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T'llli KUKAU NiCW-VOKKEH 
February o, 
Hope Farm Notes 
M Y son and I expect to go farming in 
a Southern State. I am 55 and he 
is 24 years old. Neither of us was 
brought up on a farm, always residing in 
city and suburb. I have been out of work 
for months on account of the war in 
Europe. I have been farming on a small 
scale the last 19 years, raising most of 
the vegetables we need. We also have 
most kinds of fruit trees and berries. 1 
am buying a farm containing 1(55 acres, 
with a seven-room and a four-room ten¬ 
ant house. With what I shall spend for 
stock and implements, and improvements 
to buildings, I think cost will run up to 
$4,000. Our family consists of my wife 
and daughter and myself, and my son 
and young wife; we are all to work to¬ 
gether. Not knowing anything of farm 
partnerships I seek your advice and ask 
you to let mo know of three or four plans 
of partnership on farms as are usually 
practiced. I would like to know about 
one plan whereby my son would get a 
certain income, and after so many years 
be part owner; one by giving him part 
of farm in his own name separate from 
mine; also one on shares and after so 
long a time be part owner. s. n. 
All sorts of plans are being followed, 
but it all depends on the farm, the owner 
and the children. How much is the farm 
capable of producing? What are the 
personal relations between father and 
son? One must understand these things 
in order to figure out a plan. I am 
starting this year with the plan of paying 
fair monthly wages and guaranteeing a 
share of net income after paying taxes. 
In this case all that we consume in the 
house will be credited to the farm at the 
regular price, and work done around the 
house and lawns will lie charged to per¬ 
sonal account and not to the farm. We 
have several other details about this 
which will be worked out as they arise. 
I have become convinced that some sys¬ 
tem of this sort must be worked out if 
we expect to have intelligent and faith¬ 
ful help. 
For the future I have in mind a plan 
which I think will suit 8. II. My idea 
is to incorporate my farm just as I would 
a small business or factory. I would 
rate it at a fair capital and issue bonds 
or stock in small denominations. This 
would include the farm, the livestock, 
buildings and equipment. At first I in¬ 
tend to transfer enough shares to Mother 
and my daughter to enable us to elect 
officers and a board of directors. Then 
I would run the business as I would any 
other. I should pay the corporation rent 
for my house, and pay for what we con¬ 
sume or give away. All this will be 
credited to the farm, as it should be. 
The farm will be run by a manager just 
as larger corporations are, and after we 
get going my plan is to pay such manager 
and perhaps a few others fair salaries, 
and also turn over to them each year a 
few shares of stock. In this way I ex¬ 
pect to induce *our people to take more 
interest in the business and make it 
permanent. 
In the case mentioned 8. II. could 
form a little stock company and turn 
over some shares to his son. This com¬ 
pany could then arrange to pay him a 
fair sum of money and his board, and 
also, each year, transfer more stock until 
he had a half interest or more if desired. 
I am aware that such a plan would not 
work with all people. You might in this 
way get objectionable people into your 
company who would make trouble, especi¬ 
ally if you wanted to sell. In my own 
case I do not want to sell, but do want 
to make our business here a permanent 
one, and I think incorporating will be a 
good way to do it. I have no doubt some 
of our readers will raise serious objec¬ 
tions to such a plan. I would like to 
hear them, and if anyone can suggest a 
plan for S. II. let us have it. 
Feedixo Meat.—I have a number of 
letters from people who say they have a 
carcass of a horse or cow which they 
want to feed to hogs. My experience is 
that the most economical way is to cook 
the meat or bones into a “stew” with 
potatoes or other vegetables and thicken 
with meal. The best grains to feed with 
such meat are peas, rye, corn or barley. 
A feed cooker is a great help in these 
days of cheap potatoes. Properly fed 
such potatoes will often bring more in 
beef and pork than they will on the regu¬ 
lar market. We would cut this meat up 
into chunks and boil it with small po¬ 
tatoes, carrots, cabbage, turnips or other 
wastes. Clover leaves and chaff can be 
cooked with the rest. Use plenty of 
water, and when fully cooked thicken 
with cornmeal or ground barley and feed 
warm to the hogs. It makes cheap feed 
and the hogs have a comfortable place 
to stay—how they will grow! The bones 
can be boiled in the same way. This is 
far more economical than feeding the 
raw meat. 
Will you tell me what you think about 
the study of Latin in our public schools? 
What does it amount to when the pupil 
will never go to college? s. E. m. 
I am not competent to give any de¬ 
cided opinion, as I do not know one 
Latin word from another. I never studied 
it. I had to quit school at 14 and go to 
work. At the Agricultural College which 
I attended later the dead languages were 
buried. My daughter now at college is 
having a thorough drill in Latin, and I 
think it a very good thing for her. I 
want her to have a thorough understand¬ 
ing of English, and I now see that this 
is impossible without knowing what our 
language came from. I sincerely wish 
now that I could have had a course in 
Latin when I was younger. The study is 
now becoming an “elective”—that is, the 
child may take it or not as he desires. 
That is as it should be, but I am in¬ 
clined to think that I shall have our 
younger children take it. It certainly 
gives a fine mental drill, which I consider 
more valuable than memorizing a lot of 
facts, and it does help to an understand¬ 
ing of English. After all, the ability to 
express your thought in clear, forcible 
English is one of the greatest things a 
man can have. 
Dictionary or Encyclopedia. —Crow¬ 
ing out of this Latin discussion is a thing 
that came up the other day between two 
men. One found that he could give prac¬ 
tically all the facts about a few subjects. 
The other could not give so many facts 
oil' hand, but he knew just where to go 
and get them. Name any subject along 
his particular line and he could instantly 
tell you where to go and learn about it. 
His mind was what I would call a dic¬ 
tionary—the other was a limited encyclo¬ 
pedia. If you had your choice, which 
would you have, and what would you 
train your boy for? With me it would 
be the dictionary every time. After a 
few years every encyclopedia gets out 
of date, and has to be revised. Show' 
me the man who can revise his own 
opinion when new' facts are forced upon 
him, and I will show you a man with no 
opinion worth considering, or one with 
an opinion broken and badly mended. 
The “know-it-all” man is usually the 
most ignorant person in his real knowl¬ 
edge of life and human nature. Ilis facts 
hold him down from real progress like 
the chain on a galley slave. The diction¬ 
ary mind means order, memory and in¬ 
vestigation. The dictionary can grow 
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tell me if they are dry yet!” So Hazel 
w'ent to them, and felt. “Well, mother,” 
she said doubtfully, “they are just about 
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