HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1912 
69 
tion, we saved $20.00 on our own table 
supplies. 
Remembering that the only outlay for 
the chickens during the year was the 
$36 for their food, it is easy to see that 
my twenty hen proposition, while not 
exactly a money-making scheme, is at 
least a profitable and satisfactory un¬ 
dertaking. Of my own time I figure 
that I spend fifteen minutes in the morn¬ 
ing, five minutes at noon and half an hour 
in the evening. In this fifty minutes a 
day I can attend fully to the needs of the 
chickens and at the same time have out¬ 
door work and exercise. Divided up as 
it is I find that I scarcely miss the time 
that it takes to keep the family supplied 
with new laid eggs and the best of fowls 
for the table, not to mention the egg- 
money box which never fails to jingle. 
Adventures with an Apple Orchard 
{Continued from page 28) 
well-developed, than two lop-sided ones on 
the same ground. Generally speaking, 
this is true; but when I had two trees 
bearing big crops of apples, each developed 
toward one side, I left them both, for I 
need the income. 
Read all you can, ask questions of every¬ 
one within reach that knows anything, and 
examine every orchard that you can find. 
Thus prepared, beg, borrow and steal 
every atom of common sense that you can 
lay hands on, and go ahead and trim your 
orchard. It is curious how soon you learn 
to recognize the “business” tree. 
Mr. West complimented me on my work. 
Although at complete variance with his 
own method, which had been to trim up, 
ever up, he instantly recognized the value 
of the ideas which I was translating from 
print to practice. Again I felt that I had 
scored on him, and my peace of mind 
needed every bit of advantage that I could 
secure over Mr. West, for he had forty- 
five years of successful experience against 
my three weeks of untried practice. The 
odds were still disturbing. 
When work slacked up on the orchard 
I began bothering Mr. West with ques¬ 
tions about his dairy. I tried to learn to 
milk. Success wdth one cow didn’t seem to 
assure it with another. I asked him about 
the dairy accounts and learned that he 
didn’t keep any, but was sure that the 
COW'S paid him well because there was a 
monthly check from the creamery. Once 
he had had the milk tested for its percen¬ 
tage of butter fat. and was elated at the 
high figure. But he had not seen the 
necessity for measuring the amount of 
milk given, and when I saw the small 
pails yielded, I kept my thoughts to my¬ 
self. The dairy then ceased to interest me 
because, ignorant as I was about the prac¬ 
tice, I knew that he was losing money 
every day that he kept those cow's. Score 
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