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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
And How to Get Them Out 
Why do bo many experienced farmers fail to 
g-ather in the full profits their farm offers 
them? It’s because they haven’t learned to 
avoid the costly mistakes that cut into profits 
— they haven’t learned the methods used by 
men who average, per acre, 90 bushels of corn, 
85 bushels of oats, 47 bushels of wheat, 2 bales 
of cotton and other crops equally good. The 
average farmer is making costly mistakes 
every day and is not getting the amount of profit 
he COULD get; merely because be doesn’t heed 
the experiences of others —the wonderful results 
achieved by experts thru new methods he lets pass 
by—and one year plays “follow master” after the 
other, doing the same things, the same way, with the 
same results. 
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roofing paper. However the cellar may 
be constructed, though, there must be a 
ventilator with a cap over the top. 
Modern Cobncribs. —It is interesting 
to note that the old plan of building eorn- 
cribs with inverted pans over the sup¬ 
porting posts is apparently becoming ob¬ 
solete. The new plan is to build the 
sides and ends of 2x4 stuff and then to 
Corncrib Lined with Close Mesh Wire 
lines the crib with close-mesh wire, this 
wire extending over the floor. A crib so 
constructed is proof not only against the 
inroads of rats and mice, hut also against 
thieving birds. It is also interesting to 
note that many new eorncribs have been 
erected in the last two years, indicating 
that the high price of Western corn has 
j resulted in the growing of more corn at 
home. E. I. FARRINGTON. 
An Inspiring New York Farm Family 
The neatly printed letterhead of the 
Pleasant. \ iew Homestead, announcing 
November 1, 1019 
acres of very fertile land, and is well 
equipped with modern machinery. Last 
year it produced about $4,000 worth of 
milk. Also about 200 to 300 lbs. maple 
sugar at 35c per lb., and about 200 gals, 
of syrup at $2.50 per gal., though it was a 
short season. About 500 buckets are set 
in the maple sugar bush, and next year 
this miniber will he increased by about 
300 buckets. 
Mr. Gates, the father of this family, 
up to the time he was stricken about 
three years ago. carried about 30 head of 
dairy cows, and young stock enough to 
bring it up to about 00 head. The cows 
were averaging about 18 quarts of milk 
each daily. Since his illness, in order to 
give the hoys a chance for an education, 
the stock has been cut down nearly one- 
third. The mother has since supervised 
the work, with the oldest son running the 
farm the first two years, and this year the 
second son has run it. The latter is but 
38 years old. 
There are three horses and an eight- 
cylinder car to do business with. Mr. 
Gates is a member of the Cortland County 
Farm Bureau, of the Grange and of the 
Maple Sugar Producers’ Association of 
this county. Mrs. flutes is active in wom¬ 
en’s club work and Home Bureau work, 
and all are members of and regular at¬ 
tendants of the Homer Baptist Church. 
The children’s names are: Ruth. Viola, 
Esther. Henry. Mary, Rupert, Carrie, 
Harold and Irving. The oldest daughter 
is a professional nurse at the Raybrook 
Sanatorium. Viola is a graduate of the 
jNyack Missionary Institute, and this 
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Mr. M. H. Gates and Uis Family of Daughters 
1 hat M. H. Gat ms and family are the pro¬ 
prietors, and that dairying and maple 
products arc specialties on this Homer, 
N. Y., farm, arouses interest and attention 
at once, and the writer is glad to show to 
R. X.-Y. readers a most unusual and in- 
teresting family and farm home. 
The farm is very pleasantly situated in 
Summer has done missionary work at 
Downsville, with the expectation of soon 
doing foreign missionary work. Esther 
and Mary are expert cooks, the former 
cooking for the Home for Aged Women 
in Homer, with about 40 in the institu¬ 
tion. Mary, with a helper, cooked for 75 
to 100 at the Y. W. A. camp this Sum 
il'he Mother and the Four Sons 
the well-known dairying section uorfch of 
Homer. It has line buildingfc, with the 
farm name in a prominent position. There 
is an acetylene lighting plant that illumin¬ 
ates both house and barns, and the house 
is roomy and comfortable, with its hot 
and cold water and modern bathroom and 
other conveniences. The farm has 120 
mer, and is now engaged in .Syracuse. 
Henrj is working for the Hudson Motor 
Works in Detroit. The rest are at home 
and in school. 
Surely such a family is an inspiration 
u> all. and a wonderful comfort to parents 
in times of trouble, as well as in their 
happier days. m. g. f. 
