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but for permanent pasture just the reverse. The most thorough cultivation and as 

 nearly as possible th" extinction of all weeds is the rule of the farm. We are de- 

 voting our attention to the raising of thorough -bred Jersey stock, and South-down 

 sheep; of the former, we now have a herd of seventy, and the raising of calves from 

 the best strains of Jersey cows is an important object, and source of profit to the farm. 

 A portion of the milk from the dairy is sold, and the balance made into butter. 

 We use a Cooley creamer and Stoddard churn in the manufacture of the butter, 

 for which we find a ready home market at good prices As the milk is perfectly 

 sweet when skimmed it is warmed and used as food for the calves. The greatest 

 care is taken to keep all of the stock, the stables and all of the utensils perfectly 

 clean. We believe that'one of the best helps towards keeping the stock in a thriv- 

 ing condition, is a warm stable well ventilated, and kept free from all offensive 

 odors, with plenty of clean dry bedding, and that they are kindly handled and fed, 

 and milked at regular hours, and as nearly as possible by the same persons. We 

 think it better farming, in the end, to feed the produce of the farm to stock, and 

 to keep the land fertilized, than to sell the hay and grain. A great deal has been 

 done towards temoving all the surfacestone and rocks ami making them into sub- 

 stantial stone walls thereby improving the fences and making the land much more 

 easily tilled and more productive. I have given you the main ideas of the manage- 

 ment of the farm; there are many minor ones I might speak of, but fearing to make 

 this report too long. T am very respectfully yours, 



Mrs. Thos. Allen, 

 By W. G. Kaknek, Farmer. 



To the Secretary of the, Berkshire Agricultural Society: 



Dear Sir: — It being my good fortune to have been awarded the first premium 

 on small farms by your committee, it becomes my duty to make a general state- 

 ment as to the manner in which I have managed said farm. The farm consists of 

 sixty acres, twenty-two acres of woodland and pasture, trout ponds, lawns and 

 roads contain about three acres, and thirty-five acres are subject to cultivation. 

 Inasmuch as the house and farm is occupied by Win. H. Davol and family of 

 Brooklyn, as a summer residence, it is necessary that the lawn, walks, and garden 

 should be kept in perfect order, and also to beautify the grounds in many ways, 

 which under ordinary circumstances would not be essential to good farming, and 

 the fact that it is so used as a summer resort causes my management to vary con- 

 siderably from what it naturally would if I was running the farm strictly on money 

 basis. I, for instance, winter more horses and fewer cows than I naturally would 

 consider profitable I also make epiite a specialty of my garden which consists of 

 about one acre, and upon which I was fortunate to be awarded the first premium 

 last vear. My cows are grades and I am now milking" seven. I set the milk in 

 deep' cans in ice water, and send the butter in tubs to Brooklyn, and having never 

 succeeded in fatting calves on skim milk, as some farmers seem to, 1 fed mine to the 

 pi i*. Of my thirty-five acres of cultivable land, I plough about six acres for 

 corn, potatoes, oats and roots and mow the balance. In ploughing I remove the 

 fast stone and improve the land as much as possible, and in the case of corn I 

 plough my manure under and use Bradley's phosphate in the hill-and this last year 

 havested seventy bushels of shelled corn to the acre. I always endeavor to plant 

 m> larger acreage of crops than I can manure and fertilize thoroughly and find time 

 to take good care of, believing this method to be most satisfactory and profitable 

 in the long run. In farming I try to be systematic, do everything thoroughly, and 

 exercise all the common sense nature has endowed me with. 



Yours Respectfully, 



Wm. II. Davol, 

 Per E f. Tower. 

 Pittsfield, Dec. [2th, 1885. 



