1006. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
INCOME FROM WESTERN FARMS. 
A Kansas Grazing Farm. 
Our farm is not in the great Kaw bottom 
proper, but back a few miles, and some of it 
is quite broken. We are stock raisers and 
never sell anything but live stock. Our 
Alfalfa makes from six to eight tons per 
acre, which never sells for less than $5 per 
ton, often higher on the farm. Corn makes 
from .30 to 90 bushels per acre In our local¬ 
ity : wheat from 20 to 45 bushels; potatoes 
from 200 to 400 bushels. I know that these 
statements are not very definite, and fear 
that it will not be satisfactory, but as stated 
heretofore we are stockmen rather than 
farmers. J. f. true & son. 
Jefferson Co., Kan. 
Non-lrrigated Colorado Farms. 
In giving a statement of the income from 
a Colorado farm It is well to bear in mind 
the fact, that not all farming districts are 
irrigated. In the county where I reside 
(Elbert) all crops are produced without irri¬ 
gation. The yield here per acre would be 
about as follows: Wheat 12 to 25 bushels; 
oats 20 to 40 bushels: barley 15 to 25 
bushels; rye 12 to 20 bushels; corn 15 to 30 
bushels; potatoes 50 to 100 bushels; Alfalfa 
1 % to 2 tons; millet one to two tons. A 
man with two good horses can farm very 
easily 160 acres here without any assist¬ 
ance, except harvest time, when he will 
need one or two extra, hands a short time. 
In the irrigated districts the income would 
be just about double those given above ex¬ 
cept corn, which yields about as much with¬ 
out irrigation, while the labor required on 
an irrigated farm to produce this extra 
yield would also be greatly increased, ow¬ 
ing to the extra time required to apply the 
water. Prices for farm products here will 
compare very favorably with those of the 
Middle West. w. L. FOSTER. 
Elbert Co., Col. 
An Iowa Stock Farm. 
The average well-conducted 160-acre Iowa 
farm produces $2,000 worth of products to 
sell every year. To do this they raise a 
variety of crops, cattle, horses, hogs, poultry 
and a great many keep a few sheep. They 
raise hay, oats and corn enough to keep and 
tit the stock for market. They seed some 
of the land down to Timothy and clover 
every year, and plow up some meadow every 
year for corn. The stock makes enough 
manure so that no commercial fertilizers 
are needed. T. A. davenport. 
Wright Co., Iowa. 
A Farm in South Dakota. 
Farms in this locality last season pro¬ 
duced from 15 to 25 bushels of wheat per 
acre, barley 40 bushels, oats 40 to 60 
bushels; corn 40 bushels; potatoes, an 
average of about 100 bushels. From this it 
can be ascertained what the run of an aver¬ 
age farm will yield in this locality. Our 
country is not obstructed by rocks or stone 
or other obstacles, which you commonly meet 
with in eastern farming. The general lay 
of the land is level, and the farmer here 
can farm to good advantage half as much, 
to twice as much land as he can in the East, 
and there is no reason where proper 
care and attention is given to the farming 
operations, and he does not overdo and 
attempt to cover too much (which is often 
the case) why he cannot accomplish a great 
deal more in this locality than in the East. 
Our farms are prosperous, and they have 
as good class of buildings and improvements 
as can be found through Iowa and Illinois; 
and the farm mortgage is a thing of the 
past. CHAS. N. HARRIS. 
Brown Co., S. D. 
The Average in North Dakota. 
The land in this vicinity has been used, 
up to the last two years, for grazing pur¬ 
poses. About all the desirable land is now 
entered by homesteaders, who can farm 
their claims at a fair profit, and run small 
bunches of stock, at practically no expense, 
on the remaining Government land, which is 
too rough for farming purposes, and will be 
used for grazing lands, for years to come. 
Other than laud situated in the Government 
irrigation projects, the average gross earn¬ 
ings, on an average farm of 160 acres, is 
approximately $1,500 per annum, and the 
profits on 30 or 40 head of cattle, which will 
cost practically nothing to run. Wheat, 
oats and flax are the chief cereals grown to 
make this income possible. 
McKenzie Co., N. D. w. s. graham. 
A Small Farm in Utah. 
I have no statistics, but some experience, 
and will have to do some guessing as to- 
men and teams required to care for certain 
crops. One man and one team generally take 
care of from 20 to 40 acres in agricultural 
crops. The land in Salt Lake Valley on 
an average will produce about per acre, 
40 bushels of wheat, 60 of oats, 200 to 300 
barrels of potatoes. Coyn does well, but 
cannot say as to number of bushels. Al¬ 
falfa makes from four to eight tons per 
acre, and in fruit will produce from $100 
to $400 per acre, and some truck gardens 
even more, as I heard to-day of a half acre 
plot of asparagus sold on the ground for 
$350. and the buyers did well. The prices 
generally are: Wheat, from 70 cents to $1 
per btnihel; oats $1.25 to $1.60 per 100 
pounds; shelled corn, $1.25 to $1.50 per 
100 pounds; potatoes from 25 cents to $1 a 
bushel; Alfalfa from $7 to $10 (but this 
Spring it brought from $12 to $15) per 
ton loose. Our farmers usually raise all 
these crops and sometimes an acre of or¬ 
chard, trying to even up the work for the 
season; as to profits, that depends an the 
management. J. M. F. 
