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we are able to grow good crops of clover each time we rotate 

 across the fields. In harvesting the clover we mow with the 

 mower and load directly after the mower with the hay loader, 

 and cart to the cutter, cutting into l/^-inch lengths. This is 

 alternated with a load of rye or wheat cut into the silo in 

 the proportion of 2 or 3 loads of clover to 1 of wheat or rye. 

 By planning our crops in this way, and by growing the big 

 Eureka corn, we are able to fill our 375 tons of silo room 

 in September with corn, and in June with 125 to 130 tons of 

 clover and rye, or wheat, so that we can give our milking 

 cows a full feed of ensilage every day in the year. 



This season just passed has been the driest in the knowl- 

 edge of our oldest residents, yet with all of this fearful hand- 

 icap we were able to keep our milking herd up to a good 

 milk flow. We were obliged to confine our cows in the stable 

 on the fifth day of July, as the heat and drought and annoy- 

 ance of flies in the pasture were raising havoc with their 

 milk production ; yet after confining them for two weeks in 

 our stable, which is large and airy and cool, the milk flow 

 increased so that at the close of the month of July we had 

 produced within 786 pounds of the amount produced in 

 June, which is considered the banner month of the year. 

 The following figures testify to these facts: milk produced in 

 June at IMillbrook farm, with 53 cows milking, 30,395 

 pounds ; produced in July, 50, or 3 less cows milking, 35,- 

 GOO pounds ; shortage, 78() pounds. June 25, average daily 

 production, 1,273 pounds; July 5, or two weeks later, cows 

 shrank in milk to 945 pounds per day or nearly 160 quarts 

 less than on June 25. On July 15, or ten days after con- 

 fining in the stable and feeding a full ration of clover and 

 wheat ensilage and hay with the usual amount of grain, 

 the herd produced 1,094 pounds, or 149 pounds gain over 

 amount on July 5, making up nearly 75 quarts of the 160 

 quarts shrinkage. Before the end of the month the herd had 

 nearly reached the average of the June milk production, as 

 the figures shoAV only 786 pounds less produced in the month 

 of July. 



These figures show to us that in order to keep up a maxi- 

 mum flow of milk all through the summer season we must 



