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Jshe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 20, 1918 
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Do Your Plowing Whenever You Want to 
D ON’T delay plowing because your ground is too hard for horses to 
break or too soft to support their weight. 
The Huber Light Four gets the plowing done when you want it. 
Powerful enough to pull three 14 " bottoms over any field. Light enough 
to work on fields impassable to horses. Works on plowed ground with¬ 
out packing, gggjjgg fouj. three-horse teams, it operates 
all farm machinery. Gives power for threshing, pumping 
water, running the baler, filling the silo. Pays its way on 
the farm every day in the year. 
12 h.p. at the draw-bar, 25 h.p. at the pulley. Center draft. 
Direct drive. Turns in a six foot radius. Never runs hot. 
Self-steering in the furrow. Easy to manage. Easily plows 
an acre an hour. Adjusts itself to any field. Speed 2 ^ to 
4 miles per hour. Burns gasoline, kerosene or distillate. 
Doing the Impossible*’ gives the 
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HOGS ADVANCE 
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Buyers at Chicago are paying as high 
as 18^ per pound for live hogs, the highest 
price in history. Compared with two years 
ago, this is an advance of 200%. The de¬ 
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opportunity of a lifetime to secure big returns. 
Feed your pigs 
Reichard’s Digester Tankage 
and watch ’em grow into dollars. This superior brand of tankage supplies the necessary mus¬ 
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The sensational Berkshire boar shown above—Mmestic Mammoth 229500—weighed 407 lbs. 
at seven months of age. He was bred by Mr. C. H. Carter, West Chester, Pa., who regularly 
fed him Keichard’s Digester Tankage. 
Write tor samples of tankage, prices and interesting booklet, FREE. 
ROBERT A. REICHARD 15 W. Lawrence St., Allentown, Pa. 
Your stock, tools, hay and grain rep¬ 
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Natco on the Farm 
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keep Natco buildings warm in winter and cool in summer. Free from dampness and 
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The Natco Silo'is the best ensilage preserver—the silo of no regrets and no repairs. 
Strongly reinforced—has no hoops to tighten. Will “Last for Generations. 
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Pigs and Sheep 
A New York Policeman’s Pigs 
Police Sergeant .7. P. Day. of New 
York, is a reader of Tiik U. N.-Y.. and 
sends iis this picture of a Tamworth sow 
and family on his farm in Columbia 
('ounty. N. Y. Tlie.se jiigs were born 
last .Tune, when tin* sow was about a 
year old. and late in November she far¬ 
rowed n more—‘JO for the season—(piite 
a family to look after in war times. 
She does it well, however. As we see 
in the jiictnre Mrs. Tamworth takes her 
voting jirivilege .seriously and intemds 
that her children shall walk a straight 
path and learn good table manners. 
A Small Flock of Sheep 
It might interest some readers to know 
what income a small flock of sheep will 
bring in when [iroperly cared for. I be¬ 
lieve a good many small farms could keep 
not lose a sheep or lamb in 12 months. I 
have at the present time, January 9, 
191S, 15 breeding ewes and five ewe 
lambs. My income would have been much 
bi'tter if my shee]i had all been of breed¬ 
ing age. If everyone had been a ewe to 
breed, and each one would have brought 
only one himh (Shropshires will u.sually 
raise more than 100 per cent lambs). o\ir 
income account would have been likt! 
this: 
IGO lbs. wool. ,$94.02 
20 lambs . 220.40 
Total gross income. .$.321.02 
Dividing the total gross income by the 
total cost. .$.3.50, would give ns 90 per cent 
on the investment. Our prospects for 
this coming year are as good as last year, 
or even better. s. it. 
Huron Co., O. 
R. N.-Y’.—The man who invests his 
a small Hock of slice]) and materially in¬ 
crease their income. I am only a cash 
rente)- on a OS-acre farm. 
I started into the Winter of 191(>-1T 
with 20 head of grade Shropshire ewes 
and ewe lambs; 12 head wore ewes to 
br(‘ed ; eight were ewe lambs. Only eight 
of the 12 brought lambs. ’I'liey raised 10 
lambs. I sold live of them and kejit five 
cf ilie ewe lambs. 
My income was as follows: 
100) Ihs. wool. 
Fiv<‘ lambs . 
