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VOL. LII. No. 2276. 
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 9, 1893. 
PRICE, THREE CENTS 
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A RECORD-BREAKING FARM TEAM. 
A Big Debt Distanced In One Heat. 
WIFE AN EQUAL PARTNER ON TIII8 DAIRY FARM. 
The Sort of Load They Hauled. 
sell off my cows and square up with the world once to tread the mow. You remember he was danger- 
more. T.o-day financial thunderbolts are striking all ously wicked when a yearling, and I had to send him 
about, and we feel, more than ever before, that the to the work-house to reform him. He churned, cut 
farm home is the safest castle in such a storm.” ensilage, mowed hay, and took kindly to the pursuits 
“ That’s where you are right of course, and I con- of peace after that.” 
“ Your neighbor, A. M. Connelly, is the most suc¬ 
cessful farmer I ever knew.” This was the remark of 
a friend who lives in a distant town. I have known 
the man he referred to from his boyhood, and can say 
that my friend’s estimate is not far from wrong, and 
not at all if it is limited to our locality and the dairy 
business and mixed husbandry in which Mr. Connelly 
has achieved such signal success. Others may have 
gratulate you while you stand from under. But how 
you got there is still a mystery. Ayers P. got there in 
2:3% the other day, and the papers said he was aided 
by the bicycle sulky, the kite-shaped track at Kirk¬ 
wood and a running mate. Now you have made a 
splendid record on an old-fashioned track. To what 
do you attribute your exceptional success more than 
any other one thing ? ” 
“ How did you get him off the mows and stacks ? ” 
“ Oh, that was no great job. We sometimes tum¬ 
bled him off on to a load of hay or a pile on the floor, 
or eased his fall with the hay rope.” 
“Mr. Connelly, how did you manage the bull on 
the hay mow ? ” 
“ We kept him tied out of the way while we were 
pitching off a load, and then drove him around to 
settle the hay.” 
“ Of course you used a jockey stick in the ring for 
safety ; Jersey bulls are so treacherous, you know.” 
“ No ; nothing of the kind, and it is perfectly safe 
to dispense with it, at least it was with him. A 
man does not have to be a Spanish toreador to take 
care of himself with a bull on a mow of loose hay. 
He seems to realize that the man has the best under¬ 
standing, and it takes the conceit all out of him. I 
have found that a soft mow of hay is better than the 
best place on earth to train a vicious bull. A long 
rope and a pitch- 
fork will soon 
- N make a loyal sub- 
ject of him. I 
found him very 
\ usefulwhen 
, V thrashing, to pick 
at §8» silo, 1 filled one 
That was the high- 
\ ever held while in 
^ my service, and 
baby to bc bei P ed 
down; but we 
dropped him, and 
A. M. Connelly, the Dairyman and his Running (Help) Mate, who Distanced the Mortgage. Fig. 201. eased his fall with 
no harm to him.” 
“ In churning, Mr. Connelly, what tread power did 
you use ? ” 
“ Oh, nothing, but one of those old two-horse treads 
that were in vogue 25 years ago for thrashing; one 
can be bought for a song. It is a shameful waste of 
power to run the churn and separator by hand year 
after year while these useful machines rot by the 
roadsides and the bulls bellow and tear up the earth to 
show what might be done with their surplus strength.” 
No Show for a Hay Loader Here. 
“ You rope your hay from the field, I see ? ” 
“Yes, most of it. It is the quickest and easiest 
way to gather hay. Why, my little Martin, only 10 
years old, hauled many tons to the barns this year. 
I use a low truck-wheeled cart with a rope attached 
near each wheel. With a little practice a man and 
boy can scoop half a ton from the windrow as fast as 
the team can walk. When loading on a wagon, 
usually men wait while the team moves, so you see I 
get my loads in the time that is commonly wasted. 
Perhaps you wouldn’t believe it, but I knmv that we 
have had a ton in the loop of that rope several times 
Mr. Connelly looked his appreciation in the direc¬ 
tion of his very estimable wife who was present, and 
answered softly, “ Jessie.” 
“ I guess that's right too.” 
“ I know it is, and there is no sentimental nonsense 
about it either. You may count up the farmers who 
began with nothing beyond their empty hands and 
have prospered and you will find them, with few ex¬ 
ceptions, working in well-matched pairs, able as well 
as willing to pull together ; in short, they got there 
with a running mate ; and yet, strange to say, the 
accumulated more money in the same time, but not to 
my knowledge by straight, legitimate farming. Sharp 
commercial men, with headquarters on a farm, are 
not rightly classed as his competitors. His farm 
operations have been within my own personal knowl¬ 
edge and observation, and it is not too much to say 
that they have presented a highly instructive series of 
object-lessons in systematic, well-directed energy and 
efficiency resulting in an honorable success dur ng a 
period of agricultural depression and failure. 
Some one has well said that if a young man is 
anxious to get on 
in the world, the 
first requisite is 
the consent of his 
best captains in 
any calling. 
“ Mr. Connelly, 
how long have 
you been farming ? ” I asked the other day. 
“ I bought the Donaldson farm in the spring of 
1883 for $5,120, paying $1,100 down. It was a rough, 
stumpy hill farm of 128 acres, back from the lake 
road, and reached only by a private way, not a very 
inviting prospect for a young man, but the rich virgin 
soil was there, and I had faith in its possibilities I 
also bought 26 cows, implements, etc., for which I 
gave my notes, swelling my debt to over $5,000.” 
“ How long did it take to lift that ? ” 
“ I squared it all up in seven years.” 
“ What improvements did you make meantime ? ” 
“ I stumped about 40 acres, planted an orchard, and 
made other improvements to the value, as I judge, of 
about $1,500.” 
“ When did you buy the Pike place ? ” 
“ In the fall of 1891, 80 acres of $75 land, but it only 
cost us about $5,000, as Mr. Pike, who is my wife’s 
uncle and foster father, wanted us to have her old 
home here on Chautauqua.” 
“ And you have only had the products from it one 
year and now the debt on it is canceled ? ” 
“ That’s right. Last winter I made up my mind to 
mate, without whom honorable achievement would be 
impossible, is little thought of or mentioned except 
perhaps when some people say, as they did of Ayers 
P., ‘If his mate had been faster the record would 
have been still better.’” 
I tell you, we do not sufficiently appreciate how 
much the hearty, sympathetic eobperation of a strong, 
healthy, sensible wife adds to the power and efficiency 
of both, just as shears have leverage for use only 
when the two halves are united. 
“You made butter at home ?” 
“ Yes, and would again. Twice if I had said so, we 
could have had a creamery within easy reach ; but I 
never could see any advantage in one for me. The 
best butter always has been made in private dairies, 
but half the gain is in selling. I had a neat stencil 
mark on my goods which commanded the highest 
market price. Hogs and calves are no small sources of 
dairy profits and are best managed with the milk at 
home.” 
“ Didn’t you miss your Jersey bull this year in 
haying ? ” 
“ Well, we did. He was worth more than five men 
