Another Farm Confession 
The eonfetysiou of a “Profiteer” farmer, 
page 805, struck in me some very sym¬ 
pathetic chords. In fact, there were some 
things that were decidedly coincidental. 
I hadn’t intended to do any “ ’fessing” 
myself yet, but was going to wait until I 
could say “Ha, ha!” and snap my fingers 
in derisive glee at the critics who predict¬ 
ed my agricultural Waterloo; but as I 
look over my 4,000 frouit trees and see 
nearly a thousand large enough to produce 
two or three barrels per tree just one 
mass of bloom, I cannot but feel that 
things at last are coming my way, if they 
have not actually arrived. My farm has 
a simple but very pretty old Anglo-Saxon 
name, but many is the time when reading 
the “Hope Farm Notes” that I thought 
Hope, Faith, or perhaps even Charity 
would be a more appropriate one for it. 
For when I bought this 100-acre farm 
without a fruit tree on it, I had the faith 
and hope that I could keep the wolf from 
the door until I had a producing apple 
orchard upon it. And, I too, like our 
Maryland brother, was reminded very 
often of that pioneer herdsman of the 
olden times, who worked 14 years before 
payday came around. January last com¬ 
pleted my fourteenth year of farming, 
and while it was the best year of all by 
nearly $600, yet the books showed a 
deficit of $128.86! Some nerve to stick 
to a job like that, eh? I don’t know as I’ 
care to serve that long for just a girl, but 
for 100 acres of beautiful rolling loam 
land, and a dozen acres of “forest prime¬ 
val”? That is another question. 
Were we ever down-hearted? Not a hit 
of it. There was never a time when any 
amount of money would have tempted me 
to sell, for I had visions of the years to 
come. Besides, I once found something 
in one of Charles Roode’s novels which I 
wrote down for future reference, but have 
never been able to find it since, but it rune 
something like this: Can I get me rosy 
cheeks and jocund health Tiding up and 
down my Liberty bonds; can I take my 
rod and wander in a field of parchment 
where a rivulet of ink meanders through 
a second mortgage, etc.? As long as the 
world stands, real estate—the soil—will 
be the most attractive to men of all forms 
of investment. And it surely is this in¬ 
herent love of the 6oil that binds men to 
it and keeps the world going round. With¬ 
out it I believe more than half the farms 
would be abandoned. That is our sheet 
anchor against Bolshevism ! I could see 
myself abandoning every valuable posses¬ 
sion and running like a deer when the 
Bolsheviki approached: but for my land 
and my hearthstone I’d fight to the last 
ditch. 
But it surely is pleasant to look ahead 
and see the approach of pay-day! Of 
course, the many who have never lived on 
a farm will fail to understand why I was 
not able at least to pay expenses. I was 
not disappointed, however. I knew ex¬ 
actly what I was up against in buying a 
farm without fruit. The farm is a good 
one, and I bought it for less than half 
what the buildings were worth. And I 
may be permitted to say that my crops 
were always as good and frequently bet¬ 
ter than my neighbors. Then what is the 
trouble? There is only one way to find 
out, and that is to ask your books! They 
tell the whole story. In the 14 years 
there has never been a penny on either 
side of the ledger unaccounted for. It is 
simply amazing what facts the books will 
reveal. For example, the severe Winter 
of 3918 destroyed our apple crop so that 
w T e had only 12 barrels for sale, yet the 
books showed that there was more profit 
in those 12 barrels than in over a thou¬ 
sand bushels of grain. The books also 
show that we already have hard on to 
$-100 invested in a 10-acre corn crop for 
this year, although Dot a kernel has been 
planted as yet. Had it not been for the 
books I’d very likely be sowing rye yet 
today, though it brought, me heavily in 
debt, and yet the farm had the reputation 
of being a splendid rye and wheat farm. 
