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compound a ration with wheat bran, oilmeal, corn 
and mixed timothy and clover hay. He had too little 
alfalfa hay yet to make much show in the feeding 
barn. The lambs throve; they became very fat in- 
deed and in May weighed 108% lbs. In fact in all 
the years that lambs have been fed on Woodland 
Farm no such gain has since been secured, which 
simply shows that a greenhorn may do as well as 
an expert, if he has his heart in it and is earnest 
and careful. The boy had kept careful account of 
what the lambs had eaten so he knew what the gain 
had cost him. When he had figured it all up he 
found that he had made a clear profit from feeding 
these lambs of $115, the first real profit from 
Woodland Farm since his new venture in manage- 
ment. It was a small sum, yet mightily it encour- 
aged him. And then he dreamed another dream, out 
there on the sunny side of the barn. Thinking it 
over, he said: ‘Some day we'll feed a thousand 
lambs on this farm.”’ But he told no one that, not 
even his wife, for all would have smiled in derision, 
for had he not bought part of the hay that he had 
fed this first 200? 
But there was more manure to haul out than ever 
before, and it was put where corn would be grown 
and where alfalfa might be expected to succeed, 
and more alfalfa was sown. Wherever the manure 
had been put out and the drains laid the alfalfa suc- 
ceeded. Inoculation took care of itself on Woodland 
Farm after the first start, because of the use of 
manure made from alfalfa hay perhaps, and every 
