1012. 
THE RURAL NE W-YORKER 
167 
COST OF POTATO CROP. 
I have kept a strict account of all 
cost, and am enclosing detailed account 
of same, also the total value of potatoes 
dug. 
Cost of Potato Patch (1911). 
March. 
17. Dragging off corn stubs. $1.05 
24. Spreading 18 loads manure.. . . 3.50 
27. Spreading 6 loads manure.... 1.75 
30. Spreading 0 loads manure.... 1.75 
April. 
1. Spreading 14 loads manure.... 1.75 
1. Harrowing corn stubs.70 
3. Spreading 12 loads manure.... 3.50 
7. Spreading 11 loads manure.... 3.50 
10. Spreading 12 loads manure.... 3.50 
11. Spreading 11 loads manure.. .. 3.50 
12. Plowing . 1.75 
13. Plowing . 3.50 
15. Plowing . 1.75 
17. Plowing, two teams. 7.00 
18. Plowing, two teams. 7.00 
19. Harrowing . 3.50 
21. Cutting seed . 5.25 
24. Harrowing . 3.50 
25. Harrowing . 7.00 
25. Cutting seed . 1.50 
20. Planting .:. 5.00 
27. Planting . 5.00 
28. Planting . 5.00 
7700 lbs. fertilizer. 90.25 
134% baskets seed. 50.20 
MaJ. 
5. Cultivating . 1.25 
6. Cultivating . 2.00 
8. Cultivating .75 
8. Weeder . 1.25 
9. Weeder .75 
12. Cultivating . 1.75 
12. Weeder . 1.25 
19. Cultivating . 1.25 
19. Weeder . 50 
25. Cultivating . 1.25 
27. Cultivating . 2.50 
31. Cultivating . 3.00 
June. 
1. Weeder . 1.75 
8. Cultivating . 1.05 
9. Cultivating . 3.15 
10. Paris greening.31 
15. Cultivating . 1.50 
10. Cultivating . 3.00 
17. Cultivating and ridging. 5.95 
21. 1 bbl. green and lime. 1.05 
28. 2 bbls. green and lime. 2.10 
August. 
5. Digging and hauling. 6.00 
5. Picking . 7.72 
7. Digging and picking. 2.59 
12. Digging, hauling and picking... 3.93 
14. Hauling . 1.00 
15. Hauling and digging. 3.50 
17. Picking, hauling and digging. . . 0.10 
19. Picking, hauling and digging. . . 15.31 
20. Picking . 3.76 
28. Picking . 1.00 
Sept, Oct, Nov., Delivering. 13.00 
Total .$329.03 
The 7,700 pounds fertilizer was a 
home mixture, made as follows: 200 
pounds nitrate of soda, 100 pounds sul¬ 
phate of ammonia, 300 pounds eight per 
cent tankage, 500 pounds steamed bone, 
600 pounds 14 per cent phosphate and 
300 pounds muriate of potash, using 1,000 
pounds to the acre, the patch being a 
iittle less than 7j4 acres. You will 
notice that there has been no charge 
made for the manure and there has 
been very little spraying, as a matter 
of fact over an acre and a half was 
never greened, the vines grew rapidly 
at this time and the bugs got lost. The 
unfavorable season for weeds, not much 
spraying and a short crop makes the cost 
per acre less than an average year. Have 
charged 15 cents an hour for man and 
10 cents an hour for a horse. The 
patch was 300 square yards less than 
7j4 acres and the total cost $329.03. 
Marketable potatoes amounted to 
$808.44. H. b. 
Burlington, N. J. 
A Western Smokehouse. 
In building one should always consider 
the purpose. A meat house is for keeping 
meat, and so we will consider the purpose 
of best keeping meat. One of the essen¬ 
tials is dryness and another is coolness, 
therefore we want it dry and cool. In 
pioneer times the set',tilers cured their 
meat with salt, then hung it in the peak 
of the roof to dry, doing their cooking 
under it as long as it lasted. It got more 
or less smoke, too, and was often well 
smoked on purpose, which smoking did no 
little toward preserving it both from decay 
and also from the attacks of bugs and skip¬ 
per flies. To this day this method is one 
of the best and most satisfactory ways to 
keep a farm supply of meat for which one 
does not tire and lose his appetite as with 
the factory cured stuff. 
A wooden building is as good to keep 
meat in as any, if not really a little better. 
For this purpose I would make a founda¬ 
tion as nearly mouse proof as possible, and 
aim to put the structure on in that same 
good condition. Make the frame good and 
strong and double box with good grade 
building paper between. Put on roof with 
paper between roofing and sheathing, mak¬ 
ing all work tight, so all kinds of flies 
and insects will be excluded, as there is a 
small kind of bug which often does con¬ 
siderable damage in Summer and Fall. Now 
in regard to the floor, I should say con¬ 
crete could hardly be improved upon. You 
can then build a small smudge in the mid¬ 
dle of the house and smoke your meat as 
little or much as you please, or dry it out 
during a damp spell in warm weather. Of 
course there will need to be plenty of ven¬ 
tilation, well screened and left open ex¬ 
cept in damp weather, and not closed very 
long even then. All meat intended for 
keeping over during warm weather should 
be taken up out of the salt as soon as well 
cured and allowed to dry hanging. 
Missouri. i>. b. thomas. 
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German Society of the City of New York, 
and the Irish Emigrant Society, is a free 
market for immigrant labor open to all em¬ 
ployers throughout the United States. 
1. While maintained by the societies 
named above, immigrants of all nationali¬ 
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and due attention is given to an employer's 
preference in this respect. 
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It furnishes not only domestic help, agri¬ 
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of skilled laborers, mechanics, artisans, etc. 
3. Land speculators are excluded from 
the privilege of the Labor Bureau and all 
propositions looking to the sale or leasing 
of land to immigrants will be rejected. 
4. Employers applying at this office must 
furnish satisfactory references. Agents 
must be duly authorized by their principals 
and be well recommended. 
5. This office does not make contracts for 
immigrants with the employer; it does not 
fix the amount of wages nor the time of 
service, nor prescribe any other condition of 
the contract; it leaves all these matters 
to be settled by the voluntary agreement 
of the parties immediately interested, and 
assists them only by giving needful infor¬ 
mation and advice. 
6. Employers must in all cases provide 
for the transportation of the employees to 
their respective places of destination. If 
the means sufficient to pay travelling ex¬ 
penses are remitted to this office with the 
request to send hired help to the applicant, 
we shall see that the employee is properly 
started on his journey. Due diligence wiil 
be used to execute such requests; but em¬ 
ployers are made aware that delay may 
unavoidably occur—either through increased 
advancing wages beyond rate fixed by em¬ 
ployer—the falling of supply—or difficulty 
of securing suitable persons with sufficient 
baggage to protect the employer against 
loss of travelling expenses. In such appli¬ 
cation employers should state distinctly the 
description of labor required, the national¬ 
ity preferred and the rate of wages pro¬ 
posed. Kemittance to this office snould bo 
made in national currency, post office order, 
or checks on a New York City bank. 
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shall, where it is possible, have their bag¬ 
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the checks sent by mail or express to the 
employer. When through checking of the 
baggage is not feasible it will be forward¬ 
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