#cornfalfa farms

Cornfalfa Farms, New Berlin, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, 1915.

Several  lambs and their mother stand outside the barn door as Jayson Swartz observes on a cold winter day.

Trees in the original south orchard. Some of these trees were set out in the 1850s by William Swartz, father of Peter Morgan Swartz.

Jayson Swartz walking in deep snow in alfalfa field on Cornfalfa Farms. Illustrating Swartz’s recommendation that ample fall growth and trapping snow is beneficial to a healthy crop for the following year.

via: New Berlin Historical Society