June, 1940] 



Farm Management in Colebrook 



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be an increase in the more favored areas without an increase in the 

 total. Moreover, due to ownership problems or topography restric- 

 tions on many farms in the Colebrook area, improvement programs 

 will not be followed. -Vn increase in production on some of the bet- 

 ter farms will tend to ofifset reduction on others. 



The possibility of increased production on the better farms due to 

 improved cropping management is not inconsistent with long-time 

 national policy, because total production of milk in the whole area 

 may not be increased and because production costs are lowered by 

 the improvements undertaken. The operators on marginal lands who 

 do not make improvements are further handicapped by the im- 

 proved jiractices of men en better land, and are less able to compete 

 in the prodtiction of milk. If the results of improved practices were 

 developed quickly, the difficulties of the marginal farmer would be 

 intensified which would raise serious short-time adjustment prob- 

 lems. 



The present organization on Farm B is 29 cows, 12 young stock, 

 three work horses, 53 acres of hay, eight acres of oats and four acres 



ROTATION 

 PERMANENT 



Figure 21. Cropping plan on a large dairy farm. 



This involves two separate rotations, a four-year potato-hay and a six-year 

 sl!age-hay rotation. Other fields are in permanent hay to be plowed and reseeded 

 when necessary. 



