CHAPTER VIII 



THE MODERN FARM 



ARMING has so changed in the past fifty 

 years that one almost needs a new vocabu- 

 lary to express the operations of the farm 

 as now conducted. Diversity is still the 

 rule in Litchfield County, but is modified 

 on most farms by having a leading specialty. In the 

 majority of cases this specialty is dairying, which in 

 general means the production of market milk, either 

 for local markets or for shipment to New York. This 

 leading specialty is commonly supplemented by the pro- 

 duction of potatoes and other garden truck, by the 

 production of small and large fruits for market, or, in 

 the Housatonic valley, by the growing of tobacco. On 

 many farms poultry forms an important part of the 

 cash income of the farmer, and wherever dairy by-prod- 



