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January 31, 1920 * 
Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks 
By Rev. George B. Gilbert 
The Small-Farm Question 
Tite Lonely Road. —Some time ago 
the Parson wrote quite at length on how¬ 
to make a living on the Lonely Road. lie 
is still pondering on the subject, and it is 
far from settled. The question now arises, 
lias the light auto truck anything to con¬ 
tribute towanl better economic conditions 
ou the small way-back farms? Here is 
a case near by where it really seems to 
be solving the problem. This locality is 
some nine or 10 miles from the railroad 
or any kind of a market. A man has a 
little country store here in his own house, 
and with a light truck he collects the milk 
round about every morning, lie gets two 
cents a quart for carrying this to the city, 
lie also takes 11 kinds of produce in the 
way of eggs, beef and pork. lie does not 
carry butter. He will buy farm products 
and take in or he will carry it in for you, 
if you want to sell it yourself. lie will 
do all manner of errands for you in town, 
bringing back packages for so much each. 
More Milk.— This mau tells the Par¬ 
son that there has been a great increase 
in milk production in this section, for 
every quart of milk put out at the door 
means so much more money. The people 
do not) have to furnish a regular amount 
the year round, but can make the most of 
their large pastures and let the cows go 
dry in the Winter, when grain is high 
and has to be fed if you are going to pro¬ 
duce much milk. It is impossible for a 
lot of small farmers to make butter and 
have it anywhere near of uniform quality, 
but good, clean milk can be easily kept 
clean and cool. All through Connecti¬ 
cut the State inspector comes around and 
shows you what you can do, and must do. 
The requirements are reasonable and noth¬ 
ing more than anyone ought to do. 
Tae Advantages. —It would seem that 
the possibilities of an auto going out of 
a locality every morning and back again 
about . noou are almost limitless. It 
brings the far-back farm within .‘10 or 40 
minutes of the hiarket. It will carry out 
anything you have to sell and bring back 
practically everything you want to buy. 
It will do it far cheaper than each man 
could do it for himself. By offering con¬ 
siderable trade on the cash-and-carry 
basis it ought soon to get the stores of the 
town bidding for its gilt-edge trade. It 
ought to carry passengers—the boy going 
off to college and the schoolrua’am coining 
to her work. Two girls were down to 
church the other Sunday who had come 
from New York to spend the holidays on 
the farm where they boarded last Summer. 
The garage man wanted .$6 *to bring them 
out from the station—10 miles. Nothing 
can kilL a hack-country region quicker 
than the dreadful expense and difficulty 
of getting in and out of it. 
Kind of Cows. —It has long been a 
question what kind of cows are really best 
for the back country. It needs a variety 
that is hardy, eating any old thing in 
sight, and that is. good for beef and for 
oxen as well as milk. The pasturage in 
the back country must be made the most 
of. Beef is high and this pasturage is a 
very real asset. The Parson was glad 
to find that the man running the auto 
truck, as mentioned, above, agrees with 
the Parson that the milking Shorthorn is 
the best breed for the back country around 
here to go into. 
Setting IIens. —The Parson has just 
been reading a letter from a woman in 
Vermont in The R. N.-Y. about the 
trouble she had in setting hens. After 
much bitter experience the Parson has 
learned a few tricks of the trade that 
may be of use to her. lie puts boxes 
around on the floor of the' henhouse for 
nests'iu the early Spring—quite a lot of 
them. The heus love to lay ill these 
boxes. When one sits in one of them he 
will take the box at night and carry it to 
another place where he is going to have 
all the sitters by themselves. If she stays 
on the next day and the next night on the 
second day, you take her off and feed her, 
and if she goes back on herself, then put 
the eggs under her. Dust her and the 
nest with lice powder and put water aud 
corn where she can get them any time, 
The hen, of course, is shut into this place 
or room or henhouse so she cannot go 
hack to her old place if she would. Never 
shut her on the nest. If you can set some 
hens and an incubator at the same time 
and then give the hens about 25 chicks 
apiece, it is an easy way to bring them 
up, and you are getting full pay for your 
hens’ time. If the hens go sitting after 
the incubator is stai-ted and you want to 
use them for brooding, just give the hen 
a few eggs from the incubator. If she 
sits a few days and hatches a single chick 
she will brood all you give her. Do not 
put liens brooding many chicks iu this 
way too near together, as the chicks will 
tend to all go to one hen and then get 
smothered. Put the hen in an old-fash- 
ioued coop a little off by herself, and keep 
her there till the chicks can get along 
without her. Don’t let the hen out at all. 
