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American Agriculturist, November 10,1923 
Dollar Makers 
Send In Some More—•A Dollar Will Be Paid For Acceptable Short Letters 
T WO years ago we began shipping our 
eggs to New York, first to a commis¬ 
sion house, but the last year to a re¬ 
tailer. At first we did not make much 
as we had to learn a lot, but now our eggs 
are graded as near-by hennery whites. Dur¬ 
ing August, we made after deducting all ex¬ 
penses $69.30 more than if we had sold them 
at home, which we think are dollars easy 
made, after having done the work of produc¬ 
ing them, just putting them on the market 
at the right place. 
Now if I don’t get one of your extra dol¬ 
lars, if this will help some other farmer to 
make some extra dollars, I feel well repaid. 
We have a farm of sixty acres, keep seven 
cows. My wife and I do all 
the work so we don’t spend 
all our time with the chick¬ 
ens.—C. R. B., Pa. 
TURN AND MATCH UP 
Work gloves and children’s 
mittens “rights” worn out? 
Plenty of lefts? Turn half 
the lefts and match up. 
Starch with thin starch 
garments that are to be bad¬ 
ly soiled, or just dip in the 
collars and wristbands and 
they will wash easier and 
wear longer. Try it with the 
children’s play clothes even 
if you do not intend to iron 
them. 
When work-shirt collars 
and french cuffs on sport 
shirts begin to show wear rip 
off and stitch on reversed. 
This only takes a few min¬ 
utes and adds a third to 
the respectable wearing life 
of the shirt.—M rs. S. H. P., 
Massachusetts. 
and gained flesh wonderfully fast. I only 
lost one by getting chilled. This was a night 
as well as a day job for little pigs as well 
as little babies need food through the night 
and they were always ready for their regu¬ 
lar feeding.—J. B. D., New York. 
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MONEY IN HOME GARDENING 
I consider the one-half acre annually culti¬ 
vated in gardening makes, and also saves,- 
more money for me than any other sideline 
scheme I ever tried. It furnishes at least 
one-half the living, and decidedly the best 
half, too, and pays best part of the grocery 
and family wash bills. Again, good fresh 
extra penny for so many needed things 
around a home. 
Your opportunity to help us to earn 
another dollar is most welcome. My sister 
who teaches, gives me a dollar each week for 
doing her laundry and the necessary mend¬ 
ing. I also can do outside sewing on plain 
things for which I get a dollar a day and it 
is a great help and so many of our neigh¬ 
bors all over are glad to get a little help 
which they find easy to pay for and we glad 
to earn. 
A great many people might find girls who 
are away from home who would be only too 
glad to get their laundry and mending done 
where there is no danger of eyes and half 
the care used in fine things. 
—Mrs. R. L. C., New York. 
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HOME-MIXED DAIRY 
RATIONS 
I save at least $2 to $4 on 
every ton of feed by home¬ 
mixing my ration for the 
dairy, instead of buying 
ready-mixed feed. I follow 
Professor Savage’s formula 
for different seasons. At 
present I mix 100 pounds 
each of Bran, Hominy, Grain, 
Oats, Gluten and Oil Meal. I 
vary ration as he suggests.— 
W. D. A., New York 
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NEW COAT FROM AN OLD 
ONE 
I am so well pleased at the 
success I just recently had 
at saving not only one dollar 
but several that I simply 
must try to pass it on to 
other mothers. 
Two year old daughter had to have a new vegetables are healthy, which means 
coat for winter, a neighbor who has a grown doctor bills to pay. 
The Wrong Idea of “Dollar Making” 
less 
daughter offered me the coat of a cast-off 
blue serge suit. This was ripped apart, 
cleaned and pressed, both outside material 
and satin lining. Then with the aid of a 
good pattern and by much careful planning, 
little daughter’s coat was cut from the old, 
with the only piecing being- at the waistline 
where a belt would hide it. Fifty. cents’ 
worth of outing flannel made the inner lin¬ 
ing, giving more warmth, and the finished 
article is one both mother and daughter can 
feel proud of. —Mrs. H. J. L., New York. 
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TEN LITTLE PIGS—AND THEN THERE 
WERE NINE 
Our old pig died twenty-four hours after 
giving birth to ten little pigs, and I under¬ 
took the task of bringing them up. I brought 
them in the house to keep warm, I then 
diluted Jersey cows’ milk and sweetened 
with a little sugar and fed them just five 
drops every two hours the first day, then 
gradually increased the amount until they 
were drinking out of a saucer by holding 
my finger in the milk to teach them to 
drink. 
Every one told me I could not bring up 
little pigs on sweet milk, but they grew plump 
A few years ago we sold over $100 worth 
of vegetables from this half acre, had an 
ample supply to use all along for table use 
.from early spring to early winter, and be¬ 
sides, had plenty to can for winter use.— 
W. H. H., Virginia. 
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COUNTY FAIR PRIZE MONEY 
There are many ways that a farmer can 
make extra money during the year if he will 
plan to do so. I have a small farm and I al¬ 
ways try to have something worth while to 
show at the County Fair. The premiums 
that I get bring me considerable extra rev¬ 
enue for the season’s work. Sometimes I 
plan to show the different kinds of grains 
and vegetables that I raise on the farm. I 
make it a point to exhibit farm produce at 
six or more County Fairs in the State. Dur¬ 
ing the past two months, we earned $121 in 
this way at six County Fairs. This is not a 
large sum but it helps out when taxes come 
due.—A. C. Van L., New York. 
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PLAIN SEWING FOR THE NEIGHBORS 
We are devoted readers of your paper and 
every farm woman is anxious to earn an 
SELLS HOMEMADE COTTAGE 
CHEESE 
I take my sour milk and 
make it up into cottage 
cheese and sell it to my 
neighbors. I make it into 
balls and often have more 
than a dollar easy, I say. It 
also gives me a chance to call 
on neighbors, which I might 
not do otherwise. —Mrs. C. 
W. C., New York. 
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BOILS CULL POTATOES FOR 
HOGS 
The potatoes that are too 
small for seed or to sell, I 
boil and mix them for the 
pigs with hominy and it certainly fattens 
them and then it does not take so much feed 
to get them ready for killing. —Mrs. C. S., 
New York. * * * 
A DOLLAR SAVED IS A DOLLAR MADE 
I have saved many dollars by making all 
my dish towels from sugar and flour sacks, 
by using grain bags for kitchen towels, mak¬ 
ing mittens and holders from stocking legs, 
and by fashioning warm house slippers from 
old heavy coats with soles cut from dis¬ 
carded felt hats. 
This year I have raised my own sage in 
the garden, and when I get an extra supply, 
I will sell that to earn an extra dollar.— 
Mrs. F. C., New York. 
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SKIN MONEY 
I trap and catch muskrats and skunks.— 
H. S., New York. 
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HATCHES AND SELLS BABY CHICKS 
Last spring I hatched, with incubators, 
baby chicks for sale, some from my own eggs 
and some from eggs the customers brought. 
I very much prefer to hatch my eggs from 
my own flock as they hatch better, for any 
old egg will not hatch in an incubator. —Mrs. 
E. H. B., New York. 
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