Southern planter: devoted to practical and progressive agriculture, horticulture, trucking, live stock and the fireside . 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 dair
Southern planter: devoted to practical and progressive agriculture, horticulture, trucking, live stock and the fireside . 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-partment of Agriculture. The Percherons at Morven Park were all, with the ex-ception of a few colts, selected and imported from Franceby Mr. Davis. They are as a whole, very cleanly made,. Vibraye—Imported Percheron Stallion, at the head ofMorven Park Percheron Stud. have large bone, show splendid quality and action, andwhile they are perhaps not quite as large as some Perch-erons, their quality is exceptionally good. They are espec-ially free from that inactivity often seen in the extra largePercheron horses. Among the mares are several prizewinners in France. We were particularly pleased to notethat these mares were all earning their board, demon-strating the fact that they are not only valuable for rais-ing colts, as was evidenced by the sucklings and wean-lings on the place, but that they were valuable to the plowor wagon. At the head of the Percheron stud is a youngimported stallion of excellent quality, by the name Vib-raye, a Government Premium stallion of France. Thishorse is rich in the celebrated Brilliant blood, as arenearly all of the ma
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