HOUSE AND GARDEN 
186 
September, 
1914 
Modern Sleeping Porch Fitted with Wilson’s Blinds 
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breeze; keeps out the 
rain. 
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Also InsideVenetians, Rolling 
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Steel Curtains, Wood Block 
Wilson’s Porch and Piazza^Blinds Floors. 
Peony and Iris Clumps 
For September Planting 
All the choice varieties including 
Festiva Maxima, and Queen Victoria. 
Send for free list and colored 
plates. 
HEADS BERGENF1ELD NURSERIES 
Bergenfield, N. J. 
DWARF APPLE TREES 
DWARF PEAR TREES 
Standard Fruit 
DWARF PLUM TREES 
Trees 
DWARF CHERRY TREES 
Fall Planting 
DWARF PEACH TREES 
Bulletin Free 
THE VAN DUSEN NURSERIES 
W. L. McKAY, Prop. Box B 
Geneva, N. Y. 
LIL. CANDIDUM (Madonna Lily) 
is the ONLY PURE white HARDY Garden Lily 
Have you ever seen it in bloom in 
its full glory? Lifting up strong stiff 
stems bearing masses of snowwhite 
flowers, in the depth of their chalix 
golden anthers? 
Have you seen them growing to¬ 
gether with blue Larkspurs, a color 
scheme of marvelous beauty? Have 
you inhaled the fragrance of the blos¬ 
soms? If not, DO NOT MISS planting these 
exquisite Lilies this summer. To be successful 
the bulbs MUST be planted LATE AUGUST 
to end of SEPTEMBER, making a fall 
growth. 
Lil Candidum are of EASIEST culture and 
perfectly HARDY. Keep and multiply year 
after year. 
We furnish STRONG SUPERB BULBS] 
Each Dozen 100 
LARGE bulbs. $0.12 $1.40 $10.50 
Mammoth bulbs. .20 2.25 12.50 
JUMBO bulbs. .25 2.75 15.00 
Price includes delivery. (3 bulbs at dozen rate). The 
larger the bulb the more flowers. 
SEND for our FALL BULBS BOOK, now ready. IT is 
free. You will find a complete assortment of 
BULBS fo Out-door planting 
BULBS for Fall and Spring flowering. 
BULBS for growing in the house. 
BULBS to grow in our Mossfiber. 
NEW VARIETIES BEST COLLECTIONS 
Address Bulb Department, H. H. BERGER & CO., 70 Warren Street, New York 
I thus managed to keep the garden going in a half-hearted sort of way, but on the 
whole with but an indifferent success. 
I will pass by with a brief notice the time when a big hog belonging to a neighbor 
swam across the creek, several hundred feet wide, separating our farms, and spent the 
night in my patch of sweet corn that was just ready to be eaten. By the dawn’s early 
gleams, when she was discovered, she had left only four or five stalks standing. It took 
three men almost half a day to capture her and take her home in a wagon. The corn, 
after all my hours of cultivation and irrigation, was irremediably destroyed. 
My poultry account for the year is somewhat more encouraging reading, although 
it does not appear to be a “get-rich-quick scheme.” I began the year with about 60 
chickens, valued at $117, and fixtures valued at $200, total investment $317. In 
March I started my incubators, and kept them and about six hens hatching eggs until 
into June. In all I set 1,375 eggs, and from them hatched 750 chicks. By fall there 
were about 250 of these living. As I had invested in standard Rhode Island Red 
stock, I was able to dispose of quite a number of my cockerels to advantage by adver¬ 
tising. After culling out poor stock, and selling what I did not wish to keep, I ended 
the year with about 150 chickens, and the account for the year is as shown below: 
Dec. 31. Value of fixtures. $200 
Value of stock. 253 
Total value . $453 
Value Jan. 1. 317 
Gain in value. $136 
Expenses. 
Equipment . $ 14.95 
Advertising . 7.75 
Feed, etc. 153.40 
Total . $176.10 
Receipts . 183.62 
Profit . $7.52 
No allowance is made for cost of labor, as no money was paid out for it. 
