THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[May, 



Contributions. 



POULTRY RAISING. 



For Thk Lancaster Farmek. 



Mr. Editor :— As many of my old friends 

 are desirous of knowing what success I have 

 had in the poultry business in Kansas, I give 

 you my experience. Over a year ago I made 

 two very crude hatchers, designed from some 

 good points of several I had seen. I filled 

 them with eggs and they worked tairly well. 

 I kept them going from December 1st to June 

 1st, clearing from them I65.0C, over and 

 above everything and that tco in spite of the 

 high price of feed and the fact that my chick- 

 ens were marketed at low prices, the highest 

 I got was $6.00 a dozen, the lowest $3.75 ; 

 during that time I had attended to my usual 

 business. Believing this was a good return 

 for the amount of work, I began to look 

 around for a more perfect hatcher and my 

 attention was directed to "The Common 

 Sense." In June I got directions from J. M. 

 Bain, New Concord, Ohio, he is Secretory of 

 the N. A. Poultry Association, and I will 

 send directions for making this hatcher to any 

 one sending three-two cent stamps to prepay 

 postage. I had one made that lield 2.i0 eggs, 

 cost about $7.00. My success with thishatcher 

 was all I could wish for and I immediately 

 had four more made, from these five hatchers 

 I have just taken 1030 tine chicks out of a 

 little less than 1200 eggs. I believe that I am 

 placing it modestly when I say that I hope to 

 clear $2500 by July next and I still pursue my 

 usual business. There is no business as pro- 

 fitable as this, provided one gives it the at- 

 tention it deserves and no business requires 

 as little capital to start on. There is no ne- 

 cessity of men trying to hide the business, or 

 monopolize it. The field is the World and 

 the World like Oliver Twist is crying out for 

 more. There are thousands of young men 

 who are teachers, clerks, etc., who look for- 

 ward to get a start in some lucky way, this 

 way is here open for them if they will only 

 improve by it. Thousands of young women 

 too, who feel dependent on some father or 

 brother who in one year could place them- 

 selves high above any dependence ; if they 

 only would. Get directions and make your 

 hatchers immediately. You can make them 

 yourselves. Respectfully Yours, L. L. J. 



EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN. 



For the Lancaster Farmer. 



Mr. Editor : Much has been written re- 

 garding proper and remunerative employment 

 for women ; silk culture, poultry raising and 

 many other themes have been thoroughly 

 ventilated and the result 'has no doubt been 

 very beneficial. But there are many ladies 

 who have no opportunity to raise silk worms 

 or follow any employment of that kind. To 

 this class I wish to open what to me was en- 

 tirely a new field. Some three months ago 

 an uncle of mine from Albany, N. Y., was 

 visiting at our house. We were talking of 

 plated ware which he was engaged in manu- 

 faturing. To gratify my curiosity he made a 

 plating machine and replated our knives, forks, 

 spoons and castor. It only cost four dollars 

 and it done the work perfectly. Some of our 

 neighbors seeing what we had plated wanted 

 me to plate some for them. Since then I have 



plated twenty-two days and cleared during 

 that time $94.34. At almost every house I 

 20t from two to three dollars worth of plating 

 to do, and such work is most all profit. Just 

 for replating one dozen teaspoons I got $1.75. 

 This work is as nice for ladies as for gentle- 

 men, as it is all indoor work and anyone can 

 do it. My brother, although he worked two 

 days longer than I did, cleared only $91.50. 

 I am getting up a collection of curiosities. To 

 any of your readers sending me a specimen I 

 will send full directions for making and using 

 a plating machine like mine that will plate 

 gold, silver and nickel. Send small pieces of 

 stones, ores, shells, old coins, &c. Any kind 

 of geological specimen will do. What 1 want 

 is to get as many different specimens from as 

 many different places as I can. Please address 

 Miss M. F. Cassey, Oberlin, Ohio. 



tree, it is full of blossoms ; but peaches none^ 

 pears but few and them on the tops of trees •, 

 only a partial crop of cherries, of small fruits; 

 except blackberries, we shall have plenty. 

 Only a few of our grape vines are alive. When 

 the mercury is 24° below zero, as it was several 

 times last winter ; they are surely frozen. I 

 hear no complaints of the depredations of in- 

 sects yet, not even the "fly" in the wheat; 

 biit what is in store for us in the future, in 

 this respect, remains to be found out. We 

 feel under obligations to you for what you 

 write on the subject of entomology. Some 

 one has said that God was great in big things, 

 bat another has truthfully said that he is 

 greatest is little things ; even in little bugs, 

 and worms. G. 



Selections. 



Brookville, O., May 12, 1884. 

