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quality and standard. Here we have a work for most 

 thoughtful consumers, and farmers to unite in pressing up- 

 on our established authorities that the public ma}' the bet- 

 ter appreciate the advantages of pure milk. 



REPORT OF COxMMITTEE ON TREADWELL 

 FARM. 



The Treadwell Farm still continues under the manage- 

 ment of L. D. Stan wood as tenant. Everything about the 

 farm appears to be kept in a neat, tidy condition. 

 About the usual amount of hay has been raised this sea- 

 son, 33 tons, potatoes, cabbages, ruta bagas and other 

 vegetables, to some extent. Five acres of ensilage corn 

 of the southern white variety have been grown, produc- 

 ing 81.4 tons at a cost of 13.39 per ton in the silo; to grow 

 this 16.2 tons per acre, five cords of barn manure and 

 500 lbs. of Ames' fertilizer per acre were applied. Mr. 

 Stanwood is more than pleased with the experiment of 

 feeding the ensilage of last year's production. The new 

 silo built last year has proved entirely successful. 



There were three acres of field corn of the Angel of 

 Midnight variety, grown upon the farm this year. Five 

 cords of barn manureapplied in the hill, per acre, produced 

 forty-one and one-half bushels and two tons of stover per 

 acre, at a cost of production of -^40.25. As it is conceded 

 by some, that good corn stover is worth as much per ton 

 as English hay, for producing milk, and if this is so, which 

 we hardly admit, as hay this year is worth i|20 per ton 

 in the barn, it will be seen, that the two tons of stover 

 is worth as much as the cost of cultivation of an acre of 

 corn. And thus Mr. Stanwood gets his corn for nothing, 

 or it may be called his net profit. In considering the 

 value of stover in comparison with hay, some conserva- 

 tive men, while admitting the fact of its being of equal 



