Cte RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 17, 1920 
W HEN you plan changing your methods 
of cultivation from a horse power to 
a machine power basis, you will of course 
give a great deal of thought to the selection 
of the right kind of tractor. The same care¬ 
ful consideration should be given to the selec¬ 
tion of the right kind of harrow. The easy 
and safe solution is 
"CUTAWAY” 
Double Action 
Tractor Harrows 
Harrows that attach to every kind or size of 
tractor. The first tractor harrow in the field, 
and first in place, ever since. Whatever trac¬ 
tor you select there’s a Clark “Cutaway” 
that will fit and do the work. 
The disk harrow with special steel main 
frame that inflexibly holds each set of disks 
accurately in place. Digs deeper, pulverizes 
better, and pulls through the soil on less 
power. Saves time, labor and fuel—and 
helps produce bumper crops. 
The disks in these harrows are forged, not merely 
rolled and ground, from toughest cutlery steel. They 
won’t chip, crack, nor break like the ordinary run of 
disks. 
Don’t be influenced against “cutout” disks by manu¬ 
facturers who are unable to produce an enduring 
“Cutout” disk of Clark “Cutaway” quality. 
If your dealer can’t supply you 
some other nearby dealer will. 
The Cutaway Harrow Company 
678 Main Street Higganum, Conn. 
Maker of the Original CLARK Disk Harrows and Plows 
Writ© for free took, "The Soil and Its Tillare,” and complete Catalog 
The Back-to-the-Landers 
A very large share of our questions come from people who meditate moving 
to the country, or who have already made such a move. They have a story to 
tell, or they ask for advice. This department will be a sort of clearing-house 
for the back-to-the-lander. where he may obtain information and swap troubles 
and triumphs, failures, fads and fancies. 
The Back-yard Goat 
I have been very much interested in the 
article regarding the milch goat. What 
should a good milch goat cost? Wo use 
1 y» quarts of milk a day, which costs us 
14 cents a quart ; two pounds of butter a 
week, which, so far, we have been able to 
secure at (10 cents a pound. We live in 
a town of about GOO inhabitants, situated 
on the most northern point of Southern 
Michigan. Soil here is sand and lime¬ 
stone. pasture poor and hard to get. ex¬ 
cept in early Summer. We have now two 
Shetland ponies, 10 chickens, one duck 
and four rabbits, and my son wants a 
goat to add to his list of pets. Could a 
boy of 10 milk and care for a goat? Can 
one raise the kids if the milk is used in 
the house? There are not goats anywhere 
near us that I know of. 
Michigan. mbs. glenn henry. 
Here is a case for what the Congress¬ 
man calls “careful consideration.” Can 
the baek-yarder keep a goat as substitute 
for a cow? If-he is willing to pay for a 
well-bred goat he can probably provide 
the milk, hut the butter will bo a doubt¬ 
ful proposition. On the whole, wo should 
think a small Jersey cow would pay bet¬ 
ter. A well-bred goat will cost nearly as 
much as a cow. A careful boy can handle 
it, and it will give enough milk for a small 
family. But let us turn the subject over 
to the goat men for answers. They ought 
to know. 
Pleasure and Profit in the Country 
T was a city man. but could not save 
a dollar. 1 was a steady, hard-working 
man. and had a saving wife and a family 
of live youngsters. Three to keep clothed 
and in school in the city, must be dressed 
equal to the rich man's children. Seven 
mouths to feed: I could not save a dollar. 
We rented a house and eight acres of 
land outside the city, and bought a cow, 
liens, planted our garden and raised our 
own potatoes, vegetables and fruit. Have 
our own hay. our own fresh eggs (they 
are fresh, and plenty of them) ; have all 
we can use of Jersey milk and make our 
own butter, also raise our own pigs and 
some to sell. We also have a line driving 
horse and buggy and cutter—things we 
couldn't have rented had we stayed in the 
city, and are independent of neighbors, 
although we have some good ones. I 
mean we don’t have to borrow tools, etc. 
Then. too. we have plenty of heat, no 
frozen water, no noise, but plenty of snow 
and chores; hut isn’t it worth it for good 
health, happiuess and the money saved? 
