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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 30 
"Yon Farmers Have Your Living: Anyhow!” 
C. L H., Okumos. Mien —A business 
man said the above wordstomeafewdays 
ago. All of us have heard t^em before. 
Can one sentence more clearly misrepre¬ 
sent the position of the fa mers than 
this? “ Wny,” said I to him, "don’t 
you know that the successful farmer has 
the business man's capital invested in his 
farm? He cannot buy stick and agri¬ 
cultural implements for it without pat¬ 
ting up Si Guo 01 SI,500. He has to keep 
up hundreds of rods of fence, and take 
care of miles of ditching. If he had 
nothing but a house and lot tc keep t'dy 
and in repair the task would be small, 
but there are the barn, sneds, granary, 
etc., each calling for a money outlay. 
Then again the hired h<dp as well as 
taxes, insurance and other expenses 
witnout number have to be paid, so that 
at the close of the season, instead of 
making preparations to enj iy himself 
during the winter, consuming what he 
has raised, tne farmer stops and thinks, 
perhaps worries over the money to pay 
the hands, the bill for thrashing, tbe 
notes for machinery, and the am mnt 
necessary to clothe the family and lay in 
a supp y of v inter reading. No other 
business needs to be so free from debt, 
nor is tnere another which requires 
such a prop irt onate outlay to keep 
tuings in running shape. Sales must be 
large and prices pretty fair, or his ac¬ 
count book will not be pleasant to look" 
at. Fri m constant reading of agricul¬ 
tural papers one is quite apt to get the 
impression that paying mortgages and 
getting rich are two things that are sure 
to follow faithful work on the farm We 
hear of the successful ones; those that 
fail say nothing. 
“The Difference.” 
S. J P., Armstrong County. Pa.—A 
and B are hauung manure. Both have 
basement barns. What A hauls had been 
thrown out on the slope below the barn. 
It has a faded look. H’s crop giant is 
faint wi h exposure. What B hauls has 
been kept just where it was made—in the 
barn—till now. It is thoroughly rotted. 
The 1 q ids and solids are intermingled. 
It will be a plant moistener. A has plenty 
of level land famishing for food just be¬ 
yond the barnyard, but is hauiing it away 
around to tne far side of the farm and 
putting it on a shady stony hillside. B 
is putting it on the poorest spots in one 
of h : b best fields nearest the barn. A puts 
his in heaps and will scatter it over the 
ground before plowing. B takes advan¬ 
tage of the height the wagon affords and 
spreads his as he hauls. Last spring A 
wouldn't buy clover seed because the 
price was too hign ; B sowed f. ur fields 
with seed bougbt the fall before when it 
was cheap. A doesn’t tnink tillage is ma¬ 
nure, and has no faith in commercial fer- 
t lizers. B thoroughly tills his soil and 
fertilizes his crops until the yield per 
acre is twice as large as A s. A takes no 
farm paper. B gets several of the best. 
A doesn't clear over $50 per year. B has 
made $500 net profit in that length of 
time from a single branch of his bu iness. 
A has 80 acres, every one tillable. B has 
100 acres, over one-fourth of wh’ch can¬ 
not be put to the plow. A is 60 years 
old ; B is 30. A fell heir to his farm 40 
years ago, and it is much less fertile now 
than then. His single improvement is a 
barn. B inherited $100 10 years ago, 
bougnt the farm three years later, has 
paid for it, built a good house, a large 
barn and has money at interest at six 
per cent. At the close o' the day A croaks 
that he doesn’t know how he is going to 
pay taxes and keep up expenses. B 
studies the theories and experiences of 
others, and has full faith in his farming 
future. A tills his soil by the dim light 
of the pine knot fagot of his father’s 
time ; B sows and reaps by the electric 
light of nineteenth century agriculture. 
B knows that the willing hand will not 
wring success out of farming unless di¬ 
rected by brains ; A will never learn that 
the hand is the lever, the body the power, 
and the brain the long-looked-for Archi¬ 
medean fulcrum upon which the lever 
must rest if the agi icultural world is to 
be moved. 
R N -Y.—This paper was intended 
as a commentary on spring work. Now 
is the time for it. though, with a whole 
winter to think it over in. 
Fat In Com Butts. 
Nkw Subscriber, Farmvillk, Va.— On 
page 608 we are told "there i6 mighty 
little fat in these corn butts.” The 
Southern Planter for September says the 
following conclusions were arrived at by 
tbe Maryland station in feeding experi¬ 
ments conducted in 1891 92 : 
“ The corn stubble and husk contain 
60 per cent of the total digestible mat 
ter, and the blades only 11 per cent. 
Corn stubble or butts contain 66.5 per 
cent of digestible mattrr. Corn husks 
or shucks contain 72 per cent of digest¬ 
ible matter. Corn blades or leaves con¬ 
tain 64.2 per cent of digestible matter.” 
If The Rural is right, it won’t pay to 
cut and Bhred the stalks ; while if the 
chemist of tbe Maryland Station is right 
it will pay well to do so. Which shall I 
believe ? 
