Twelfth Annual Report of The National Farm School November 1909 . , a model g^ygg ^s an excellent opportunity to instruct ourfor the practi- ... ^- r xu • r j- I f rmer pupils m the preparation of their crops for dis- posal. The dairy at Number 3. during the year,from September, produced 35,171 quarts of milk. The thirteencows milking at the present time are giving more milk thansixteen were giving at the same time last year. This meansthat the herd of Number 3 has improved twenty-five per cent,upon what it was a year ago, and that the probability of theproduction for the next six months is tw
Twelfth Annual Report of The National Farm School November 1909 . , a model g^ygg ^s an excellent opportunity to instruct ourfor the practi- ... ^- r xu • r j- I f rmer pupils m the preparation of their crops for dis- posal. The dairy at Number 3. during the year,from September, produced 35,171 quarts of milk. The thirteencows milking at the present time are giving more milk thansixteen were giving at the same time last year. This meansthat the herd of Number 3 has improved twenty-five per cent,upon what it was a year ago, and that the probability of theproduction for the next six months is twenty-five per than during the same period last year. The receiptsfrom the whole farm, for the year, are larger than the previousyear, together with more material on hand. The gross receiptsfrom Farm No. 3, for products sold from September to Sep-tember, was $2, The accounts which we are keeping ofthis farm will be of great value to our students for study. The improvements on our Home Farm have been the liming WINTER WORK IN HORTICULTURE 27. 28 THE DIRECTORS REPORT of a ten-acre field; the completing of a three-story building: the first floor to be used for a wagon-shed, the second Improvements ^g ^ carpenter shop, the third for storage of seeds and small imp-lemetns. The lake is of great ser-Farm. ^ ° vice as an ice pond. Last year we were able toharvest 200 tons of ice and, if it had not been for the lake, wewould not have been able to procure a pound, because theweather was too mild to make ice on the large ponds or creeksdistant from the School. The improvement of our dairy herdshould be noted. It has increased, during the past five years,in number of animals, over twenty-five per cent., while the in-come per cow, for the past six months, is eighty-four per cent,more than it was five years ago. The total number of quartsof milk produced for the year ending September 30th, 1909, is65,078, which, for a herd of forty animals, counting both youngand old, i
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