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Letter To The Editor
Flint Hill, Va.
July 30, 1962
Dear Fellow 4-H Club Members,
Fanners aaid Friends, \
Recently I was one of the 4-H Club members who represented Virginia in the 4-H exchange program to Massachusetts. If you will bear with me a while, 1 will try to explain what I saw and where 1 went.
The farm where I stayed contained 120 acres. On this farm were 70 registered guernseys. The milk test was 5.5.
My host family treated me more like a president than a country lad. After they found that I was interested in livestock, they drove me to the top farms in Hampshire County, Mass. These tours included beef, dairy cattle, sheep and swine farms.. \ The swine frm was an assembly line for hogs as the farmer collected garbage. There we saw the garbage cooked and feed. I went to the farrowing house first. There were approximately 30 brood sows in the house. The reason I called this farm an assembly line for hogs was the fact that they ranged from 20' lbs. to 220 lbs. in weight. There were 1,000 hogs on the farm at this time.
We also saw some registered Angus. This was his hobby. The same farmer had approximately 200 acres of corn.
Next we visited a Southdown
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