HOUSE AND GARDEN 
118 
August, 1914 
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FOR SPARKS 
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1 FREDERIC N. WHITLEY 
Engineer and Contractor 
J 219 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
BANISH SPARROWS 
The famous Dodson Sparrow Trap catches as many as 75 to 100 a day. 
Successfully used all over America. 
Get rid of sparrows; native birds will return to your gar¬ 
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young birds being most plentiful and hold. 
The ^ 
Dodson 
Sparrow 
Trap 
Strong wire, electrically welded. Adjustable needle points at mouths of 
two funnels. Price, $5 f. o. b. Chicago. 
NOTE.—Mr. Dodson, a director of the Illinois Audubon Society, has been 
building houses for native birds for 19 years He builds 20 kinds of houses, 
shelters, feeding stations, etc., all for birds—all proven by years of success. 
Free booklet — tells how to win native birds to your gardens. 
Write to 
JOSEPH H.DODSON,701 Security Building,Chlcago.lll. 
A VERITABLE mint of in- 
formation on bulb planting 
and bulb care will be found in 
the 1914 issue of Thorburn’s 
Bulb Catalog. Register your 
name for a copy now. 
J. M. THORBURN G CO. 
53-E Barclay St., New York 
Breaking Into the Farming Business 
(Continued from page 75) 
dozen rows across my garden. They did finely, and I harvested in the fall over eighty 
bushels of fine-looking roots, congratulating myself that at least one crop was going to 
pay well for the small investment. But I was too hasty. My horse refused to taste 
them. Apparently she was as particular in regard to her diet as to her method of 
working! My chickens did not care much for them and were made sick every time 
they ate them, and when I finally bought a cow (beyond the accounts of the year and 
not considered here), she also refused to have anything to do with them. I tried in 
vain to sell them, but no one wanted them, and they were finally allowed to rot away 
in a pile where they were stored. Perhaps they will make good fertilizer! 
I need not go into details here in regard to my chicken department. It was not to 
be expected that the first year would be a paying one. We will let it go with the simple 
statement that the expenditures for stock and feed alone were $144.94, while the re¬ 
ceipts from all sources were only $63.15, including what was used on our table, a 
deficit of $81.79. It is probable that the increase in value of stock would make up a 
great part of the deficit, but that would be only an estimate. It is to be noted, how¬ 
ever, that the chickens produced no income, but were an actual expense. 
In the fall I had the wheat field plowed and sowed it in crimson clover to turn un¬ 
der the following season, in the hope of improving the land. I also bought and set out 
about thirty fruit trees of various kinds, and some grapes, berries, etc. 
The potato crop was the only one that actually gave a profit. Not including pro¬ 
spective values, my different crops were produced at a let loss of $24.43. If, how¬ 
ever, the estimated values of prospective crops be taken into consideration, it is prob¬ 
able that they would show a profit. The nine acres of wheat produced $63.90, or some 
$7 per acre, while part of the two acres of garden produced $124.17, without count¬ 
ing the value of the asparagus, strawberries, etc. The cost of producing these crops 
was $132.65, which might be called prohibitive. 
I have no intention of saying or implying here that farming does not pay. On the 
contrary, I am sure that, under certain conditions, it does pay. It would seem that it 
holds forth as many elusive hopes and brings as many bitter disappointments as any 
other business, except, perhaps, playing the stock market. 
The year’s experience taken from my books is shown in tables below: 
Initial Investment 
Cost of land . $1,152.00 
House . 5 > 4957 ° 
Barn . 1,117.00 
Chicken house. 183.00 
Sundry buildings, etc. 147.00 
Total .$8,094.70 
The expenses in the operation of the farm were as follows: 
Month. Implements. Stock. Seeds. Etc. Labor. Maintenance. Total. 
April . $97.71 $16.00 $60.80 $16.75 - $191.26 
May . 22.80 _ 17.50 39.75 2.05 82.10 
Tune. 25.05 3.00 42.15 32.15 103.25 
July . 4.95 15.00 28.00 46.40 94.35 
August. 14.75 201.20 7.70 30.30 32.80 286.75 
September. 19.70 11.90 17.50 48.45 97.55 
October . 2.00 41.10 28.75 28.95 100.80 
November . 3.95 _ 8.75 18.00 68.25 98.95 
December . .... .... .... 11.50 16.58 28.08 
Totals .$190.91 $289.10 $94.75 $323.70 $275.63 $1,083.29 
In the above account, I included under implements, cultivators, carriage wagon, 
wheelbarrows, harness, and all tools I purchased. The stock was my horse and 
chickens. Under seed is included manure and fertilizer, and under maintenance is 
classed feed for the horse and chickens, and other supplies required for keeping up 
the stock. Housekeeping expenses are not touched upon. 
December 31. 
Expenditures. 
Receipts. Profit. 
Loss. 
Estim’d Value. 
Wheat . 
_ $81.85 
$63.90 _ 
$7.95 
Celery. 
_ 21.50 
10.30 _ 
11.20 
Lima beans. 
_ 25.00 
19.82 _ 
5.18 
Melons. 
_ 13.50 
13.50 _ 
Potatoes. 
_ 16.65 
28.80 12.15 
Sugar beets. 
_ 8.00 
8.00 
Garden truck . 
_ 56.00 
51.75 - 
4.25 
$150.00 
Asparagus . 
_ 32.20 
Strawberries. 
_ 6.50 
25.00 
Fruit trees. 
_ 25.75 
50.00 
Clover . 
_ 13.25 
50.00 
Grapes, berries, etc... 
_ 10.00 
25.00 
Total. 
_$310.20 
$188.07 $12.15 
SUMMARY 
$36.58 
$300.00 
Operating expenses for the year .$1,083.29 Actual returns. 
Prospective values. 
Stock and implements. . . 
Deficit. 
. $188.07 
. 300.00 
. 480.00 
. 115.22 
$1,083.29 Total. 
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