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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 19, 1919 
The Pastoral Parson 
(Continued from page 701) 
The poor soul didn’t know where she was. 
Then the hen and all set up a fearful 
turmoil and the Parson came to the rescue 
and boarded up the sides of that nest so 
Old Jerry could not trouble. 
Raising Geese. —Many are going into 
the goose business these days, and for the 
most part it is a good thing. The Gov¬ 
ernment bulletin, which it would well pay 
anyone to get, tells how cheaply they can 
be raised if you have pasture for them. 
They also need a small pond of fresh 
water very much. It would hardly be 
advisable to keep over geese for breeding 
without water for them. The people who 
do the best with them around here have 
but one goose and one gander. They keep 
the eggs in the cellar, turning them over 
once in a while, and setting about the 
same time if possible. Then the young 
geese are about the same size, and the 
older ones do not fight the young ones 
away from the food. The Government 
bulletin says to keep the eggs in wheat 
bran. 
The One-horse Farm. —The Parson 
is very much interested in a letter from 
S. H. D., printed on page 564 of The R. 
N.-Y. Very little is written about the 
one-horse farm, and yet about here in 
Connecticut the great majority of farms 
are of this kind. Where does a one-horse 
farm end and a two-horse farm begin? 
This is really a very important question 
for a great many. One man down county 
gave up two horses and has worked now 
four years with one horse and one-horse 
tools.' He raised last year 200 bushels of 
corn and cut hay enough for seven or eight 
head of horned stock. He has a good, 
steady, 1,200-lb. horse and would not 
think' of going back to two horses. The 
Parson knows another man who keeps 
about 10 cows, fills two fair-sized silos 
and never keeps but one horse. < The first 
man even does all his own plowing, while 
the second man doubles up with a neigh¬ 
bor for plowing. After being brought lip 
a farm with two horses and having 
j■ ed our own place for six years with 
one horse, the Parson has been much sur¬ 
prised to know how much can be done 
with one horse. 
Planning the Work. —Unless S. H. 
D. has work for a team of horses in the 
Winter, it certainly would be a great sav¬ 
ing to get along with one horse. It de¬ 
pends a great deal on planning the work. 
Keep ahead of the seasons; not behind 
them. There is no excuse whatever for all 
the manure not being out on the land.and 
spread before this—April first—especially 
such a Winter as this. Right here is 
where so many back-to-the-landers fall 
down. They will not get at their Spring 
work. Had it not been for this baby 
blizzard that struck us last Friday, we 
would have had our oats all sown in 
March, and some of the land is already 
harrowed and manured, ready for corn, 
though we do not plant here for six weeks 
yet. There is no need of a horse harrow¬ 
ing all day at a time if the work is well 
ahead. 
One-horse Tools.— If you haven’t a 
boy to ride the wheel-Farrow, put on a 
light weight and walk yourself. Always 
run a drag over the plowed land first, 
and this draws easy and helps tremen¬ 
dously on the harrowing. Let a horse 
“breathe” often and use judgment with it. 
To speak plainly, it is certainly hard for 
people who were not brought up on a 
farm to know how to take care of a horse. 
They will work it to death one day and 
let it stand all day and do nothing the 
Why will people persist in fussing and 
fussing over onions and carrots and even 
potatoes, to cart them for miles to an un¬ 
certain market and buy grain to cart way 
back home again! Corn will feed every¬ 
thing on the farm, from grandfather to a 
baby chick. Plant the true and tried 
variety that has been raised for years iu 
your neighborhood. Look at your neigh¬ 
bor’s corn crib as well as the seed cat¬ 
alogues. Don’t sow oats for grain if yoxi 
have to thrash and winnow them by hand. 
It takes too much time. You can husk 
the corn in the evenings, warm and cozy, 
on the barn flooi*. 
The Kite Fever, —You can see the boy 
and his kite in the picture. What a time 
they had with this kite making! Long 
kites and short kites and wide kites and 
narrow kites. The Parson doubts if there 
is a lath or narx-ow stick left on the place. 
