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THE RURAL NEW »YORKER 
May 4, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
A SELF-EDUCATED FARMER. 
I think the story of the success of a 
farmer in New York, who was unable 
to go to high school and an agricul¬ 
tural college, as he wanted to do, has 
a lesson for many farmers, and especi¬ 
ally for the young men and women. I 
am not going to write the name of this 
farmer at this time, but if I did, he 
would be known in one part of the 
State as one of the best types of agri¬ 
culturists—a self-educated, trained, 
thinking man who is scientific in his 
practice, makes a good living from the 
farm, is ready to learn from all agri¬ 
cultural conventions, is a close reader 
of agricultural journals and literature, 
loves the farm and home life, and so 
lives that he gets in close contact with 
nature, and his ability to work and en¬ 
thusiasm for rural life still continue 
as he approaches the allotted age of 
three score and ten. 
Fifty years ago there was living on 
a farm in New York a family of five— 
the father, mother, two sons and a 
daughter. The younger son, who after¬ 
ward became prominently known as a 
teacher in an agricultural college, and 
in convention work, was given sucb help 
only the needs, but comforts of farm 
life. With his farm work he found 
time to read good books that were a 
means of intellectual and moral culture. 
Who will say that this man is not well 
educated and fitted for a useful life? 
The lesson of this little story is that 
what this man did in self-education, 
every farmer in the country can do, if 
he wants to do it more than anything 
else. Especially inspiring should the 
story of this farmer be to the young 
people on the farm. I would say to 
them, go to high school and college if 
you can, but if you see no way it can 
be worked out, do the next best thing, 
and take up a course of systematic study 
and reading at home. Everyone has 
time to read, but the farmer has more 
time to read than any other class—dur¬ 
ing the long Winter evenings, and rainy 
days. Farmers who as a rule work 
only 10 hours a day, accomplish as 
much work in a year, and it gives them 
time for reading and recreation. 
Probably those who take up courses 
of home study will do best to write to 
their agricultural college for advice, 
and ask for books and literature on 
subjects of special interest to them. A 
very liberal education is possible for 
those who will use spare moments, that 
many throw away, for reading good 
agricultural literature. Buy a few good 
agricultural text books on your branches 
of farming. Club together several of 
the leading agricultural papers, and 
THE STUDENT AGRICULTURIST AT HOME. Fig. 213. 
by the father, whose means were limited 
to the income of a 150-acre farm, that 
he was able to take an agricultural 
course in Cornell University, and re¬ 
mained there a teacher. The elder son 
saw it was his duty to stay at home 
with his parents, who needed his help 
on the farm, but he did not give up his 
ambition for an agricultural education. 
He could not go to college, so he did 
the next best thing. He purchased some 
agricultural text books and studied them 
at home. He subscribed for the best' 
agricultural papers and read them; he 
attended agricultural conventions, farm¬ 
ers’ institutes, etc., and availed himself 
of the help of the State agricultural 
institutions, through their bulletins, and 
by correspondence. In this way he kept 
in touch with progressive agriculture, 
and whatever he learned that was of 
use to him, he worked out on the farm. 
He made a special study of grasses, 
and experimented with many kinds to 
learn which were best adapted to his 
soil. He made exhibitions of grasses 
and other plants at fairs, which were 
educational. He studied breeds of cat¬ 
tle to learn which were best adap£ecf 
to conditions on his farm, and starting 
with a few purebred animals, bred up 
a fine herd that have made high records. 
He studied barns, and when the profits 
of the farm permitted, built a conveni¬ 
ent and a sanitary barn. He tried dif¬ 
ferent rotations of crops on his soil 
until he found a rotation he could grow 
so the farm would provide a balanced 
ration with the grain bill mostly cut 
out. He learned to preserve and take 
such good care of the large timber lot 
on his farm that the forest products as 
fuel and lumber are a considerable part 
of the income of the farm. He placed 
the old farm with poor crops and 
scrub cattle, on a paying basis, so its 
income was sufficient to provide not 
read them. One of the best farmers I 
know told me he owes all his success 
to two or three agricultural papers, 
and it paid him well to sit up nights 
to read them. Some reliable investiga¬ 
tions made in our country, revealed the 
fact that in every instance the most 
successful farmers are close readers of 
agricultural papers. Farmers and their 
children who desire it can even get the 
college students’ outlook on the world 
by reading at home the Chautauqua or 
other correspondence courses at small 
expense. No one is debarred from the 
education that fits him for a success¬ 
ful farmer, or the knowledge and cul¬ 
ture that fits him for citizenship and 
special moral and religious life, if he 
wants them more than anything else 
and cannot get them in school. 
w. H. JENKINS. 
Raising Baby Tigs.— As to raising 
baby pigs in “Hope Farm Notes,” page 
402, my own experience during the past 
year may not be wholly amiss. Last April 
I bought two pigs, five weeks old, of in¬ 
determinate breed. They had not yet 
learned to eat from a trough. I cosseted 
them for a time, then turned them out on 
practically unlimited pasture, where they 
had access to early apples, both sweet and 
sour, as they came in season. I gave them 
green garden wastes, table scraps, etc., and 
in the Fall small potatoes with about 80 
pounds of cornmeal, cooked together, to 
one of them, killing that one in November; 
dressed weight a little over 200 pounds. 
During the Summer they were fed two 
sacks of flour middlings and water for slop, 
but not one drop of milk. The cornmeal 
and middlings was the only food pur¬ 
chased. The other pig was bred in Decem¬ 
ber, to a purebred Berkshire boar, and is 
now about to farrow. One sack of mixed 
wheat feed was all the feed bought for her. 
I fed her a few apples daily, with green 
oat hay, warm water to drink, and since 
the middle of February the buttermilk of 
one cow, all the skim-milk going to the 
calf. She is in vigorous, thrifty condition, 
and my old-fashioned neighbors tell me she 
is too fat. But I think I know a trick 
worth two of that. h. c. c. 
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Part of Dr. Chaa. Still's 
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of pounds of milk. 
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