SOME SUCCESSFUL FARMS 541 



nure per acre every three years, or with 20 tons every six 

 years. 



The owner of this farm rented it for many years. He 

 then bought it, but at first had an $8000 mortgage on the 

 place. This was paid off, the daughters were sent to 

 college (there were no sons), and the owner is now in com- 

 fortable circumstances. 



This farm is typical of the most successful dairy farms 

 in all parts of the country. It combines cash crops with 

 dairying. In New York, the most common cash crops 

 on different successful dairy farms are timothy hay, 

 potatoes, cabbage, apples. (See pages 122 to 131.) 

 Usually the farms that combine two of these crops make 

 more than the farms that grow only one cash crop. 1 In 

 the corn-belt, the common cash crop that combines well 

 with dairying is corn. Sometimes the corn is marketed 

 through the hog. In other regions, barley, oats, grass 

 seed, wheat, etc., are combined with dairying to make the 

 most profitable type of farming. The most profitable 

 type of farming on dairy farms in the cotton-belt is to 

 raise corn and hay for feed and cotton to sell. 



A SUCCESSFUL GENERAL FARM 



This farm is 6 miles from a small village, 1^ miles from 

 a railroad, and about 50 miles from Buffalo. It contains 

 330 acres, nearly all of which is tillable ; 228 acres were in 

 crops other than pasture in 1911. The soils are classified 

 by the Bureau of Soils as Dunkirk fine sandy loam and 

 Dunkirk gravelly loam. 



1 New York, Cornell Bulletin 295, pages 506 to 509 and pages 511 to 



528. 



