The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-02-07
Sources of a Farmers Income.

A farmer in Cass county, Michigan, writes
to the Western Rural:
'MY FARM IN 1866"
81 notice request from F. S. L., in his
remarks on the reports of the committee on
the farms entered for premiums in the Mich
igan Agricultural Society, for reports from
some of the best farmers in regard to their
incomes. intend this communication tn
answer the request of your correspondent,
although do not claim that my farm ia the
best, nor that am one of the best farmers
think there will be great deal of useful
information obtained if farmers would com.
ply with this request, and give US the
amount of their incomes from the several
products, and the price obtained for each
product, and what would be of still more
benefit, something of the general manage
ment which produces the result.
Il feel inclined to find fault with the re-
ports of the committee on those premium
farms. AS they have only given lis the
aggregate in figures, we are left entirely in
the dark as to what is raised on these farms
and the price for which it was sold; or
whether the products were unsold and mere
ly estimated at certain price, or what por-
ton, If any, was so estimated:
''lu the following statement there is
nothing but what has been produced and
sold in the last year. l have made no esti-
mate of the produce consumed on the farm
by the family or stock, and have an ample
supply on hand for family and teams until
the time for the next crop.
81 sold
42S lbs wool, from 70 sheep, at Sc. .S24S "a
3 three year ola steers $50 per head. $50 90
81 hogs at IS 1906 per cwt, dressed. 316 sc
6S7 bush. red wheat, 50 So per bush :. / ,772 4e
So bush. wheat 50 IS. 148 &C
bush. oats, 34c per bush. ... SOC
Is bush. potatoes, 40c. 72C
bush. buckwheat, 81 per bush. 49,. SOC
81 bbls. apples, 81 IS per Dbl. 1873 &C
~ bush. apples, SOC per bush. ... 16 0C
70 bush. apples 25c per bush. 50C
Total sales ....................$ 81, S13 Ct
My farm consists of one hundred and
eighty acres, of which one hundred and
fourteen acres are improved. l bought for
ty acres three years ago, of which there arc
thirty four acres improved. This land was
badly run down by constant cropping anc
poor cultivation. | have not taken any
crop from it yet; have only used it for pas
ture; but now have it sowed to wheat You
will see that the farm gives me an incom,
of twenty flour dollars and sixty eight cents
for each improved acre.
LAS you will see by the above statement
[ adopt the practice of mixed farming, fo
which the soil of this locality is we'll adap
ted. | renovate with clover and barn -yarC
manure and plaster. do not summer fallov
for wheat; pnt all the manure can on tn
clover sod that has lain in the pasture 70
two years in the fall and winter, and sprea'
as drawn; plough in the latter part of A ri
and plant to corn from about the 9th to tn
18th of May. cut up the corn in Septem
her, as soon as sufficiently ripe, and SOW tn
land to wheat. l raised last year, afte
corn, as described above, of the Lancaste
variety, a red, bearded wheat twenty -fou
bushels to the acre, machine measure, which
when cleaned and sold, considerably over
: ran the measure.