Southern planter: devoted to practical and progressive agriculture, horticulture, trucking, live stock and the fireside . oted May Rosefamily; his sire is Imported Top Notch, bred by SirHenry Tichbourne and out of the celebrated Itchen Bedathat took first prize at the English Royal, as did also herdaughter. Upon being imported to America, she enteredthe Advanced Registry with a record of over 10,000 milk and lbs. of butter. Almost as much can besaid of the dam of the V. P. I. selection. She is MorvensMay Rose, is in the Advanced Registry, as is also herdam, grand dam, and one sis
Southern planter: devoted to practical and progressive agriculture, horticulture, trucking, live stock and the fireside . oted May Rosefamily; his sire is Imported Top Notch, bred by SirHenry Tichbourne and out of the celebrated Itchen Bedathat took first prize at the English Royal, as did also herdaughter. Upon being imported to America, she enteredthe Advanced Registry with a record of over 10,000 milk and lbs. of butter. Almost as much can besaid of the dam of the V. P. I. selection. She is MorvensMay Rose, is in the Advanced Registry, as is also herdam, grand dam, and one sister. There is no more fash-ionable blood in the Guernsey world than the May Rosefamily. There are other important families represented atMorven Park, such as La France, Princess, Masher, Glen-wood, Selects, and others. The cattle barns are one of the principal prides of All his recent buildings are stricty up-to-date;the best of silos are in evidence, and concrete with plenty Imported Frances Jewell VIII, a prominent sire in theMorven Park Jersey Herd. and may safely be said to be the largest herd of pure-. One of the Cattle Barns and Silo on the Morven ParkEstate. of glazing has been used wherever possible to the ad-vantage of the dairy barns. His arrangements for carry-ing off the liquid manure into cisterns by gravity andwhen desired into tanks, with which to moisten the drymanure in the manure spreaders, are most convenient,the cisterns even being emptied of their contents by grav-ity. We take pleasure in handing you herewith an illus-tration of one of the barns, which accommodates 50 headof cattle. The cream is shipped from the dairy by express, prin- 700 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [August,. cipally to New York and Washington. The skim milk isfed to pigs and calves. It is worthy of note that the milkis sterilized by live steam, notwithstanding the fact thatthe herd is kept absolutely free of tuberculosis and istested regularly by the Bureau of Animal Industry, De-part
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