Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-02-26
EIGHTY ACRES ENOUGH.
A suitable Farm IL the Land II Good.
w. ii Tillea and he Crops Are DIVER
sified, Ought 40 Produce $4,000 In

A suitable Farm, IL the Land IL Good.
w. ii Tillea and he Crops Are DIVER
sifed, Ought 90 Produce $4,000 In a
season.
A paper of much interest to farmers at
the last meeting of the Rock Island
County Farmers Institute aud one that
passing mention of was made at the time.
was that Of W. S. Mccullough. of Bow
ling, on Miscellaneous Farming"
He made remarkable showing of what
could be done with good eighty acre
strip if properly farmed, and while some
of his statements were met with incredu.
lily. all were of great interest. Mr..
Mccullough empt asized the looseness
with which much Of the farming is done
by men who in their eagerness to Guilt
vate 1.-The earth" ia i to half do their work
even on the portion which comes under
their control. He didn't believe In this
idea of combining ones self to one crop.
The farmers who raise corn to feed hogs,
to sell, to buy more land, to raise more
corn, 10 buy more land. ETC., very often
attain poor results. He acknowledged.
however, that for diversity of crops, or
for general farming. all hands must pitch
In and work with will. The farmer and
bis wife and their Two boys must work.
or, If the two boys won't work. then
four hired men will about fill their places.
General farming keeps the farmer and his
help busy all the time. instead of the
short time that the corn crop requires at
tention. The diversity of crops enabled
the farmer TO sell at home and to buy a,
home. If you sell your pork In Chicago
and buy your supplies there, you have
the freight to pay both ways. He had
made careful estimate of what could
actually be raised on an eighty acre farm,
the farmer and his help devoting all their
time TO diversified farming thereon, and
had formulated the following statement:
Twenty acres of potatoes, 225 bushels
acre. or $4,000 bushels. which at 80
| cents bushel, would bring 81 $50. This
go acres would have to be good potato
land, and the crop would have to be tax.
en- care of. not neglected.
Twenty acres of corn, which he would
feed to his hogs, horses and cattle.
Five acres of onions. 400 bushels to the
acre or 1000 bushels, 40 cents busbel
$500.
One half acre Of celery, $3.50.
One half acre Of tomatoes, 800.
One acre for garden. yard and GRO
quet ground i: you want it.
Ten acres of oats IS bushels to the
acre $50 bushels One half of this
would be fed to colts and calves, and the
other half sold at. say 80 cents bushel,
$975O.
Ten acres for pasture for cows.
Eight acres for b og pasture.
Five acres for hay.
This accounted for all the land. In
figuring the profits on stock, ETC., he did
not count at either end of the year the
animals he had on hand to begin with
He credited his years work with:
Fifty hogs, 10 months old. weighing
300 pounds each. aud worth 5000 at "a
per cwt.
AA'S oS'Sh SO"S hhu ChIu DiO~
duced calf The calves would be
worth 30 apiece at II weeks old. or S42
Forty pounds of butter per week for
SO weeks. at 30 cents per pound, $482.
His four brood mares would have
foaled one colt each. The colts would
be worth $40 each, or Sl6O.
Two hundred chickens at 40 cents
each, $50. He would eat all the eggs
Forty turkeys, l. cents a pound, ten
pounds each, $44
Forty tons of corn fodder, for fee ding.
One hundred wagon loads of pump
kins raised between the corn rows, worth
$500.
just look at the total value of the pro-
ducts Of the eighty acres,
Potatoes. 81 $3.50 90; onions, $500 90;
celery, $3.50 90; tomatoes. 800 90; oats,
$40 80; hogs. 5000 90; calves, $40 90;
butter, 1892 90; colts. $3.50 90; chickens
$4,000; turkeys, S44 90; pumpkins,
100000. Total, 3. 155 50