Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-10-19

number of cows he got Is, 1922 pounds
of milk, with an average of ass butter
fat. Among his cows he has Holstein
that dropped pair of twin heifer calves
and the first ten months after weaving
the calves she gave 11,679 pounds of
milk, nearly 500 pounds of butter, and
some idea Of the quality of the milk will
be gained when we know that the milk
tested 4.055 butter fat. She is only
eight years old and is due to freshen
soon, and Mr.. Black is confidently hop
ing that it is another pair of twin calves.
Still another cow standing next to her
has presented the farm with twins on
two occasions, from different bulls, and
she is due to freshen again in few
weeks, and again Brother Blacks prayer
goes up for more twin heifers. She
dropped her last pair of twins and pre-
pared them for the butcher and then
gave /, LOG pounds of milk, after sucking
her twins seven weeks. In addition to
these very remarkable mixers they have
several 400 pound cows in the herd.
Mr.. Black has put the entire herd into
the newly formed cow testing assoca-
ton, and by the way they have 700 cows
already subscribed, and it will be neces
sary to run what is known as double
barreled association, which means two
testers employed all the time. The
work will be commenced just as soon as
the man to do the testing can be found.
This testing of the cows and their prod
uct will mean nothing new in Mr. |
Blacks herd for he has been doing pre-
cisely this work for more than two years. |
As is we'll known, Mr.. Black has
established quite reputation as a sue
cessful breeder of the White Wyandotte
fowls of the Duston strain. He now has |
some $50 of this breed, having hatched |
800 chickens last season. But to show
that he is not entirely partisan he has
put in some of his old time favorites,
the Plymouth Rocks, also from Mr.. |
Lords farm at Wells. Recently he has |
added few single comb white Leg |
horns, of the Wyckoff strain. In addi-
tion to the crops that he has raised Mr.. |
Black has laid down to grass some 20 |
acres.
The barn at the Sanatorium is fine,
m odern, up-to-date structure. The |
ma in part is 80 so feet, with an annex |
65 40 feet. An automatic water sys-
tenn has been installed which supplies |
every animal from an individual bucket. |
No cattle are permitted in the main |
barn, stall for the COWS are all in the |
annex, while the main barn is reserved |
for crops alone. Under the barn Is a |
basement running its entire length, |
one portion of it being reserved for a |
root cellar.
Close by the big barn is an up-to-date
creamery, operated by electric power
and equipped with modern machinery |
throughout. Next to the creamery Mr.. |
Black hopes to have another year a
large hot house where he can get his |
vegetables started much earlier than he |
is able to do where he is dependent on |
out door planting or even with cold
frames.
Thus we have told in rambling way
something of the work that Mr.. Black
has been able to accomplish. 1t will
take two if not three years longer to
complete the routine of crops that he
has undertaken. Mr.. Black is an ideal
farm superintendent. If he errs in any |
direction it is that in his zeal to have
things 60 and 60 rightly he does too
many things himself. He is tireless
worker and never asks any one to do
anything that he can do himself. He
lives in a neat cottage near the farm
buildings, and his wife is daughter of
Mr.. Chas. E. Wheeler, the we'll known
orchardist of Chesterville. The home
life of the Blacks is ideal. 1t is
Grange home in the very best sense of
the term, and we risk nothing in pre-
dieting for Mr.. Black and his good wife
a most successful future wherever they
may dwell, but we sincerely hope that
his services will be retained on the Sana-
torium farm for many years to come, for
what he has done is simply an earnest
of what he is capable of performing if
he is given an opportunity, which means
that the Sanatorium farm will in very
few years be model for the farmers of
Maine to 60 to for instruction and guild
ance.
At another time we shall be pleased to
visit the hospital end of this great in
stitution and tell our readers something
of what the gifted DR.. Nichols and his
able assistant DR.. Jas. McFadyen are
accomplishing in stopping the terrible
ravages of consumption. Our people
are just beginning to realize the truth
of what the doctor said when he told us
that we must kill tuberculosis or tuber-
culosis would kill US.