The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-08
A Small Farm.

1t s wonderful what great results can
De obtained from small tract of land
when the tiller Of the soil is industrious
and Intelligent enough to avail Of the ad.
vantages at his command, even in one of
the most bleak and forbiddins localities.
A correspondent Of the Boston Cul,ivator
gives an account of the operations of a Mr..
+. Morrison on farm Of seven acres, with
moderate sized house and barn, near the
village Of Wellesly. Massachusetts,. One
acre or thereabouts Of the seven IN mead
ow, and cannot be titled; while another
acre has been reclaimed from this mead
ow BY burying such stones upon il as be
dug up from the upland. Upon this acre
Of reclaimed meadow he now cuts about a
ton and half Of good hay. Four acres of
this little farm he has in tillsge. For the
whole place he paid some twelve lor thir-
teen years age 81 400, while ever since he
has raised suficien, to support his family
in . good and comfortable manner. He
keeps two horses to work his land and
draw out his manure from Boston; also one
COW, for which animal he has to buy the
most Of his hay and all Of his grain. He
sells annually from two three thousand
dallars' worth Of vegetables and berries.
Mr. Morrison manures his land very
heavily, applying the whole of il broad
cast. and plows II in. His first crops are
lettuce, spinach, and radishes. Al this
-eason Of the year he has lettuce under
glass; some was we'll up from the seed. He
'ranspl'nts from the glass to the open
ground as soon as the frost IL out of the
ground in the spring, at the some time he
sows his radishes aud spinach. He had
h-lf an acre OF spinach where last summer
he had strawberry bed. This Spinach
was sowen last September. He is cover
ing 1t with tomatoes and squash vines,
which he prefers to either leaves or courae
litter, which latter lay too close and are
spt TO smother the spinach. This spin.
ach will be ready to cut early in the spring
He sows his peas early in the spring, and
plants between the rows cucumbere for
pickles. Beets he also sows early, and he
pulls these he puts in cantelope melons; he
also plants melons where his radishes have
grown; squashes he plants among bic early
beans and tomatoes; plowing in his ma
nure broadcast enables him TO do this. and
one object he Isbors for with his squashes
is to have them take root at the joints,
then If the magsots kill the first root the
vine still fourishes.
Mr.. Morrison is one of the most success
full squash growers in this vicinity. Win
ter potatoes be only raises for his own use,
among which he plants wiAter crookneck
He raises large quantities of to-
matoes, but neither cabbage nor turnips. |
These latter, he claims, draw too heavily
upon the soil, while squashes pay him
much better. Haitian acre in straw berries,
the product OF which he sold to the Wells. |
ley College at twenty cents q box, some |
days delivering one hundred and forty |
boxes, though he did not average so much
during the season This shows what the
right kind Of a man can do upon . small
piece of LAM. He raises no sweet corn,
as he claims It takes too much land, and
be must raise that which requires lit
lie space but more labor. He cuts his gar
nent according to his cloth and makes
close fit.