Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-08-08
6By c. M. scHuLTz.)


There are days, and even weeks,
when the fruit grower, even with
small orchard, if he be true orchard
list has his hands full and running
over. At such times he finds 1t diff
cult to obtain sufficient help to take
ccre of his fruit and must needs de-
pend upon such boys and girls and
women and non-competent 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
owner is in the much better position
to take care of his fruit and make
better profit out of it than he would
be If conducting the orchard alone with
insufficient help.
Orcharding is of course, like dairy
Ing. a specialized line of endeavor al.
so IS dairying and poultrying There
are not enough people in the business
who realize this, but the fact is slow.
iy beginning to make its way upon the
intelligence of those engaged in It,
Dairying is 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 1t more profitable
and healthful than indoor employ
meut.
a large farm is not necessary fol
dairying. While pastures are needfu
to certain extent. 1t is fact thai
dairymen are becoming less dependent
dp7 u t1sm every year a dairy man 8
my acquaintance near Danbury, Conn.
last year plowed up rs acres of pas
ture and put it all into corn which was
later turned into the silo. He nov
has two pastures, each of about 4C
acres, and one OF these will go in
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, a dairy Of
10 COWS could be maintained without
difficulty. OF course pasture could moi
be depended upon, but specialized
feeds must be used. Good corn lane
will turn into the silo 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 amoun
of mill-giving product
Two silos OF, say, total capacity o.
rs or so tons, will hold sufficient en-
silage for six months winter of II
COWS, and also provide plenty for sum
mer use Ten COVE at least can b.
maintained on a farm Of 40 acres OK
elusive of the orchard provided tn,
highest cultivation is followed and tn,
work is specialized, Oh course if thu
COWS are to be allowed to run owe
large areas of pasture this cannot b,
done, While little pasture must b.
used, mainly for exercise and to Civ,
that variety necessary to dairy feed
the main support of the dairy mus
come from the silo ana from greer
OF course. on combination orchar,
and dairy, farm crop rotation Is abso
lutely necessary. We must have clio
yer We must produce corn for the sill,
and some for the pigs, because TIN
pigs are necessary to use up the skim
milk and the oats and cow pea
should always have place in the re
tation,
Ten or a dozen cows with thel
calves and the pigs and horses neces
sary 10 Work the farm, will produc
sufficient manure to dress the Ian,
feirly we'll II this manure is apple
to clover sod and this is turned dow
for the corn it will produce tremer
dous amount of succulent feed to &
into the slo
A farm OF this size should also HAY
a field OF altalfa-and let no man h,
lieve that alfalfa is to be confined t
the arid regions of the west Som
of the finest alfalfa is now grown o
the New England hills in place
where little else have been raised ia
many years, while on the rich cor
lands of the middle west. alfalfa
now as much fixture as the corn /
self. The orchardist with only 4
acres Of free land at his command wi
have TO buy aome concentrated feed
All right. let him buy them. He wi
find it wii pay we'll Dairying is stric
ly a manufacturing business, and
certain raw materials are necessary