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I FiLC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
3 EXPERIENCE WITH SULKY PLOW. 
O. II., Caguga Co.. N. Y .—-I would like in¬ 
formation about sulky riding plows. Do 
your readers use them? If not. why? How 
do they compare with the walking plow as 
to draft and workmanship? I know of 
several who have purchased riding plows, 
but for some reason they do not use them. 
Is there a riding sulky plow made that can 
be used with two horses to good advantage, 
with which a man could plow 1 % or two 
acres a day and not kill his team? 
Evidently G. II. has never seen used a 
sulky plow that suits his land. There are 
several styles of bottoms for different land. 
One company illustrates in their catalog 
four styles, viz. : for stubble, back land, 
general purpose and prairie breaker. Hav¬ 
ing used a 16-inch sulky for some time, I 
would not be without it—in fact, I am 
going to purchase this year. They do much 
finer work and run considerably lighter; 
besides when a man sits down to his supper 
he is not fagged out. Last year in turning 
under Crimson clover and rye, we used both 
a sulky and walking plow, one behind the 
other. When the field was finished every 
furrow turned by the walking plow was 
diseernable. it not having turned the growth 
as completely as the sulky. As far as 
draft is concerned, we find that a 16-inch 
sulky is very little heavier than a 12-inch 
walking plow. If G. II. will talk with his 
dealer and get the proper bottom to suit 
his land, his horses will with all ease pull 
a sulky plow, and he will never discard it, 
either. e. n. m. 
Maryland. 
1’lease assure G. IT., on page 332, that the 
Deere two-way riding plow will make him 
praise its name and achievements as long 
as lie lias any interest in plowing. A span 
of 1,100-pound mules do fine work on such 
a plow for us ou old ground or tender sod, 
turning six inches deep. This team will 
do 1% or two acres a day of 10 hours 
easily. For strong sod we put a 1.200- 
pound horse with the mules and cut an 
average of 14 inches to the furrow. The 
widest I ever chanced to measure last sea¬ 
son was a cut 17% inches wide, and it 
was well turned over. If he wishes to 
turn the usual hired man’s nine-inch fur¬ 
row, probably one span of horses would 
answer for even strong sod. But the third 
horse makes the plow go very steadily, and 
a lot of plowing is accomplished in a short 
lime. If G. II.’s land is rougher with 
firmer bowlders than mine where I did 
rapid work with the two-way sulky plow 
last year, my sympathy is for him. When 
considerable clumps of .bowlders were 
reached the plow simply cut around them 
and the walking plow was put to work 
very much as the hand scythe helps the 
mowing machine at such places. On other 
land, that has cost $100 an aero and more 
to clear of bowlders the sulky plow did 
very fast work. I have owned and used one 
other sulky plow less advantageously, and 
finally sold it. Still another sulky plow I 
have seen at work was doing such very 
poor plowing that I could not be induced to 
buy it. at any price. My interest in send¬ 
ing this rather long response is to dispel 
the doubt in the mind of the inquirer; for 
last year my position was identical with 
hiS. CONNECTICUT. 
A MASSACHUSETTS DAIRY FARMER. 
The misrepresentations, in the annual re¬ 
port of Secretary Wilson, the numerous 
investigations into the cause of the high 
price or cost of living, and the accusation 
of the unthinking, that the American farm¬ 
er is part of that cause, ought to he met 
with actual facts existing in reality. A 
little over a year ago a “business" man, 
having been brought up on a farm and 
being well acquainted with the qualifica¬ 
tions making the successful farmer, bought 
what was said to he one of the best dairy 
farms in western Massachusetts; 200 acres 
land, buildings in first-class condition, all 
live stock. 30 head of cattle, two horses, 
about 80 tons of hay, silage enough iu the 
silo to last till May, all wagons, tools, im¬ 
plements and utilities, etc., for $8,500. con¬ 
sidered to he a very low price. There 
were about 14 cows milking, of which two 
were "fresh,” and the seller's rating with 
the milk contractor had been 15 cans daily, 
hut, as tin' actual product fell short of that, 
the "inspector” advised strong feed for all 
milch cows. Being desirous to find out all 
there was in it, he made inquiries as to the 
most advantageous rations of grain feeding 
and followed the middle course. The stock 
was of mixed breeds, grade Holstcins, some 
Ayrshires, Devons and Durhams, and a good 
two-year-old Holstein hull. Most cows came 
fresh in March, a few in April and May. 
The rating could not he kept up until tlie 
latter part of March, and in April, when 
Summer rating had to he made, lie asked 
for a 20-can rating and received it. 
The stock were first turned iu the pasture 
the second week in May. and everyone said 
they were a fine-looking lot. Feeding in 
the barn had, however to ho continued, be¬ 
cause the pastures were dry yet. and re¬ 
mained so for a long time—in fact, did not 
become good all Summer. The milk pro¬ 
duction averaged rather less than 15 cans, 
and. of course, he was "fined” for under¬ 
production. Before the year I 10 was on the 
place had expired, the stock had to be fed 
in the barn again. 
Now, for Hie financial part of it: Feed 
bills for grain from the first day of No¬ 
vember, 1908, to November 1, 1900, in¬ 
cluding horses, of course, $761 ; actual 
wages to hired men. allowing nothing for 
board, etc., $540 ; extra help in haying lime 
and tilling of silo, $86: for horseshoeing, 
repairs to wagons, etc., $72; taxes and in¬ 
surance (fire), $138: total expenditures, 
exclusive of housekeeping and miscellaneous, 
$1,597. The total receipts for milk in the 
12 months were $1,842. which would leave 
him the magnificent: sum of $245 to keep 
himself and family as well as the two hired 
men in food, himself and family clothed and 
shod, without taking the interest on the 
invested capital into consideration. The 
year on account of the extraordinary 
drought being abnormally poor was partly 
the cause of the had results, and in a nor¬ 
mal year the receipts for milk should have 
been about $259 more, whereas about $180 
less for feed would have been sufficient, 
and. therefore, the housekeeping account 
would show $675 at its disposal. It seems 
to be easy to answer the question: “Whv 
are farms abandoned?” What follows from 
the above is this : The farmer should only 
keep as much live stock as he can feed 
*11 with his home-raised grain, abandon 
the feed dealer, and then he should sell his 
product direct to the consumer; shun the 
milk contractor. Both can be done by 
proper cooperation. c. s. 
Massachusetts. 
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