The Bessemer indicator., 1893-07-15
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
CONSIDER WELL Before MAX.
ING CHANCES.
Be Sure You csn Do Better BssDrs You
Go Aheid-By-r Products of tho DAiry-
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Hints and Household Helps.
Shall IIe Change?

replies to some inquiries OF an Ohio
man US follows:
Twelve years ago you went Into
debt mostly for ffty-acre farm,
which cost you *2,S00 You have
paid out and built large barn and II
$1,000 house. and paid for them cash
down. and this by what you call
mixed farming. You have done well.
very we'll. But you say you are
thinking of changing and keeping
cows, making butter, building silo,
etc, and asking whether you would
better and how many COWS you can
keep. and also whether think the
berry business would pay better.
First, my friend, be slow to change
Mt all. You are doing very we'll. Be
quite sure you can do decidedly bet
ter before making any change. II
you can get say % cents pound the
year round. or more, for your butter,
dairying could be made to pay we'll
But it will be very contining business,
seven days in IL week. 1t will cost
you good deal to get we'll fixed.
You will want Mt least good selected
common COWS and tirst-class Jersey
male. then you can work up. You
should have n separator. good
dairy house, ice house, Il powc, OF
some kind to run your churn and
separator, pump, water, etc, IL milk
test, and silo will be nice to save
your corn in. You can get along
without this, however, for time, bv
taking good care of your fodder
cutting it by horse power j." and
ter Then you want che win.
Portable quarters .n,i,aly SorIi-
where you car lSs YOUR cows,
and, NAV .ssf ali The manure.
just say it3 Yon Want TO be
u -es rnah for lhs business. To
,.aakS ths mos. in this line you need
to b4 quiet and gentle with
the cows. always; YOU want
you are around the stable they will
give moro milk Just from looking at
you And you want to be around
the stable daily and constantly. Then
If you do your part all around you
may work up to $50 or 500 per COW,
You have coed land ovlde''tl$ and
you "cunn keep twenty or thir.
ty or even forty cows in time. buying
only bran and oil meal or cotton seed
meal The way corn grows on the
bottom land in your country, you
ought to raise enough corn on an
acre to keep Il COW nearly two years.
winter and summer, except that she
would need little clover hay or
heterogeneous food. would raise the
best calves and thus improve my
stock, And you can raise your farm.
too. or keep it up. Butter takes lit
tic value from the soil A ton has
but fortycight cents OF fertility id it,
and not that, probably, II you are
very clean about milking. A ton of
butter should bring you 5000 A ton
of timothy hay may sell for $40 and
it takes from the soil on the same
basis S5.3s worth of fertility.
The berry business is goc,
If you work to the top and get
choice fine fruit to customers in nice
shape. / don't mean that you work
the nice berries to the top of the
package, but that you have unusually
fine on top and just the same all
through. Great care and skill will
pay Just us we'll. perhaps in this line
as in butter making. if you are stu,
ated so that you can readily hire
pickers enough that live near by, and
have the market within reach. Lots
of money can be made from fine
strawberries, but you have got to
love them, the care OF them as we'll
as to eat them, Hnd Never tire for one
day OF waiting in them nns more
than you would waiting OH the COWS.