Western Kansas world., 1893-07-01
HOME AND THE FARM.
A DEPARTMENT MADE UP FOR
OUR RURAL FRIENDS,
The Union OF Beauty and Utility in Poul-
try Brings Profit - There's Money in
Farming-About Dehorning Cattle-Po-
tatoes are Injured by Heat.
Fancier and the Practical poultrvm,

Fancier and the Practical Poultryman
Are the aims of the fancier and the
practical poultryman necessarily an
tagonistic? The leading object OF
the first is the production of the
greatest beauty; of the second the
greatest utility. In the attempt tC
realize these objects. there is temp
tat1on on the part of the one to mate
fowls very closely related, and some
times those lacking in constitution,
and on the part of the other to use
| fowls, however ugly they may appear,
provided their utility has been dem
onstrated. But to the former temp
tation there is the check that he who
sacrifices constitution very quickly
defeats his own purposes and to the
latter that in shape, at least, the
more elegant specimens of most
varieties are the ones that prove to be
the most useful. There certainly is
no necessary antagonism between the
aims of the two, for the utility Of
fowls need not be less because 6hey
are beautiful in appea ance. A
handsome hen will lay as many eggs
as homely one, and beautiful cock
will make as much and as good
poultry as an ugly one. Indeed, the
fancier who strives to unite as much
utility as possible with the beauty of
his fowls will be the one who will
make the most money out of them;
for he will raise more of the chickens
he matches, he will get more eggs to
sell, he will have more and better
poultry to kill, he will have a larger
sale for his cheap birds, and his ex-
hibition specimens will bring just as
much money. And the practical
poultryman, who seeks to unite as
much beauty as possible with the
utility of his fowls will lose nothing,
for his fowls will continue to lay as
many eggs as before, his dressed
poultry will be as heavy and of as
good quality, and he may be able to
make an occasional sale of particu-
larry fine specimen at price double
or treble what he otherwise could
obtain. The union of beauty and
utility is the union that brings the
greatest profit alike to the fancler
and the practical poultryman, and |
self interest ought to compel each to |
seek for such an union, without, how
ever, forgetting the main object in
view. Keep, as the first thing to be
achieved, the. beauty if you are
fancier, or the utility if you are a
practical poultryman, of your fowls;
and then, as secondary but very i'm
portant object, seek the other quality,
the obtaining Of which will secure the
greatest profit and the most satisfac-
tion.-H. S. Babcock, in American
Money In Farming.
A Lapeer, Mich, correspondent of
the Detroit Free Press tells this
story: Talk about farming being an
business, look here:
Theodore L. Pierce, common sense
farmer Of Attica, is poor, but has
yood judgment He lives on Joshua
farm in that township
Ind last year paid for the rent OF the
arm of l6O acres from the products
If a piece of ground Ole rod less than Il
IN acre. A year ago last winter he !
,athered all the ashes in the neigh
paying for it in soap. When :
pring came ne fertilized this piece of :
round with the ashes, and when it :
vas ready for planting he drilled it :
With onion seed, which grew so i,
hickly they nearly crowded each !
ther out of the ground; they grew :
airly one ON top Of the other in in :
tances, and when harvest time came =
e had six hundred bushels of fine as
orted onions. which he sold to Mr..
randall of Oxford, at 20 odd cents :.
er bushel. realizing over S420 in !
ash frous the acre, less one rod of :
round. Pierce himself WAS not able =
0 work much, so he took pride in
boxing after bis onion patch, keep I
1g it properly weeded, ETC. His |
hree beys. in the meantime, were .
1orking the other 159 acres and max
1g a good thing from ia. and his
aughteS was teaching school in the T
illage at good salary. Z