The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Living room, dining 
room, 2 bedrooms, kit¬ 
chen, bath. 4otherplans, 
some with pantries, din¬ 
ing alcoves, grade and 
Inside cellar entrances. 
Aladdin catalog con¬ 
tains seven different 
plans; some with in¬ 
set porches, grade and 
inside cellar entrances, 
2 and S bedrooms. 
Large living room, dining 
room, kitchen, pantry, 8 bed¬ 
rooms, clothes closets, bath. 
Semi-open staircase and rear 
porch. 4 bedroom plan with 
grade entrance, same price. 
Dptch Colonial for wide 
inside lots or narrow cor¬ 
ner lots. Fall ceiling 
heights entire second floor, 
sewing room, columned 
and inset front entrance. 
Price include* all lumber cut to fit; highest grade 
interior woodwork, siding, flooring, windows 
doors, glass, paints, hardware, nails, lath, roof¬ 
ing, with complete instructions and drawings. Freight paid 
to your station. Permanent Homes — NOT PORTABLE. 
Many styles to choose from. Write nearest mill today 
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The ALADDIN Co, fSSSSk 
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Thirteen Years on the Farm 
Part II 
Paying tiie Bills. — We received 
about $600 from the estate of a relative 
that Spring, which helped to pay up- some 
of our bills. We were constantly finding 
so many things we needed to do the work. 
Bill was working early and late, and we 
did our best to plan wisely on expenses, 
but there was so much to learn ! Feed¬ 
ing the horses and cows was not just a 
matter of buying the feed. After paying 
a few veterinarian’s bills we began to 
study what to feed and how. Really 
there was no end of trouble that no one 
would dream of, if they had not been 
right on the spot and found it out first 
hand. But we both kept learning. 
The New Milkhouse. —In April the 
pipe for the water line was bought, and 
the work started on the new cement milk- 
house. Bill's brother had to leave, too, 
so a man was hired for the cement work. 
He was a careful workman and did the 
work well, but like all work of that 
kind, it cost more than we were expect¬ 
ing. When it was completed however, 
it surely was a splendid help. One does 
not realize how much water it takes to 
run the house and cool the milk until 
obliged to carry it all up the cellar steps ; 
so after all those months of “toting” Bill 
was good and ready to appreciate that 
improvement. 
Repairing the Dwelling. —But we 
had been able to do very little toward re¬ 
pairing the house. That was a blow to 
me! It was in had shape, but not nearly 
so bad as I thought it was. There was 
not enough money to do the things I 
wanted done, but we did put new paper 
and paint on the living-rooms, so they 
where much more cheerful, even if they 
were still unhandy and covered too much 
space. Nothing more could be done un¬ 
til the sills were put in and the cellar 
wall “squared up.” Bill did that work 
in his “spare time” that Summer, and 
we both picked up and cleaned up arouna 
the yard every bit of time we could work. 
The best lighted room in tne house was 
not safe to use until Bill put in new 
joists under the floor, and we removed 
an old, tumbledown woodshed entirely. 
This all made so much difference in the 
looks of the place that we felt quite en¬ 
couraged about it. 
Planting and Improving. — There 
were plenty of apple trees on the place, 
mostly Baldwins in the hill orchard and 
several kinds around the buildings; but 
no other kinds of fruit. That same year, 
in May, we set out four each of pear, 
plum and cherry trees, making a small 
orchard near the house. We also set 
currant and gooseberry bushes and a few 
roses. Every year since then, we have 
tried to plant some new tree or shrub 
to improve the place. It requires some 
extra care to do this, but we have en¬ 
joyed watching them too ; some of them 
have been disappointing but mostly it has 
kept us encouraged to “keep on keeping 
on.” The whole yard was one forlorn 
and desolate wilderness of weeds when 
we started to improve it, so we have had 
some fight. The burdock grew higher 
than my head in some places and all 
sorts of “sticktights” flourished. How 
we hated them ! Even now there are 
enough survivors so that a few years of 
neglect would mean another battle. I 
often wonder why choice plants are not 
like that too. 
Adding to the Herd. —That Fall, in 
October, we bought six more cows from 
a neighbor who was tired of farming, 
and was going back to his job in the 
city. That made us 14 and we had 
raised two nice calves besides. We were 
interested in dairying alone, so wnen we 
'found that we needed more money we put 
on more cows. We had to buy hay to 
winter them, but we were getting in a 
hurry to build up those meadows so we 
could cut more hay and raise some real 
good crops. To do this it was necessary 
to feed more stock, so there would be 
enough manure to cover the meadows, 
and we bought a spreader to make it 
go as far as it could. We knew that was 
the quickest way to build up the land, 
and we were growing impatient. 
Book Farming. —The second Winter 
was better than the first; or was it that 
we were getting more used to it? We 
were alone most of the time but we had 
a few good books and magazines, and so 
the evenings were never lonely. At other 
times we were much too busy to think 
of anything hut our work. We still made 
plans for remodeling the house, but were 
a little less sure about when it would be 
accomplished for we knew that many 
things might happen to upset the best- 
laid plans. We studied fertilizers, and 
read everything we could get about soils, 
crops, etc. We were very anxious to 
learn all we could about farming for 
profit; took all the leading farm papers 
and read them carefully. One of our 
neighbors called us “the hook farmers.” 
Sugaring Again. —One of the horses 
injured his hip that Winter and went 
lame. The veterinarian put a blister on 
him, but he was lame all Winter, so Bill 
had to get another horse to use in his 
place. We were still using that extra 
horse part of the time when March, 1912, 
rolled around, and reminded us that it 
was nearly sugaring time once more. 
But we were better prepared for that 
sugar season than we had been the year 
before. Bill had taken what was good 
of the old one and built a new sugar 
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