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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
May 14, !!)•_>t 
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I T is the last few bushels you get from an acre that give 
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right and save and sell all of it. Your tractor supplies 
the power. Your own help does the work. You need not 
exchange labor at inconvenient times. Your wife has no 
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The grain you save—and the threshing bills—soon pay for your 
Huber Jr., if you thresh for a few of your neighbors the machino 
should pay for itself the first year. 
The Prices are attractive. Terms if desired. 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Renting Employer’s Farm 
I have been manager of the farm 1 am 
now on fo. v two years, but. like many rich 
men’s farms, there is so much fancy work 
to be done on lawns, gardens, flowers and 
shrubs, that the farm suffers and has not 
been a paying proposition for nearly 10 
years. We have here a market for sweet 
corn that pays from $75 to $100 profit on 
an acre, with usual costs; also cucumbers 
at about the same, if not a little better. 
Shipping milk is not very favorable, but 
cream and eggs go very well. Now. the 
owner desires to rent the farm. We have 
a hilly farm (pasture) and about half of 
the meadows can be worked with a trac¬ 
tor; 152 acres, about half meadow and 
pasture: modern cow barn and equipment, 
cost nearly $10,000. hut only about eight 
good grade Guernsey cows, four registered 
Duroc sows and boar, about 100 hens. 500 
trees, maple sugar outfit. Can T go into 
hogs on a large scale and make a suc¬ 
cess of it? I am interested in hogs; in 
fact, all farm animals. I plan to use pas¬ 
ture in Spring of clover and rye until 
rape. Soy beans, etc., come on; early 
sweet corn, followed by field corn to hog 
down, for finishing in Fall. I have had 
call for more purebred stock than we 
had : plan to sell all the pigs I could and 
breed sows, etc., hut carry for fattening 
stock a cross of Duroc and Chester White. 
T have running water in several places on 
farm near meadows. Would use clover 
and Soy bean hay in Winter for sows; 
plan to sell around 200 pigs a year. Could 
T he sure of reasonable success? 1 have 
read of the plan in the West, but never 
have seen it tried in the East. I can pay 
my rent by furnishing milk, cream, butter 
and poultry products to owner’s family. 
What could T afford to pay for rent? The 
farm is not in so very good simps, but 
have a good supply of manure on hand 
now. T would be paid for cutting wood 
about 20 cords. 4 ft.; also ice. 500 cakes. 
I plan to keep six to eight cows, put sur¬ 
plus cream in co-operative creamery here 
in town. e. .t. w. 
Massachusetts. 
It has been my observation that part¬ 
nerships such as you have suggested are 
frequently unsatisfactory. Much depends 
upon the man. and more depends upon 
the viewpoint and expectations of the 
owner. Business men who have amassed 
a fortune from the industries and who 
take up agriculture as a means of release 
and leisure, frequently expect the impos¬ 
sible from farm operations. From a busi¬ 
ness standpoint they have been accus¬ 
tomed to turn their money frequently and 
regularly, and in many instances do not 
have to wait for profits and advantageous 
turn-overs. Should they tie up to an old 
farm that lms been run down, they con¬ 
clude that all that is necessary is an ap¬ 
plication of double or treble the amount 
of fertilization commonly used and the 
planting of some special variety of seed 
that some business associate is sponsor 
for. They have been known to demand 
the impossible and are peeved if their am¬ 
bitions are not promptly realized. Then 
again, wealthy men change their minds 
about policies and farm practices fre¬ 
quently. Failing along one line of en¬ 
deavor. they turn right about to another 
line, regardless of whether the season or 
other conditions are present or absent. 
If they are interested in live stock they 
frequentl.v change breeds. If they are 
concerned in crop production, they are 
dissatisfied, with yields because some other 
business friends have reported a larger 
yield on their own farms, hence another 
change, and so it goes. Then when the 
first season ends he grumbles about the 
deficiencies and the losses. I am inclined 
to lielieve that the conditions you have de¬ 
scribed are well suited for production. If 
you can produce corn and clover and have 
available by-products from the dairy you 
have in the main all of the necessary feed 
that will be required in feeding market 
hogs. Fortunately you are planning on 
seeding relatively large areas of forage 
crops. This is absolutely essential for 
profitable pork production. Under exist¬ 
ing conditions one cannot purchase all of 
his feeds and produce pork at a profit. 
