Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06
MEADOW BROOK FARM MODEL
OF SYSTEMATIC EFFICIENCY
Loudoun County, Va, Agent Describes
Home and Plan of William I.
Smith and Wife.

ION of the family is broadened. and
the world has more things in 1t than
II had before the automobile arrived,
The automobile as Il factor in oper-
ating the farm opened Mr.. Smiths
eyes. He soon bought tractor. He
says the tractor has great possib1ll-
ties in his future operations. He has
recently added more than zoo acres
to his care in addition TO Meadow
Brook The tractor will meet the
emergencies of the labor situation.
Tractor Aids Speed.
Spring blowing did not start at
Meadow Brook this year till the land
mellowed well. Neighboring farms
We're half done piowins. Mr.. Smith
started the tractor and plowed all
the smooth land. about half the total
corn acreage, and dragged and har-
rowed the entire acreage. and was
done planting before the neighbors.
Narrowing is hard on horses and
men. The tractor makes narrowing
a "cin"h.' Harvest time is always a
rush time. y wet season might set
IN over night and cause the serious
damage of whole crop. Again the
tractor meets the emergency at
Meadow Brook. 1t starts an eight
foot binder clicking early in the
morning it does not stop for dinner;
only the crew is relieved: and again
at O'Clock the crew is relieved for
supper The tractor keeps up it's
steady Puff, puff" When night falls
thirty acres of wheat are safely in
shock The tractor and three men
steady did it.
l ascribe Smiths efficient use of ma
chinery to his interchangeable industry
He works toward the consummation of
making Meadow Brook and his commu-
Eity and ideal place for young Smiths to
live. To do this he must have ideas,
ideas that will save time. increase eff
fciency and get fellow somewhere.
With n good road he gets truck to
haul milk and cream to the station.
Long ago Smith solved his marketing
problem. One of the ideas he never
could digest was that it was worth as
much to buy milk and place it before
the customer as it is to produce it and
deliver it in Washington. He enlisted
enough of his neighbors in running a
local creamery to justify hiring Il spe-
Cial man TO deliver their product to the
trade in Washington, and now the milk
and cream go direct from William T.
Smith dairy. in Loudoun county. to nu-
merous lunch counters in Washington.
Smith got the run on the market early
by being the first man to advertise in
the city the exclusive sale of milk and
cream from tuberculin- tested cows
Lost Two Herds of Cows.
This bit of advertising cost Meadow
Brook two entire herds of good dairy
cows that went down under the tuber-
culin test in it's early days. The in
fiuence of his example and his practice
in the dairy business has been of in
calcula BILE value alike to his own county
and to the consuming public in Wash
ington
Mr.. Smith keeps thirty grade Guern-
sey cows with a record of 300 pounds of
butter fat, or $50 pounds of creamery
butter. per cow pear year. He personally
supervises the milking, feeding, weigh
ing. recording and testing of the milk
of these cows. A Babcock test is run
on the milk every week.
Last fall he went with his county
agent to the renowned Guernsey section
of Wisconsin and bought herd of year
ling registered Guernsey heifers and the
best bun he could find to mate with
them. He bought heifers from cows in
the advanced register of the breed and
proposes to produce in his surplus calves
in the future the highest quality product
that it is possible to produce in the dairy
animal. He is planning to enter each one
of his heifers in advanced registry tests
as they come in.