I might have beaten Jacob by a year 
or two if the jackrabbits had not de¬ 
stroyed my first orchard, or if my first 
plantings had been Duchess and Wealthy 
instead of Baldwin and Spy. And yet I 
am not sure today that I made a mistake 
at that. Of course it goes without saying 
that I had another job that produced the 
bread and butter, while, like Jacob, I was 
taking 14 years to get ready to begin 
farming. The hired man did the general 
farming while I set out and cared for 
the orchards. And as that was a labor of 
love, so to speak, I have never charged it 
against the farm account. In fact, all my 
charges have been very conservative—I 
have charged 6 per cent on investment, 
but made no “overhead” charges, as every¬ 
thing is in perfect repair. The books 
have shown me another odd thing, and 
that is, while the items for incidentals, 
etc., necessary in running a farm, were 
never the same any two years, yet for the 
14 years they always totaled to practical¬ 
ly the same amount, and this amount al¬ 
ways just about equaled labor plus taxes 
plus insurance. It has always been said 
that a farm is a veritable rat-hole for 
pouring in money. But it is really a 
colander of rat-holes, and while a book 
system will aid in shutting up a good 
many, there will always be plenty gaping 
open on every side. 
But notwithstanding the rat-holes and 
the days 14 or 16 hours long, and the 
seven or 14-year periods waiting for the 
pay envelope, it is a great life for all that. 
And when on a beautiful day like today 
we go out in the orchard and look down 
those . straight bloom-laden avenues over 
half a mile long, we feel that it is well 
"worth a cycle of Cathay.” And here is 
hoping that our Maryland friend will win 
his Becky, too, when the season’s harvest 
is gathered ! jacob fertius. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, Summer meeting, starting from 
Freehold, July 11-12. 
Union Agricultural Association, sixty- 
fourth annual fair, Burgettstown, Pa., 
Sept. 30-Oct. 1-12. 
_ New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, annual meeting, Atlantic City, 
probably Dec. 3-5. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
June 13—Ayrshires. New England 
Ayrshire Club Consignment Sale. A. II. 
Sagendorph, Spencer, Mass., sales mana¬ 
ger. 
June 34—Berkshires. Hood Farm, 
Lowell, Mass. 
June 16—Jerseys. I.. J. Coburn, San- 
gerville, Me. 
June 17-1S—Ilolsteins. Purebred Live 
Stock Sales Company, Brattleboro, Vt. 
July 1—Milking Shorthorns. Brad¬ 
ford Co., Pa., Breeders’ Association, 
Troy, Pa.. Fair Grounds. 
July 4—Ilolsteins. Ot6ego County 
Holstein Club. Richfield Springs, N. Y. 
Oct. 6-8—Ilolsteins. Quality Holstein, 
Chicago. Ill. 
Oct. 8-9—Ilolsteins. Annual Dairy¬ 
men's Sale. E. M. Hastings Co., Laeona, 
N. Y., manager. 
Oct. 9—Central Illinois Shorthorn 
Breeders’ Association, Paris, Ill. 
Leaking of Milk 
I have a cow that lets her milk run 
about two hours before milking time every 
morning and night. Is there a remedy 
for it? E. w. 
New York. 
Milk the cow three times daily and 
then immerse the teats for five minutes 
or longer in a saturated solution of alum. 
If that does not suffice apply melted wax 
or paraffin to the lips of the teats, or 
paint them with flexible collodion. 
|)A VAII We have many able-bodied 
llv I UU young men, with and without. 
experience, who wish to work ou 
U L C [1 farms. If you need a good, steady, 
11 L k II sober man. write for an order 
_ _ _ __ blank. Ours is a philanthropic 
► A II M organization and we make no 
■ n 11 charge to employer or employee. 
up IP? THE JEWISH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
“ U ' 176 Second Avenue N. Y. City 
Subscribers’Exchange 
If you want to buy or sell or exchange, make it known here. 
This Rato will be 5 Cents a word, payable in advance. The 
name and address must bo counted as part of the advertise¬ 
ment. No display type used, and only Farm Products, Help 
and Positions Wanted admitted. ror subscribers only. 
Dealers, jobbers and general manufacturers' announcements 
not admitted here. Poultry, Ejrsrs ami other lire stock adver¬ 
tisements will Ro under proper headings on other pages. 
