New Jersey for progressive farmers . would raise 75bushels of corn to the acre if under cultivation. Section 5.—Known as the Shiloh Area, is in Cumberland County. Herealso the dairymen are very progressive. Practically all of them keep purebred stock and belong to a cow testing association. Farmers in Sections 4and 5 purchased over twenty pure bred Holstein bulls during 1919, at anaverage price of $600. The crops are corn, grain and tomatoes. Themilk is sold either to the condensery in Bridgeton or to the Inter-State MilkProducers Association at Philadelphia. Section 6.—Is close to Newark, Pat
New Jersey for progressive farmers . would raise 75bushels of corn to the acre if under cultivation. Section 5.—Known as the Shiloh Area, is in Cumberland County. Herealso the dairymen are very progressive. Practically all of them keep purebred stock and belong to a cow testing association. Farmers in Sections 4and 5 purchased over twenty pure bred Holstein bulls during 1919, at anaverage price of $600. The crops are corn, grain and tomatoes. Themilk is sold either to the condensery in Bridgeton or to the Inter-State MilkProducers Association at Philadelphia. Section 6.—Is close to Newark, Paterson and Jersey City. Dairymen ofthis section usually retail their milk in nearby cities and towns. In com-parison with other sections, very few calves are raised, but cows in the lac-tation period are bought for milk and later sold for beef. It is not uncom-mon to see herds of 200 cows kept within three miles of the city. Practi-cally all the feed is purchased, and the cows are forced for the highest milkproduction. Thirty-six. A modi I mi-iuen/. SWINE AND SHEEP Swine.—The production of pork is one of the profitable occupations ofNew Jersey farmers. Potato and truck growers in South Jersey have dem-onstrated that the hog is the most economical medium for converting seem-ingly waste products into marketable commodities, and many of them arenow marketing their small potatoes and fruit culls through the industry is also carried on to a considerable extent in the central andnorthern sections, the farmers of Monmouth, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset,Morris, Hunterdon, Warren and Sussex Counties raising swine as a sideline of dairying and general farming. The increased acreage devoted to alfalfa is a boon to swine husbandry,while the control of hog cholera by means of potent serum has done muchto make it profitable. Sheep.—Some sections of the State ofiEer peculiar advantages for the rais-ing of sheep, the high, rolling lands especially making suitable a
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