R N.-Y.—This is simply a difference 
in the meaning of the word “ butts ” 
The Maryland station called all the stalk 
below the ear by that name, and this, 
including the husk, would mean more 
than three-fourths the weight of the 
stalk. What we talked about were the 
t’uck, tough ends of the stalks that were 
not eaten by the cows fed by our corre¬ 
spondent. One reason why they were 
not eaten was because they were hard 
and stiff, with sharp edges that hurt the 
cows’ mouths. Were they steamed or 
put in a silo more of them would be 
eaten. Give a cow a whole stalk and 
she w ! ll not eat much of it below the ear 
—not because there is no nourishment 
in it, but because it is too hard and 
tough. We talked about what the cow 
left of the chopped up stalk. 
Some Nebraska Hired Men. 
Mrs F. C. Jounson Nebraska. —I have 
read with interest the many articles in 
The Rural on the “ hired man.” There 
is mucb truth on both sides, but it is the 
Eastern hired man who has been dis¬ 
cussed. People greatly change on com¬ 
ing West—I don’t say always for the 
better. The boss is always called by bis 
given name, not only on the farm, but 
in the towns. A great many different 
men have worked for us in the last eight 
years, but only one called the mistress 
by her given name, and he was a Quaker. 
I have always been treated with respect, 
and no bad language has been used in 
my presence; but, as a whole, the hands 
will do as little as possible and shirk 
whenever they can, and they take very 
little, if any, interest in their work. 
They will not milk unless obliged to do 
so. It’s different here, as we get the 
culls from the mining country west of us, 
and many come from the drought-stricken 
regions for work to tide them over until 
tney can raise a crop. I sometimes tnink 
we get all the scum of creation. 
That Old Farm Team. 
F. E. V. E., Stanley, N Y.—Seeing 
the following question in The Rural of 
September 9, I am constrained to say a 
word. “ What shall we do with the faith¬ 
ful old plow team, which is no longer 
able to do more than half a day’s work ?” 
It is one which has been discussed in 
my family for a number of years, and 
the decision we have come to is this—to 
keep them as long as we can without 
loss, and then have them shot and buried. 
If they are kept after they have become 
a source of expense, it seems to me that 
whatever the outlay may be for feed and 
care is a waste, and might much better 
be given to help tome needy human be¬ 
ing. I have sui h a team (now 25 years 
old), but money would not buy them to 
run the risk of their being abused. 
The “ Abundance ” Flnm. 
H. L F , Nichols Conn.— On page 623 
of The R. N.-Y. is printed a letter from 
Luther Burbank, saying the Abundance 
pium was introduced by him under the 
name of Sweet Botan. This appears to 
add to tne almost inextricable confusion 
of names of Japan plums, for the Abund¬ 
ance is a very much better fruit than the 
Sweet Botan as commonly known, and 
about a week earlier. I have them both 
fruiting, and Stark B-os’. catalogue also. 
See their “ Fruits and Fruit Trees,” page 
77, near the bottom. 
Why Not Good Dairy Cheese ? 
G S P., Winslow, Me. —Why should 
one product of cooperation be such a suc¬ 
cess and another, from the raw materials, 
such a failure? In other words, why 
should creamery butter be so nice and 
factory cheese so poor ? We use da’ry 
butter and occasionally buy creamery. 
We are quite fastidious, but the creamery 
product always melts away like the 
finest product of the dairy, and is always 
tbe same. In this town there is one nice 
cheese maker. I have never seen any 
other dairy cheese to equal hers for tex¬ 
ture, richness and general appetizing 
qualities, and, as for the best factory 
cheese I have seen, hers leaves it out of 
sight. Her cheese, made from Jersey 
milk, is so well known in the village 
that the grocer who han ies it has 
more orders ahead than he can fill 
from the people about; the cheeses are 
always too small and the season too 
short. I see toe dairy cheeses which are 
brought into a city nearby and am al¬ 
ways on the lookout for something good, 
but, though better than the factory they 
are seldom first-class. Now, if fancy 
butter can be made by machinery, why 
not cheese ? That is the conundrum ? 
The Black Lima Bean. 
W H R , Springfield, Mo.—The Black 
Lima bean The Rural sent out beats 
anything of the kind I have tried. It is 
four times as productive as the Bush 
Lima, of which I shall plant no more. I 
don’t object to the color, while the beans 
are much more tender and also much 
better flivored than the Bush Limas. My 
neighbors were all much astonished 
at the immense productiveness of The 
Rural’s Black Lima. 
Forty-one Successive Corn Crops. 
H J C. Jeddo, Mich —Some time ago 
I saw the question asked how long corn 
could be grown on the same ground. I 
and my father before me have raised 41 
crops of corn in succession from the 
same field and they were nearly all good. 
The land was al ways enriched with barn¬ 
yard manure each year, and always 
produced about 100 bushels of ears to the 
acre. It was then sown to spring wheat 
and seeded with Timothy; the wheat 
turned out 35 bushels to the acre, and 
the hay was never less than two tons for 
manv years, and of late there have been 
several crops of grain on it, which have 
all been good. 
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Mrs. Mary E. O’Fallon, 
a nurse, of Piqua, Ohio, 
was poisoned while as¬ 
sisting physicians at an 
autopsy 5 years ago, and 
soon terrible ulcers 
broke out on her head, 
arms, tongue and throat. 
Mrs. M. IS. O’Fallon. She wei 8 hed but 78 lbs, 
and saw no prospect of 
help. At last she began to take HOOD’S 
SAKSADARILT.A and at once improved; 
could soon get out of bed and walk. She is now 
perfectly well, weighs 128 pounds, eats well, 
and does the work for a large family. 
Hood’s Pills should be in every family 
medicine chest. Once used, always preferred. 
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