Seed and Nursery advertisements will not be accepted for 
this column. 
Copy must reach us not later than Friday morning 
to appear in the following week’s issue. 
Farm Help Wanted 
WANTED—An assistant in our boarding house; 
steady employment; a good home; no objection 
to u woman with one child, but must come well 
recommended. Apply ARTHUR HANKS., Mgr., 
Tranquillity Farms, Allamuchy, N. J. 
WANTED—Farmer; married; general farm work, 
stock, crops, fruit; under foreman; cottage, 
etc.; give full particulars and references; year 
around position if suited. Address ADVER¬ 
TISER 5595, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Man, at once, on general dairy farm; 
single; understand farming; $45 month. M. 
S. CYTOW1C, Walton, N. Y. 
WANTED—Men and women attendants, in a State 
institution for the feeble-minded; salary $45 a 
month for men and $30 for women, with main¬ 
tenance. State age when applying. Apply to 
SUPERINTENDENT, Letehworth Village, 
Thiells, N. Y. 
FEMAI.E attendants for an insane hospital; 
pay $30 a month, board and laundry. Address 
S. LORD, Stamford, Conn. 
WANTED—By June 15th, young or middle-aged 
man for general farm work; little milking to 
be done; must be experienced and have best of 
references as to character and ability. SUNSET 
FARM, Shelburne, Mass. 
WANTED—Working partner on well-paying 
poultry farm located in commuting distance of 
New York; will pay part salary and share profit. 
ADVERTISER 5583, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—A working manager for a dairy farm 
of 300 acres, situated in Dutchess County, 
New York; the farm is stocked' with about 50 
head of grade and registered Ilolsteins; it is 
roil at present on a well-paying basis and what 
is wanted is a man to continue to run it along 
the same lines; give full particulars in your 
first letter. Address BOX 4, Milford, Conn. 
WANTED—Soon, ambitious, bustling, young 
married man to take a Hudson Valley fruit 
and poultry farm (05 acres) on shares; variety 
of fruits and berries; big apple and pear crop 
this Fall; house partially furnished; fine neigh¬ 
borhood; near railroad, city and large towns; 
canning enterprise started; exceptionally gen¬ 
erous terms to right man; protestaut preferred. 
Address BOX 233, Kingston, N. Y. 
WANTED—Married herdsman for herd of forty 
cows, July 1st to 15th: must, be experienced 
Empire operator and willing to board two or 
three single men; ulso two single men as team¬ 
sters; state age, nationality, wages and refer¬ 
ences. Address ADVERTISER 5599, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Two married men, oue as herdsman. 
one as head farmer; give experience and 
wages. ADVERTISER 0508, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
WANTED—Two single men in up-to-date dairy. 
one to milk, with machine, and care for herd 
of 20 purebred Holsteins; the other to make 
cottage cheese, butter and care for milk in dairy 
bouse; give wages and ability in first letter. 
JAVA FARM, Annapolis, M<f. 
WANTED—A middle-aged married man, exper¬ 
ienced in general farm work; good milker; 
good stock raiser; only sober, reliable man con¬ 
sidered; good house, privileges, etc.; farm near 
large city in Connecticut; state age, nationality, 
experience, salary expected and when ready for 
work in first letter. Address ADVERTISER 
5590, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Two men for general farm work; 
must be sober and bandy with farm teams; 
good wages and steady employment to right 
party. AddVess inquiries to KENRIDGE FARM, 
Cornwall, N, Y. 
WANTED—A married man for farm work; must 
be willing to help milk and care for small 
herd of cows; wages sixty dollars per month 
all the year round, with good house, fuel, milk 
and vegetables. L. B. WHITTEMOKK, Burt 
Road, Taunton, Mass. 
WANTED—Shepherd; thoroughly experienced 
and capable shepherd to take full charge of 
300 registered sheep; excellent place for right 
man; write details as to experience, reference, 
salary, etc. G. G. RITRLINGAME, 150 Nassau 
Street, New York City. 
WANTED—Married man, expert on tractors, 
engines and repairing general farm machinery. 
