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Dairy cows at pasture 73 



Babcock tester glassware 75 



Babcock milk tester 76 



Churning in the olden days 78 



Modern cream separator 79 



Combined churn and butter worker 80 



Rounding out the cheese 82 



In the curing room 84 



Bottled milk ready for market 86 



Getting samples of soil from fields 88 



Getting humus into the soil 90 



Disking the ground before plowing 92 



Plowing levees for rice 93 



Two ways of growing corn 95 



The plow comes first in all tillage operations 97 



Modern tools on large hay farm 100 



Cotton ready for the pickers 102 



Crimson clover a fine cover crop 105 



Corn improved by selection 107 



Seeding corn land to wheat 109 



Cotton bolls 111 



This plowing is ideal 112 



Cultivating beans 115 



Spraying the orchard 117 



Engine power used in orchard 119 



Remarkable Leghorn and her achievements 122 



Out for an airing 124 



Prize winning Shorthorn cattle 126 



Hackney, typical of the harness class 128 



Cheapest gains are made with young animals 132 



Relation between daily gain in weight and age in days 133 



Relation between cost per 100 pounds of gain and age in days 134 



Jersey cow showing dairy type 135 



Angus steer showing beef type 136 



Section of cow stable floor 138 



Supper time for the pigs 139 



Trio of light Brahmas 141 



Giant harvesters at work 144 



Various types of sickles 145 



American cradle 146 



Threshing the wheat 147 



Track contrivance for feeding cattle 150 



Relative cost of power when supplied by horse and by man 151 



Belgian stallion, showing draft type 



Covered barnyard of small cost 157 



Before the coming of modern wagons 164 



Fattening steers 168 