The house has been ransacked for big 
papers, and now this turkey red cloth has 
been put on. This particular production 
goes fairly well, though most of them, 
after they go up a way, turn and dive 
for Mother Earth with astonishing speed. 
No Northwest blast is too cold for them 
to run with a kite in the teeth of the 
wind. There must be rags from the tails 
of these kites all over the farm. 
The Windmill Fever. —They switched 
from kites to these little windmills. Moms 
was really frightened the other night 
when she went out on the back porch ; 
such a strange noise greeted her. In fact, 
a new noise greets you every time you go 
out. They are hoisted to the wind in all 
sorts of places. One of the most beloved 
of all is claimed by the boys to make a 
noise like an aeroplane! At the sound of 
an especial gust of wind they all rush to 
the door or window to see how fast these 
things are whirling. Iu a day or two 
they will all be forgotten. So with us 
all—we ride one hobby to death, only to 
climb onto some other. 
The Home Dressmaker 
(Continued fi'orn page 701) 
by hand, the silk used being the same 
color as the material. A special advan¬ 
tage is that this hand work, if unpicked 
later for making over, would not leave 
the line of marks, impossible to remove, 
made by machine stitching. Hand-made 
chain stitch is a popular finish this 
Spring. 
Some beaded motifs of crystal, teiTa 
cotta and green trimmed waist and belt 
of a dark blue gown. Tiny bead tassels 
were required to finish off the collar, but 
it was only possible to obtain them ready¬ 
made in crystal. The home dressmakei - , 
however, ran some green and terra cotta 
beads among the crystal and thus 
made them match. 
Buckles have returned to pumps tnd 
slippei-s, and are iu high favor, xhey 
are very popular in cut steel, also in 
sterling silver, and in bronze for wear 
with brown and bronze footwear. 
Rhinestone buckles for evening slippers 
cost from .$2.50 to $25. 
Capes and dolmans are among the most' 
popular separate wraps for girls of all 
ages as well as women. Some attractive 
capes for young girls, six to 14 years, 
were of black and white cheeked wool 
velours lined with Victory red or porce¬ 
lain blue silk, and with a tie of the silk 
finishing the neck. These were $16.50. 
Girls’ capes of navy blue serge with a 
polka-dotted blue and white silk tie were 
seen for $13.50; this is a very popular 
style. Round yoked capes for little girls 
of two to six yeai’s are very full, gathered 
to the yoke, and are very pretty; blue 
serge is the leading favorite, often with 
a scarf collar lined with colored silk, and 
sometimes finished with balls or tassels. 
We are told that sleeves are to be short 
this Summer, hence all the shops are 
featuring long gloves. Some new models 
show sleeves ending just above the elbow. 
Spraying of Milk 
1. What can we do for a heifer that 
sprays her milk so that it spatters ovex' 
the milker? 2. I have a calf that bleats 
after each meal; fed separator milk or 
new milk; had same elf What is the 
caxise? g. w. d. 
Maine. 
1. Growths are present in the opening 
of the teat and yoxx should have them cut 
out by a veterinarian if use of a sterilized 
teat plug does not suffice. 2. Mix to¬ 
gether half an ounce of formaldehyde and 
15 x /‘2 ounces of fi’eshly boiled water, and 
of this mix a teaspoonful in each pint of 
milk for the calf. One full dose of castor 
oil iu milk should be given before starting 
to give the formaldehyde iu milk. 
A. S. A. 
T O get the maximum milk production and best health conditions over 
long milking periods, at any season of the year, you should feed a ration of excep¬ 
tional PALATABILITY and one containing the WIDEST VARIETY of grain 
products which are high in quality of both protein and carbohydrate content. 
Here are two feeds that exhaustive practical tests have proved to be the winning 
combination, and which require the least time and labor to feed. 