0. DRYSDALE BLACK, Somerville, N. J. 
MANAGER—For commercial poultry farm; sin¬ 
gle; honest, industrious and one that has pro¬ 
duced results and well recommended'. BOULE¬ 
VARD TOULTRY FARMS, 15 St. George’s Ave., 
Rahway, N. J. 'Phone 220W. 
SINGLE man wanted on truck and fruit farm; 
only earnest and careful workers need apply; 
no cigarettes; good home; wages according to 
ability; state experience and give references. 
R. P. LOVETT, Fallsington, Pa. 
WANTED—Married poultryman without chil¬ 
dren on modern Leghorn plant maturing 1.000 
pullets yearly; must be capable of taking entire 
charge and able to produce results: wife house- 
worker for adult family; living furnished; year 
'round position; references and particulars. 
BOX 26, Morristown, N. J. 
WANTED—Good farmhand; state wages. JOHN 
SEATON, Route 2, Westville, Conn. 
Situations Wanted 
POULTRYMAN, college graduate, wants posi¬ 
tion; experienced in all branches of business, 
including breeding, exhibiting, incubators, trap- 
resting. etc. ADVERTISER 5594, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
STRONG, healthy, ambitious young man, busi¬ 
ness ability, agricultural college graduate, 
good family and habits, some experience stock 
and farm, desires position, preferably as as¬ 
sistant manager to broaden practical exper¬ 
ience. SCHULTE, 601 West 27th St., New York. 
POSITION wanted under superintendent on gen¬ 
tleman's country estate; can do anything; 
steady all year around place preferred, but no 
Sunday work; Swiss; single; 38: best of refer¬ 
ences. ADVERTISER 5594, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
100 DOLLARS per month and one-tliird of the 
profits will secure the services of two expert 
poultrymen, familiar with mammoth commer¬ 
cial and fancy poultry plants; can give very 
strong references. J. H. BOGART, care La 
Belle Poultry Ranch, Aurora, Col. 
FARM manager or superintendent with practical 
and scientific training; Cornell agricultural 
graduate; at present in county agent work; 
specially qualified in fruit growing and with 
government marketing experience; age 32: only- 
first-class position considered. ADVERTISER 
5001, care Rural New-Yorker, 
BOOKKEEPER-SECRETARY, male, experienced 
on farm and estate accounts, desires to make 
change; married; no children: only first-class 
offers entertained. ADVERTISER 5600, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
YOUNG MAN, two years’ agricultural college 
training, desires position as assistant to 
owner or superintendent; thoroughly experienced 
in all branches. ADVERTISER 5597, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
YOUNG MAN, 18, desires position cn farm; 
prefer poultry; Inexperienced. II. FALLER, 
200 W. 101st Street, New York. 
POSITION wanted; single, 25; had two years' ex¬ 
perience at general fanning; now managing 
large poultry farm: leaving position July 14; 
can give references from present employer; poul¬ 
try, orcharding or gardening preferred. * BOX 
952, Polk, Pa. 
POULTRYMAN, 29, single, Cornell training, 7 
years’ exj)erience, expert on culling, wants 
position; thoroughly competent to handle any 
size plant. Address ADVERTISER 5602, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
Farms For Sale, to Rent, etc. 
FURNISHED Summer Cottages; good fishing, 
bathing; clean, comfortable; $12 weekly. 
RIVERV1EW FARM, Hallstead, Pa. 
FARM for sale; 100 acres; 50 tillage, balance 
pasture and wood; lots of youug pine; sell 
with stock and tools or separate: modern plumb¬ 
ing in house. Mrs. M. A. MEAD, White River 
Junction, Vt. 
WILL rent farm in exchange for my board; 
beautiful scenery; Berkshires; asparagus, ber¬ 
ries. trout brook; garden planted. G., Brier, 
Mass. 
FOR SALE—30-acre farm, near Matawan, New 
Jersey; S-roorn house: Targe baru; several 
other buildings; all in good order; 20 acres now 
planted; rest good wood. Address L. F. B., 
Box 04, Ulster, Pa. 
