“One-half the hens for 1914 were the pullets of 1913 and were supposed to fall off in production 20 per cent. The balance were pullets.”
The Department of Agriculture is back of you in any endeavor you may wish to make in farming. If you want information on any problem, write to the department and they will forward you an up-to-date book on the subject. They have pamphlets prepared treating of the way to handle chickens in the city, raising of fancy birds, and many other subjects relative to the chicken.
PLAN No. 612. BELIEVES IN SHEEP
Many town people have an idea that before the war farming was not a very profitable business, but that is not the case. Here is what one farmer has to say:
“In 1913 I purchased 1,188 sheep, mostly lambs. In 1914 I clipped about one dollar’s worth of wool per head and then sold 300 head at $4.75 to $5.25 per hundred pounds. They were out nearly all winter at strawstacks and grazing, my only expense being thirty-five tons of alfalfa at $10 per ton. You can easily see that I have made a very nice profit. I believe that nearly all farmers should keep a flock of sheep.”
It is easy to understand why our great men and women of high talent in all walks of life come from the farm. The business of farming enables them to make the best kind of a living with much less wear and tear than attends work in the city. He has time to think; nature is about him; he is not worrying about his grocery bill and how he will get enough to eat next week. His living is assured for a year. The sun, rain and land look out for that. His wife is not worrying him about the latest style of clothes for herself and children.
Try it out for yourself—get a few sheep and be independent.
PLAN No. 613. REMARKABLE YIELD FROM TWENTY-THREE ACRES
The following figures taken from a 23-acre tract, near North Yakima, Washington, illustrates what can be accomplished in the irrigated valleys of the Inland Empire, when intensified farming methods are followed:
Six thousand boxes of apples, 10 tons of cherries, 400 boxes of peaches, 700 boxes of pears, 100 crates of small fruit, 1,800 boxes tomatoes, 40 tons of wheat and alfalfa hay, 15 tons carrots and mangel-wurzels, 2 tons grain and vegetables, 50 bushels corn, 400 pounds butter, 14 pure bred Duroc hogs, 220 dozen eggs, one Holstein heifer and one colt.