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STATEMENTS OF EXHIBITORS, 



JOHN HOLBERT'S DAmY. 



My farm and butter dairy is located in Chemung Co. adjoining the 

 Pennsylvania State line, is elevated about eight hundred feet, above 

 tide water, at 42° north latitude. My farm contains 200 acres of land 

 which is worked or farmed the past season as follows : I keep and 

 milk 40 cows, and my grain, grass and meadows are as follows : 



acres. 



Wheat, 24 



Oats, , . 8 



Corn and Potatoes, 20 



Summer fallow, , 2 



Meadow 40 



Pasture, 74 



Wood and waste land, 22 



Buckwheat, 10 



200 



The soil is a gravelly loam, subsoil the same. I use no plants or 

 slops for my cows ; all I give them is hay, grass and corn-stalks. I 

 think corn-stalks preferable to any other fodder for milch cows. My 

 pastures are clover and timothy, and my meadows the same. I sow 

 plaster (Cayuga) every spring on all my pastures and meadows ; I 



