Hoard buys a farm to test his dairying theories
 Prospect Farm (Hoard's Dairyman Farm)
William Dempster Hoard acquired Prospect Farm in 1899 and used it as a laboratory for testing the practices promoted in his magazine, Hoard's Dairyman. Hoard advocated the use of alfalfa as a dairy feed, maintaining a cow census, and the registration of dairy herds to track milk production. Hoard's magazine also encouraged improvements to the silo and the use of silage as a feed source. He further worked on the eradication of milk-borne tuberculosis.
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Related Topics: |
Mining, Logging, and Agriculture
The Rise of Dairy Farming |
| Creator: | Snell, Asa |
| Pub Data: | Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places. |
| Citation: | Prospect Farm/Hoard's Dairyman Farm. Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places.
Online facsimile at:
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=1427;
Visited on: 5/22/2013
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