Calders, Utah. 
A Missouri Dairy Farm. 
Twelve Jersey cows kept, 1,800 pounds 
butter, sold at 25 and 30 cents, $540; 1,200 
gallons of cream sold to confectioners at 
60 cents per gallon, $720; 1,200 gallons of 
skim and buttermilk sold at 10 cents per 
gallon, $120; 12 calves sold and raised, $80; 
poultry of all kinds, $100; 40 stands of bees 
kept, 800 pounds of honey, $100; five acres 
of garden and small fruits, $600; five acres 
tree fruits, $500; hogs sold, $150; one colt 
raised, $75; total $2,955. We have a good 
home market, and everything sells readily, 
mostly direct to the consumer. L. v. d. 
Jefferson City, Mo. 
Elgin System of Farm Rental. 
D. B., Fairbury, III. —On page 565 you 
told us something about the Elgin System of 
farm renting. This was interesting as far 
as it went. Can you tell us more, and State 
who furnishes the pasture? Who furnishes 
service fee in cas*e of colt-raising, and about 
the bull? Does landlord or tenant furnish, 
or both together? When calf and colt is 
matured is he owned in common, and has 
he been fed from feed that belongs to both 
in common? In seeding who furnishes the 
seed, and in thrashing and marketing who 
does this? This is a very interesting sub¬ 
ject, and deals with that which interests 
a large circle of readers. 
Ans. —The pasture is furnished by the 
landlord. The landlord furnishes the bull. 
I do not know of colts being raised under 
this system. It is purely an extensive 
dairy system, but can be modified to meet 
any kind of live stock farming. The 
young stock belongs equally to landlord 
and tenant, as it has been grown on feed 
one-half of which is the landlord’s and 
one-half the tenant’s. In most cases the 
tenant furnishes the seed for seeding pas¬ 
tures and meadows and the expense of 
thrashing and marketing belongs to the 
tenant. h. m. cottrell. 
R. N. IF., Albion, N. Y. —I note quite an 
interesting article on dairy farming about 
Elgin, Ill. Mr. Cottrell gives quite a full 
account of it, but there are one or two ques¬ 
tions I would like to be informed on. What 
price per quart or gallon do they get for 
their milk in Summer and Winter, and what 
are those dairy farms valued at, or what 
would they sell for at private sale? 
Ans. —Milk is sold by the hundred 
pounds in Elgin, and ranges in price from 
about 90 cents per 100 pounds in June to 
$1.42 in midwinter. The average price 
through the year is about $1.20 per 100 
pounds. The largest amount of milk in 
the Elgin dairy district is produced in 
February. Farms around Elgin sell at 
from $75 to $100 per acre, with ordinary 
improvements. h. m. cottrell. 
Hyde King Apple. —In writing recently in 
regard to Hyde King apple. I forgot to state 
that it is one of the longest keeping apples 
that I have tested, but its poor quality caused 
me utterly to discard it. c. a. green. 
Crows and Corn ; Hay.—I have read with 
great interest the pieces in your paper in 
regard to the crow cawkus'ses and conven¬ 
tions, and want to tell of a plan that I saw 
in some paper this last Spring. It was 
simply to take potatoes and stick hens’ 
feathers in them. The children enjoyed 
sticking tail and wing feathers. We used four 
small potatoes on something like an acre 
and a half, and though it was partially sur¬ 
rounded by woods and swamp, not a stalk 
was touched. The potatoes were hung to 
short pole or stick by a string, so they can 
swing, and make a very curious looking 
bird (?). We think that gas tar injures 
the germinating qualities of the corn, and 
to thin out means a “heap” of work. I 
•also read the piece in regard to the men who 
went to the old home in Wilton, N. II., and 
got in a load of rowen. Now if those men 
had got that hay in on this farm, or any 
other one, where the hay could be driven in 
on to the high beams, they would never 
have left the pitching off to the hired men, 
as that is all the poetry of haying, I won¬ 
der that anyone who is building a barn, or 
could fix over an old one so that the loads 
of hay could be driven into the top of a 
barn, does not do so. They certainly would 
fix it that way if they had once had a barn 
fixed that way for a short time, if it was 
possible to do so. I am most heartilv in 
sympathy with those who would save Niagara 
Falls for its scenic beauty rather than use 
it up for power. j. t. s. 
Massachusetts. 
M ANY claims are made for ele¬ 
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the fact remains that more 
“Drews” are in use today than all 
other makes combined. 
Why,—Mr.Farmer? For the simple 
reason that the “Drew” is the best and 
cheapest carrier made. 
It is the most practical. It is the only 
device that carries its load to any de¬ 
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That’s why actual users 
praise this carrier,—be¬ 
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■more than its makers 
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potash, which sells in the open market for 
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of this potash in your soil, your small grain 
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By its use you not only save money, time, 
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