WANTED—Equipped poultry farm, with few 
cows; Southern New York or New Jersey; 
light soil. LEON J. BROWN, R. 4, Bingham¬ 
ton, N. Y. 
$3,000 INCOME, commuting poultry farm. 7 
minutes station; 14 acres; modern buildings 
for 1.200 head: concrete tloors, non-freeze water 
system: electric artificial daylight; brooders; 
over 100 15-year fruit trees; good baru, brook, 
spring, artesian well: house 8 rooms, steam 
heat, electric light, all Improvements; sale, ex¬ 
change, $9,000. BOX 99. Woodeliff Lake, N. J. 
Beautiful Florida home; 37R, acres; 100 fruit 
trees in great variety: cow. horse, all tools, 
two pigs, dozen hens, apiary, 70 colonies; roomy 
comfortable house with furuiture: everything in 
eluded, only $4,000. DR. E. W. POMEROY, 
Richland, Fla. 
FARM- FOR SALE—500 acres in Southern Ver¬ 
mont; good soil; fruit trees; sugar orchards; 
well watered; good buildings. BOX 213, Corinth, 
N, Y. 
96-ACRE dairy farm, stocked and equipped, 
ready for business; ideal Summer home for 
city man; two miles to hustling railroad town; 
plenty wood, fruit and berries; buildings in good 
repair; piped with never-failing spring water. 
JOHN W. BASS, Randolph, Vt. 
ERIE COUNTY—354 acres, sixteen miles from 
Buffalo, six miles East Aurora, two miles 
South Wales, half mile from improved' State 
road; soil sandy loam, just rolling enough for 
good natural drainage, and well adapted for 
potatoes, wheat, oats, Timothy, clover, beans, 
corn silage and nearly all other grains and 
vegetables; excellent pasture, eighty acres 
woods, five acres bearing apple orchard, forty 
acres Timothy, clover and Alsike, seeded last 
year; now putting in crops with three teams; 
ten-room frame dwelling; basement bant, 
forty-five by ninety feet; also other buildings; 
three good wells besides unfailing springs in 
pasture; price, sixty dollars per acres, half cash. 
E. J. McGRATII, owner, Lockport, N. Y. Bell 
phone, Lockport 1279-J. 
OWNER, having other business, will sell 210 
acres hay and dairy farm, located in Orange 
County; with all tools and farm machinery; 
stalls for 70 head of stock; 55 young registered 1 
Holsteins: running water house and barn; good 
buildings; lionse has hot water heat. bath, open 
fireplaces, etc.; good stone road; IV 2 miles Bor¬ 
den’s, Erie station and village. Address BOX 
154, Washingtonville, N, Y. 
FOR SALE—Four fully equipped dairy farms 
ranging from 100 to 180 acres each: from 30 
to 40 milch cows, all to freshen in Fall on each 
farm; or will sell with privilege of working 
farms for six months for wages or on shares 
six months or year under my management; 
these farms are 50 miles from New York. 
ALBERT VANDERMEULEN, Monroe, N. Y, 
FOR RALE—Any part 15.000 No. 3 cans with 
2-7 '10 solder hemmed cans; som' 1 slightlv rust¬ 
ed on outside; §30 per M. H. N. FLEMING. 
Erie, Pa. 
FOR RALE—We off r for sale, immediate ship¬ 
ment. the following agriculture implements, 
all in first-class condition: One Mogul S10 trac¬ 
tor and three plows, two Planet Junior cultiva¬ 
tors, one 2-horse harrow, one Oliver horse plow, 
one corn planter, one steel oil barrel, one disc 
harrow, one steel gas barrel, one tractor attach¬ 
ment with chain, one tractor belt drive, one 
Oliver tractor plow, four Oliver tractor plow¬ 
shares. U. S. METALS REFINING COMPANY 
Chrome, N. J. 
280-ACRE farm; Saragosa. Texas; write f r 
particulars. M. MISWALD, Georgetown, Del. 
