Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-02-23
SUCCESSFUL FARMING.

The Farmers Cabinet states an instanc
of the most successful farming we hav
heard of for some time. 1t is Of an oil
practical, haFd-working farmer in tn
neighbOrhoOd of Amherst, N. H., VIII
commenced 10 the world as a day lahore
and who, Notwithstanding he has at vari
Gus times sustained heavy pecuniary los
ses in the investment ofhis funds, is nov
worth at least one hundred Mousda aC
dollars. The great secret of his sue
cess, flom the statement given, we should
judge to be system, which is a point
we think, in which many farmers fail
There is however, nothing which can
supply the place of systematic mode of
dong business; without it, industry and
talents, are Oftentimes of no avail, and j,
Is as valuable in agriculture, as in me-
chanics, commerce, or manufactures
We make the following extract from the
article in the Cabinet:
"This man, when thirty years OF age.
blythe aVails of his industry sdded TO a
small legacy, was enabled to purchase and
pay, iu part, for farm of one hundred
and thirty acres of land one hundred of
which was under cultivation, but in a
very low state. The farm is altogether
upland, with a soil composed of loan,
clay and sand, in the chief of which the
latter preponderates. the former being
less considerable. When he commenced
farming he adopted . particular system
Of rotation, to which he has implicitly
adhered from that time to the present.
which is forty years, and his success is
the best comment on the worth of the
experiment. His mode was as follows:
having divided hisfarm into eight fields
Of equal size as near as possible, three
Of those fields were s0wed with wheat
sach year, one with rye, and planted with
corn,- two in clover, and one an open
Eallow, on which corn had been raised
Ihe year previous. One ofthe two clover
fields is,kept for moving, the other for
pasture both Of which are ploughed as
soon after the harvest as possible and
for wheat in the fall. All the
manure which is made on the farm for one |
year IS hauled in the spring on The field |
for open fallow, which is then |
ploughed. and after one or, two cross
through the simmer, is also |
sowed with wheat in the fall; The field
on which the rye is sown, is that from
which crop Of wheat has been taken
The same year, and which had yielded |
three crops. Corn is planted on the
field from which rye bad been taken the
year previous, the stubbles OF which are
down in the fall. Clover seed
S sown early in the spring on two of the
wheat fields, those which have been most
'ecently manufed. By this method each
ield yields three crops Of wheat, two of clo-
ret, one ofFye,and one Of corn, every sight
Tears. Each field in the meantimes has
ain an open fallow, and received heavy
Iressing OF manure, perhaps at an average
# ifteen ,four.horse loads per acre, His |
IRON Of wheat is seldom less. than fifteen
bushels, but often much more n
His average rye crop is about four hun
lred and ffty bushels, and his corn crop
annually, ab0ut1liRe hundred blShels-alpl /
IF which grain htthC present low prices
snulsl amount to more thanltg tgc0 lsousand
ioIEars annually and al former prices 10
louble that amount, end bis farm is withal
'ery highly imPrOvd."