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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
July 7 
.7. S , CoKKiSG, Iowa— la a recent It. 
N.-Y., under the heading, “The Hired 
Man’s Side,” the communication of W. 
W., Pawling, N. Y., describes himself as 
the man for whom I have been looking 
for some time. Last summer, I paid S30 
and furnished milk for a small family 
with a bouse. In the winter, I paid $20. 
This summer I pay $25 per month with 
milk, house and truck patch. Wages are 
paid every month. My work is dairying 
and stock raising. As a rule, our farm 
help is not as good as we would like, 
mostly for two reasons : The railroads 
take many of our energetic young men, 
but the best hands begin work for them¬ 
selves very soon. Western hands do not 
take kindly to milking ; we have to do 
most of it ourselves. 
Farm Wagres la iadlana. 
A. C. L , Blooming Grove, Ind — Farm 
hands get here from $8 to $12 per month 
and board. They are generally supposed 
to work from sun to sun. This price is 
a drop, on an average, of $2 per month 
from last year. For day labor, $1 per 
day with dinner and supper is paid. 
Further west on the prairie, wages run 
as high as $20 per month, but a man is 
expected to tend 45 to 50 acres of corn. 
Laborers are plentiful here. 
Aag'ast Set Strawberry Plants. 
G. A. D., Marshfiklt) Hills, Mass — 
“How nice your strawberry plants are 
looking; were they set this spring ?” 
asked a neighbor the other day. “ No 
sir; they were set last August.” “Well, 
they are fine looking plants; do you 
always make a practice of setting plants 
in August?” “ I have in a small way, 
but last spring this piece, which I had 
planted with peas, on account of the 
drought yielded next to nothing. I had 
pulled up the vines and fed them to the 
cows. Nearby I had a strawberry bed, 
so one rainy day last August, instead of 
hieing to the blacksmith shop or grocery, 
I told the boy to don his sou wester and 
oil-skin, and this piece, which contains 
about three-quarters of an acre was set 
in a day. Had I waited until spring, I 
would not have set them until late. The 
ground has been so dry that small seeds 
failed to sprout early in the season and 
there was a poor show for strawberry 
plants. That piece just beyond is about 
the size of this. I have peas there, and 
after I have marketed them, I shall drill 
in Swede turnips 21^ feet apart and set 
strawberry plants between the drills.” 
I know that Fred Grundy says that no 
one advocates setting strawberries at any 
other time but spring unless it be some 
one who has plants to sell. I have none 
to sell. I have about eight acres in 
truck and small fruits. My boy and self 
with one horse do all the work. I hire 
the heavy plowing done. 1 go to market, 
12 miles distant, three times a week. 
Spring is the busy time with me ; so I 
set plants in August. 
The Balt of Creamery Sharks. 
V. G, T., Allentown, Pa. —In The R. 
N.-Y. of June 16, page 375, Prof. F. E. 
Emery gives a glowing statement of 
profits in the creamery business. In all.my 
experience in the creamery business, I 
never saw or heard of a creamery handling 
4,500 pounds of milk daily, that could 
make a showing of $15.79 net profit per 
day. It can’t be done. The statement 
is misleading to a certain extent, and is 
calculated to do some injury, because 
many readers of The R, N.-Y. are plac¬ 
ing implicit confidence in its statements. 
I for one would rush right into the 
creamery business on a showing of 
$443.85 per month on an investment of 
$5,000 or $6,000. The fault of Prof. 
Emery’s statement lies in this: They 
are making 4J^ pounds of butter per 100 
of milk. This means extra good milk 
and very close skimming. Out of 100 
pounds of skim-milk, they are making 
five pounds of cheese. I know of no 
market in the United States where could 
be placed 225 pounds of skim cheese 
daily, at a price anywhere near six cents 
per pound. I have worked up skim cheese 
in every variety. Cheddar close skim 
cheese is worth only from one to two 
cents per pound in a wholesale way, and 
all other cheese, while fetching from one 
to two cents more, require a vast amount 
of extra labor. Creamery men here, in 
southeastern Pennsylvania, do not see 
any profit in making close skim cheese, 
and it is the custom nearly everywhere 
to return the skim-milk gratis to the 
farmers, who use it for hog feed. 
