Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-04-12
His excuses are as follows:

Nalulng his house rent, fire wood,
beef, pork, vegetables, &C., at $780,
90 he would have for family support
5000 net increase S535, or 101 per
cent on invested capital.
His property much increased in
value, buildings glisten with paint
surrounded with beautiful lawns and
fragrant shrubbery, his family in
creased with his property, now num-
bers three boys and two girls, all 60
ing TO school, bright, healthy and
happy. Grouped around the family
hearth they are one of the happiest
families anywhere to be found, and
placed to the income of Mr.. B. swell
1t up into the thousands.
] trust that all will be willing to
admit the fairness Of this comparison
and the results as satisfactory proof
that it is at least possible to make
farming profitable yet in Adams
County.
By fattening from ten to twenty
head of cattle, or by milk cows or
raising OF stock, the value on corn
and oats here given is usually very
much increased. There are Of course
many small expenditures which time
and space would not permit my
noticing, With al, equal number OF
income to fully meet them, such as
the calves, sheep, pork, &c. &c. Il
wish to state here that the value of
house rent, &c, merely reduces the
cost ofthe farmers living by so much
and has no place in an account of
this character, where monies receiv-
ed and expended are simply to be
accounted for, the net balance show.
ing the percentage made on invest
ment, the privileges of house rent,
&c, merely being noticed to show
that they were not lost sight Of
1t will be seen that by this method
of farming one-fourth of the farm
land will be in grass, which is all
that is necessary, with one.fourth in
corn and fodder to raise sufficient
amount OF feed to feed well all the
stock to be kept to work up the
straw of wheat and oats raised on
the other half of the farm, all of
which, converted into manure, will
manure the farm heavily about once
in every four years. The corn ground
ought always be MANFRED, the re.
naming manure may be applied to
the wheat, with corn ground always
MANFRED, and an application of three
to four hundred pounds OF a good
commercial fertilizer per acre to the
wheat, will invariably insure good
crop, fully averaging up to the stand
ard of 20 bushels per acre.
Farming should be varied to suis
various soils. Where one has much
low meadow land, better adapted to
the growing of hay than grain, the
raising of good horses can be made |
profitable. On some OF our more |
high, better drained soils peach and |
apple farming may be made profit. |
able.
Here we are again met with the
objection that peach trees do not live |
long enough to make it profitable. |
My answer is, put back in the soil
what the many years of cropping
and exposure have robbed it OF and |
you can again grow the peach |
protitably. Mr.. Nicodemus, the pio.
neer peach grower of Washington
County, Nd, gives it as his expert
ence that the peach can be grown
successfully on any well drained soil,
with proper care, cultivation and |
fertilization. Through his and Mr.. |
Stovel's great success in peach grow.
ing, supposed old and worn out land,
which went begging at ten dollars |
per acre ten years ago, now sells |
readily at one hundred dollars.
1t is common complaint among
many farmers that our soils do not
produce as they once did. This is
true. In soils that have not been
well handled it is especially true, and
it would be contrary to the laws off