Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1846-10-16
From the Ohio Cultivator
Model Farm in Ohio.

The model farm of this state contains one hun
dred acres, seventy-iive of which are well clear
ed and the whole under fence. Sixty acres are
embraced in one enclosure. and this includes all
the arabic and meadow land upon the farm. The
buildings all of stone, neat. durable and COM
modiHs. The dwelling is not large but cana
cious enough for the use of the family and a.
room and a bed or two for an occasional friend
The kitchen and the stables are supplied with
water from the same spring No stock but hogs
and sheep are permitted to Craze. The cattle
and horses are constantly kept in their stalls and
are always in good order. The cows are at a Il
times fat enough for the butcher, and-thc grow
ing stock at two years old attain the weight of
ordinary steers at four. During the summer
they are soiled with green food, consequently
twenty acres in grass is sufficient to keep four
horses and ten cows with their offspring, until
the young stock are ready for the market at three
or four years old, when they average him thirty
dollars per head. OF these he makes it a point
to sell ten head year For his stock he raises
| one acre of roots, sugar-bcets, mangle-wuzzle
and turnips, each year, which yield him on an av.
eragc about fifteen hundred bushels. On corn
he cultivates five acres year, which by proper
culture and judicious rotation, yields him five
hundred bushels Five acres in wheat give
yearly one hundred and fifty bushels. Five acres
of oats three hundred bushels.
He has an orchard of eight acres, in which he
has two hundred apple trees, twenty-five pear
twenty-five plum, one lndred peach and fifty.
five cherry trees this is divided into four com.
partments of two acres each. Two of these he
ploughs up every year and in the spring plants
them in Jerusalem artchokes. Here he keeps
his hogs. In the two that are not ploughed he
has clover and orchard grass lev, in which the
swine feed from the middle of May to the first OF
August when they are let into one of the arti
choke yards, and this till winter, when they are
passed into the second artichokc yard, where
they are kept till the grass has sufficiently ad.
vanced in one of the fields to turn them into that
Thus upon grass. roots, and fruit, the swine are
kept so thrifty that few bushels of grain are
sufficient to make them ready for the butcher
In this way he manages to kill thirty hogs wear
which will average 400 pounds each. lie give,
them beet wintcring.
| His sheep range principally in the woods. witt
a small pasture of five acres. He keeps seventy
five head, which yield him BOG lbs. of wool
year.
AS this farmer has raised a large family. ant
raised them all WELL having given each child {
good practical education. | was curious to look
into his affairs; and as he keeps a regular &C
count current of his transactions, il gave him III
trouble to inform me of the result of his mode O
proceeding, which is briefly as foows
| PRODUCT Of THE FARM.
10 head Of cattle, averaging $3.50 per head, $50,
% hogs, at $l2 per head 80
200 bushels of Corn, at rs cts. per bush 81
Product of sheep lOt
do of dairy 2O
do of orchard 3O
Other and smaller crops lOl
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