Forage crops for swine are quite as es¬ 
sential as silage is for dairy cattle. If 
there is a market for breeding stock, so 
much the better. In the main, however, 
you must rely upon the butcher stock to 
pay the rent. There is always a limit to 
the number of purebred animals that a be¬ 
ginner can sell at figures that justify ex¬ 
tensive advertising. 
It seems to me that the best arrange¬ 
ments that you could make would iuvolve 
the guarantee from the owner of a certain 
wage per month, you to have a share in 
the net profits, it being understood that 
certain well defined overhead charges nec¬ 
essary for keeping up the gardens, lawns 
and surroundings would he cared for sep¬ 
arately. aud are uot to be involved in de¬ 
termining profits from farm operations 
Unfortunately, farm operations and gar¬ 
den operations begin at the same time of 
year. Extra help would have to he pro¬ 
vided. and it would he quite as important 
that both lines of endeavor should h.r 
properly provided for. 
Without knowing more of the condi¬ 
tions that prevail. I would scarcely uu- 
dertake to propose a concrete proposition. 
Much would depend upon the owner’s 
viewpoint and attitude towards agricul¬ 
tural live stock production. If he is a 
* 
successful business man he knows that 
responsibility for success on the farm 
must he placed definitely in the hands of 
the farmer, that it cannot he superintend¬ 
ed and directed in detail at long range. 
If you have been manager of this farm 
for two years you know better than any¬ 
one else wh.it you can afford to pay in the 
way of rental, for you know what the 
farm will produce and how much time will 
be required to do the special jobs around 
the garden, house and lawn and roads 
necessary to meet the desires of the owner 
or his wife. The farm ought to carry 
itself, and the products produced should 
be sold to the user at market values, pro¬ 
vided a regular business agreement pre¬ 
vails. It’s a pretty safe argument t>> 
place next year’s production largely on 
last year’s results, provided you make a 
generous allowance for experience, al¬ 
though do not charge up too many ac¬ 
counts to mere experience. In general, 
your plan of pork production is practical. 
Plenty of shade and water, and abundance 
of forage crops and the utilization of 'by¬ 
products from the garden are necessary. 
Balanced Ration for Cows 
Will you give me a balanced ration 
combining the following feeds, and also to 
make the cheapest ration to combine with 
mixed hay for milk cows? I have lots of 
oats, the rest T must buy. Gluteji is higher 
than cottonseed and oilmeal. cornmeal 
lower than hominy. I wish to use all the 
oats possible: Bran, about $2.10 per 
cwt.; cornmeal, $1.55; liomiuy, $2.50; 
gluten. $8.10; cottonseed meal, $2.20; oil- 
meal. $2.30: middlings. $2 to $2.50. Will 
von give ration without beet, pulp? TTow 
would molasses feed work into a ration 
which is about 12 per cent protein, .’> or 4 
per cent fat. 15 per cent fiber, $1.50 per 
cwt.? 
New York. 
From the materials you mention I 
would suggest that the mixture he com¬ 
pounded in the following proportions: 
Beet pulp. 150 lbs.; cornmeal, 800 lbs.; 
ground oats, 200 lbs.; cottonseed meal. 
150 lbs.; oilmeal. 100 lbs.; wheat, bran, 
100 lbs.; gluten meal, 50 lbs. 
As far as beet pulp is concerned, it is a 
fine substitute for silage. It produces suc¬ 
culence, increases the pnlatability of feeds, 
and likewise contributes generously to¬ 
wards the digestibility of other feeds 
There are a number of rations today that 
contain beet pulp, and it seems to me that 
you could obtain it most economically 
through the agency of a compound feed. 
As far as molasses is concerned, it is a 
common practice of successful feeders to 
rely upon ready-mixed feeds containing 
molasses to supply this ingredient. It is 
not easy to handle when purchased in 
bulk, neither is it easy to mix the sticky 
stuff with available grains. Sweet feeds 
are gaining in popularity. Those carry¬ 
ing large amounts of fiber are naturally 
less digestible than those yielding more 
protein aud less fiber. If you want to use 
molasses in your mixture for dairy cows 
it would he well to try the feed men¬ 
tioned. mixing with it the corn and oats 
that you have available and adding either 
cottonseed meal or gluten meal to bring 
up the protein content. 
If you desire a mixture compounded 
largely from oats and cottonseed meal, the 
following combination may serve your 
purpose: 500 lbs. ground oats, 200 lbs. 
cottonseed meal, 200 lbs. cornmeal. 100 
lbs. oilmeal, 100 lbs. bran. Add 10 lbs. 
of salt. 
