Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-06-29

Trans Oh Cnes Great Northern
Certain OF the young chickens have
milk to drinl--in fact the broilers
eaten by the Harvard clubs Saturday
might We're milk-fed from the surplus
Of the dairy department of the farm.
This is why the spring chickens COM
mand the highest prices on the local
market. Thanks to the careful feed
ing and care given the hens, the eggs
are Of a uniform quality and are al.
ways sold at an advance Of s cents q
dozen over the usual market price. 1t
has been found people of st. Paul and
the Northwest Willingly pay higher
prices for dairy products they know
are good and uniform.
Creamery Besides Poultry.
This farm run on scientific princi.
pies is not wholly a poultry ranch.
Tt is situated on the rich soil at the
edge of the Red River Valley, and OF
1.-THE 10000 acres a large portion is I'M
der cultivation. There is also an ex-
tensiVe dairy in charge Of S. A. Ed.
wards a specially trained man.
| In the model creamery Mr.. John
ston has installed 1000 pounds OF but
ter a week, is made Of cream from his
own cows This like the eggs and
poultry, is sold to the high class no.
tells, restaurants and, similar places in
the Northwest, some Of it being ship
per as far west as Spokane. A good
IDEAL Of it goes to the Minnesota club,
the Town and Country club and a few
groceries of this city
The standard butter from this farm
is known as s13 Brand, from the fact
the farm is thirteenth in the string of
farms the company owns. This is
Iconstantly sold at cents Or more
Iabove the market price The milk all
comes from tuberculin tested cattle,
the herd including 200 Holsteins. The
Isurplus stock is placed in cold storage
| in this city and sold in the East in the
winter. The COWS are MIXED by
hand and the stables include every
sanitary and modern device for Sc
curing absolutely purity of product.
Cows Housed in Cross-shaped Barns
The COWS are housed in two barns
holding 100 COWS and 100 calves each.
They are built in the shape Of cross
|With three silos for each barn, placed
at the head Of the cross. This ar
arrangement has been found to be the
hest from all standpoints.
| On the farm there are 700 Shrop-
lshire sheep, together with bunch of
Berkshire hogs that would supply a
score Of ordinary farms. There were
1887 sows wintered on the farm, and
There will be about 1900 pigs ready
for market by fall. There are 600
acres of corn on the farm this year, in
addition to generous fields of oats,
barley rye, alfalfa field peas and
wheat. The farm is under the man
agement of a graduate of the Minneso-
ia school of Agriculture A. R. Liggett,
who has entire charge of that portion
of the work for the company.
Tractors, Autos, Electric Plant.
To do the blowing there are two
gasoline tractors, each with the power
Iof twenty horses Two automobiles
tlnake transit over the farms an easy
matter and an electric plant furnishes
Hight and power for the work of the
farms.
! The farms have been run on the sci.
Ientific basis. for only two years. They
were started before that as an object
lesson to the settlers near there, many
|of whom had been brought from
dutch settlements in Iowa to alter
.|nate half sections. The remaining
EIparts of the sections are now being
Harmed by the company as an example
Ito the settlers Of what can be done by
farming on scientific basis. Many
|of the neighboring boys are employed
ION the Johnston farm, and some have
been sent by the company to the ag
Siricultural school at Fargo
It is one of the best managed farms
in the country, and is but one of q
number the company has in Minneso
TIA and North Dakota.
Another large dairy farm is owneS
by the same company at Bear Lake
4 Mimi, where there are $50 Holsteins
making creaem for dairy products; al
$50 Berkshire hogs and Shropshire
Isheep, and a creamery that pays s70t
Ito $1,000 a week to the neighborins
Farmers for their cream.
On the big farms at Marion, water
lis furnished from artesian well.
(which give a big pressure all over tn,
farms.