. Le manuel du dairyman. Un traité pratique sur la laiterie .. . e encore mieux. Peut-être le plan de la ferme d'auteurs, donné à la figure1, pourrait suggérer ce qui peut être fait en posant une ferme pour une laiterie, qui au début semblait offrir manydésavantages. Le sol est un sable léger et bien gelé naturellement, mais un pré marécageux contribue à l'approvisionnement en fumier riche, et une gare à quelques kilomètres seulement de New York City a donné de bonnes installations pour fournir de l'abondance de fumier pour aider à la croissance DES FERMES LAITIÈRES racinaires. 31 et les récoltes souillures. Une route publique longeant l'avant de la ferme et une autre

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. The dairyman's manual. A practical treatise on the dairy .. . e still better. Perhaps the plan of the authors farm, given at figure1, might be suggestive of what can be done in laying outa farm for a dairy, which at first seemed to offer manydisadvantages. The soil is a light sand and far fromfertile naturally, but a swamp meadow contributedample supplies of rich muck, and a railroad station a fewmiles only from New York City gave good facilities forprocuring abundance of manure to aid in growing root DAIRY FARMS. 31 and soiling crops. A public road ran along the front ofthe farm and another divided it into two nearly equalparts. By fencing in an open wood lot and seeding itdown with mixed grasses, a shaded pasture, supplied witha permanent spring, was made for the exercise of thecows. A small pasture field was made by seeding withorchard grass and clover near the barnyard, and a gateon the road gave easy access to it. Another lot seededto mixed grasses was made at the back of the barn, and agate opened to it from the yard. A small grass lot was. Fig. 1.—^PLAW OF A DAIBT TASM. kept for calves adjoining the calf pen. These lots werefenced, but the rest of the land was all thrown into twofields, which were cultivated for fodder and root ciopr-.A brook supplied the calf lot and one grass lot withwater ; a spring and a small run supplied the woods pas-ture. A dwarf pear orchard near the house made a runfor calves and poultry, of which a number of lightBrahmas were kept for market chickens. The barnyardcontained half an acre; the barn, sheds, bull and calfpens, and stable, formed a right angle facing to the south. 22 THE dairymans manual. The yard was surrounded with old shady cherry trees onthe south side, and a lane gave an outlet in front of theyard to the road. A gate opened from the yard intothe road, opposite the lane leading to the woods pasture.A spring near the house gave an opportunity for makinga convenient milk-house with a cool deep pool for settingdeep

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