The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-07-20
TUT Tie BROS. l.
VOID M|DOLEMEN
Farm and Hotel Make
Great Combination
Producers Get 100 Cents of Consum.
ers' Dollar in Place of the Tradl-
ti0nal 30.

There are several WAYS i. which a
farmer may get more t5aa the gen.
orally accepted tairty-fye cents of
the consumers dollar but that en-
ployed by the futile Brothers of
Skowhegan, is particularly eimple and
effective. At one end Of a four-mile
drive is the five hundred acre farm
operated by Charles futile; at the
other, close to the business center of
the town is the fifty-room SkoUhegan
house, thriving under the enterpris-
ing management of Warren futile.
Nowhere along the line between does
the middleman get even the proven
bal look in.
The futile boys We're to the man
ner born. Early in the history of
Somerset county their grandfather
came from New Hampshire, and took
up tract of wild land that subse-
quenty became the farm. Their faith
Ell continued the task OF improvement
until he was able to turn over to his
two sons heritage of which any
man would feel proud. Both sons
had made records as up-to-date farm
ers long before the old gentleman
died, and they have kept improving
them ever since.
Some ten years ago a great oppor-
tunity came their way and without a
moments hesitation they proceeded
to make the most of it. They bought
the old Skowehgan house. then a
twenty-room affair, and began their
interesting and effective process of
getting practically all of the consum-
er's dollar Since then the hosiery
has been more than doubled in size,
and now provides the very best sort
of market for everything that the
five hundred acres can produce Ev-
cry morning team leaves the farm
for the hotel, carrying butter, milk.
eggs, poultry, vegetables in their sea-
son, and large quantities of salt and
fresh pork. The feed and livery sta
BILE connected with the hotel has ac-
commodatons for sixty horses, and
hay. straw and grain The big steam
heater in the basement of the Skow-
hogan house is run entirely by wood
from the farm, and all the timber
and boards used in the repairs and
came from the same
source.
Including the big garden, the Tut
tie farm ordinarily has ten acres in
hoed crops, ten acres in grain and
about two hundred acres in hay. The
stock carried at the farm would be
few in proportion to the capacity, but
the big livery stable makes up for the
difference. AS all the dressing from
the cement basement is hauled back
to the farm, the village establish
ment is practically a part of it. Be
sides there are ten horses and colts
ten cows and heifers, five hundred
head of poultry, and a goodly mum.
Der of hogs.
Conspicuous among the horses al
the farm is the seven-year-old French
Percheron stallion Rutard. This
horse was imported when a colt ane
sold to the Skowhegan Percheron
Horse Company for $4,000. As mem
hers of the syndicate the futile
brothers had the care of the horse
om the beginning, and after the
acend year bought out the other in
ter - The quality of his get was
unkno"n al that time. so the title
was passed Fl bargain figures Rutard
gets his regular share of the farm
work which keeps him ALWAYS in
urine condition. The first OF his
colts are now coming to maturity
end give even better proof of his
quality than his appearance itself.
For a number of years the futile
brothers took no particular interest
in dairy bred stock. as a good mauy
head were bought and sold every
year, but more recently there has
come a change. With only a bust
ness herd in mind, Charles Tattle
recently bought an exceptionally fine
Holstein that at one time would have
been eligible to registry She gave
twenty quarts of milk per day as q
five-year-old, and that without any
special handling. Since then she has
continued to improve, although Mr..
futile has cared more for her calves
than he has sfor her milk. Just tc
give the youngsters every possible
show, he has let them suck theiI
mother until they were four weeks
old. Then they we're taught to drink
gradually shifted from whole milk t.