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The eighty acres are well tilled, and are given heavy 

 applications of manure produced by the thirty-six head 

 of dairy stock and four work animals kept on the place. 

 The other stock consists of three hundred hens which 

 yield a net income of one dollar per hen in the form of 

 fresh eggs which are retailed to regular patrons, and de- 

 livered by the driver of the milk wagon. The eggs are 

 sold at current prices quoted by local grocerymen. Three 

 brood sows are kept, and they furnish considerable pork 

 for family use. Six thousand dollars' worth of milk, but- 

 ter, eggs and pork were sold last year, but this year the 

 sales are to be increased to seven thousand dollars. The 

 cost of operating the farm is deducted from this amount. 



At the time of our visit last summer, the farm was 

 devoted to the following crops : one f ourteen-acre field of 

 com and sorghum used for family silage ; another field of 

 silage com and sorghum; forty acres of pasture, and 

 three acres of well-kept orchard which contains beauti- 

 ful trees that are full of apples of the Stark, York Im- 

 perial and Ben Davis varieties. The lawn about the 

 house and bam lots contains three acres. 



On June 1st this progressive farmer cut fourteen 

 acres of barley and put it in the silo. The silage from 

 this crop was fed from July 5th to September 1st, and 

 because of the rather small acreage devoted to pasture, 

 the barley silage was useful. The dairyman stated that 

 it raised the milk yield of his cows one gallon to the cow 

 each day, and the chickens were fed some too, and they 

 increased the egg yield. The barley silage was sweet, 

 palatable and relished by the cows as we can personally 

 testify, as we examined it. The grain was in dough stage 

 and the barley contained considerable grain. Corn was 

 planted on the field from which the barley was removed 

 as it is customary on this productive farm to make the 

 land yield a maximum of feed, and the com made a heavy 

 crop of silage. The fourteen acres furnished sufficient 

 green barley to fill a hundred and twenty-ton silo. The 

 barley, when cut for silage, which was as high as a man 's 

 hip, was estimated to contain forty bushels of grain per 

 acre. 



This dairyman took a preference to the glazed. tile 

 silo, and purchased the blocks for a sixteen by thirty-foot 



