The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-04-01
RAILROAD PRESIDENTS FARM.
Facts About Pine Ridge Farm in North
HaTtlsnd

Pine Ridge farm. owned by a railroad
president. is located on the Connecticut
river near the village Of North Hart
land. It contains $50 acres OF land
OF which 30 is in tillage, 100 in open
pasture and l60 at woodland writes
Il g. Willard the manager. in the
American Cultiyator. There is com
Portable story and "A half house with
10 rooms; 4 large COW barn, horse
barn, hay barn. two large silos. tool
shed, carriage house. corn barn, and
milkhouse or creamery. The farm is
fenced with American woven wire fence.
The buildings all face south the house
is so located that it gives view south
10 miles to the Ascutuey mountain.
The stock consists Of 20 head OF
grade Guernsey COWS aud an average
OF heifer calf and registered Guern-
sey; five head Of horses and heavy
work team. light work and driving
team, family horse and a Spanish
burro that separates the milk. The
crops are corn. oats aud potatoes, with
about 20 tlns OF hay. The corn
raised includes 90 acres Of dent and six
Of old northern yellow flint corn. The
flint corn is matured 50 that il can be
picked off al the sound ears, which are
husked and used TO feed the hogs. of
which we keep about %. including four
TO six brood sows and Is TO 20 shorts
and small pigs. The dent corn is cut
green and put in silos with the flint
corn fodder We raise about five acres
OF oats and peas for forage.
We raise about II acres OF oats,
which are threshed and used to feed
the horses. The potatoe, are all used
on the farm. As they are not very
good crop, we raise only one half
acre. The crops are all handled by
machinery. except that the corn is hoed
by hand once or twice, as the time will
allow. The hay is all cut with the
machine Oats are cut with the binder
and the corn Is cut BY hand. as ii
cannot BE- cut with the harvester aft
er il has been picked without spelling
from half TO two-thirds Of the ears.
that lay on the ground after the pick
ing
The method Of filling the two Green
Mountain ,ilos each l2N24 feet is with
a gasoline engine and cutter. The Dent
corn is cut green and mixed with the
flint corn fodder and then cut II
inches long for the silo. We use only
the regular farm help to fill them.
which takes s TO 10 days aud allows
the silsge time to settle The use Of
salt is to keep down the acid in the corn
az it cures in the silo, and also to
check the odor Of the ensilage when
il is used Tor feeding The hay is
cut as soon as il can be after July l.
The method OF feeding the stock is
as follows: After November the
COWS are fed about 40 pounds of en-
silage at two good feeds, just after
milking. They have feed OF good
hay in the morning and feed of oats
and peas after they are watered with
warm water, also a feed of grain
about p. m. The grain is wheat
and bran and cottonseed meal or nm
ion grains. of which each COW gets
about two pounds. The COWS get salt
with all their feed This feed is not
as heavy as most farmers feed, but
my idea Il to make the farm raise as
nearly all the feed as can and get
good results. With the above feed the
herd milking with II ont OF 20 cows,
which gives an average test of 81 but
ter fat. produced 3S7 pounds of but
ter fat in the month of November,
which is a very good income from II
grade cows.