CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3580, 6 August 1890, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

SoosSs»U7traJafffAy, . (To the Editor.) Sib,—lt has often been Btated'iu the column? of the, Daily that small farming does not pay, but to convince youand othorq who have large notions of broad acres that ft does • pay, I give you a list '• of my last year'a proceeds, commencing August, 1889: August 2nd to September 2nd, 121b butter 10s; September 2nd to tho' 80th, 561b butter £2los 10d;.Sept, , 80th to October SOth 117£lbs butter £8 7s 2Jd; November. £4l6s 9d; December month- lTep lbs butter, £4 os;9Jd; January; month, &31b3 butter £2 '■■:. Ss'tw 8d; February month 1831bs £8 12s OdJ; March month 1421bs butter£4 : 4s;4d; April month 164 lbs batter £4 Is 8d; May'month 108lbs butter £3 8s ;• June month llOlbs butter £8 7s 8d; July month 491bs butter £2 9s 4d; 900 owt of potatoes at' 5s per 100 owt. £2lsa; - strawberries and other fruit £8 5s 6d; bacon and pigs on hand Ll9 ss; eleven calves LB-ss"; .56 .dozen of eggs LI 8s;. vegetables of different kinds sold to the neighbors Lids; deduct LI for five Small pigs L2; £l for two sacks of pollard, a total of 178 Is lOd.We are four and a half adults in family, We have' had 8. good supply of milk, butter, vegetables and' fruit, and as we bare had a good. supply of eggs and bacon.our butcher's bill is light. How is this done, do you ask, on fifty acres of land? Why 45 acres have been pot , into grass. Wa commenced five M years ago by falling fifteen aores, and < have fallen ten acres each year since. The second year we .bought a small heifer in calf. This supplied usjwitk milk and butter. Then, with a push, we- bought 10 heifer calves,' This makes our small dairy at' present.. The', heifer in calf cost £2 lis, ,ten heifer calves.£l eaohi' ThVpresent value of 11 cows is 10s each, or £BB.los. I, may add here 11 oalveß : for»lastyear"at £lsß'eaoh, or i £l3 16s, making a total of £62 Bs. ./■ Dedubt from this £2los lor heifer in ff calf, aqd 510 for (en calves, leavei on

the, interest of cattle-JEB9IBs. Mb . editor; iliflte.ftre a f 9ff 6ma ll things ' more I might havb added, but I think this is enough io show you. <md your readers that the small fanner can make a living. Ho must, howorer, keep his shoulder, to tho wheel, His legs oat of tho ball room, and tho » yellow back oat of the house, and ho * will have sucoess.—l am, oty, ;. Shall Farmer,