The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-01
A Goth Century
Ideal Dairy Farm
300 Acres
Fully equipped with all
modern an d sanitary
appliances.
Efficiently Managed

Effzczently Managed
Richmond is greatly blessed in its milk supply. AS
was recently set forth illustrated article in The
Times Dispatch, this city has stringent laws pre-
serving health, and no subject has been more carefully
considered by the Health Boards both of the city and
sisted and encouraged and vigorously cooperated with
By, the darymen, have brought about condition of
affairs that guarantees the milk of this city
PureE and better dairy supplies than be found in
any city on the continent
One Of the best and most up-todate places from
which Rchmond's milk supply is the old Chats
miles and fraction from the centre of the city This
magnificent place of 800 has been dairy farm for
many years, having been operated in years agone by
the Chapins but all that old about it has been re-
placed lately with all of the modern apputenances and
appliances that go make the twentieth century per-
feet dairy farm.
business all his life, is the and proprietor of
the place. and with the valuable assistance of his general
manager and superintendent, Mr. H. B. Renne, he has
brought the place to state of perfection dairy
farm. -
Nature made the place. it would seem, for the very
purpose for which it being used In the first place,
the grasses and the grains Then there are charming
hills of which covered with trees making ideal
protection for the COWS and other stock in the winter
season.
On of the higher hills is bold spring of the
purest water, from which the pped by gravita
ton the barns and the dairy houses and the spring
affords neverailing supply Of There other
springs, and not less than half dozen bold streams
running in every direction through the farm afford pure
water for the cattle.
concrete and steel barn $50 by 80 feet is declared
by experts who have it be the best and most
sanitary barn of it's kind be found anywhere in Vr-
GINA. 1t has so, feed carriers and all of the modern
appliances known to the best establishments of its kind
This barn has eighty stanchions and it is thing worth
going long ways to when eighty Holstein and Ter
sey cows are being milked in this strictly sanitary and
moderny equipped barn, smaller but just we'll
equipped barn affords for twenty cows MAX
ing one hundred splendid animals to be MIXED every
day The herd ranks very high, and composed mainly
of Holsteins and Jerseys
The dairy houses are strictly up-to-date in their
build and equipment Into all of them the pure water
from the spring above mentioned comes through pipes
by natural gravitation and with this neverfang supply
OF water every building and every milk can all of the
Paraphernaa and every part Of the yards kept in
state of perfect cleanliness.
Two hundred acres of the farm are under cultivation
and Mr. Trowbrdge makes all of the hay and grain re-
CURED for the cattle The other hundred acres are in
grass, and they afford ample pasturage and before
said, the hills afford full protection to the cows from
winters blasts and therefore it necessary to keep
the animals housed and cramped up all the winter Up
on the Osborne Pike and well removed from the barns
and dairy houses commodious residence, and near
to it is splendid orchard and grass lot combined,
Mr. Trowbridge has had years of experience in dairy
farming IN New York State and in Michigan and
soon as he the Chatsworth Farm he declared that
nature had made it ideal dairy farm, and he pro-
ceeded to buy it, and, enormous expense added to
natures good work all the modern appliances that art
and science have been able in this twentieth century
suggest.
Mr. Trowbridgs is also half owner of the famous
N1swood Stock Farm, Amelia county, mile from
Chula station, on the Southern Railway.