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THE RURAIi NEW-YORKER 
June 1, 
Hope Farm Notes 
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A Year’s Milk. —Our cow closed her milk 
year April 19. In the 19 days of April she 
gave 225 pounds, which makes a total of 
8,883. I hoped she would reach 9,000 
pounds, but that trouble with indigestion 
last August put her back. She will be 
fresh in June, but is still giving 16 pounds 
per day. I hope to give a picture of her, 
for in some respects Mollic is a good model 
for a family cow. Now what does her 
year’s work amount to? As you know we 
call this milk worth four cents a pound, 
since that is what we must pay when we 
buy. I think it is fully worth that price 
compared with other foods. Yet what will 
the average dairyman say when he figures 
and sees this means $355.32 for one cow l 
Where this cow came from in Delaware 
County, N. Y., this milk might possibly 
average 1% cent a pound or $133.24. You 
see locality and use make a great differ* 
ence in the price. We once had a little 
dwarf Boston terrier dog on the farm. A 
colored man who worked for me offered 50 
cents for him as his top price, Jack took 
this little dog to a show where he won 
first prize, and a clean offer of $500 in 
cash was made for him! Mollie’s milk on 
her home hills would possibly bring the 
milker $120—probably near $100. Sold in 
New York or nearby towns it would bring 
close to $400 I 
But the cost! Taking out the cost of 
the grain and allowing 20 cents a day for 
care, we figure that this milk gave what 
we call “earnings” of $225.30. Out of this 
must come the cost of the rough fodder, 
the pasture, rent, interest and deprecia¬ 
tion of cow. How are these to be figured? 
Her roughage has been mostly sweet corn 
stalks, mangels and waste cabbage, and 
a small quantity of hay, with garden 
66 pounds of milk daily, and Owl’s Design, 
a purebred Jersey, a young cow giving 
about 48 pounds of milk a day. The next 
thing Campbell did, at a time when he had 
only one customer, for one quart of milk, 
was to insert a four-inch, one-column ad¬ 
vertisement in the daily papers of Man¬ 
hattan, informing the public that he was 
prepared to supply fresh milk or cream, 
butter or cottage cheese. Within 10 days 
52 families had applied to him by tele¬ 
phone and mail, for one quart of milk every 
morning. Several wanted butter at regu¬ 
lar intervals and a large number ordered 
the cottage cheese. The output of the cows 
averages 14 gallons, of which Campbell is 
making 13 gallons or 52 quarts. The milk 
is delivered early in the morning, while 
most of the students are still asleep. In 
this way Campbell serves his customers and 
finds time to attend to his lessons in col¬ 
lege. If he owned these two cows and sold 
their product at 32 cents gallon, says O. K. 
Reed, professor of dairy husbandry, he 
would be earning $4.16 a day. The feed 
for the two cows costs less than one dollar 
a day. Their performance is not offered 
as an attempt at record breaking. It is 
described to show how an ambitious young 
man can find a way, if he only has the will, 
to help himself. Incidentally, Campbell 
continues his advertisement in the daily 
papers and clears enough to keep himself 
independent. He has not had to ask one 
family to buy his goods. The advertise¬ 
ment did that for him.” 
You will see that we are not doing any 
wonderful thing with Mollie when George 
Campbell can earn $4.16 a day from two 
cows. The chances are that some one is 
getting $1 or more per day from your 
cows right now. The Kansas college can 
hardly do a better thing than to establish a 
course based right on George Campbell’s 
hunt for the consumer’s dollar. All over 
THOSE SCRUB HENS AT HOPE FARM. Fig. 251. 
wastes, such as vines and tops. How do 
you figure such values? A good share of 
the time she has been picketed on a mulched 
orchard or in corners where grass grows 
rank. What is that worth? You see most 
of her roughage has no selling value what¬ 
ever. Thus it is hard to estimate. As for 
“depreciation”—the cow will give more milk 
next year. What shall we charge against 
her? Y’ou see this proposition of the fam¬ 
ily cow is a very different thing from that 
of keeping a dairy herd. 
