Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-01-24

amount of green fodder so grown reach
/, twenty tons an acre. Each of the crops
are fed until frost, when the rye is used
, until the cows are placed in the barn for
the winter, which is usually about Sep.
tember 25. OF COURSE, every system OF
farming must be measured by the re.
suits, and in Mr.. BuzzrlPs case they are
very satisfactory.
In June, 1908, a private market was
obtained for the cream, it being shipped
directly to hotels. From June l Of that
year his sales have amounted to 1925 a
month, from an average of eleven cows,
the largest month s sales being $l56. 10.
A separator is used, and the cream is
run to test from "a to SO per cent.
In addition to the cream sold, the
skim milk has been fed to calves and
pigs, which have sold for 1925 during
the same time, this in addition to the
calves raised and pork used in the fami-
| ly, Not content with these results, a
new departure is planned in the manu-
facture of cottage cheese from the skim
milk by mixing certain proportion of
the cream with it. This cheese is de-
signed for quick consumption, and is to
be sold in Massachusetts, city. A start
has already been made. and it ia conf
IDENTIFY expected that a demand will soon
be created that will enable them to use
practically all of the skim milk for this
purpose. At the price now received, it
will net ten cents a gallon at the farm.
The farm is we'll equipped with tools.
The plows used turn the rolling furrow
rather than the fiat one, and by thorough
tillage, united with the fertilizer from
the dairy, the farm has been raised from
a capacity of carrying six animals to
that of carrying twenty-five. Mr.. Buzz
zell is not a man of robust health, and
this advance has been made by judicious
planning, rather than by hard work.
Both he and his wife are city bred, he
being the son of Portland physician.
His father bought summer residence
in Fryeburg in his early boyhOod, and
placed upon the farm some Jersey cows.
Through this association he became in
terested in the occupation, and his love
for animals was developed.
While busily engaged with the dairy,
he has still found time to study other
farm animals. The pigs kept are models
of excellence. The farm team is pair
of straw berry roam mares of good breed
ing, weighing $500 pounds. One of
them is used to raise colts, and has prov
ed producer of more than usual merit.
Time has also been taken to improve
and beautify the home, and the mind is
not fully occupied with ideas of gain,
for it may be said that, to them, new
beauties arise each morning as they view
the splendid panorama which nature
has spread before them in the long
ranges of mountains and far reaching
valleys.
Mr.. and Mrs. Buzzell are active men,
bers of Fryeburg Grange, and are in
terested in all that will promote the
welfare or advance the interests of this
town. Looking over the work of these
young people has been an inspiration to
me. Seeing how they have succeeded
in renewing the soil of this old, worn
out farm, brought to themselves COM
fort and plenty, and at the same time
enjoyed the privileges of social life,
should be lasting example to other
young men and women, and should tend
to turn them toward the farm as an
opportunity for life work that may be
filed with full reward for intelligent
labor.-B. Walker McKeen in Tribune
Farmer