AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



January, 1908 



The Sea-edge of the Estate 



hundred quarts for each 

 cow, while individual speci- 

 mens have recorded as high 

 as eight thousand five hun- 

 dred quarts, with a per- 

 centage of five and twenty- 

 five hundreds butter fat. 



All this is done upon or- 

 dinary feed. During the 

 winter months the cows are 

 fed from twenty-five to 

 thirty pounds of ensilage, 

 with seven pounds of corn 

 meal and five pounds of 

 shorts. As soon as there is 

 green fodder the grain ra- 

 tion is lessened, and they 

 receive green grass, clover 

 and oats. 



Only about forty acres of 

 the farm are cultivated 

 from year to year. A part 



of this is laid down to mixed clover and timothy, while in 

 other fields each of these crops is grown separately. Each 



spring and fall fresh stable manure is 

 hauled upon this land at the rate of twelve 

 cords to the acre. This is plowed under in 

 the early spring, and the grounds planted 

 to corn and potatoes. In the fall it is re- 

 plowed, and next spring it is sowed to 

 barley or other grain. After harvesting the 

 barley the ground receives the third plow- 

 ing, and is seeded to timothy in the month 

 of September. One thousand pounds of 

 bone to the acre is used as a fertilizer. 



The twenty acres sown with mixed 

 clover and timothy yield at the rate of four 

 tons to the acre ; as do the six acres of solid 

 clover and the twelve acres of timothy for 

 the horses. 



"World's End" might well be called a 

 little village in itself, with its acres of 

 woodland and grassland, fronting the sea, 

 on a point of land jutting into the bay. 



Viking of Hingham, 75,931, Bred at " World's End Farm" 



Farm Horses Ready for Work 



Two islands in the bay also belong to this estate. It has its 

 own workshop, where carpentering and blacksmithing are 



done by competent 

 workmen who are 

 employed here all 

 the year round. 



Following the 

 road from Nantas- 

 ket Junction over 

 the crest of Old 

 Colony Hill, one 

 finds a smooth 

 driveway of more 

 than a mile in 

 length, overarched 

 by the spreading 

 branches of maples 

 half a century old. 

 Midway one comes 

 suddenly upon the 

 house itself, which 

 stands back from 

 the road, with a 

 frontage of lawn 

 shaded by stately 

 trees. The en- 

 trance has one fea- 