,$94.02 
50.8.5 
50.00 
'fotal gross income. 
,$201.47 
The value of the sheep and 
expenses 
arc* as follows: 
20 head of sheep. $12.50 a[)iece.. 
$250.00 
Winter care . 
70.00 
Summer pasture . 
25.00 
Miscellaneous expenses . 
5.00 
Use of ram. 
0.00 
Total amount investment:... 
,$:h50.00 
Dividing the gross income. ,$201.47, by 
the cost. .$.'{5(), gives us 50 per cent 011 the 
investment. 
I consider that kind of an investment 
imu-ii better than buying F. S. Govern¬ 
ment 4 per cent gold Liberty bonds, of 
which w(‘ also have a few. 1 have made 
a pretty liberal charge of more than .$5 a 
head for the care of a sheep. Every 
shi“(“i) man in Northern ()hio knows that 
is a big jirice for tlie care of a sheep. I 
know they do not cost quit)' that nuu-h. 
I take good care of mine. They get some 
grain every day after they are put in the 
yard for Winter. I do not believe in let¬ 
ting them run down and then just before 
lambing time want to feed tlicm vip in a 
hurry. I helii-ve a little grain every (lay 
is much better. It works well with me. 
It is not very hard work to care for a 
small Hock of sheep. In fact, I would 
sooner care for 20 sliee]) than two milch 
cows. ITie work is much cleaner and 
jih-.-isanter and (piicker ^lone, and tin' re¬ 
turns are much better. hat dairyman 
can show 50 iier cent on two cows t I am 
milking three cows now. and T will ven¬ 
ture to say that T believe every one of 
them is a boarder. I feed the cows, milk 
them, turn it over to the woman, who 
makes the butter, spends the money and 
says nothing about how much she takes 
in. That is our cow business. 
I expect not everyone handling .sheep 
can do as well, yet a few do better. I do 
money in producing wool and meat ranks 
with the bondholders. 
Pigs and Milk Value 
I send you a little clipping from the 
Country Gentleman, which you have ju-oh- 
ahly seen already. Even pigs will not 
always keep u]) with the man of figures. 
“Now every hog man knows that the 
most iiroHtable hogs are the thorongh- 
hreds that grow to .300 pounds weiglit. 
Obviously, if one porker weighs .300 
IKUinds, 0,4.S0 hogs will weigh 1,944.000 
pounds. 
“'fhe jirice of pork on th<“ hoof avi-r- 
ages 10 cents a pound. Y’ou have 1.- 
944,000 iiounds of pork—all from thosi* 
five hogs, remember. Anyone can figure 
that the total reaches .$311,040. 
“But that’s only on a small scale—far 
too small for the bigness of the ojiiiortu- 
nities. Siqipose each man started with 
100 hogs instead of five. One liundrtHl 
hogs is not too many for any man. And 
if you figure on the basis of 100 hogs you 
find yon have made $(>,220.800—all in Ji 
little more than two years. The figures 
are right, and figures can’t lie.’’ 
went out of the milk business be¬ 
cause we were at the mercy of middlemen, 
and otlier lines look(‘d more profitable for 
the labor involv(‘d. We started to in¬ 
crease our pigs Iiy breeding two sows: 
one raised four pigs, the other none. 
Bred them again ; one raised five, the 
other one. Most of these are sows and 
we are exi>ecting to do our bit in pork 
next Fall, ’fhe Hope Farm man thought 
the boys’ figures too high for your family 
cow’s milk. To get retail prices one must 
have a horse and wagon, delivery route, 
loss of bills, and much labor (time), de¬ 
livering. so you should have only counted 
your home produc(Hl milk at wholesale 
l»rice.s. which 1 think you have had iu 
value, and that peculiar pleasure of eating 
your own produce. None of the other 
pai>ers. agricultural or otherwise. i)Ut the 
statement idainly where the troubh- iu tin* 
milk business is : they go around it very 
carefully. We like to read your plain 
facts; there is something wholesome about 
them. A. E. KITTEMIOE'SE. 
Delaware. 
Mistress “You say yon can’t read. 
Xorah. How in the world did you ever 
learn to cook so well’?’’ New Cook. 
“Shure, mum, (4i lay it to not bein' able 
to rade th’ cook books .’’—Hoston Tran¬ 
script. 
