The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-30
FlFTY-ACRE FARMS.
How They Can Be Made to Pay Fair
Amount of Profits,

How They Can Be Made to Pay a Fair
Amount of Profits.
The live stock of the 50-acre farm
may be pair of good breeding mares
and three colts, one colt to be raised
and one to be sold each year; 16 cows,
yearlings and calves, < calves to be
raised each year; breeding sows may
be kept. and 10 filters of pigs sold each
year, or the same value obtained by
fattening 10 pigs to the weight of 25O
pounds each. In this section pasturage
can always be hired at a reasonable
rate, as some farms can only be used
for that purpose. The two oldest colts
and five yearlings can be so pastured
for $35 the season. For mixed farm
ing, a dairy of Holstein grades of
a good butter family is, l think, the
best.
What can be sold from this farm
under the rotation and management
above stated?
Butter from 10 cows, $50 each .............. $500
-Four acres OF potatoes, $50 per acre ....... 240
Seventy-fve pigs, at from to 10 weeks old,
,,, average ~: Oeach. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1877
Ihree-year-old colt Observation-Disclosures. 40
Five he1ferS or COWS sold in spring. S32 80. 100
Total amount of sales ...................S1,527
AS there are plenty of large farmers
and others who do not raise their own
pigs, horses or cows, a ready market
may be always had for such stock. The
grain raised will be sufficient for the
team and colts. and perhaps more than
they require, as the team labor of this
farm will be light. Grains for hogs and
COWS can be bought. The ten acres of
pasture above described will go far to-
ward keeping the sixteen cows, but it
will he necessary to cut two or three
acres of clover, and perhaps an acre of
peas and oats, and some of the corn
for part soiling during the summer.
Forty tons of hay can be stored for
winter use, which, with corn fodder
once day, will be found ample for the
stock named. If the farm is not suit
able for potatoes, the whole field may
be sown to corn and more COWS kept,
and the sales will be about the same.
But one of your correspondents says
that the grass seeding may fail. True,
but such thing has not happened in
my experience in II or Is years, and is
not likely to occur on well-tilled and
well-manured farm. Another says that
abortion among his cows ruined his ex-
pectations. My dai was formerly 60
cows, and with 80 years experience
with this trouble, l can recall but one
instance in which it was necessary to
turn the COW because of failure to breed.
Some of my Holstein grades have met
with this accident, but their disposition
to give milk is so great that the loss
resulting is comparatively light.
The farm expenses will be about as
follows:
Hired help. se0n
Feed and -four bought .................. zoe
Blacksmithing grinding and insurance -. SC
Grass and clover seed and seed corn. ...... &c
Total farm expenses s52s
amount OF sales. -. l,J2s
DdIdnCe. ....'''- .'''' '''.el.UUz
Eggs, chickens, milk, butter, meat
and potatoes, honey, berries and gar.
den products for the family can all be
had from this small farm. If the pro-
prietor is not able to do hard labor, a
few swarms of bees and half acre de-
voted to small fruits, will provide
means for the payment of an extra
hand.
What can be saved from the net
thousand produced by the farm de-
ponds altogether on the condition, hab-
its and expenses of the family. It is
safe to say that young man with
small family, can, with good manage
ment save 10 per cent. or cost of farm
and stock at 800 per acre. In the
above statement there is nothing
strained-no large yields, no high
prices, no special farming. 1t simply
provides for keeping the farm and
farmer at work, and the success here
described, such as it is, is within reach
of all. &C s. Rlss, IN Country GsntlsT
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