The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-09

TomSon Bros. of Dover, Prlngle o!
Harveyvilie, and number more o.
to Portland, Ore. Two OF my pesl
bulls went to Syracuse, n. Y, five TO
California, number to COLORADO.
sold my last shorthorns five years ago,
as my son, who had just returned
from K S. A. c., said he did not want
beef cattle. He wanted nothlns pu'
dairy breed.
Turned to Dairy Cattle.
Twelve years ago last october
started to furnish milk to the state
hospital 1 started at forty pounds
day now about $50 pounds a day.
From January of this year to June,
five months, 1 have delivered sass
pounds of milk, so you see we oon
have much time for other STOCK
When my son returned from K. 3 A.
c. he said: Father, l want TO inake
a proposition to you. If you Will Just
deliver the milk to the state hospital
and stay out of the barn, 1 will look
after that part of the business
| thought that rather tough for a son
to tell his father, to stay out OF the
| barn. l thought 1 knew something
about the dairy business, as l had the
experience of years and he just fresh
from college, but L gave in, as most
| fathers have to. Well, he started to
weighing each cows milk and feeding
according to the amount of milk the
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| that did not give enough milk to pay
for the feed they ate. Today we are
not milking over two-thirdS as many
cows and getting more milk. we
haven't COW that gives less than
| forty pounds and several sixty and
seventy pounds day, each eight and
one-third pounds to the gallon, so you
! see they run from five to eight and
one-half gallons a day. think we have
| as good a herd of cows giving milk,
> fv<,r
| $50 to $500, as there is in the state.
| In this case the boy knew more than
his father about the dairy. We have
| one old horse which has hauled this
milk, that has gone in number of
miles. more than twice around the
world.
Apples and Cider.
| b This farm has had for the past
twenty-one years the reputation of be-
| ing the headquarters for McAfee cider
| and vinegar. For twenty-one years I
had the largest cider mill west of the
| Mississippi river. 1 made 120, 600 to
10000 gallons year. 1 raised an
average of $4,000 to $4,000 bushels of
apples a year, and it paid, but now
every farmer is in the business.
This farm was first plowed with
three yoke of oxen at So an acre, two
acres a day, or 81 for six head of oxen
and driver. Today we are using a
tractor pulling two plows IA inches,
seven acres a day, or three plows IA
inches. ten acres a day, for $1.40 for
coal oil, 50 a day for a man, making
$3.40 for ten acres, or "a cents an
acre. 1t would take five teams, and
good ones, to pillow ten acres day. At
81 per team it would be $40 per day,
SO you see we are saving $3.50 in
favor of the tractor. Then we use one
man instead of five.
We use the tractor for saving our
wood, grinding our corn, filling our
silos and a hundred other things, in
stead of horses. 1t is not like horses;
it does not eat when not working. We
have in this farm 240 acres. This year
we have 100 acres in corn, 20 acres in
alfalfa, rs acres in oats, 4 5 in pasture
We are blowing our pasture and
putting it in cultivation. We have an
extra silo still filled to use when the
pasture gets short. We can't pasture
land at present value. We have to get
it in cultivation. 1 have over 200
acres rented which is in prairie hay,
from which I will cut about $50 tons
of hay, worth about $500. 1 expect to
cut about $50 tons of alfalfa from "a
acres, so you see if you wish to make
land pay taxes and your labor you
must cultivate it and get all you car
out of it, and if you expect to gel
good, faithful service out of your men
you must treat them as humans.
We never expect to get over twelve
mence at o'clock in the morning
and quit at p. m. 1 don't NEAR
leave the field at 6, but quit in time
to have everything finished by 6, and
the rest of the evening is theirs.
Rotary SpoLes.
Charlie Mitchell was the only one
in the bunch who didn't wear over
alls. There was talk during dinner
of running him through Topeka in B
v DIS until he reached League park
Sam Lux's shape mere doomed up tC
such an advantage until he put or
overalls. Some seemed to think he
had missed his calling.
George Hart conducted a rather
embarrassing inspection of the guests
just before dinner. Wives of Rota
rians can ask their hubby about i
and in this way the news can trave
over the city without being published
w. H. Davis presided at the meet
ing. Bob tSone's ankle hurt him s,
badly that he was Obliged to Mace i