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THE RUR-A.lv NEW-YORKER 
September 12, 
BEST STOCK FOR A FRUIT FARMER. 
What kind of live stock, in your opin¬ 
ion, is best to keep on a fruit farm? Some 
fruit growers prefer cattle, others sheep, 
hogs or hens, and all Lave arguments for 
their favorites. 
This is rather a vague question, as 
very much depends upon the kinds of 
of fruit to which the farm is devoted. 
Of course, if only small fruits are 
grown, practically no stock can be al¬ 
lowed among them. If peaches, cherries 
or plums, then only Tiogs or poultry 
can run in the orchards. If pears or ap¬ 
ples, and the trees are headed low, ac¬ 
cording to the latest methods, hogs and 
poultry only can be put into the or¬ 
chards. Poultry, especially chickens, are 
a fine thing in any orchard, as their 
eyes are very sharp and they are ever on 
the watch for everything in the insect 
line. Hogs do very well, and will eat 
a good many insects, in the fallen fruit, 
but they are far too much like their 
cousins, the human family. They sleep 
too sound and snore too loud to hear 
a dropped apple, and in a majority of 
cases before they get around for the 
fallen fruit the worm has escaped. Not 
so with the sheep; they never sleep with 
both eyes, and an apple or pear cannot 
drop in any part of the orchard but a 
sheep will hear it and fruit and worm 
will go together into its stomach, “a 
bourne” from which no worm ever re¬ 
turns to trouble the grower. Besides 
rino grades. All the so-called mutton 
breeds are vastly more inclined to gnaw 
the trees, and a Dorset ram will delight 
to bark trees by rubbing against or but¬ 
ting them with his horns, but the me¬ 
rinos are far more quiet, and if trees 
are not small and they have plenty of 
water and feed, there is no serious dan¬ 
ger of their acquiring a taste for the 
bark, and still it is far safer to take no 
risks, as protection costs so little. 
j. s. WOODWARD. 
This is a question of great importance, 
but each fruit grower must decide for 
himself, as a great deal depends on one T s 
surroundings and markets. When I 
lived in western Pennsylvania hens were 
my preference, as I lived close to a 
good market for their product, but since 
I have been in the South I think hogs 
will fit me better, and >1 have started 
in that direction with a few purebred 
Berkshires, expecting to make baby 
pork. I find the market is always good, 
both Spring and Fall, for dressed pork 
weighing 100 or 125 pounds each, and I 
find there is no other animal living that 
is a better market for all culls and waste 
products. We do more or less general 
farming, with Spanish peanuts and corn 
as our main crops, and cow peas and 
Crimson clover as catch crops, and to 
fill in every vacant spot we can find, so 
you see we produce hog feed besides 
windfalls and wormy fruit. We also 
IT PAYS TO BORROW MONEY 
TO BUT A 
MANURE SPREADER 
I F you do not have to bor¬ 
row, so much the better. 
But in any event have a 
spreader of your own this 
year. The increase in the first crop 
through the use of your spreader will 
more than pay the principal and inter¬ 
est. It will cut down the labor of ma¬ 
nure spreading. It will make the work 
agreeable. There will be no'waste of 
manure. You will have a more fertile 
soil for future crops. 
A 
manure 
spreader 
should 
be con¬ 
sidered 
as a per- 
m a n e nt 
invest- 
ment.not 
as a run¬ 
ning ex- 
p e n s e. 
For the only way you can get all the value 
out of the farm manure every year is to 
use a spreader. There is absolutely no 
comparison between results produced by 
hand spreading and machine spreading. 
The Cloverleaf Endless Apron Spreader 
The Kemp 20th Century Return Apron 
Spreader 
The Corn King Return Apron Spreader 
You will make no mistake in ^ 
buying any one of these right 
working, durable I. H. C. spreaders. 
I. II. C. spreaders are not built ex¬ 
cessively heavy, but they have all the 
strength required by such machines. 
The draft is as light as possible in any 
spreader. 
The machines differ in certain fea¬ 
tures, but all have good strong broad 
tired wheels, simple and strong driving 
parts,are 
1-easily 
—and con¬ 
veniently 
c on trol¬ 
led, and 
do first- 
class 
work with 
any kind 
of m a- 
nure. 
