The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-10-21

casn. ana g0Od Dutter Will net you, Win
the right management, from twenty to
twenty five centsa pound the year round.
You need, the first thing, good cream
er, and this will cost you from thirty to
forty dollars. You can buy it, a>d you
must! You have not less than five hun
dred dollars worth of reapers and now
ers on your place, that you have got to
raise wheat and iun your farm with, and
you can get a creamer if you set about it.
Now, you can make nice sweet butter
summer and winter; and if you use good
salt-not the cheap and coarse, but the
Ashton, or some of the leading dairy
salts-and bring it to the store as Scream
cry butter" packed in nice sweet jars or
firkins, you will soon get reputation,
and be able to command the highest price.
With your creamer you will now always
have sweet milk-just the thing to fatten
hogs and calves on. You will have to get
start of B Berkshires or Poland Chinas.
Don't say you have no money, for 'where
there's a will there's way;" and it won't
pay you to keep anything but the best
You must rails hogs that will weigh from
two hundred in two hundred and fifty
pounds at seven months, or there is no
profit in it. Start with one pair, and if
you alone are not able, get your neighbor
interested, and buy together. Let your
pigs come early, and get the best of them
ready for market by January, and the
cuttings by February. Have two crops
a year, and turn off the fall pigs in June.
Have pasture for them, and put the
COWS and spring pigs on grass-they
won't need much grain, only little while
in the fall and then crowd it into them.
After you get a start you will have in
addition more or less of old sows to sell
in November, and thus your income will
be stretched through the year.
Now your calves. What folly to sell
them for two or three dollars for veal,
when they will grow into so much money
the milk and a good pasture to run in
Why, we know of man who has raised
forty calves this year on twelve cowsl
He has bought them at intervals during
the summer, and fed them the sweet
milk from his creamer after the cream
was taken off, and he boasts that next
spring they will be worth $500. And
yet be got some OF them for one dollar
and half Those forty calves will be
worth to that man two years from next
spring, if he takes good care of them and
they do well, at a moderate estimate,
81, 500; and we venture to say he won't
spend in raising them $500 in cash; while
81 500 worth of wheat would have re-
quired an expense amounting to--welI,
we won't say how much. You know
yourselves from experience how much it
takes TO raise it, and how much is left
after the bills are paid.
You must have some sheep. Get o
few common ones this fall, Buy good |
buck, and grade them up. In June you
will have wool to sell, and in August |
some fat veatherB to turn off. When !
you get started you will have some old
sheep for the butcher every month of the
year, and what with the wool, and the |
mutton, and choice buck for stock pur-
poses to sell now and then, you will find |
it a most pleasant and profitable business.
The wool will pay for the keeping, and |
leave you the increase as profit.
Now this reads nicely, doesn't it! Yes,
and its the truth, too. There are thous-
ands of farmers who are doing just this
thing every year, and getting rich by
doing it, too. And does this involve the
giving up of wheat growing altogether
No. We would not advise this. Raise
some wheat, and some oats, and some
fax, and good deal of corn Arrange
your crops and your stock business SO
that you will always have something to
turn into ready money. Then you won't
have to ask credit at the store. Then
you can pay cash as you 60, and buy at
prices way below what you are paying
now. Then you won't be humiliated and
crushed because you are in debt But
you say: 81 am badly involved now, and
have no money to get started with" You
were not SO poor but that you could get
reaper or mower, and spend several
hundred dollars for them. You bought |
seeder last spring, didn't you, and ran
in debt for it? You are going straight to
financial destruction as you are, and
every year takes you nearer. But it is !
not too late to turn about, There is no
such thing "a can't. You can if you
will; and what is more, you must, if you
would ever prosper.