Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1891 — HOME AND THE FARM. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOME AND THE FARM.

A DEPARTMENT MADE UF FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Bow to Make Forming Pay—A Movable Food Back—How to Food Boroeo—To Have a Koft-lgerator Without loo—The Apalry, Poultry lard and Kitchen. Profitable Fanning.

IT is an old adage, old as farming itself, “There is more tn the man than there is in X the land.” Every farmer of ordinary penetration of \ mind will admit the truth of the adage. Yet how a many farmers -w* when they come to y consider a remedy for lack of suceess ever admit the application of the ra adage and go to work to make the man right first

Every farmer is supposed to be working hard for success. Failure is very frequent , Thousands of times every year is it made apparent where a dollar’s worth of good sound knowledge would bring a hundred dollars* worth of return. The secret of good success is sound knowledge td begin with. When the farmer is willing to buy his knowledge, just as he does his tea, coffee, and groceries, and pay for it just as freely, then, and not till then, will he hold an even hand with other callings In society. The following will show the result for a year with a thinking, reading Pennsylvania farmer: <,124 gallons of milk shipped In the six summer months ending October 1, 18905402.60 6,615 gallons cf milk shipped in the six winter months ending April 1, 1801 985,45 Two thoroughbred heifer calves (sold) 160,00 Three thoroughbred heifer calves (not sold)t 100.00 Ten veal calves (sold) 65.00 Gross income of dairy..., ... $1,623.65 140 bushels potatoes 140 00 10 tons surplus hay 50.00 Income outside of diary 190.00 Total income *1,813.05 EXPENDITURES. Bent of farm 200.00 Taxes 65.00 Six per cent. Interest on $2,500 invested in live stock and form implements 150.00 Hired help 130.00 Fifteen tons of bran, average price 818 per ton 270.00 One thoroughbred bull calf. 47.50 Freight for shipping milk 160.00 One thousand-mile passenger ticket 20.00 Miscellaneous 100.00 ■ Total expenditures $1,142.50 Balance of income $670.55

Tho farm covers eighty acres, and supports twenty-four head of cattle and four horses. There are fourteen cows, two of which are kept for rearing calves; eight of tho cows arc pure Holsteins. The milk is sold at ordinary prices, and nothing is made on account of “fancy” product except by the sale of spare purebred calves. The figures are worth extended notice, as there are several points which go to show how the income might have been increased with a corresponding increase of profit. The total income includes rent for the farm at 82.50 per acre and Interest on the value of the farm stock. The occupier has the rent of the house, the profits of the garden, the use of horses, and other conveniences which might be easily estimated at the sum of 81,000, and which would be a charge against the Income of any other business man. The balance of 8070 is clear cash in hand at the end of the year. Save the Fodder, For feeding sheep at the stack or in the yard, racks are indispensable. They should be built with an outside, shallow box to catch the clover leaves and broken hay and to hold grain when feeding]’.!!. The frame of the bottom of the rack ihb’ild be of sufficient strength to allow it to be moved without damage. Top may be lightly formed of inch strips bored to

take whips cut fom the woods. In the great sheep feeding districts of England, racks mounted on wheels are found useful. They enable the shepherd to change the place of foddering without too much labor, more equally distributing the manure and saving time in going to and from the stacks. The axles of an old carriage may be used to serve a good purpose here,or wood axles will do. Two thicknesses of lumber nailed together crosswise to prevent spitting, and sawed Into dises will make good wheels. Anything that will save fodder and the feeder and benefit the flock will soon repay its cost. — Hollister Sage, in Farm and Home,