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won Junior champion award at the Charleston Exposition, 1901-2, and 

 has been placed in service in the Biltmore herd. 



Superintendent George F. Weston tells of dairy management on Bilt- 

 more Farms in a letter as follows 1 



"While great attention is paid in the Biltmore herd to the breeding 

 operations both to increase the persistent milking qualities, as well as total 

 milk yields, and to improve the type, the herd is really a dairy herd, founded 

 on a milking basis, and the sale of milk and cream is the principal of 

 the many enterprises carried on on these farms. With the completion of a 

 central dairy barn and creamery, they have now commenced the equipment of 

 small outstanding dairy farms which will be run upon the co-operative 

 system; that is, the farm in running order with all necessary buildings, cows, 

 utensils, pastures, etc., will be turned over to a tenant who- will separate the 

 cream there and carry it to the central creamery, utilize the skim milk in 

 the feeding of his calves and Berkshires, and he will receive for his work a 

 monthly amount which will represent the income from the sales after a cer- 

 tain sum has been deducted for interest on plant and cost of marketing from 

 the price that the Biltmore Farms receive for their products. This amount 

 will be about the same as if the tenant lived in a dairy section, owned his 

 cattle and plant, and was selling his milk at a creamery. Dairying con- 

 ducted along modern lines is a new thing in this section and many problems 

 have been worked out, such as the best pastures and soiling crops, and, to 

 a certain extent, a market has to be created for high class products. Ths 

 demand for these, however, is continually on the increase and it is intended 

 to continue equipping these farms until this demand is fully met. 



"About 25 cows will be kept on each farm in order to make them small 

 so that the social and educational features of the settlement may be worked 

 up to the best advantage with good schools, etc., as these will have to be in- 

 dependent of those now conducted by the Biltmore Estate in the village." 



Not all patrons can secure cows like Golden Rosebay and her sisters, 

 but none need be barred from using this ideal to breed up to and greatly 

 improve over those now owned. A farm will support a Golden Rosebay as 

 readily as it will sustain life in a $25 scrub. It lies with the owner to set his 

 own standard of production and perfection. 



