. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. A Model Dairy. 609 MODEL DAIRY FARM IN THE OZARKS. (A. A. Coult, in Journal of Agriculture and Star Farmer.) Colonel W. H, Phelps of Carthage has proved that dairying in the Ozarks of Southwest Missouri is the quickest way to get big dividends on the money invested if the plant is equipped with modern utensils. His faith in the business is so great that he has invested about $100,000 in live stock, buildings and land in Jasper county, where his Meadowmere Dairy Farm is loc
. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. A Model Dairy. 609 MODEL DAIRY FARM IN THE OZARKS. (A. A. Coult, in Journal of Agriculture and Star Farmer.) Colonel W. H, Phelps of Carthage has proved that dairying in the Ozarks of Southwest Missouri is the quickest way to get big dividends on the money invested if the plant is equipped with modern utensils. His faith in the business is so great that he has invested about $100,000 in live stock, buildings and land in Jasper county, where his Meadowmere Dairy Farm is Dair.\- barn and part of herd owned by Colonel Phelps. Three years ago Colonel Phelps began to invest in unimproved farm land and was gradually putting it in condition for raising large grain crops without intending to take up the dairy business, until he heard Dairy Commissioner W. P. Cutler give a talk on dairy farming at the Jasper County Corn Show in the fall of 1911. He became impressed with the possibilities of that line of farming and immediately began to make plans for building improved dairy barns and purchasing cream-producing Jersey cows. He had plenty of rock on the surface of his land to build the walls of the main barn, which is 101 feet long, 42 feet wide, 14 feet to eaves and 33 feet to gable. By putting the rock into the walls he got it off the fields and can grow larger crops. The walls are 18 inches thick set with plenty of windows to give natural light to the cows inside. The entire floor is concrete, with drains behind the cows connecting with sewers which convey the liquid manure to a concrete cistern, twelve feet long, six feet wide and six feet A—39. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Missouri. State Board of Agriculture. Jefferson City, Mo. : Missouri State Boar
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