If you eliminate the cheesemaking ac¬ 
count from the Professor’s statement, 
and leave the other just about as it is, 
it will give a pretty fair idea of creamery 
profit on a 4,500-pound plant. I, how¬ 
ever, do not wish it to be understood that 
there is no profit in the creamery busi¬ 
ness. But the point is that it requires a 
very close, careful, conservative manage¬ 
ment to make a 4,500-pound plant pay 
the interest on the investment and a 
small profit to the owner. By the way, 
has The R. N.-Y. published it yet, that 
the great Senator Manderson, from the 
great dairy State of Nebraska, stands up 
in favor of the much-abused oleo ? Isn’t 
it about time that the Government re¬ 
move all restrictions to the manufacture 
of oleomargarine, and compel the dairy¬ 
men of the United States to purchase Gov¬ 
ernment stamps to wrap around the (vile) 
product of the cow and churn ? I await 
with interest the attitude of Nebraska 
farmers and dairymen in this matter. 
R. N.-Y.—We are glad to make a cor¬ 
rection. Prof. Emery meant to quote 
from a circular which was sent by that 
fraudulent Chicago creamery company. 
By mistake it was credited to him, but 
really it was what this concern tried to 
make farmers believe. This is the sort 
of “ bait ” they use to catch dollars. We 
talked about Senator Manderson last 
week. We are waiting to see what Ne¬ 
braska dairymen will do. 
Thinnlnfif Pears Aealn. 
Wm. Parky, New Jersey. —Where the 
fruits of Duchess, Anjou and Bartlett 
are so thickly set as to be liable to in¬ 
jure the trees, they should be thinned as 
soon as the appearance shows that they 
are healthy and will not fall off prema¬ 
turely. This can generally be deter¬ 
mined by June 15. Where the clusters 
are close together, the fruit should be 
thinned to a single specimen, or so that 
no two specimens will touch. Keiffers, 
five years planted, could safely be al¬ 
lowed to bear one-half bushel per tree. 
Leather Patch on a Binder. 
C. W, R., Clark’s Hill, Ind. —When 
new to farming, and especially new to 
farm machinery, I purchased a self- 
binder. In the first day’s use of the 
machine, the pitman where it connects 
with the crank pin began heating and 
cutting until it was soon so far gone that 
oil could do it no good. I telegraphed 
for a new connection, but failed to send 
number and letter on the casting. When 
it came it would not fit, and so I tele- 
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I have a tired, wora-out feeling. This 
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Hood’s Sarsaparilla is needed to purify 
and vitalize the blood, and thus supply 
nervous strength.Take it now. Remember 
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Hood’s Fills cure all Llrer Ills, Biliousness. 
graphed again, sending number. This 
time it came all right. In the meantime, 
the binder had been kept running, but 
now nothing was left of the casting but 
three ribs that encircled it. This was at 
noon, and the other casting would not 
come until 9 o’clock the next day. Not 
wishing to stop the machine, I took off 
the pitman and plugged up the oblong 
slot that had worn, with the thickest 
sole leather I could find, putting three 
thicknesses, nicely rounded and fitted, 
on each side of the crank pin. This 
worked all right, was left through three 
harvests, and was then replaced not be¬ 
cause the leather had worn out, but for 
fear of the new casting getting lost. 
I hesitated a good while before buying 
my present mowing machine, because 
the knife-head connection was not a ball 
and socket joint, but the machine pleased 
me so well in other respects that I bought 
it. Sure enough, before long the hole in 
the knife bead became oblong, and the 
nub on the pitman fiatter, but no black¬ 
smith or repair shop gets a cut at my 
profits on that account, for an old boot 
sole cut to fit, made wedge-shaped and 
tapering, longer and larger at one end 
than is at present necessary, and pulled 
through the eye of the knife-head with 
the pinchers, a little bit farther when¬ 
ever necessary, keeps everything snug 
and working well. It will cause this 
part of the machine to out-last the rest 
of it, for as soon as a piece of leather can 
be put on both sides of the eye hole, only 
one being wedge-shaped, the wearing of 
the metal practically ceases. Another 
thing, the leather holds the oil longer, 
which is quite an advantage. Mr. 
Macomber’s article is likely to make a 
farmer owning anything but a ball and 
socket machine, look down his nose and 
wonder why he ever bought such a ma¬ 
chine, for he knows the truth of his 
statements and will realize it in experi¬ 
ence, too, unless he is enough of a Yankee 
to whittle old boot soles into proper 
shape. The average farmer, though, is 
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