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with our environment I could not afford to haul manure if it 

 Avas given to me. We are four hundred and fifty feet above 

 the villaije or city, and as fast as I hauled manure the weeds 

 grew, some of them, very fast. So I went to work and built 

 sheds over my yards, keeping my cattle in, buying a little 

 food at first, and went into the dairy business. I found I 

 had not manure enough on the farm, could not make 

 enough to go round ; and the question arose, shall I 

 put thirty or forty loads, as I see my neighbors do, on 

 a little piece of ground, and then in the fall of the year 

 go down into the town or to the four corners and brag what 

 a tremendous crop I raised, when the daisy occupied three- 

 quarters of the soil in the back field when I started, or shall 

 I try to bring all this farm up and make every acre of it 

 valuable ? Some of it I seeded down and put into permanent 

 pastures, and I fed those pastures nearly every year with 

 just a little bit, and men come a good ways to see those 

 pastures on my hillsides, carrying, some of them, an 

 animal to the acre, with a little feed for it in the stable. 

 Now I go over nearly all my farm every year, or a good 

 share of it, and keep it up. That is the way I have secured 

 success. There is not an acre on the place, except a few 

 that are kept for ornamental purposes, that is unproductive, 

 and there are places where I can make a little money even 

 at the present prices. 



Professor Cheesmax. How larije a farm is it, and what 

 is the distance from the barn to the farthest field to which 

 you cart your manure ? 



Professor Roberts. The total area of the farm is two 

 hundred and sixty acres. There are about one hundred and 

 sixty acres all told of aral)le land. Our manure has to be 

 hauled less than half a mile, the buildings fortunately being 

 situated nearly in the centre of the farm. 



Professor Cheesman. When you go over that farm to 

 keep it up, what do you do? Don't you put something on 

 ]t when you take somethinir oft' ? You must do somethinir. 

 Five or six loads of manure per acre would not do nuich 

 towards keeping that farm up. 



Professor Roberts. If I had five or six hundred loads 

 of manure, that would be about five cords to the acre. I 



