The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-02-24
A BUSINESS PROPOSITION.
Farm and n Hotel the Two Parts
of One Profitable Scheme

of One Profitable Scheme.
A farm near Portland, Me, conducted
on somewhat novel but strictly bust
ness basis, is described by writer in
American Cultivator. The proprietor
of the hotel runs this farm as a part
of the hotel industry. There is no ex-
changing of crops or other farm pro-
uuce for money, but still every dollar
produced by the farm is credited, and
at the end of the year the farm receives
proper recognition for its part of the
business scheme, and due acknowledge
ment is accorded the able and hustling
manager and his wife, who is also
| potent factor in making this farm
business proposition.
The sixty-three acres in the property
| are practically all under cultivation
each year and, with his many helpers,
makes it work hard from early spring
| until late i'll the fall All kinds of veg
etables are raised in large quantities,
and sorts that have early and late va
rieties, such as peas and corn, are so
arranged that there is a plentiful sup
ply of all. Everything is utilized.
What cannot be used when it is fresh
is either preserved in cans for winter
or goes to the cattle or pigs. But the
chief aim is to meet the critical re-
Quirements of high class hotel patron
| age.
Somewhat of Everything.
Early in the morning a heavy wagon
loaded with fresh peas, beans, lettuce,
cucumbers and all other truck fresh
from the garden, also milk, cream.
eggs, chickens, ducks, pork and veal,
is driven to the hotel, and on the re-
turn such things as are needed on the
farm are brought. The production of
all these products is the business of
the farm, and it proves to be an in
dustry of large proportions. The vege-
tables have been spoken Of They de-
mand large acreage-in fact, the
! greater part of the farm. The hay
land, which provides feed for the cat
tie, and the section devoted to swine
and poultry demands the remainder.
These two latter are raised in large
quantities. Some three to four hun
dred hogs are kept. The feed consists
J of waste from the hotel, refuse on the
farm, grain and all the skim milk that
can be spared. The hogs are killed
and dressed on the farm at weight
! of about 200 pounds and supply fresh
pork for the hotel
] The Cattle and SiIO.
The cattle are kept with two objects
in view-one to provide milk, cream
and at some seasons of the year butter
for the hotel; the other to give a supply
of veal. This complexities the breed
ing problem, for the COW that provides
the most desirable milk is not the cow
that makes the largest veal. Guern-
seys are the favorite for the milk.
Holsteins are depended ON for the veal.
Pure bred bulls of both these breeds
are kept in service. All bull calves go
to the block at tender age A silo
with a capacity of eighty-seven tons
and an icehouse holding LOO tons have
a place in the scheme Of this farm of
comparatively small proportions, where
the working Of the teams and the con-
slant cultivation of the soil require the
service of thirteen horses.
Poultry on "A Large Scale.
The poultry is on a still larger scale.
Barred, White and Buff Plymouth
Rocks, White Wyandottes, Brown and
White Leghorns are kept; also White
nd 90
geese has just been installed. In the
season just passed 1000 chickens and
1000 ducks were raised, and all, with
the exception Of a few hundred, have
been served as broilers for the hungry
traveller. The chicks and ducklings
were Matched In the fourteen incuba-
tors.
Chickens and ducks are kept for the
first few weeks on feed that will de-
velop strength. Then all not reserved
| to be raised are started on the fatten-
ing process and are pushed as rapidly
and half pounds dressed being reach
ed by the chickens In six weeks, while
the ducks weigh from five to seven
pounds in ten to eleven weeks, at which
age they can be picked quickly, trou-
blesome pin feathers not making their
appearance If the desired weight can
be attained before twelve weeks.
A Machine House.
Many types of modern machinery are
in use. the machine being depended up
! on so largely that machine house Is
soon to be built, the manager declar-
ing that the life of a machine will be
twice as long II it is properly housed
when not in use and carefully handled
when driven to the fields 1t is need
less to say that under such a manage
ment as this all the live stock are CIV
en- the best of treatment. The build
ings are modern, and modern ideas pre-
vail In the care of all stock.
The Danes Bill of Fare.
Lieutenant Robert e. Peary at a
dinner of the Arctic society once spoke
on the privations suffered by his party