75-ACRE poultry farm, with fruit, beautifully 
located on Seneca Lake, above Watkins Glen: 
two good houses, 11 and 7 rooms, one new; hot 
and cold running water, bath, steam heated, 
etc.; new large barn and outbuildings; modern 
houses for 1.500 hens; colony system for 3.000 
chicks; Candee incubator; superior strain 
White Leghorns; 2.000 Anril hatched chicks on 
range; will sell equipment and pullets; Pa. and 
N. Y. Cent. R. R.’s two miles. F. E. UPSON 
Dundee, N. Y. 
. - * JtUlra, 
equipped for capacity of 4,000 hens; 6,000-egg 
Candee incubator, brooder houses, laying houses 
etc.: large, splendidly built residence; mile 
from town of 3.500; located on site of Dn Pont 
Boulevard; six miles from Delaware Bay and 26 
miles from. Delaware Breakwater on Atlantic 
Ocean: set in apple trees; a big bargain. THE 
DELAWARE EGG FARM, Milford, Del. 
A FRUIT FARM for sale—On account of death 
in my family I would like to sell my fruit 
farm, comprising 50 acres; including 18 acres of 
woodland; peaches, apples, grapes, cherries, etc.; 
on State road; half a mile from station; boun¬ 
tifully situate; a splendid opportunity. For 
rll particulars apply to MRS. E. M. BATTS 
Park Lane, New Milford, Conn. 
Miscellaneous 
WHOLESOME country, board. $12; scenic 
locality; altitude 1,980. POHOKA FARMS 
Sclienevus, N. Y. 
WANTED—Board on large farm near N. Y for 
two adults, one child; describe fully. 
STEWART, 463 Fourth Ave., Newark, N. J. 
WANTED—Room and board or room only with 
private family on farm. Catskill or' Berk¬ 
shires. ENGEL, 1802 Crotona Ave., New York 
City. 
HOARY—Buckwheat extracted; 12-lb. cans de¬ 
livered in second zone, $2.75; larger lots 
f. o. b. shipping point, 13c to 20c per lb. RAY 
C. WILCOX, West Danby, N. Y. 
WANTED—One-horse mowing machine, in A-l 
condition; also set of heavy work harness 
FRANK J. MURPHY, Prospect' Hill Place. Nor¬ 
walk, Conn. 
FOR SALE—New Model D Moline Tractor; 
complete with plows, self-starter, electric 
lights, etc.; sold farm; have no use for it; price 
$1,300. Address ADVERTISER 5592, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—I. H. C. S-16 tractor; complete 
with plows; in perfect condition; price $500. 
Address AD\ ERTISER 5593, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
JAPANESE Hull-less Popcorn, 1918 crop, iu* one- 
to five-pound bags, 30c a pound; in ten-pound 
bags, 28c; in 50-ponnd bags, 26c and postage to 
your sone. S. E. HALL, Cherry Valley, Ill 
GOULD electric lighting plant; excellent condi¬ 
tion; ideal for farm or small country plae~. 
BRITTON DAVIS, Congers, Rockland Co., N. Y. 
FOR SAI.E—Trailer for Ford car; never bi e i 
used; price $50. A. O. CHAPIN, Sharon 
Springs, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—20 H. P. Mogul Tractor; bargrin; 
$S0O. R. EDGETT, Howard, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—One 450-lb. De Laval Separator, 
with electric motor attached: shafting, pul¬ 
leys, hangers, belting, idlers; all nearly new: 
$125; one No. 4 barrel churn, with belting and 
pulleys for above motor; $7.50; one butter 
worker, $2.50. CHARLES W. WICKS, Sau- 
quoit, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Hand power Gillette sheep-shear ng 
machine, with horse-clipping attachment; 
never used; price $17. BOX 373, Scarsdale, 
N. Y. 
ONE Sharpies Turbine Separator; 1,500 pound; 
capacity; price $100. E. C. STRAIGHT, 
Cassadaga, N. Y. 
FOR SAl.E—Moliue Universal Tractor (Model 
C): plows, cultivator and carrying truck. 
Address BOX 94, R. F. D„ Vineyard Haven, 
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