The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-08-26
FAKM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
A Small Farm.

1t is wonderful what great results can
be obtained from a small tract Of land
when the tiller Of the soil is industrious
aud intelligent enough to avail of the
advantages OF his command, even in one
Of the most bleak and forbidden locali-
ties. A correspondent Of the Boston
C~hltiUatOr gives an account Of the opera.
tions Of q MI. E. Morrison on a farm of
seven acres, witha moderate sized house
and barn, near the village of Welles-
ley, Mass. One acre or thereabouts Of
this seven is meadow, and cannot be till
ed, while another acre has beon reclaim
ed from this meadow by burying such
stones upon it as he dug up from the up
land. Upon this acre of reclaimed
meadow he now cuts about a ton and
half Of good hay. Four acres of this lit.
tie farm he has in tillage. For the whole
place he paid some IL or IA years ago
81, 400, while ever since he has raised
sufficientto support his family in a good
and comfortable manner. He keeps two
horses to work his land and draw ont his
manure from Boston; also one COW, for
which animal he has to buy the most Of
his hay and all his grain. He sells an.
nually from two to three Thousand dol.
lars worth of vegetables and berries.
MIR. Morrison manures his land very
heavily, applying the whole of it broad.
cost, and plows it in. His first crops
are lettuce, spinach and radishes. At
this season of the year he has lettuce
under glass; some was well up from the
seed. he transplants from the glass to
open ground as soon as the frost is out
of the ground in the spring, at the same
time he sows his radishes and spinach.
he had half an acre Of spinach where
last summer he had a strawberry bed.
This spinach was sown last September.
He is covering it with tomatoes and
squash vines, which he prefers to either
leaves or course horse litter, which latter
lay too close, and are apt to smother
the spinach. This spinach will be ready
to cut early in the spring. He sows his
peas early in the spring, and plants be.
tween the rows cucumbers for pickles.
Beets he also sows early, and as he pulls
these he puts in cantelops melons; he
also plants melons where his radishes
have grown; squashes he plants among
his early beans and potatoes; blowing
in his manure broadcast enables him to
do this, and one object he labors for with
his squashes is to have them take root
at the joints, then if the Maggots kill the
first root the vine still fourishes.
Nh. Morrison is n OF the most sue
cessful squash growers in his vicinity.
Winter potatoes he only raises for his
own use, among which he plants winter
crookneck squashes. He raises large
quantities Of tomatoes, but neither cab
bages nor turnips. These latter, he
claims, draw too heavily upon the soil,
while squashes pay him much better.
Half an acre in Strawberries, the pro.
duce Of which he sold to the Welle sley
College at 20 cents a box, some days.
delivering 14O boxes, though he did not
average 30 much during the season.
This shows what the right kind OF a man
can do upon q small piece:of land. He
raises no sweet corn, as he claims it takes
too much land, and he must raise that
which requires little space but more
labor. He cuts his garment according
to his cloth and makes a remarkable
close fit.