The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 20, 1020 
610 
Seven Little Farming Mistakes 
That Were Costing* Me $ 4200 a Year 
Liming 
“I had never fed milk or 
meat food to my poultry. But 
when it came to figuring up.- 
a small loss on each fowl 
was noticed. A change to beef 
scrap, however, produced a 
profit of §10, which was later 
raised to §11 by the feeding of 
buttermilk, 
“Fifteen years’ cropping of 
scrub wheat had never yielded 
more than 23 bushels to the 
acre. The use of phosphates 
and a good grade of hybrid 
wheat boosted my yield from 
21 bushels to 47 bushels. 
“Continuous cropping of 
corn for three years yielded 
me only 35 bushels each year 
to the acre. A three-year ro¬ 
tation of corn with soy beans, 
oats and clover brought me fit; 
bushels. 
“I didn’t think soy beans 
needed liming. About 2.7 tons 
of beans to the acre wasn't so 
bad, I thought. I changed my mind, 
brought me 7 tons per acre. 
“1 had 40 scrub dairy cows and but one cow 
of good breed. At the end of the year my rec¬ 
ords showed that the 40 cows had eaVned me onlv 
§31 net profit. My one good cow iiad alone 
brought me §31.25. 
“On one section of the farm I had been grow¬ 
ing .oats continuously for four years and aver¬ 
aged about 23 bushels per acre. 1 rotated oats 
and cow peas and got 40 bushels of oats to the 
acre. 
“I was beginning to get disgusted with -aising 
hogs. Then I adopted this ra ion: ( u-n silage, 
cottonseed meal and oat straw through the win¬ 
ter, and the last two months finishing them on 
blue grass, cottonseed meal and the last of the 
silage. iOn this ration they started the season at 
400 pounds and finished at 800 pounds.” 
How To Avoid Farming Mistakes 
Others farmers are daily making costly mis¬ 
takes which they could easily avoid—mistakes 
that “eat up” their time and cut into their 
profits. Learning to avoid these mistakes hv first 
making them is costly business. And yet many 
farmers do not discover tlieir mistakes until they 
see others getting bigger and better crops with 
less expense and labor—others who take advan¬ 
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and proved methods which get from a farm ALL 
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Are You Making Any 
of the Same Mistakes ? 
"Here are seven mistakes I 
was making year after year on 
my 120-acre farm. Some of 
them seem like little mistakes 
and yet I figure they cost me 
about §4,200 each year. I've 
often wondered how much 
other farmers with larger 
farms are losing each year 
through common little mis¬ 
takes unknowingly made. At 
unite a cost I have discovered 
these seven mistakes. But what 
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I had been told beforehand 
just how to avoid them instead 
of learning through my own 
Iiersoual experience at the cost 
of many days of wasted work 
and many dollars of lost 
profits.” 
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