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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 21 
HOPE FARM NOTES. 
Our sales for July amounted to $70.15. 
We have reached the point where each 
day brings in something. It may not be 
more than 10 cents for some days, but 
every working day must see a little 
money turned over. Of course, some of 
our little operations will seem small 
enough to larger farmers, but we be¬ 
lieve that the principle of striving for 
daily sales is a good one for beginners 
to work on. One objection is that where 
the money comes in little driblets, it is 
likely to be spent as fast as it is received. 
In order to prevent this, we have ar¬ 
ranged with two of our best customers 
to carry a standing account, and pay us 
in $50 lots. Our little sales just about 
pay running expenses, and we look to 
the larger accounts for working capital. 
Hope Farm is run on a cooperative plan, 
and there is little expense for hired 
labor. I have always believed that few 
men are capable of directing the labor 
of hired men so as to obtain a profit 
from it. It is safer for most of us to 
select the tools, the stock, and the crops 
that will enable us to turn off the great¬ 
est amount of produce with the family 
labor. 
X t X 
Two weeks ago, in speaking of potato 
blight, I praised Carman No. 3 as a 
strong variety. Since then, it has sadly 
disappointed us. It was first to die after 
all, and is now completely gone, leaving 
only few and small potatoes. Orphan 
is still alive. The rows dusted with fun- 
giroid are in fair condition and give 
promise of living 10 days to two weeks 
longer than the others. R. N.-Y. No. 2 
is the toughest variety of all. Many of 
the plants are still green and thrifty, 
and seem likely to die a natural death. 
We are digging the R. N.-Y. No. 2 to 
supply small orders, taking the blighted 
hills first. These potatoes give good 
satisfaction, and we are offered $2 50 a 
barrel for the whole lot. Very few of 
the Carman No. 3’s will be large enough 
to sell, and about half the Orphans will 
fail to pass muster. Another objection 
to Carman No. 3 is its small vines. The 
weeds got the start of us this year. 
Orphan and R. N.-Y. No. 2 outgrew them, 
but they quickly overhauled the Car¬ 
mans, and nearly choked them. We 
should not grow weeds ! That is true, 
but they beat us on some parts of the 
field! 
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On August 4, we bought our first crate 
of live poultry in New York as an ex¬ 
periment. There were 40 birds, which 
weighed 89 pounds. The price was 14 
cents a pound, and it cost 50 cents to ex¬ 
press home. This made the total cost 
$12.96. There were 15 roosters and 25 
pullets. We expect to sell the young 
roosters, dressed, at an average of 45 
cents each, which will make the cost of 
the 25 pullets $6 21, or a little less than 
25 cents each. These birds were mostly 
Plymouth Rocks of fair breeding. They 
came from southern New Jersey. They 
were healthy and strong and, to our 
surprise, were not lousy at all. As soon 
as we got them home, we separated 
them. The roosters were put in a small 
inclosure outdoors. The wings were 
clipped, and each bird was well dusted 
with Lambert’s Death to Lice. A fence 
2% feet high will safely hold such birds. 
They will be fed on cracked corn, skim- 
milk and a little charcoal, and sold as 
fast as orders come in. The pullets 
were put by themselves in a large yard. 
There are a few Brahmas and Langshans 
among them, but Plymouth Rock blood 
predominates—in fact, all through the 
live poultry markets, the speckled birds 
are in a vast majority. We would rather 
buy smaller birds and, from choice, 
would select Leghorn pullets ; but none 
are to be found yet. We sold our first 
broilers at 16 cents per pound, but there 
is no trouble now in obtaining 20 cents. 
These young roosters are almost fat 
enough to kill now. 
One of this year’s pullets has begun to 
lay already. She is a bird of mixed 
breeding which we bought in a brood of 
little chickens early in May. She has 
outstripped all the others iD growth and 
laid her first egg August 4 Some of the 
black pullets are, also, evidently getting 
ready to lay. We expect to make a 
breeding pen of 15 of the finest of them, 
and shall breed them to a first-class 
Brown Leghorn cock. We prefer to do 
this rather than to breed again to the 
Minorca. We think that the Brown 
Leghorn blood will improve the laying 
qualities of the chicks without much re¬ 
ducing the size. 
We have quit trying to hatch eggs at 
this season. The hens are too dull and 
stupid to produce fertile eggs. The 
Minorcas keep on laying from force of 
habit, apparently, but the eggs will not 
hatch. After moulting, they will start 
in again. We increase the proportion 
of Animal Meal and cut bone as moult¬ 
ing goes on. The hens need good feed 
while the yards are so full of feathers. 
X i X 
On Decoration Day, I found a cow for 
sale in the nearby village. She is a 
Jersey (said to be a purebred, but not 
registered) nine years old. Her calf was 
then two days old. The price of cow 
and calf was $40. Her udder was big 
and broad, square and well down in 
front. The milk veins were large and 
crooked, coming well up in front almost 
to the heart before passing out of sight 
under the belly. The skin of the ear 
had a rich golden tint with an oily feel, 
and her tail was long and slim. Her 
teeth were in fair condition. Neck 
slender and long. She was wide through 
the chest, heavy in the barrel, and had 
the pronounced wedge shape said to be 
the true type for dairy cattle. She is 
pretty old, and her teats are small and 
too far apart. She seemed, all things 
considered, a bargain at the price, and 
we bought her. The calf was sold at 
four weeks old and brought $7 30. Up 
to August 1, we sold $18 31 worth of 
milk, so it will be seen that the old 
cow is rapidly paying for herself. In 
the 14 milkings from July 7 to 14, this 
cow gave 265% pounds of milk. She 
ran in a poor pasture, and was fed eight 
pounds of H-0 dairy feed per day. We 
take this old cow as the standard for 
our little dairy herd. We do not mean 
to keep any cow that cannot equal her 
performance, and they must be as much 
better as possible. 
“ How does this old cow compare with 
your herd standard ? ” 
That may be a fair question to ask of 
every reader. 
X X t 
Where one is keeping but a single 
good cow, the milk problem o.ften be¬ 
comes a perplexing one. What is t5 be 
done with the surplus milk ? We drink 
all we can, supply a neighbor, and eat 
thick cream with every possible article 
of food, yet there is a surplus. One of 
the young women at Hope Farm is try¬ 
ing to earn money enough to buy a 
piano, and thought that she saw a little 
money in the milk trade. We have ar¬ 
ranged to sell her the milk from old 
“Jersey” at three cents a quart. We 
buy back skim-milk and buttermilk at 
one cent. She has already worked up 
a trade for seven quarts a day at six 
cents per quart She bought an old 
Davis swing churn with bowl and molds 
for $1.50, and is learning to make a fair 
quality of butter. She finds the little 
pamphlet on Farm Butter Making, issued 
by the Department of Agriculture, very 
useful and plain. At three cents a quart 
for milk, this cow pays a little profit. 
We could keep about three cows under 
similar conditions. With a larger herd, 
we would have to charge more for milk, 
as that would mean several items of 
extra cost. We find the H-0 dairy food 
very valuable for milk production, es¬ 
pecially when cows are at pasture or on 
green food. h. w. o. 
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