Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-08-06
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tBy C. NJ SCHCLTZ)
 There are days, and even weeks when the fruit grower, even with a small orchard, if he be true orchard ist has his hands full and running over. At such times he finds it difi- cult to obtain sufficient help to take care of his fruit and must needs de pend upon such boys and girls and women and nen-eempetent men as he may be able to gather from the hedges and by-ways.
 The small orchard alone will not per init the employment of competent help all the year around, but when combin- ed with dairy or poultry raising this difficulty is easily overcome, and the owrar is in the much better position to take care of his fruit and make a better profit out of it than he would be if conducting the orchard alone with insufficient help
 0rcharding is of course, like dairy ing, specialized line of endeavor, al- so is dairying and poult- ying. There are not enough people in the business who realize this, but the fact is slow y beginning to make it's way upon the intelligence of those engaged in it.
 Dairying is a mans job and so is poultry raising, although the latter can be conducted and in fact, is now, be- ing conducted in thousands of places by women who find it more profitable and healthful than indoor employ ment
 A large farm is not necessary for dairying While pastures are needfui to a certain extent, 1t is a fact that dajrymen are becomingle less dependent
 an them every year 4 dairyman d iliys acquaintance rk Ganbury, CoEe last year plowed up 75 acres of pas ture and put it all into corn which was later turned into the silo He now has two pastures, each of about 40 acres, and one of these will go into corn this spring and the other will fol- low next year. This man says he has demonstrated that he can produce more milk with greater regularity of flow by the use of silage than on pas ture and at less cost.
 On an orchard farm where there is say, 40 acres of fine land, dairy of 10 COWS could be maintained without difficulty. Of course pasture could not be depended upon. but specialized feeds must be used. Good corn land will turn into the siio 25 to 35 tons of the very best kind of feed per acre, and no pasture on earth has ever yet been able to produce such an amount of milkgiving product
 Two silos of, say a total capacity of 75 or so tons, will hold sufficient en- silage for six months winter of 10 COWS, and also provide plenty for sum- mer use. Ten cows at least can be maintained on farm of 40 acres ex- elusive of the orchard, provided the highest cultivation is followed and the work is specialized. Of course if the COWS are to be allowed to run over large areas of pasture this cannot be done. While a little pasture must be used, mainly for exercise and to give that variety necessary to dairy feed, the main support of the dairy must come from the silo and from green crops, especially grown for them.
 Of course, on a combination orchard and dairy, farm crop rotation is abso- lutely necessary. We must have clo- yer, we must produce corn for the silo and some for the pigs, because the pigs are necessary to use up the skim milk and the oats and COW peas should always have a place in the TO- tation.
 Ten or a dozen COWS with their calves and the pigs and horses neces- sary to work the farm, will produce sufficient manure to dress the land fairly well. If this manure is applied to clover sod and this is turned down sor the corn it will produce tremen- dous amount of succulent feed to go into the silo.
 A farm of this size should also have a field of alfalfa-and let no man be- lieve that alfalfa is to be confined to the arid regions of the west Some of the finest alfalfa is now grown on the New England hills in places where little else have been raised for many years, while on the rich corn lands of the middle west, alfalfa Is now as much a fixture as the corn it. self The orchardist with only 40 acres of free land at his command will have to buy some concentrated feeds. All right, let him buy them. He will find it will pay well. Dairying is strict ly manufacturing business, and if certain raw materials are necessary to get returns from those grown at home.