Uha RURAL NEW.YORKER 
295 
A Satisfied Hired Mau 
I have been reading about the wife as 
hired' man; this reading interests me 
very much, as I am frorti the city and 
moved on a farm Aug. 12 last. I was 
on a farm at home until I was 16. when 
father sold out and moved to town. I 
worked here and there until finally I took 
up horseshoeing and general repair work 
5n a country shop, at which I spent nine 
years. I .silent about four years in stone 
quarjdes. I am now ‘U) years old. with a 
family of three childi-cn, and subject to 
draft under Class 4, .,1 want to try to 
help all I can to solve this labor prob¬ 
lem. I have a. neighbor here who has 4.S5 
acres of land; he hires from .one to three 
men a year. lie pays .$2.') per month, a 
garden and allows the men to raise a 
few chickens, one quart of milk a day, 
fuel and house rent. The workman has 
to walk three-quarters of a mile to the 
barn to do chores, walk home for dinner, 
back to work, which it is almost impos¬ 
sible to do in one hour; then he is late 
to work. The boss says, “You will have 
to get around a little earlier.” In a few 
days the same thing over and the hired 
man gets di.scouraged and finally quits, so 
the landlord finds some one else, and the 
sail'-' tiling over. I would suggest that a 
few more landowners try the same plan 
my landlord does. He has three farms— 
OTu of 00, one of 140, and one of 163 
acres, on Avhich I am living. He has men 
who have been working on the two farms 
for from five to nine years, and are satis¬ 
fied ; so is the landlord. This is the way 
he does it; 
He ))ays ^.“13 jier month, furnishes two 
cow.s; when one goes dry we take an¬ 
other that is a good milker, and so on. 
We buy half interest in 73 chickens. We 
get half the eggs and half the increase, 
and he feeds them and says, “Raise all 
you can.” We do. Then he furnishes 
our flour, potatoes, fuel, bouse and .300 
lbs. of pork per year; besides, iftwe want 
chicken for dinner we just have it. We 
all take a big interest in our work, and 
do all w’e can to keep -the ball rolling. 
I am going to put out 23 acres of oats, 
22 /or corn, 10 for barley, besides a new 
orchard and a patch of Sweet clover. I 
have three mighty good mules to do it 
with; my tools are all new, and I feel 
just as though I was working for myself, 
or as if I were a renter, and.he wants us 
to feel that way, so if I «m from the 
city you will see the mules out in the 
morning and we will be there as long as 
we can see, for I am going to do this 
work and the good wife will take care of 
the chores and garden. If there is one 
of our brother farmers who has anything 
like this to offer I am satisfied he will 
get all the good help he wants, for I 
know’ of four or five dilTerent men in a 
^mall town of not over .300 inhabitants 
who are just looking for a place on a 
farm. • O. E. h. 
Seneca Co., Ohio. 
Hay and Pasture on Poor Soil 
What would be best to sow for hay on 
a sandy field that is poor, and what 
would be best to follow it for ijasture? 
Worton, Md. s. D. 
If you want hay for horned cattle I 
do not know anything better than cow 
peas or Soy beans. On poor land either 
of these w’ill need to be helped by a lib¬ 
eral application of acid phosphate. Then 
after cutting the.se for hay, lime the land, 
disk it in w’ell and sow Crimson clover, 
15 pounds an acre, in August. Y^ou can 
pasture this in the Spring. But before 
expecting any good results from poor land 
you should put it through a course of im¬ 
provement through the use of the legume 
crops in increasing the humus content of 
the soil. If you want to grow a grass 
crop quickly fertilize the soil well and 
sow Sudan grass in early June. Cut it 
before the heads are fully out and you 
will get a fresh growth. Neither the cow 
peas nor the Soy beans should be sown 
till the first of June. w. F. Masset. 
A LEADi.xG citizen w’as taken down with 
appendicitis. They rushed him off to the 
hospital to be operated on, and the editor, 
hearing the grave new’S, crow’ded into his 
last edition a note that said: “Our es¬ 
teemed fellow-townsman, J. Smith Car- 
berry, will be operated upon to-morrow 
by Surgeon Cutter for a very dangerous 
attack of appendicitis. He will leave a 
wife and five children.”—Credit Lost. 
TlliS S|^ 
lias limped 
to s^oTor 
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