Show A THRIFTY FARMER IRs the thriftiest farmer In town was the reply to a question asked on acquaintance about a farmer whose place still in sight we had Just passed In our drive that afternoon searching for good cows we had better luck than usual no two of the tIre bought turned out well It had been the bcstlooklnp place we had neon The house was neatly painted the yard clean and free from wagons mating machinery or decaying de-caying boards that Utter up so many yards and give n Place a downtrodden j J dilapidated appearance We noted a swing and hammock showing that snine one took a little comfort now nnd then with his work We Inquired further fur-ther about this farm and Its owner lie was brought up to work In a shop from early manhood but falling eyesight drove him on to the farm In a rough hilly country and hits been hard at it ever since lie has cleaned many of the Ilclds of stone and by saving the manure man-ure from a small wellkept dairy has i brought th > > fields into a high state of fertility so that his 1 hay crop largely I exceeds per acre that of nay of his neighbors One method not practiced by his neighbors Is not to pasture his meadows In ho fell cutting the rowen if there is a crop and usually there is 0110 hut leaving a good uftennath tog to-g through the winter He milks from wolve to fourteen cows and makes butter but-ter which IIP retails making one tripper trip-per week l for this purpose to town four miles away He gets thirty cents per pound I > the year round which la considerably consid-erably above the market price His skimmilk Is fed to calves and pigs and ho turns oft considerable pork during the year TractIcally no fertility is cold from this farm in nny of his products and by lining feed he feeds bran gluten feed and cotton seed containing a largo Amount of nitrogen he is constantly making the farm more productive Think of this if you are ceding cornmeal corn-meal and oat f cds and then Fhippin the t milk thereby making the farm a little poorer every year Another mann man-n speaking of this same farmer saId He always keeps l his work well in hand which is another nay of saying that I lie is a shrewd farmer Wo found several things to emulate in this I farmers farm-ers methods whose I arm training began be-gan at an age that might seem late l to some of UP Just about n mile from the latter place we passed another farm where the owner and his wife were digging potatoes in wet heavy soil but without a heavy crop Ills land Is low wet and undrained Chickens and pigs run I everywhere and the carriage top was used as a convenient roosting place We counted thirteen wheel vehicles about tho place without a shed or shelter of any kind lie drives a scrawny team and the cows always come out springpoor He Is a hard worker but without ability to plan work or get ahead Ono mans place advertises adver-tises his success as a farmer the othciy equally advertises Its owners failure Rural New Yorker y iPOJ L t v jO |