. Agriculture for the common schools. Agriculture. 170 AGRICULTURE FOR THE COMMON SCHOOLS CHAPTER IE have spoken of difFeren t kinds of animals grown upon the farm for farm uses. We wish here to speak of growing one, or sev- eral of them, as a special business. Stock farms may, and often do, grow grain and grass as feed for the stock, but the money is expected to come in from the sale of the animals. Stock farms may be de- voted to growing only one line. Thus one farm grows horses, another mules, another cows, another sheep, and another hogs. Not only so, but a farm may be confined to
. Agriculture for the common schools. Agriculture. 170 AGRICULTURE FOR THE COMMON SCHOOLS CHAPTER IE have spoken of difFeren t kinds of animals grown upon the farm for farm uses. We wish here to speak of growing one, or sev- eral of them, as a special business. Stock farms may, and often do, grow grain and grass as feed for the stock, but the money is expected to come in from the sale of the animals. Stock farms may be de- voted to growing only one line. Thus one farm grows horses, another mules, another cows, another sheep, and another hogs. Not only so, but a farm may be confined to one or more breeds of a single line. Thus we have farms which breed and develop only race horses, another only draught horses. One farm will make a specialty of Jersey cows, another of Short- horns, another of Holstein-Friesians, and so on. Some devote themselves to red Jersey hogs, some to Berk- shire, some to Chester White, some to Poland China, and some to Essex. Instead of being a small field of enterprise, this is. 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 Hunnicutt, James B[enjamin] 1836- [from old catalog]. Atlanta, Ga. , The Cultivator publishing company
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