Some of those back-to-the-land advocates 
will have these figures all twisted about. It 
will be easy for them to say that the Hope 
Farm man made a clear profit of $225.30 on 
one cow. Therefore all you have to do is 
to keep 20 cows and clear $4,506.00 in one 
year. It is easy—on paper—but nowhere 
else. The “big. story” proposition is a nui¬ 
sance. I think we can keep two cows here 
at a fair profit—utilizing wastes and what 
we easily grow among trees. I think 10 
cows would most likely run us in debt, 
as this would mean a large outlay for 
buildings and fixtures and food, since our 
plan for an orchard is not adapted to 
growing cow feed. We wanted to know 
just what a cow can do. We found out, 
and the figures are so useful we feel as 
never before like testing every worker on 
the farm by the cent and the scales. 
Cows have done great things in their day. 
I could tell many a story of how a dis¬ 
horned cow has tossed the wolf away from 
the door, sent children to school and held 
families together. Then I could tell how 
the old cow has redeemed waste places and 
brought wealth to poverty-stricken districts. 
As a student in college 30 years ago I 
knew how many of the boys were being 
milked through school. It seems the trick 
has not been forgotten. A story comes 
from Manhattan, Kansas, about George 
Campbell, a student at the agricultural col¬ 
lege. 
The Milky Way of Education. —“The 
possibilities of a milk route appealed to 
Campbell. Thereupon he arranged with the 
dairy department for the output of two 
cows, Maid Henry, a Holstein, averaging 
the country are towns and cities filled with 
people who want .food. Many of these 
towns are supplied from sections 100 miles 
or more away. Right within reach of the 
telephone or rural delivery are farmers who 
can supply the foods. The way to save 
the consumer’s dollar is to bring these farm¬ 
ers and local townspeople together. 
The Hen Record. —We started the hens 
February 15. In the month ending May 15 
they laid 631 eggs, which makes a total of 
1,385 since they started. Some of them are 
sitting and the average in the pens will run 
about 30, though the egg average will be 
made for the entire number. I cheerfully 
admit that many a flock will lay all around 
our scrubs and then lay some more. I did 
not start out to beat any records, but to 
see what a pen of ordinary farm hens will 
do if given a fair chance. If the average 
hen on the farm lays 50 eggs during the 
year I am much mistaken. Of course when 
some one has a “system” or something 
else to sell he will tell you that you are 
not doing justice to your family when you 
keep a hen which falls under a 200-egg 
record. I think such birds are to the 
average farm hen about what Baptiste 
Diabo is to the ordinary hen picker. We 
intend to see just what these farm hens 
do and what we can do to help increase 
their record. The picture of a group of 
these farm hens does not do them justice— 
or perhaps more than justice, but it is the 
best we could get of them. Our Brahmas 
have finally started and are making a good 
showing. 
Farm Notes. —If we can average two 
good days a week we think we do well. The 
floods of rain have held us all up. In our 
neighborhood potatoes were not planted by 
May 15—about three weeks behind. Of 
course corn planting will run far into June. 
Grass .on some of the meadows looks well 
but the hard Winter certainly hurt it. The 
same is true of rye. An occasional warm 
day shoots it up, but on the whole it will 
not be a good crop. We cut most of ours 
for hay. On the other hand this wet sea¬ 
son has given the trees a remarkable start. 
We are, apparently, to have the best peach 
crop we ever had and the young apple trees 
are showing good bloom. The strawberries 
never gave a finer promise, except for the 
weeds which we could not clean out. As 
the rains kept on pouring down I changed 
the plan. The potatoes will be mostly cut 
out and corn and fodder crops planted in¬ 
stead. If this were not done strawberry 
picking and spraying would find us with 
half a dozen other pressing jobs. As the 
orchards get older and need, more care I 
see that we must become specialists more 
and more. Our business sets on a three- 
legged stool—peaches, strawberries and 
apples. The time has come when these must 
have first place and the rest take a back 
seat when it comes to a pinch. Fodder and 
mulch crops are a part of the fruit busi¬ 
ness, and corn is needed, but we are dis¬ 
posed to quit truck and garden crops for 
sale. h. w. c. 
A WESTERN “BACK TO THE LANDER.” 