Any 
I. H. C. local agent will supply cata¬ 
logs and explain the distinguishing 
features of each machine, or show you 
a machine at work so that you can 
choose wisely. 
If you prefer, write direct to the 
Home Office for any information de¬ 
sired. 
INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF AMERICA. Chicago, V. S. A. 
(Incorporated) 
A HAPPY FAMILY AND PORTABLE HOUSES IN OHIO. Fig. 334. 
this sheep eat not only fallen fruit but 
all sorts of weeds and other vegetation 
that is not wanted, which hogs do not, 
and beyond all the sheep can be used 
as a means of enriching the orchards, 
by keeping so many as to make, it im¬ 
perative to feed some supplementary 
food in addition to what they can get 
from the orchard. Almost any number 
of sheep can be- put into an orchard, 
provided sufficient food is furnished and 
a bountiful supply of fresh water, and 
the greater the number the more addi¬ 
tional food must be supplied, and of 
course the more the orchard is enriched. 
There arc but two drawbacks to the use 
of sheep: The eating of tlie bark, and 
the ability to care for the sheep at such 
times as they cannot be allowed in the 
orchard, which, of course, includes the 
Winter. The first can be easily pro¬ 
vided for by surrounding the bases of 
trees with wire netting or sections of 
wire and picket fence. But with a man 
who has but a small farm, or no farm 
at all, with large orchards, the caring 
for the sheep when not wanted in the 
orchards is a serious problem, but I 
would say that any man could well af¬ 
ford to care and feed and furnish a 
water supply for a suitable number of 
sheep, for any neighbor who would fur¬ 
nish the flock and necessary food sim¬ 
ply for the benefit to the orchard by 
having them in it. As to the kind of 
sheep for orchard feeding, I know of 
none so good as the merino and me- 
endeavor to keep a couple of good cows 
besides our team to eat up our fodder 
crops, and turn them into manure, which 
is always short on our southern farms. 
We still keep a few White Leghorn 
hens, more for their company than for 
profit, but they generally give a good ac¬ 
count of themselves. I think with the 
above combination and the addition of 
acid phosphate and potash we can not 
only keep up our farm, but at the same 
time improve it. d. p. miller. 
Virginia. 
Straying Hens. — I have been interested 
in reading the Deacon's plan with his neigh¬ 
bor's liens, and it seems to me there are 
two sides to the question. For instance, 
Neighbor A. doesn't like hens on the lawn, 
and keeps his hens in a small park. Mean¬ 
while, his pigs, well fed always, leave grain 
in their trough, and weed seeds, hugs and 
insects as well as grit and gravel are 
constantly lying about loose. Neighbor B. 
keeps hens and preferring to give them free 
range on his large farm, only shuts them 
in nights, giving an abundant grain ra¬ 
tion night and morning. Of course, these 
hens ought to heed the line fence and al¬ 
ways stay at home. Doubtless they might 
but for the lure of plenty of feed just 
the other side, so Neighbor A. is annoyed 
by Neighbor B.’s hens, and many an egg 
laid by B.’s hens goes into A.’s basket. 
Who is to blame? Must B. follow A.’s 
plan and invite C.’s hens? What is to 
hinder Mr. Mapes’s hens with the young 
cockerels who “can go as far as the North 
Pole” getting lured into the Deacon’s trap 
and eventually gracing the Deacon’s dinner 
table? For the sake of peace let us have 
these questions settled right. m. 
A Man From Ohio Talks 
There is 
29 years of 
experience 
in this 
machine 
it runs 
a horse 
lighter 
than any 
other 
About the Success Manure Spreader 
“It has bofin the most satisfactory piece of machinery I ever purchased. It spreads all 
kinds of manure better and covers more ground than can he done by hand. The narrow' 
front trucks do away with all jerking of the tongue against the horses on rough ground. 
1 can start a load that a team cannot shake on a wagon. I can get in and out of places 
that I couldn’t with a wagon. It has changed the hard and much dreaded job of manure 
spreading into a snap. I would not do without it.—A. O. Presno, Mendon, O. 
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