St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-09-23
Tells of the Use of Machin-
cry in Economical Man.
agement of Farm.
FINE HORSES AND CAT
TIE AND DAIRY STOCK
More Profit In Our Cheap
Lands and Long Season
Than Northern Land.

weeks ago of the farmers observa-
tion tour through the northern states
will say that we left Madison, Wis,
on the 29th and arrived at Waterloo.
ffvw.,t t.s,s .-s,,.s the 5Ostf.. .'-@@ We Wee met at
the depot by the Association Of Com
merce and Prof Van Pelt and driven
direct to the plant of the Galloway
tCo. Most every farmer knows of this
company through their gasoline en-
gine and manure spreaders. We
found this one of the most up-tO-date
manufacturing concerns and as much
effort made to produce good stuff for
THE farmer as any place We visited.
Every piece of machinery put out is
first tested by experts and none is
ALLOWED to go out except it be in good
lconditiOn and running order. This
company puts out gasoline engine
on truck for $500 that every farm
er should own who does not already
have some power on the farm. At
ter being shown through the whole
plant and learning much we were
driven out to the farm owned by Mr..
Galloway, of the same company.
Here we found that Mr.. Galloway had
sent force of Office help out in ad-
vance of us and had prepared lunch
in the creamery. From the samples
OF rich sweet and butter-milk so gen.
erously passed around by those Iowa
girls We did not wonder at them look
ing SO fine, rosy and healthy. They
then passed around some of the larg-
est and best watermelon we had ever
tasted We were then ready to go
over the farm. We saw in the dairy
barn some of the finest cows we had
seen on the trip of this particular
breed-the Holstein. The cows are
kept in the barn or feed lot night
and day and feed kept before them
all the time. The Land is so high
and valuable that they cannot afford
/ to pasture cattle, and even II they
| could they say 1t would cause them
loss of milk to do SO. Having the
cows where they can be fed as they
want them fed will give more and
richer milk. This farm also had
some fine hogs grazing on the clover
and alfalfa fields. The farm also
had some fine Percheon horses. One
old faithful mare had made so much
money for the company that she had
been given her freedom. She was 20
years old and yet appeared to be in
fine condition. The company he's
sod several thousand dollars worth
jof colts from her, besides the man.
lbig loads she has hauled. This farm
is making money and making it fast.
! An Office is in the creamery build
| ing and a record Is kept of every
animal on the place, from hogs up to
men, from meadow up to silo, and
every item can be accounted for.
They treat agriculture and its rou-
tine OF business the same as they do
the handling of thai& large manufae-
turing plant.
! We next went to the farm of Prof.
Van Pelt. He is known the country
over as an authority on dairy cows
and feeding, as we'll as many other
problems that come up on the farm
He gave as good lecture on the Jer-
sey COW. Mr.. Pelt owns the finest
herd of Jerseys in the state OF Iowa.
One of the finest cows we have ever
seen was brought out OF the barn
into an open place and when ouT
party had circled around this AMI
nal all kinds Of sounds could be
heard, some gasping in wonderment,
some pushing and trying to get Their
hands on the COW that gave 500
WORTH of butter in one year, and left
q heifer calf valued at $500. This
cows milk tested per cent butter
fat. We we're shown some of her
milk just bottled and the cream ap-
peared to be half way down the bot
tie. The Pet farm is. run on a bus1
ness basis and is making money.
Around here we found lot OF land
to be higher in price than anyWhera
we visited. Lots OF it was valued a.
5000 per acre and none for sale at
that.
Your humble scribe here talked =
as many as he could about the splen-
did climate and the thousands o.
acres OF ten-dollar land we had in
Tammany parish where sometime
could be grown al the year. These
men are interested and think have
reason to believe we. will have the
pleasure of seeing some OF them
down here next winter for the pur-
pose OF buying land and abiding with
8us.
/ We next went to the farm Of Mr..
/ Marsh, known as the Willow Lawn
Farm (all farms are named IN 1owa1
and here We saw some hne beef cat
tie of the Aberdeen Angus breed.