Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-11-24

I. many years as posslOie. All the otho
4 crops described are merely prcparator
!. 10 the hay crop. Sometimes lamor a
@ will manure for grass at the time b
o sows with itsprotocting crop ofgrair
s sufficiently as he thinks to last TO
0 several years This Mr.. Hinsdale be
n lieves TO be an error There will b
a an overgrowth of straw at the expens
p Of the quality of the grain. The frs
. crop OF grass, also, will have
! strong woody growth at the bottom
!, and IL will have many dead spears q
I the bottom TO still further iniuro th,
5 market value of the hay. The seoon,
. crop of bay will be Of excellent quality
/ and probably tho best of the series
, From this there will be Il falling off il
! quality and quantity until il is neces
sary to plough up the sod and gC
r through another course Of less profta
bio crops. BY dividing up The manure
and applying due proportion yearly
the quality of the grass is kept good
and uniform, and the land may profta
bly, be retained as meadow for from
five to seven years.
Mr., Hinsdale was asked what the
profits were on the entire capital in
vested in the Stewart farm, with 0
view to comparison of bis system Of
farming Oh a large scale with that OF
the smaller farmers on the Hampstead
Plains and elsewhere in the State. He
said that 1t was not good business
policy to reveal ones business TO the
public. He could answer the question,
however, as iaras to say that the farm
was proftably conducted. There were
other things he might say also that
would Indicate 10 farmers the degree
Of success which had been attained on
the Stewart farm. lie desired to say
first, however, that there were few ap-
pliancCs used on the farm which might
not be used on small farm In
ploughing he generally used a gang of
two ploughs with three horses. This
enabled one man aud three horses TO
do the work Of two men and four
horses, Steam engines could be profta-
bly, utilized on smaller farms The
method Of applying a small quantity
Of exactly the right kind Of fertilizer
in exactly the right place was within
the capacity OF any farmer No
farmer in that part Of the country
needed to narrow bis profits by build
ing and repairing fences. The corn
crop could be raised exclusively with
horses. There would be found, he
thought, a fairly reasonable profit in
these savings alone. The land he
worked was excellent, c. l., Allen
the florist, late Of Queens, now Of Gar.
den City, had cultivated many plots
in flowers and bulbs, as well as in
vegetables for the table. The result
he declared TO be better than on any
other kinds Of land be had ever cult
waited. As to the acreage OF the various
crops this year, Mr.. Hinsdale gave the
following account:
Of corn there were 4j0 acres, with
an unusually heavy yield. There
would bo at least seventy bushels of
shelled corn TO the acre beyond a
doubt. OF oats there were 5SS acres.
1t bad not been a good season for oats,
but the yield would be about thirtyfve
bushels per acre. This was n better
yield than would be found elsewhere
in the vicinity, because tho land had
suffered less from drought. OF rye
there were 49j acres. OF meadow
there were 4Sj acres. One hundred
acres OF this were in hungarian hay,
with a yield of two tons and a half to
the acre. OF buckwheat there were
250 acres, with a yield of about twenty
bushels to the acre. OF wheat there
were thirty acres, with yield of
twenty bushels to tho acre.
Besides these crops there were
planted every year from twenty to
fifty acres of carrots, turnips, and
sugar-beets, which were raised with
the ordinary methods of lertllizing,
and with results that were at least
equal in point of profit to any crop of
tho same kind Of vegetables in that
vicinity.
The above mentioned crops cover
an area in all of about 1900 acres.
The rest of the farm is used as pasture.
The flock of 500 sheep now grazing on
it is to be increased.
From the fgures.above, the follow
ing table has been calculated Of the
total yield this year of several Of the
crops: