1914. 
THE KUKAL NEW-YORKER 
201 
The Farm Cat. 
In these days when so much is being 
put forth by bird lovers against the cat, 
it is well to say something in favor of this 
animal. A good cat is practically the 
only effectual way to keep down mice in 
a barn, warehouse or any place where 
grains, hay, and other feed stuffs are 
stored. The good cat—that’s the ques¬ 
tion ! My own experience is that the 
only one is an emasculated male. lie is 
always at home and with me is on his 
job, and woe betide the night serenader 
who comes up against him, for he is al¬ 
ways sleek and fat and weighs from 10 
to 12 pounds. But this is not all. He 
should be trained. Much can be done 
along this line. If a cat is praised and 
lotted when it catches a mouse o-* rat, 
and scolded when he catches a bird, and 
if possible has the bird taken away, he 
will soon learn to know the difference. 
He may also be taught to help in Lunt- 
iug about the barn. We have such a cat. 
He was about the most despicable-look¬ 
ing thing in the cat line I ever saw. He 
soon developed into as handsome a oat as 
one could wish. During the Summer he 
brings in from one to a half dozen field 
mice a day. Frequently he will not eat 
one until he has showed it to us aud been 
praised for it. Only a few night ago he 
brought in one after we had retired, and 
kept up his “meous” until he had been 
told: “Good cat, Tip.” A female cat 
makes a good mouser, but when she has 
a half dozen kittens to nurse is apt to 
catch chickens, aud do other nauahty 
things, besides; one’s cat family is apt 
to increase too fast. The practice of 
dumping surplus cats on other people or 
out in the woods cannot be too strongly 
condemned on the ground of cruelty as 
well as making them a nuisance t<> the 
community. S. 
Oregon 
Struggle With a Florida Horse. 
I am pleased with your advice about 
coming to Florida. I have been here four 
years, and like it very much, but I spent 
$100 and six weeks’ time looking round 
before locating. As for poultry raising, 
feeds are higher and eggs and chickens 
cheaper than in the North. 
The article on “The Cast Horse,” on 
page 101, reminds me of how I have just 
saved my 12-year-old mare. She had 
been getting very thin, and finally caught 
a foot under a root in edge of lake and 
laid several hours. I got help aud rolled 
her over and over a dozen times out to 
hard ground, and worked over her for 
near 24 hours, but could not get her up. 
Neighbors all said it was no use. Then 
I cut four small trees and made stout 
poles 11 feet long, bored bole in small 
ends and put a one-half-incli bolt 12 
inches long through them; set this up 
over horse with the butts in a square 
of about six feet. I nailed two boards 
across six feet from ground, and laid two 
boards on these for a floor. I took three- 
inch belt off gasoline engine and nailed 
ends to each end of a 2x4 30 inches long; 
laid middle of belt over middle of 2x4. 
and passed the two bights of belt under 
horse and over ends of another 2x4. 
This gave four widths of belt to carry 
her weight. I used plow lines for breech¬ 
ing and breast strap, hitched one end 
of a long-linked trace chain to middle of 
each 2x4, driving nails so belt and chain 
could not slip out of place. Then I 
mounted the floor, and with a piece f 
tire iron for a lever through the links 
of the chains, passed up between the two 
floor boards, very easily raised her, one 
link at a time. When part the way up 
she began to struggle hard, but the bolt 
through top of poles held them firm, and 
she was soon on her feet, and after feed¬ 
ing and rubbing her legs, was able to 
walk to barn. I had her teeth filed, and 
she is getting strong again. 
When I got her three years ago she 
would not plow ; would do anything else, 
but when she found a plow behind her, 
would back, and if we didn’t pull the 
plow back would tangle up in the chains 
and fall down. After much advice and 
many failures I cured her very easily. 
I tied a piece of cord to one hame, then 
back under her tail, crupper-like, then 
through ring in other hame, and tied the 
other end to plow handle. When she 
began to back I pulled on the cord. She 
stopped and looked back to see what the 
matter was, then she tried to back again 
with same result. In half an hour she 
was cured, and never backs now unless 
I ask her to. A small pulley would be 
better than the hame-ring, but I didn’t 
find it necessary. A. o. K. 
Winter Ilaven, Fla. 
Farming in Tioga County, N. Y. 
I would like your opinion regarding 
a Michigan farmer locating in Tioga Co., 
N. Y. My means are limited. Would 
you suggest investing in sheep, cows, or 
both? What would be one year’s profit 
from 100 sheep, provided one raised all 
the feed? A. H. G. 
Covert, Mich. 
As a lifelong resident of Tioga County, 
N. Y., I should be glad to welcome you 
“into our midst.” This county has many 
good farms that can be bought at very 
reasonable prices, and that will well 
repay any amount of energy, brains, and 
capital, that are likely to be invested in 
them. Incidentally, also, it has some 
farms that would compel a jack rabbit to 
take Summer boarders in order to sup¬ 
port bis family. If you have a reasonable 
amount of capacity; know how to 
farm, and possess the strength and energy 
which are absolutely essential to success 
anywhere, I know of no better opportuni¬ 
ties in this State than are offered by 
Tioga County. On the other hand, if 
you have an idea that good land here is 
to be bought for a song, that crops will 
grow with little attention, and will mar¬ 
ket themselves, you will be disappointed 
if you come. Farm* are undoubtedly 
sold here at prices much nearer thoir po¬ 
tential value than are those of the Middle 
West, but potential value is not realized 
value, and he who realizes upon these 
farms will do it by hartt work, hard sense, 
and hard thinking. 
Markets for the production from both 
cows and sheep are good here, and money 
is made from both; as well as lost in 
both. Despite the many glowing ac¬ 
counts of what should be, might be, and 
possibly, sometime, may be, the margin 
of profit in live-stock growing in this 
State is very small, and if it were not 
for the value of their by-products in 
maintaining soil fertility, cattle of all 
kinds would be much fewer in number 
than they are now. Whether sheep, or 
cows, or both, should be kept upon a 
farm depends upon the farm and the 
farmer; without knowing both, no defi¬ 
nite advice of value could be given. A 
neighbor who is a good farmer, upon a 
good farm, and has always kept sheep, 
tells me that under present conditions 
they should net from $2 to $3 each per 
year. It has been a common custom to 
reckon 10 sheep as about equivalent to 
one cow in cost of keeping, and probably 
the profits now might be fairly reckoned 
upon the same basis. M. b. d. 
THE Southeastern 
_ States need more 
milk, cream and butter 
producers. Each year $32, - 
500,000 worth oS Northern 
dairy products are shipped in¬ 
to the South. You can make 
money in this many crop, nil 
year-grazing country. 
Ample rain, (irrigation unneces¬ 
sary I mild winters and pleasant summers make 
living enjoyable and highly profitable. 
GOOD LAND $15 AN ACRE UP 
produces heavy yields of alfalfa, clover, com, wheat, 
frurt and truck. Profitable local 
markets greater than supply. 
Alfalfa booklet, the ‘‘Southern 
l-'icld" magazine and facts about 
dairying along the Southern Ry., 
M. & O. R. R. and Ga. So. & 
Fla. Ry.. sent on request. 
M. V. RICHARDS. LA I A*‘t 
l Room *7 Southern Ry. 
Washington, D. 0. 
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Cheap enough. Mild climate. For information write 
State Board of Agriculture, Dover, Delaware 
100,000 Families 
will move to California 
within two years. 
That is a conservative estimate. Thousands of people are 
making their plans to go to California during the great Expo¬ 
sitions, and many will remain. By the end of 1915 the price 
of a good farm in the fertile San Joaquin Valley will have 
greatly advanced. 
This is the carefully considered conclusion of those having the greatest 
possible information on the subject. 
Where is the man who does not want a California home? Now is the 
time to get it. You can buy choice land of proven fertility and proven 
adaptability for a price that will never be lower. Y T ou can get it on terms 
that will allow you to make most of the payments out of the land itself. 
By developing now you should earn big profits on the farm and a heavy 
dividend on the advanced value within a period of three years. 
There is no space here to tell you of the wonders of the San Joaquin 
Valley. That is why we urge you to send to-day for our books describing 
in detail the valley as a whole and the special industries, “ Dairying ” and 
Poultry-raising,” which have proven so profitable as major crops or as 
quick money-getters until an orchard can be developed. 
A ou are under no obligation to go further; but yuu 
will get much information that must be of value to you 
if you will write for these books to-day and read them 
carefully. Then, if you wish, I will be glad to give you 
first-hand information about the several sections of the 
valley, the value of the land, the crops best adapted to 
the various sections, and anything else that you care to 
know. 
I also will tell you of the work of the Santa Fe Agri¬ 
cultural Department, which furnishes expert advice to 
those who are on the ground, and this without charge. 
A post card will bring the books. 
C. Ii. Seagraves, 
General Colonization Agent, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 
Railway, 2209 Railway Exchange, Chicago. 
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Crops ; n J\ 
Western Canada ] 
All parts of the Provinces of.\., | 
Manitoba. Saskatchewan and am 
A lberta, have produced wonderful yj 
yields of Wheat, Oats, Barley and 
Flax. Wheat graded from Contract 
to No. 1 Hard, weighed heavy and 
yielded from 20 to 45 bushels 
per acre: 23 bushels was about the 
ntat averago. Mixed Farming may bo 
Considered lully as profitable an industry as 
grain raising. The excellent grasses full of 
nutrition, are the ouly food required either 
’for beef or dairy purposes. In 191S. at Chi- 
'eago. Western Canada carried off the 
1 Championship for beef steer. Good 
schools, markets convenient, climate excel¬ 
lent. For tue homesteader, the man who 
wishes to farm extensively, or the Investor. 
Canada offers the biggest opportunity 
of any place on tbo continent. 
Apply for descriptive literature 
and reduced rtilway rates to ) 
Superintendent of Immigration, 
Ottawa. Canada, or to 
Canadian Uovornmeut Agent. 
J. S. Crawford, 
301 E. Genesee Street, 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
level, fertile, paying farms in the most 
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