The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-08-29
FARMING In GERMANY.
RESULTS OBTAINED BY WORKING
UPON SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES.
Some Points that May Prove Of Benefit
tn the American Farmer-The Triumph
0f System -'Bufldings, Feeding, Etc.
Scientific Institutes.

american 3Tm0F-1n0
of System -.Building.. Feeding. Etc.
Scientific Institutes.
The farm which 1 visited Is owned by .
man who, until recently, has been o tenant
farmer, but year ago bought for 40 1000 thai
ers about 200 acres Of unentailed land from the
Tierstor6- -Cramm estate. He is q brother Of
the widely known Professor Waldeyer, OF
Berlin, and found him not only typically
sturdy "son Of the soil, )" but man Of unusual
intelligence and enterprise, who in the most
hospitable spirit offered to show me anything
md everything connected with German farm
WDg. The morning we called upon him
was bemOaning the partial destruction Of his
rye by hail. The hail fell without wind and
only the dropping heads Of the grain were
harmed His enthusiasm and his disappoint-
meIit were interesting. In the last ten or
twelve years the changes in the German eli
mate have been considerable; tie insurance
rates were based ON the former condition OF
things, and inasmuch hail storms have in
crease in frequency and violence in the time
REFERRED to by about 80 per cent, the COM
panies demand three days notice, which in
this country is regarded as peremptOry. Mr..
Walleyers grain covers nearly two-thirtis Of
his farm, but among fifty other similar
farmers he is the only one who was insured.
THE TRIUMPH OF SYSTEM.
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Of fodder is estimated for individual animals,
is part of a system which is an actual tri-
umph, because it is universal among all con-
siderable proprietOrs, and the intelligent Ger
man farmer makes estimates in this and all
other matters, with something OF the exacti-
tude Of the managers OF an insurance CON-
pany, even to estimating the amsunt Of loss
per mile in driving to "the villag!A," in time,
and in wear and tear Of material.
fol tB,o
available without direction and discipline;
the inability in the way Of self help is some
times quite amusing, but when Investigations
are made in n prescribed and scientific man.
ner they are usually accurate
The farm buildings having been erected by
peasant, it is MIR. Waldeyer's intention to
reconstruct them, as he already has his house
to some extent, from civilized prejudice
against dwelling under the same roof with
his stock. The buildings are scattered, and
saw no ice house, no dairy and no corn crib.
They are, however, not representative, yet
the stock barn was not impractical, the cattle
and horses being stalled around the sides Of
large, airy, light rooms each side Of O
main inclosed floor, upon which the food is
cut by hand with an ordinary cutter, and
where the hay is dropped from above. Mr..
Waldeyer showed his horses with some
pride. Most Of them are more like fox hun
ters in their build than are American farm
horses, and look like good rOadsters. In
feeding, each animal receives in the working
season fifteen German or about seventeen
English pounds Of strength food" ground
oats and bran, daily, together with five Ger
man pounds of hay. At other times they re-
ceive the same quantity of hay and nine Ger
man pounds Of cut straw, oats and bran, and
for six weeks in the summer, beginning in
june, each horse is given fifty y-fOur English
pounds of cut clover daily.
This careful system is also carried into tho
management Of the soil A hundred and thir-
teen pounds of manure is here worth ten cents
for the ammonia, phosPhoric acid and potash
it contains. Six dollars worth of manure is
put upon each acre yearly. In what is called
Intensive" farming-scientific farming on q
strictly business basis-artificial dressing COM
posed Of phosphOric acid and ammonia in the
proportion of 2 to 3 is used to the amount Of
$1l-25 per acre yearly, and over and above
the usual supply there is an extra supply
provided at "Allhausenn by purchasing twen-
ty-five or thirty extra head of cattle every
autumn Manure is drawn on to To the fields
all winter and plowed in ut the first oppor-
tunity, and there is a constant reserve Kept in
an open, water tight compost vat.
SCIENCE AT ONES "FINGER-ENDs"
Calling upon scientist a lecturer for ad-
vice is characteristic, and it was easy to see in
ing a practical science was fairly at his
~finger- ends" In extent and appearance
aside from the marvellously finished appear
ance OF the finely pulverized fields, German
agriculture does not compare with our own
and naturally its possibilities are nothing
compared with land in which single state
produces over thirty million bushels of wheat,
and in which small part of one state can
produce more cotton than the world can use
at b,,t hfvx toll
satile the American agriculturist may be, the
German farmer of the future will try titles
with him in some respects with methods as
nearly like the results of genius as Won
Moltke's celebrated tactics The constant
marvel is that, with such evident capacity,
such widespread higher education, such pre-
eminent ability in every walk Of life, that
Germany has not done even more than she
has, and the world may look for as much
progress in the future as the unfortunate con-
ditions which inevitably prevail in Europe
will permit. Nearly every German farmer is
a graduate Of one Of the higher schools, gym
nasia, scientific institutes Subsequently
he has two years practical experience on q
farm, for which privilege he pays 40 thalers
a year, and is fitted for n two years course in
the excellent agricultural schools, which he
Invariably takes
Naturally, the small peasant proprietors do
not enjoy all these privileges, but it is mainly
because they do not wish to. They are pro-
vlded in the winter schools with all the agri-
cultural knowledge, including a system Of ac-
counts, which the meager common school
education has fitted them to receive. 1t will
be wondered that il does not enable them to
learn more, but the education of the newspa-
per does not reach them here as it does in
America There are no circulating libraries
In the smaller towns, and certainly no papers
n n III 10 in
such places in America, which corresponds to
and imply general civilization and q refine
ment Of life unknown in such towns here. Il
i, however, not because the government does
not desire 10 elevate its subjects. On the con-
trary, believe there Is no country with
such widespread higher education not only,
but where such persistent efforts are made to