Next year 1 expect to buy an auto: then 
we can go and get hack by chore time. 
The children enjoy country life and have 
their pets, help with work and chores, 
and the wife helps, too. I still work in 
the city, and will until T save enough to 
buy a farm; but the farm or country is 
uo place for a lazy man. 1 often work 
by moonlight, so I know it does mean 
work! E. n. E. 
Who Can Advise Him 
I am a young man 20 years old. weigh 
115 to 120 lbs. and contemplate renting 
a farm on shares.I have had very little 
experience in farming, except in haying 
time, when I worked one Summer. T do 
not know anything about the planting or 
harvesting of farm crops, and I have just 
started to learn to milk. The farm in 
question consists of about 1<> acres. This 
farm pastures from 10 to 12 cows, and 
raises the hay and silage necessary to 
carry them through the Winter. All the 
feed is bought except the oats, which are 
raised on the farm. I have a good po¬ 
sition with a shoe manufacturing firm, 
and there is a good chance for advance¬ 
ment in wages and position. 1 have been 
with these people for two years now. 
Would you advise me to leave my present 
position and go onto the farm this Spring 
or not? P. A. b. 
Binghamton, N. Y. 
Honestly now. what can we advise? 
We do not know you or any of the con¬ 
ditions under which you must work. We 
do not know how much capital yon have 
or who could keep house for you. As a 
general proposition we should sa.v stick 
to your present job. With the experi¬ 
ence you have had you could not run a 
farm successfully. It’ you want to learn, 
go out and serve as hired man on some 
good dairy farm and see how you like it. 
If after that experience you still want 
to take the responsibility of a contract 
for a farm. y<m stand a far better chance. 
We should stick to the present job ami 
save as much as possible to use as farm 
capital. 
Homemade Brooder 
How should I build a homemade 
brooder for 250 chicks? What is the best 
feed for the same? L. r. 
The best brooder for 250 chicks is a 
colony house about 10 ft. square, built 
upon skids so that it can be moved from 
one part of the farm to another, and 
heated by one of the coal-burning brooder- 
house heaters upon the market. By ap¬ 
plying to the poultry department of the 
State College at Ithaca, N. Y.. you may 
get detailed plans for a suitable colony 
house to suit your own notions. The only 
real essential is a warm, comfortable 
building of sufficient size; in fact, the 
heating and brooding apparatus may fie 
installed in any suitable building already 
on the farm. For continued use, however, 
it is far better to have brooder houses 
portable, so that the little chicks may he 
reared upon new ground each year. 
M. B. T>. 
H. S. of New York asks about horn¬ 
less brooders. 1 have four of different 
sizes; one is eight feet long and four 
feet wide. I have kept as many as lull 
chicks in it until they were two months 
old. but I always put a hen with them 
at first, and just give her as many as 
she can rover well. As they get stronger 
I add more, and if the weather is very 
cold I put hot bricks in the brooder. That 
keeps them very comfortable, and as the 
weather gets wanner I take the hen out 
and put moi chicks in. and keep them m 
there until they are well feathered. Then 
1 put them in a wire coop with a good 
roof on it, and keep them in that until 
they are too large for the crows and 
hawks to carry off. The wire coop has a 
wire bottom as well as wire sides, so it 
can he moved to fresh ground every day. 
I don’t think I lost four per cent in rins¬ 
ing them that way. I had 40 to hatch 
the last of February, and did not lose 
one of them. 1 feed them chick feed, 
cracked corn and cracked wheat, scraps 
from the table, all the green stufl 1 ‘an 
get. both sweet and sour uiilk. and water, 
'keep oyster shells and sand before them 
nil the time. 1 never had any die with 
the gapes or diarrhoea. 1 keep clover 
and Alfalfa leaves on the floor of the 
brooder, and put scratch feed in them, 
that gives the chicks exercise and they 
are not troubled with leg weakness, i 
raised M50 that way last year, sold some 
in May at GOc per lb. It is a pleasuic 
as well as a profit. I don’t have to 
pother about getting them up when it 
'Storms. MRS. D. O. STOLL. 
West Virginia. 
Working Aronnil the Cold Frames 
