The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-02-17
IN, CECIL COUNTY. MD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1888.

experience / have never sold IL acres
of wheat for as little as this; many of
our big farmers, however, have sold for
far less. The 1915 from wheat and
clover seed would use to buy wheat
bran, oil meal and corn meal for the
cows. If bought at the right time Of
year some 25 tons could be got for this
money. The butter from the 20 cows
1 should expect to get at least 81 400
for, or SO per COW. Is this to high?
It is double the average, but what of
that? There are plenty Of laIge farm
ers who do not halt attend to their bus
mess. Let me give you figures from a
small farm that know of. Mr.. A. D.
Mills, of this place, keeps l6 COWS.
His milk sold last season. in spite of
drouth, for S1,177.76, or $73.6l per
COW. He paid out for milk feed
S2s5.44. This was done without any
silo, or much soiling, or fancy stock
1t was simply good common farming.
In this case the milk was sold. If it
had been made into butter it might
have brought more.
Can our large farms around here
show any such results? No, sir; too
much has to be trusted to hired men
and there are too many leaks. Mr.
Mills did all his milking and nearly all
his work alone. 1t is a little farm we'll
handled. But come back to my 40
acres !; I should expect ST 400 from the
20 cows, and $500 would pay first
class hand to help me for 8 months,
leaving 81 200 for me.
Do you think the 20 cows could not
be kept ON the top shelf with the feed
mentioned? Let US see 12 tons of row
en- could be depended on, on the aver
age, from the new seeded field, which
would be mostly wanted for bedding
and absorbent. From the IL acres of
rye, drilled corn, &c, | know I could
raise ~ tons more of dry feed or its
equivalent--that is, six tons per acre.
With the purchased grain, We should
then have about l45 tons of dry feed
OF its equal. 1t would take good
feeder to run all through 20 COWS and
the necessary horses and other stock.
II these results could not be obtained
at once, they could in time, if the man.
agement was the best Twenty five
tons year of mill feed brought on the
place would soon show, if the cows were
kept so as to save all the manure.
Having the land in clover once in three
years would give us the greatest benefit
to be got out Of ''the red-plumed COM
mander-in chief of the manurial forces. /"
1 cannot believe, with your correspon-
dent, that it is only through rest that
their lands can become profitable. !
cannot believe that the small farmers
must sell out to the large ones or BE-
pushed overheard l agree with
friend Gidden perfectly when he ad-
vises the raising of maximum crops in
order to make money but 1 canno,
agree that the small farm we'll titled is
"a "heresay." I believe that Mr.. G
could take 40 acres of good land and
make an excellent living from it. ]
believe he thinks as | do. that this can
be done, and that it would be grand
thing for the nation to have it done,
but the young men who start that way
mostly fall. 1t is fault of their edu-
cation. They have heard their fathers,
perhaps, sneer at small farmers. They
make the attempt to farm on 40 acres
as their fathers did on 200-with no
more care or thoroughness. Of course
they get "meagre living" By all
means let us encourage them to do bet.
ter, rather than to give up the little
farm. II. B. TERRY.
Summit Co., 0. IN Coutry Gentleman.
How Men Die.