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cow giyes the best results. Also the dairy farm 

 must have something besides rocky pastures. 

 There must be stretches of meadow and areas 

 adapted to corn for, as a rule, the man who at- 

 tempts dairying as his main business without the 

 aid of the com plant will be almost hopelessly 

 handicapped from the beginning. There are cer- 

 tain exceptions to this general statement. Some 

 regions are either so far north or else lie so far 

 above sea-level that the seasons are too short and 

 cool for this heat-loving plant, and yet our native 

 grasses are most thoroughly at home. In these 

 localities, one may find a highly developed dairy 

 industry without the sUo. 



It should be borne in mind that the cow can 

 utilize steep and rocky hillsides to advantage only 

 in conjunction with corresponding areas of land 

 that are fairly free of stone and level enough to 

 permit the use of modem agricultural machinery. 

 Fortunately this is just the condition which ob- 

 tains on many of the farms in the Hill-Country of 

 the northeastern states. 



It is, of course, utterly impossible to lay down 

 any scheme of crop rotation that will fit all sections 

 of the country or that will apply to every farm in 

 any particular locality. Indeed, every farm con- 

 stitutes a separate problem in farm management. 

 It is equally impossible to say how many cows 

 ought to be maintained on a farm of any given size 

 because this Avill vary through the very widest 