In SCHUMACHER FEED and BIG “Q” DAIRY RATION you have a combination of milk pro¬ 
ducing materials which are most ideal. They furnish the five essentials of a successful dairy ration—PALABILITY 
—DIGESTABILITY—VARIETY—NUTRITION and BULK, so scientifically balanced that your cows will relish them 
day after day, year in and year out, and maintain their maximum flow and keep in vigorous, healthy condition- 
next. They will overfeed it in the Winter 
and underfeed it in the Sxxmmer. They 
will not realize that a hoi’se wants to be 
fed regularly. Above all, they will not 
give it all the water it will drink— espe¬ 
cially the last thing at night aftei' it has 
been eating hay. “He’ll ehow ribs for 
lack of water quicker than for lack of 
grain,” said a farmer the other day, and 
he was right. 
The Mowing Machine.—A good horse 
will cut over a lot of ground without 
trouble with a one-horse mower. Let him 
breathe at the corners, while you pick 
around the fences or spread out yester¬ 
day’s cutting or pull a few weeds in the 
potatoes. Mow in the cool of the morning 
or at night. Have the machine well oiled, 
and. above all, keep it. sharp. Probably a 
sharp machine is easier for one horse 
than a dull one for two. A machine 
housed out of doors will not run easy. 
We oil our cutter bar and all the guards 
when we put the machine xip in the Fall. 
Plowing. —The plowing is the^ great 
problem on the one-horse farm. We hire 
ours done here. If you always have the 
spot cash waiting for the man when the 
last furrow is turned, it helps a great 
deal. Have the man engaged to come 
long ahead. Very likely you can do some¬ 
thing for the man while he is plowing for 
yoxi. Many people plow where harrow¬ 
ing or a cultivator will answer the pur¬ 
pose. If you have not a cover crop you 
can cultivate up the corn land of last 
year and put in oats and grass seed. This 
pi’e-supposes that you mark your rows of 
corn both ways. We would never think 
of planting corn without doing this. 
Corn Again. —“We have learned our 
lesson,” said a baek-to-tlie-lander to the 
Parson on his last trip down county. 
“We have cut out keeping pigs iu the 
Winter, and have put our whole effort 
into corn. Think of it, buying no grain 
all Winter, and coni to last till Fall.” 
SCHUMACHER FEED 
AND 
BIG “CT DAIRY RATION 
SCHUMACHER FEED has been the “stand-by” and standard of dairy feeds for years. It has to its credit more World’s 
Champion Long Distance Milk and Butter records (as the carbohydrate portion of the ration) than all other feeds 
combined. Of 27 World’s Champion Records to its credit, 20 were on YEARLY production — and long distance 
production means increased profits for you. 
Fed in conjuction with BIG “Q” DAIRY RATION—our new high protein feed—you have a mixture which can be made 
suitable for any cow, in any lactation condition. The secret of the exceptional merit of SCHUMACHER is in the fact 
that it supplies the energy, stamina, “back-bone” vigor, “stand-up-ability” so vitally necessary for long milking periods. 
BIG “Q” DAIRY RATION is a protein feed that has more than made good the dairymen’s highest expectations—it is a 
DIFFERENT protein mixture—different because its protein content is not simply so much protein, but a selection of the 
RIGHT KIND, QUALITY and VARIETY of protein materials now recognized of VASTLY more importance than quantity. 
Try Feeding the Following Suggested Rations and Let your Own 
Cows Render the Verdict: 
General Ration with Ensilage or Roots 
One part Schumacher Feed 
One part Big “Q” Dairy Ration 
To Fresh Cows with Green Feed 
To Dry Cows... 
Two parts Schumacher Feed 
One part Big “Q” Dairy Ration 
Four parts Schumacher Feed 
Ono part Big “Q" Dairy Ration 
/ One Part Schumacher Feed 
Test Ration .•[ Two parts Big “Q" Dairy R* 
parts I 
(Increase Big “Q” Ration if cow can handle more protein without bad effects) 
Rstian 
Now is the time to force your milk production. Every extra pound of milk you produce by liberal feeding 
up to the capacity of the cow is two-thirds profit. That’s why it pays big to feed these two ideal feeds. 
The Quaker Oats Gwnpany Address Chicago *U.S* A* 
