The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-06-17
ONLY MALES ON THIS NEW WORKERS.
FARM.

FARM.
The manager of one of New York's
great dry goods stores, who has farm
near Brewster, N. Y, is much inter-
ested in the contention of Director
Smith that the Central Park menag-
erie is becoming an Eveless Eden
because visitors feed hydrocarbons to
the animals.
"'I am not disputing Mr.. Smiths
argument that peanuts and sweets
predetermine the sex among animals" "
said he. ''He may be perfectly cor
rect. l only want to state the sad
conditions on my farm, and I can't
give a reason for them. They are
just like the conditions at the menag-
erie, although my live stock has had
nothing but ordinary food.
"There are 900 acres in the farm,
which is situated on ridge and is
carefully stocked with the best cattle
and poultry that money can buy. /
have been there seven years, and all
that time have suffered plague of
too many males.
''I have 100 cows, and of their
calves IS per cent. have been bulls,
I brought thirty-two heifers there
from other parts of the country, which
were about to calve, and they pro-
duced the usual numbers of heifers,
but since then they have given me
nothing but bulls. l didn't propose
to spread these young bulls of fine
breeding along the countryside, so |
had to sell them in the market or raise
them as steers. Young bulls whose
grandsire sold for $I2, 900 brought
about $37 from the butchers. Itwas
useless for me to keep more than one
out of twenty Of them.
"All these are of the finest Ayrshire
stock. The president of the Ayrshire
Association laughs at me every time
he sees me and asks how the bulls
are. He knows that it is almost i'm
possible for me to raise heifer on
my farm.
'.With sheep it has been worse, if
possible. I have flock of thirty.
Some ewes have had two lambs, some
one, and twenty-six of them have
been males. The men on the farm
have got so used to the state Of affairs
that when neifer or eve lamb is
born there is a celebration.
81 have tried my best to raise
chickens, but the chicks are nearly
all ROSTERS. You know what that
means to a farmer. My turkeys, raised
for the holiday tables of myself and
my friends, with hardly an exception,
turned out to be toms. A hen turkey
may bring IS cents a pound when a
tom turkey sells for IS. The meat
of a hen turkey is far superior to that
of male bird.
"The hoodoo affects even the car
rier pigeons which / thought would
be an ornament to the place. The
females were in the majority when |
bought the pigeons, but they pro-
duced nothing but males. The re-
suit was that the males few away to
find mates and my loft was deserted.
my cat had litter of kittens and
six of the seven were tom cats. There
is fine place for hogs on the farm,
but after observing the course OF
events in the other branches of live
stock, have decided not to try hogs
lust yet. Bears, except when they
are in the sucking stage, are of no use
for the market, having strong odor.
''But that is not all. When l
started the farm seven years ago l
took on a hired man who had just
been married. He was with me until
recently, and while in my employ be-
came the happy father of five boys.
He moved away and girl came.
Another man who has worked for me
four years has had three boys come
to cheer his life, but no girls.
Excessive masculinity has extend
ed even to the vegetables on my farm.
The corn came up only in stubs and
learned professor whom l consulted
told me that it was male corn.
"My neighbors are not troubled the
way I am. Perhaps this is because
my farm is apart from theirs and on
higher land. I have different luck
on my farm on Lake Champlain, but
1 am going to keep away from there
as much as possible, lest bring the
strange influence or suggestion, OF
whatever it is.
"I might say in conclusion, that !
am the father of four boys, but I don'i
see what bearing that has on the
puzzle. The boys were not born or
the farm near Brewster"