THE RURAL NEW-YORKEK 
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A STRING OF “COMING OHIO FARMERS.” 
the Spring and received the scant till¬ 
age when there was a broken day from 
some other job, and lived and worked 
as a farmer boy until of age. I recall 
the hot August days that I have spent 
pulling weeds in the pea patch, and with 
that recollection in my mind I argued 
that it would take no more plant food 
to grow a crop of vegetables than a 
crop of weeds, and decided that so far 
as I could I would keep all my land 
busy all the season. It had been a 
score of years since I had a garden be¬ 
fore, so that I knew I would have to 
learn from experience. My returns from 
the garden follow by years: 
loor... 
Sold. 
Used, gave 
away, etc. 
Total. 
1906.. 
_ 38.53 
844.00 
82.53 
190?. 
_ 50.00 
29.74 
79.74 
] 90S. 
33.28 
104.20 
1909. 
34.84 
113.25 
I have endeavored each year to sur¬ 
pass best previous record, and have 
succeeded in so doing three out of four 
times; the exception, 1907, was a very 
cold Spring, from a month to six weeks 
later than usual. This handicap I was 
unable to overcome during the season, 
and fell a little short of the record of 
1906. This object to beat the record 
adds zest to the game. I use a Planet 
Jr. wheel hoe, and the work is done 
with that, and I should think that the 
conditions were fair for a comparison 
that the calf was coming two, I was 
obliged to keep her tied up for nearly 
four months, because I had no place to 
turn her out. She had her first calf when 
she was 26 months old and she gave 4,894 
pounds of milk. I think she would have 
done better, had it not been for an epi¬ 
demic of colds which affected her along 
with all my other cows. She has had 
her second calf and in 38 days has given 
1,215 pounds of milk. Her mother last 
year gave 8,243 pounds. I think the heifer 
was worth raising, and if I lost her I 
should feel something the way the peo¬ 
ple in Egypt felt when the slaughter of 
the first-born was announced. 
Massachusetts. louis s. cox. 
COMING OHIO FARMERS. 
On page one of this year’s volume we 
printed a picture of some coming berry 
pickers in Pennsylvania. Now, above, 
we can show some coming farmers that 
they are raising in and around Green, 
Ohio. No, we cannot state that these 
10 youngsters all belong to one family. 
That would be too much to expect even 
for the great State of Ohio. There are 
eight different families represented in the 
back of old Topsey. There is a form 
of co-operation which we hope will last. 
If these 10 children can grow up with 
common feelings and hope for the best 
there is in farm life, they will help the 
State of Ohio. There may be several 
presidents in this long line—Ohio has 
been doing such things with startling 
regularity. And those little folks are 
upon a strong foundation for old Topsey 
has been doing duty as work horse and 
driver for the past 16 years. We certainly 
hope these “coming farmers” will never 
be classed as has beens. 
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AS A BUSINESS use the DE LAVAL. Ten years 
ago there were a dozen different makes of creamery 
or factory separators in use. Today over 98 per 
cent, of the world’s creameries use DE LAVAL 
separators alone, and no effort is longer made to 
sell any other kind. 
It means a difference of several thousand dollars a 
year whether a DE LAVAL or some other make of 
separator is used in a creamery, and users of Factory 
separators have found that they either had to use 
DE LAVAL separators or get out of business. 
They could not meet competition otherwise. Thou¬ 
sands of other makes of separators have been thrown 
onto the scrap heap in consequence. 
Exactly the same differences exist, on a smaller 
scale, in the use of FARM separators. But'the farm 
user doesn’t know it. Nine times out of ten he 
can’t tell when he is wasting $50. or $100. a year 
in quantity and quality of product through the use 
of an inferior separator. 
But every FARM user of a separator KNOWS 
that if it is absolutely necessary to use a DE 
LAVAL separator with the milk of a creamery it 
must PAY relatively well to do so on the farm. No 
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1910. 
AN AMERICAN SMALL GARDEN. 
About a year ago I saw an article in 
The R. N.-Y. under the head of Rural- 
isms, about the market gardeners of 
Paris, founded on the report furnished 
our government by one of the American 
consuls located there. That article set 
me to figuring, as I have a little vege¬ 
table garden which I till and thought it 
was doing right well for me. I thought 
I would wait to hear from some Amer¬ 
ican on this subject and in the mean¬ 
while grow another season’s crop. Last 
May I also heard Senator Nicholls of 
New Jersey pay a very high compliment 
to the French market gardeners. I 
have watched The R. N.-Y. pretty 
closely, and no one ^eems to have 
spoken up for America yet, so I will 
just give a brief account of my ex¬ 
perience with my little garden, size 77 
x 45 feet; that is my lot is 45 feet front 
and I use 77 feet of the rear of it for 
my garden. 
1 have a privet hedge on the division 
line each side with my neighbor. Five 
years ago I moved into this house which 
was a new one. The front of my lot, 
extending half the depth of the garden, 
had been graded down before the house 
was built, so that over half of my gar¬ 
den the top soil varied in thickness from 
nothing to four or five inches, with a 
rather stony gravel underneath it. I 
mention this to show the conditions un¬ 
der which I started my garden. I was 
born on a grain farm where the garden 
was generally plowed the last thing in 
with the French. While my garden is' 
only .125 of an acre, I could farm two 
acres just as closely as I do it. I have 
no cold frames, hotbeds or glass in 
any form, and with the exception of 
growing my early tomato plants in the 
house, everything is grown outdoors, 
with the season extended from April 1 
until frost in September. 
I will give you a sample year’s pro¬ 
duct, 1909: Scullions, $1.03; tomato 
plants, $3.95; Spring radish, $4.16; Fall 
radish, $8.53; Winter radish, $3.93; let¬ 
tuce, $9.36; spinach, $2.10; egg plant, 
54 cents;- Lima beans, $2.15; onions, 
81 cents; squashes, 77 cents; strawber¬ 
ries, $7.66; corn, $5.52; peas, $6.51; 
beets, $19.95; green beans, $1.66; wax 
beans, $1.35; cucumbers, $1.62; cabbage, 
$1.11; tomatoes, $12.58; celery, $14.65; 
rhubarb, 36 cents; potatoes, $1.05; par¬ 
snips, $1.45; turnips, 20 cents; peppers, 
25 cents; total, $113.25, at the rate of 
$1415.62.5 per acre. I do not think that 
I know enough yet to grow any wonder¬ 
ful crop; I just keep the ground busy 
all the time. I have to attend to my 
garden after working eight hours per 
day at my regular work. 
STANTON KIRKBRIDE. 
A “HEIFER’S CALF” MAKES GOOD. 
I see that the question has been 
brought up as to raising calves from 
heifers. I have a fine, large cow, grade 
Holstein. I bred her for the first time to 
a registered Ayrshire bull. When she 
dropped a pretty heifer calf, I decided to 
raise it, largely out of respect for its 
grandmother. My foreman shook his 
head and smiled wisely. He also showed 
his contempt for my decision by naming 
the calf Sweepstake. During the Winter 
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