Pigs and Pasture.- —It is a good plan 
to stop a minute at the new year and 
look back and see what we learned during 
the last year. We have learned not to try 
to pasture pigs where you cannot plow and 
cultivate the land. The pigs will root for 
all you can do, and then you have noth¬ 
ing on the land. We shall fence off a new 
place this year, and probably plant rape 
for them, and they can root it all they 
please, Rings in the nose help some on 
the rooting question, but after the ring 
has boon in a short time they will dig 
about as bad as ever. We shall put in 
some sweet corn near the pig pasture, so 
as to throw it over the fence to them. 
They shall have a runway from the pas¬ 
ture down to the brook. 
Smartweed and Sheet. —Where the 
pigs and hens have been running the 
smartweed has come in till after mid¬ 
summer the ground is covered with it. 
Even the geese will not eat it. The Par¬ 
son learns that sheep take to it. The 
boys have long wanted a few sheep, and 
so the Parson has ordered them—three 
of them. Iti will serve for. the boys to 
learn something about caring for sheep, 
and when they are grown and have more 
land this may be a real help to them. We 
have a small henhouse we use but little 
till the Spring chickens begin to roost 
and then the sheep will be out of doors. 
The State College has them for sale at 
$13 and $14 each, according to quality. 
They are supposed to have lambs this 
Spring—much to the children’s delight. 
Kind of Hens.- —The Parson believes 
that this same section, where they seem 
to be about ready to go into one kind of 
cows, is ready to keep one kind of hens. 
We have all learned from these contests 
that one kind of lion is as apt to come 
out on top as another, as far as laying 
eggs is concerned. In the far-back coun¬ 
try the light-weight breeds, like the Leg¬ 
horns, are out of the question. Few of 
these people have incubators, aud must 
have hens that will sit. Then they must 
have meaty broilers aud fowls for the 
boarders iu the Summqr. Then one must 
consider whether there are plenty of a 
breed he is going into .round about in the 
country, so that good eggs and cockerels 
can be secured. Are there good strains iu 
the vicinity? Witli’all those in mind, the 
Parson thinks that the old standby, 
Barred Rocks, .may. after all. be the best 
for the small all-around farmer in the 
back country. 
Can It Be DonE:. —The question, can 
this thing be put over? Will the people 
of a neighborhood woVk together to their 
own good? Somebody’s old hen got into 
your garden 10 years‘ago and scratched up 
your Petunia, and so you will have noth- 
tliing to do with them, and if they have 
white hens you will'have black, whether 
you like them or not. Then, too, people 
in the country are so suspicious of each 
other. They wifi not believe that anyone 
is really trying to help them without they 
have an ax to grind. Here is the church’s 
great task ini the country*—to get the peo¬ 
ple together. Lot them get acquainted 
aud eat together and smoke their pipes 
of peace together ■ till : they, sec that the 
newcomer and the. mau of a foreign 
tongue may be just’.as good-hearted as he 
is. Co-operation must have the right 
neighborhood feeling back of it. and whose 
business aud duty is it to create this, if 
it is not the church’s? 
Mommo and Poppo. —Little Charlsie 
Boy has gotten us all named again. How 
sweet their baby talk is! None of your 
“odd’’ babies for us, who talk like pro¬ 
fessors the very first thing. We love their 
baby talk and really grieve when it goes 
by. He has ; ’christened mother "Mommo.” 
with the accent on the last syllable. The 
Parson himself is “Poppo.” Every morn¬ 
ing he goes through the greatest rigmarole 
making noises like the farm family, lie 
can quack like the ducks and mew like the 
cats and bark like the dogs and crow like 
the roosters. He has not yet had the 
nerve to imitate the indescribable sounds 
that Old Jerry Gander puts forth at all 
times of uight aud day. 
Our Christmas. —Yes, we did have a 
fine Christmas, and 1 fear got more than 
we deserved. We had the tree in 
Mom mo’s new room up stairs. It has a 
stove iu it, and is large and roomy aud 
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