 Editor Lancaster Farmer.— Sir : I be- 

 lieve I wrote, in my last communication, how 

 the character of the soil, depended on the 

 character of the rocks upon which the soil 

 was superimposed, as the surface rock from 

 Lake Erie, to south of Nashville, Tenn., is 

 the Silurian limestone, it is an uplift which 

 made this region dry land before the material, 

 that constitutes the Alleghany and Rocky 

 Mountains, was deposited on the bottom of 

 a recent sea. This is therefore an old coun- 

 try, about the first to become dry land on the 

 globe. From the center of this uplift the 

 dip, westward for hundreds of miles is about 

 six feet to the mile, eastward it is a little 

 more. The soil produced by the disintegra- 

 tion of this rock is the best in the world, it 

 will never need any lime, that is, in abund- 

 ance. The glacial ice coming from the north, 

 produced the clay as far south, and a little 

 further in places, as the Ohio river. South 

 of this river the erosion was from glacial ice 

 moving from different directions. The Ohio, 

 Kentucky and Cumberland rivers run through 

 this uplift in canyons several hundred feet 

 deep. The railroad bridge across the Ken- 

 tucky river is 276 feet above the water in the 

 river. The Miami valley and blue grass re- 

 gion of Kentucky, is on this uplift, and a 

 part of Middle Tennessee. In Ohio the Mia- 

 mi and Scioto rivers run parallel to the axis 

 of this uplift, but the Ohio, Kentucky and 

 Cumberland rivers run westward through this 

 uplift. 



In the creeks and rivers of this formation, 

 alluvial gravel of excellent quality for maca- 

 damizing roads exists in adundance. All the 

 principal roads in this county, (Montgomery) 

 are turnpiked with this gravel. This gravel 

 is also a product of glacial erosion. These 

 turnpikes are all free in this county, except 

 ope or two. The county commissioners have 

 made and bought these roads ; made some by 

 taxing the land along the roads, and others 

 that had been made in that way, bought with 

 county funds. The county commissioners had 

 these appraised, and took them at the apprais- 

 ment. 



The farmers are restless on account of their 

 inability to plow and plant corn, on account 

 of frequent rains and cool weather ; but little 

 corn has yet been planted. Wheat, barley, 

 and grass fields look unusually promising. 

 Wherever there is a live limb on an apple 



GREAT MILK PRODUCERS. 



The two three-year-old Holstein heifers, 

 lamaica and Ethelka, owned by Mr. John 

 Mitchell, of Meadowbrook Farm, six miles 

 from this city, have beaten tlie record for 

 milk production. A comparison of their 

 yield of milk, made a few days ago, with the 

 best previous record, that of Clothilde, a 

 three-year-old belonging to Smith & Powell, 

 large importers at Syracuse, N. Y., shows 

 that both Jamaica and Ethelka surpassed the 

 yield of Clothilde, the former nearly doubling 

 it. Since then both heifers have increased 

 their yield so fast that Mr. Mitchell is aston- 

 ished, and marvels at what the end is likely 

 to be. Besides exceeding the best score for 

 three year olds in milk production, Jamaica 

 has also produced in one week 26 pounds and 

 3 ounces of unsalted butter. Tlie records are 

 kept by Mr. Mitchell and his sons, and there 

 is no question about their accuracy. 



The statement below will show that both 

 heifers have beaten the great cow, Aggie, 

 owned by Smith & Powell, and which yielded 

 in one day f^i pounds and 12 ounces, and the 

 still greater cow, Ondine, owned by G. S. 

 Miller, of Peterboro, N. Y., which gave 91 

 pounds. Tlie statement is for 31 days, end- 

 ing Saturday, March 15. The yield is given 

 in pounds and ounces : 



Daily 



lilking 



lilking 



lilking 6«.2 105J' 



ilkiiig- " ■■ 



736.1.5 



lilking — . 

 days' milking 



Best 1 (lay ? milKir 

 Best 2 consec. flays 

 Best 3 conseo. days 

 Best 5 eonsec. days 

 Best consec. days' 

 Best 10 consec. day; 

 Best 21 consec. days 

 Best 31 



Total product 6,826.1 



Number of days in milk to March 15, 94. 

 ethelka's record. 



Best 1 day's milking----- 1"! 



Best 2 consec. days' milking 193 



Best 3 consec. days' milking 



Best 5 consec. days' i 

 Best 10 consec. days' } 

 Best 31 consec. days' 



110.1 

 327.10 109.3K 



!,102.11 10O.2 



lilking- 

 nilking- . 



5,586.10 56 



Total product 



Number of days in milk to March 15, 98. 



The cows Aggie and Ondine, above alluded 

 to, have been looked upon as being phenome- 

 nal milk producers, but the young heifers 

 Jamaica and Ethelka now stand at the head 

 of the list. Previous to the publication a few 

 days ago of Jamaica's one-day yield of 103| 

 pounds of milk, about 51^ quarts, Mr. Mitchell 

 was offered $15,000 for her and her three 

 months old heifer calf, but since then a well- 



