Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-11-29
ALL YEAR AROUND WORK.

our FARMING Will nOI De on Lne
right basis until on such plan as will
enable the farmer to expend his la
Dor the year around at something
which will convert that labor into
cash. We speak 0f the work season
or the busy season on the farm, re-
ferring. to that time Of the year be-
ginning with the planting in the
spring and extending until the crops
are harvested in the fall. This COW
ers period of seven or eight months
Of extremely busy time. On most
farms this is the time of year when
the farmer hardly knows which way
to turn. He has dozen jobs on
hand at the same time and does not
know to which he should turn. The
result is that he is worked to ex-
desperation and often to the point of
dissatisfaction with farming.
This condition to a greater or less
er extent cannot help but exist al
ways and on every farm. However,
the farmer should do his best to over
come this difficulty. One way that
this extremely busy season can be re-
lieved is by paying less attention to
the growing of crops for market. In
localities where it is possible to grow
tame grass or other pasture, a part
of the tillable land should be gotten
into pasture and the live stock allow
ed to do the harvesting, no blowing,
cultivating and harvesting being re-
J quired.
The amount of live stock to be car
; ried must be governed by the amount
; of pasture that can be made available
and by the amount it is possible for
) the farmer and his family to take
care of during the winter. The saw
: ing of feed comes later in the season
u than the saving Of grain for market.
4. The growing of feed will in itself
:. have the effect Of distributing the Ia
b Dor of the growing season.
> When it comes to the winter months
we do mo- infer even that farmers
j generally are idle. They are doing
something, but as a rule they are not
> employed at work which has a cash
U value. If that labor be converted in
. to the care of a herd of hogs, herd
=! of calves or stock cattle, or herd Of
D. dairy cattle, every forkful or shovel
. full of feed given these animals and
h every move in connection with the
. care of the stock has a cash value
and that value can be realized wheI
II the animal is sold.
10 When we pillow for wheat or corr
u the grain Of which is intended fol
10 sale, we do not at the time realizt
any cash value on the day expended
= in blowing. We figure that our re
u turn will come when the crop 81 j!
d' grown. We should figure the sam,
al way in the care of live stock. Whel
IL We are hauling feed for a bunch o
TO young cattle we 60 not meet at tn
III corral gate the money to compensat
for the hauling, but we should recog
It, nize in the case of cattle as in tn
case of growing wheat that when thi
! load of feed is eaten the cattle wi
10 be improved to just that extent an
bo that when the animals are sold on
III reward will be received.
no The quickest return for winter Il
&C Dor is received from a herd of mil
70 cows. The cash return for feedin
on and caring for a herd of dairy COW
ffc can be had within two or three day
,rt after the feed has been eaten an
;1o the labor in care has been expended
IL 1t seems to us that there are thou'
g ands of farms in Kansas on which tn
NM farmer and his family could during Il
not winter months-say from the first
bic November to the middle of March
first of April-profitably give the
,ot time exclusively to the care of
IN bunch of milk COWS, the calves al
10 pigs. 1t seems to us that on thou
go ands of farms in Kansas the situate
~ is such that we are not justified
do grumbling because of the hour spei
ros night and morning milking a fe
~. cows. 1t seems to us that We cou
,.t afford, having nothing else of ecu
rbo Importance to do, to figure on spen
~ ing the winter in the care of bun'
"a Of cows.
cot 1t is possible on the farms of Ia
M sas to distribute the farm work tn
hoe the seasons of the year in such
nc way that the work will not pile up
bor as pressing a way as it does now
,or most farms during the spring al
has summer, and that by virtue Of t
,ho distribution a better and more prof
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