Vha RURAL NEW.YORKER 
1031 
GenercJ Farm Topics 
Manurial Value of Wheat Straw 
How much plant food is there in a 
ton of wheat straw? .r. e. s. 
The following table shows the com¬ 
position of different kinds of straw or 
bedding compared with stable manure: 
Plus 
Nitrogen Acid Potash 
.Stable Manure . . 
.. .10 
5 
12 
Rye Straw . 
. . .10 
5 
16 
Wheat Straw .... 
. . .10 
3 
15 
Oat Straw . 
.. .12 
4 
.30 
Buckwheat . 
.. .10 
O 
O 
22 
Bariev . 
o 
*>- 
24 
Thus the straws usually contain more 
plant food than the manure, but of 
course, this ijlant food is not availal)le 
until it has been well rotted. 
A Good Hay Mixture 
The Jefferson Co. (N. Y.) Farm 
Bureau Noavs prints the following as 
“almost the ideal hay.” 
On the farm of Myron Bent of Ant¬ 
werp (Bentley’s Corners) a few weeks 
ago could be seen what a practical dairy¬ 
man would con.sdder an ideal hay mixture 
for the dairy. ]\Ir. Bent believes in 
growing from his farm as much, as may 
be i)o.ssi'ble. of the protein that his .stock 
recjuire. The mixture he used, or very 
nearly .so. was: 
t* quarts Timothy. 
4 ixuiuds "Winter vetch (with oats') 
” pounds Alfalfa. 
i; pounds Sweet clover. 
- pounds Alsike clover. 
All of these grasses were growing to¬ 
gether very luxuriantly when cut for 
ha.v. Does this mixture strike you com¬ 
pared with old meadow stock hay or 
tinu)thy ? 
That combination is like bread and 
cheese compared with plain corn head. 
Farm Help With Children 
Why is it. when one hears so much 
about help wanted on the farm, that one 
who is well trained in farming both by 
jiractice and home study and who is able 
to furnish good references and is a good 
hand with horses and cattle (especially 
beef) and above the average with sheep, 
cannot get a place on a farm at a wage 
that will let one live and lay up a little 
besides? I am a married man with four 
children, and am a good workman, and 
my wife is a splendid butter-maker so I 
naturally think that I am worth more 
than the average nian. ,t. d. ii. 
Michigan. 
For one reason or another the great 
majority of farmers do not want a man- 
agei- or hired help with children. Now' 
and then we find one Avho wouhl regard 
such children as an as.set, hut in most 
cases the child is not wanted. All sorts 
of re.asons are given, but the principal 
one is that many children are poorly 
trained and are destructive and trouble- 
so,in,Q.. Thus the children often make 
trouble between the owner and the hired 
man and for that and other reasons the 
child is not wanted. Personally we 
would prefer a man w’ith a family if the 
wife has control of her children—the fact 
is. however, that children are not wanted 
oil most farms. It is iinfortuiuite hut 
true. 
Flour-making Figures 
On page 042 the miller evidently for¬ 
got to add to his milling cost the price 
of .sacks, time, oil, fuel, labor, interest on 
money, selling expense, etc. These are 
file items that take the cream from inost 
millers’ profits. Besides, credit sales and 
losses resulting from bad accounts help 
to keep most millei's down On uneasy 
street. For the laymen let us show. Now 
fuel has advanced, during last year and 
a half nearly oO-TG i>er cent, oil 15-2.0 
per cent., time 100 per cent: sacks 50- 
150 per cent. etc. Our frhmd figured 
Avheat reiiuirement for oiu' barrel flour 
very reasonably. Most millers would 
figure to play .safe five bushels for one 
bushel of flour, as wheat varies accord¬ 
ing to soil and variidy. manmu- of care 
in harvesting. In our vicinity red Win¬ 
ter wheat from clay soil yields most 
flour. If wheat is stored in mow and 
left to go through a sweat a better 
(luality of wheat is produced and con¬ 
sequently better flour. Government, we 
understand, placed cost of making a 
barrel of flour at 75 cents per barrel. 
but w'e think most millers generall.v fig¬ 
ured .$1 to be safe and real figure should 
he near .jfl.JjO per barrel. 