I received your “Hind-Sights” a few 
days ago. It is unquestionably a good 
book, and I trust everybody will read it. I 
admire your stand on the “back to the land 
movement.” I have had this land fever 
for about three years, but the more I in¬ 
vestigate and the closer I get in touch with 
my friends who are trying it, the clearer I 
see that the stand you take is correct. I 
took up a homestead two years ago on the 
Flathead Indian Reservation, a 40-acre 
tract at $7 per acre. Of all the raw deals 
the Governlnent has handed out, this is on 
a par with the rankest. I used to have 
great respect for the things the Government 
said, but have learned through experience 
that the Department of the Interior is just 
as good and no better than the people who 
have charge of it. One does not have to 
live long on a homestead under present 
laws to learn what insurgency means. We 
read now and then of changes in the home¬ 
stead laws, and in fact a few changes have 
been made; for instance, the act of Con¬ 
gress approved June 25, 1910, allowing 
homesteaders to return to their homes un¬ 
til water is available had the odor of re¬ 
form about it, but imagine our disgust 
when we found that because we happened 
to have a homestead on Indian lands we 
Were exempt from the benefits of this re¬ 
form, but must live on and hope for water. 
I made an application for a leave of ab¬ 
sence under this new law, but the local 
office rejected it. I then made an appeal 
to the Department of the Interior, stating 
the injustices we were up against, but only 
to be turned down by his majesty, the 
Secretary of Interior. On my way home I 
had a personal talk with our Senator. I 
explained the unfair things the Department 
of the Interior insisted on us carrying out. 
He acknowledged the unfairness of it all 
and stated he was in favor of changing 
matters, but that his constituents objected , 
and told him that he would be holding . 
back Western development. So you see it 
was simply another case where the big I 
interests must be looked after instead of 
the individual. As to another term for 
Taft would say that Mr. Pinchot presents \ 
the subject to my way of thinking. Taft ; 
as far as the new order of things is con- 1 
cerned has fallen down. He is a good man 
no doubt, but it is impossible for him to 
get his ear down to the ground and find 
out what the people are thinking about. 
La Follette stands for progress, but on 
talking with my friends I was surprised to 
find how many there were who knew little 
of him. Roosevelt with all his faults is 
the man of the hour. 'Tjie Presidency 
strikes me as a simple business proposi¬ 
tion. Would you fire your best man after 
he had worked for you 7% years simply 
because your predecessor had thought in 
time this man would perhaps own your 
plant? I believe that President Taft has 
been bound up so long with legal pro¬ 
cedure that he spends too much time look¬ 
ing up his old legal books for precedent. 
He hates to get away from the established 
lines. To put it in his own words, he 
keeps in the middle of the road. So strong 
is he in this belief that even should a cess¬ 
pool appear in the middle of the road he 
would wade through it instead of around 
it. Roosevelt would travel around it and 
is always willing to make precedent if 
necessary. h. a. k. 
Some Alfalfa Lessons. —Last season I 
made four crops of Alfalfa hay. The fourth 
crop was a very nice one, and I fed it 
mostly to the hogs during the Winter. We 
had such an exceptional hard, cold Winter 
and a wet cold Fall that the Alfalfa could 
not grow much after the last crop, and 
hence the Alfalfa field went into Winter 
quarters quite naked. This was too much 
for it, and about 75 per cent of it lost its 
life. On one field I left the fourth crop 
on the field over Winter, and that is as 
good as last season. Another mistake that 
I made with another Alfalfa field was that 
I let the sheep pasture all Fall, and they 
have eaten off the crowns of the Alfalfa, 
and it also died. Two points in Alfalfa I 
have learned through costly experience : Do 
not pasture Alfalfa with sheep, and do not 
mow Alfalfa very late in the Fall'to leave it 
bare over Winter. Alfalfa is such a won¬ 
derful feed that we should take the best 
care of it, and try to preserve it. as it 
needs no feeding. We can simply reap and 
reap for at least five to six years without 
any fertility, and the Alfalfa was just as 
good the sixth year as the first. I have 
plowed the above named field and planted 
to potatoes, and intend to plant it again 
to early potatoes next season, after which 
I shall sow to Alfalfa again. Then I will 
remember the lesson I have learned. 
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The Maples Poultry Farm 
at Berlin, Conn. 
Consisting of fourteen acres of as good land 
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THE MAPLES FARM, BERLIN, CONN. 