The only portion of my farming operations for the year which I regard as an un¬ 
qualified success was my investment in a cow. During the first year we bought from 
a neighbor habitually three quarts of milk a day, at seven cents a quart, or over six 
dollars per month. But early in February I bought for fifty dollars a fresh cow, three- 
quarters or seven-eighths Jersey. With careful feeding she gave eight to twelve quarts 
per day of rich milk all through the summer and well into the fall. I hired pas¬ 
turage for her at fifty cents a month. She was quite a successful purchase, for dur¬ 
ing the remainder of the year she gave almost 2,500 quarts of milk at a cost of less 
than $50 for feed. Valueing the milk at five cents per quart,the gross income was about 
$125, and not allowing anything for labor, the net income was about $75 for eleven 
months. 
My crop expenses for the year were as follows: 
Seed and 
Total 
Net Receipts. 
Crop 
Fertilizer. 
Labor. 
Cost. 
Reeeipts. 
Frofit. 
Loss. 
Potatoes, early . 
_ $87.20 
$03.25 
$150.45 
$29.00 
$121.45 
Potatoes, late . 
_ 13.00 
12.00 
25.00 
31.50 
6.50 
Potatoes, sweet . 
.50 
1.50 
2.00 
2.25 
.25 
Tomatoes . 
_ S8.25 
47.25 
85.50 
70.98 
14.52 
Corn, quarter-acre . . . 
.25 
2.50 
2.75 
5.75 
3.00 
Celery . 
_ 3.00 
9.50 
12.50 
2.50 
10.00 
Onions, one-eight-acre 
_ 1.25 
3.00 
4.25 
.50 
3.75 
Soia beans . 
... 10.25 
12.00 
22.25 
50.00 
27.75 
Alfalfa . 
_ 42.25 
10.75 
53.00 
53.00 
Garden truck . 
... 27.50 
20.00 
47.50 
57.00 
9.50 
Strawberries .. 
1.00 
2.00 
3.00 
9.60 
6.60 
... 20.00 
10.00 
30.00 
5.00 
25.00 
Totals . 
. . .$244.35 
$193.75 
$438.20 
$264.08 
$53.60 
$227.72 
Net Loss, 
$174.12 
The entire operating 
expenses 
of the farm are 
as follows. They do 
not corre- 
spond exactly with the 
crop expenses because the 
latter are to a 
certain 
extent esti- 
mated, while the farm expenses in 
total are 
known exactly. 
Seed and 
Main- 
Month 
Implements. 
Stock. 
Fertilizer. 
Labor. 
tenance. 
Total. 
January . 
... $9.25 
$11.50 
$3.00 
$33.75 
February . 
... 21.10 
$10.00 
$7.50 
17.50 
8.90 
65.30 
March . 
5.75 
10.00 
5.75 
17.00 
35.50 
74.00 
April . 
... 22.00 
10.00 
103.55 
38.75 
34.00 
208.30 
May . 
... 37.60 
20.00 
43.05 
32.00 
10.20 
142.85 
Tune . 
19.50 
29.75 
29.20 
84.55 
Tuly . 
... 75.50 
21.70 
18.00 
6.90 
121.10 
August . 
10.25 
31.75 
9.90 
51.90 
September . 
.45 
17.00 
12.80 
30.25 
October . 
1.00 
36.73 
28.75 
6.15 
72.53 
November . 
4.90 
1.20 
17.00 
53.20 
76.30 
December . . . 
... 28.25 
17.00 
61.45 
106.70 
Totals . 
. . .$212.20 
$50.00 
$249.23 
$276.00 
$271.20 $1067.53 
Deducting the cost in implements and stock, which may be considered as invest¬ 
ment, and not considering interest on investment, allowing that to balance the pleasure 
of living in the country, the cost of operation of the farm was $805.33, and the gross 
returns, including milk and poultry receipts, were $463.95, making a total net loss of 
$341.38. The same items for the preceding year had been : Cost of operation, $603.28; 
gross returns, $308.72; net loss, $249.56. During the year I had also paid $991.88 to¬ 
ward my indebtedness on the place, and interest thereon, so it is being gradually paid 
for. 
It will be seen from the figures below that my farm of fifteen acres required almost 
$90 per month to keep it going, and that it returned in cash less than $20, or a net cash 
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