We noticed sometime ago a complaint 
in .vour paper from a subscriber that 
mills w'ould not sell feed direct to farm¬ 
ers in the I'hist. We are sure that many 
or most mills would sell to the farmers, 
provided they Avoidd bu.v on same basis, 
i. e., arrival draft term.s as others must 
do. We know of a good many mills who 
would prefer to do that rather tlum to 
sell through brokers. 
Indiana. jt)s. i{Kri>o A (o. 
Cover Crop for Connecticut 
I cleared rock from a little-used slope 
where the soil was just suited for pota¬ 
toes. and have as far as tops go a most 
wonderful crop. The furrows go up the 
slope. What will happen to that loose 
soil this Winter? With our .short sea¬ 
son what cover crops can I use. or how 
in any case can I bind that soil? 
Kent, Conn. a. a. m. 
We should, as soon as the potatoes can 
be safely dug, seed thickl.v Avith rye and 
Alsike cloA'cr, AA'orking the soil lightly 
so as not to make it too loost'. While 
the rye Avill not make fi heavy groAvth 
above ground, it Avill make a. large root 
groAvth and give some protection to the 
soil. It Avill pay to run two or three 
furroAVs along the hillside, particularly 
at the toj). to catch the Avater as it comes 
doAvu and carry it off to one sid<*. 
Working Farm Through Trust Company 
My sister owns a farm in Montana. 
f4he is a widow, no childiaui. She wants 
to help a niece. Avho is married, with two 
children. ‘Is there a trust company to 
Avhom she could turn her property over 
and have it managed so that her nice 
could I'cceive a yearly alloAvance from it; 
that is, one that you can recommend? . 
AV. F. o. 
Business men on the Pacific Ooast tell 
us that this woman is on (he right track. 
If she can find a reliable trust company 
reasonably near the property in Mon¬ 
tana such a company might take charge 
and handle it for her properly. On the 
Pacific Coast around the large cities like 
Seattle and Portland there are many 
bailking houses and trust compiiuies 
Avhich make a specialty of such Avork. 
They call such an ac(*unt a “living 
trust.” and they are prepared to take 
clmrge of property, invest fimds, do a gen¬ 
eral business for non-residents. Of 
course one of these companies on the 
coast could not undertake such work in 
Montana on a far remoA'ed farm, but 
there ought to be such institutions in that 
State, not so far removed from the loca¬ 
tion of the farm here mentioned, AA'hich 
Avould handle the in.-itter. Why not write 
to the Secretary of State of IMontana at 
the State cai)ital. and ask for tlu' ad¬ 
dress of a reliable trust company reason¬ 
ably near your farm? . 
Farmers and the Red Cross 
Last week Ave told of Mx'S. Mary 
Satko and her hen—which brought ,$2,- 
(H>2.!)1 to the lierl ('ross. Dther farm¬ 
ers are helping as best they can. A paper 
printi'd in Nauvoo, III., gives the fol¬ 
lowing : 
EOK THE KEI) CROSS. 
All lu-oceexls from the sale of Timothy 
hay on my meadow today (Saturday the 
2.sth) will be donated to the Red Cross. 
I Avill do the field Avork, .seeing that the 
hay is in order to haul. Mrs. Horton, 
a member of the Red Cross, will do the 
AA-eighing and tak(‘ in the receipts. I 
suggest that the j)rice be .$7 a ton. 
However, if anyone Avants to give more, 
it will go to the Red Cros>>. If anyone 
should think the jirice too much, then it 
Avill be adjusted to suit him. The receipts 
and distrii)ution Avill be published in the 
NauA’oo papers. There Avill be P2 to 15 
tons for sale . mii.i.aki) Horton. 
The total hay sales came to .$71.72, 
all of Avhiqh Aveiit to the Red Cross. Such 
ollm-ings are far more Avorth.A of atten¬ 
tion than those made by millionaires. 
Wii.iJK .loNK.S had been giving his 
teacher a good deal of trouble that morn¬ 
ing. At the close of the first study per¬ 
iod she Sixul: “Noav we Avill take up the 
subject of natural history, and you may 
name in rotation some A)f the lower ani¬ 
mals, starting Avith Willie Jones.”—La¬ 
dies’ Home .lournal. 
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