situation, the things essential to success 

 in mill?: production may be very briefly enumerated. A 

 naturally good farm, well located, is a great consideration. 

 To have it highly cultivated is more than desirable. Let it 

 be stocked with carefully selected cows, well cared for ; and 

 let their food be ample and suitable. And to these we may 

 add the need of wise supervision ; while all that is lacking 

 should be made up by close application. 



As our farm is devoted to milk production, it may be of 

 some interest, and not entirely out of place in closing, to 

 give some account of it together with crops and feeding of 

 stock. There are in the farm ten acres of pasturage, 

 seventy acres of mowing and tillage land and twenty-five 

 acres of light land in a fair state of cultivation. The re- 

 mainder is unsuitable for cultivation, being covered with 

 wood and brush. It is all together and the interior fences 

 have been removed, leaving only those around the 

 pasture. 



The building of a silo two years ago last spring created 

 somethinsc of a revolution in our methods. Not that we 

 intended this, so much as that we could not find time to do 

 anything else than to produce material to fill it. Whereas 

 we formerly grew strawberries, potatoes, cabbages, melons, 

 with a little other garden truck, we now grow only corn and 

 hay. We look for an income from the sale of new milk, 

 with a little skim-milk, cream and butter, all sold to con- 

 sumers. We also sell some hay, and hope to be able to 

 dispose of more when the farm gets in better condition. 

 Our corn for filling the silo is raised on light land and run- 

 out mowinofs. The ffrass land is re-seeded as soon as the 

 corn is removed. We use the common kind of corn, that 

 grows eight to ten feet high, for the silo. It is planted in 

 hills seventeen inches apart, it ears out heavily, and is cut 

 when just beginning to glaze. We use Canada ashes, and 



