The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-02
INTENSIVE FARMING

1t was the late Mr.. j. w. Smith. the
well known Wisconsin horticulturist we
believe, who declared that the possibilities
OF an acre had never yet been reached.
lhlS IS probably true. and it is perhaps
true mat 1t would not pay to attempt to
reach them, because the cost of doing 81
would be out of proportion to the returns
received. Still Mr.. Smith showed in his
own practice that very profitable returns
could be made from high cultivation. and
Jhat the truly prosperous farmer was tha
man who carried on his farm operations
by methods much more intensive than
Lnose usually IN vogue. In the west land
mas peen plenty and the ambition 10
cultivate large areas so general thai the
tendency which prevails to ger crons in
almost any way, is perhaps not TO he
wondered at. Better and more Intensive
methods, however, are gradually coming
into vogue. In the older sections Of +bo
country they already prevail to a, consSd.
cradle extent A correspondent of the
'sOLdnse county Farmer narrates his exper-
fence with one-fourth of an acre, which is
not without interest. He planted the land
10 early potatoes and as soon as he fn
ished working the potatoes planted to-
bacco between the rows. When the no.
Iatoes were dug for market the stalks
were carried off and the ground cniti1
waited, and the lot then had the appear
ance OF tobacco field 1t was then
sewn TO turnIp seed, and after the to-
bacco was taken off it was a con1nlete
turnip Held. The result was fifty bushels
OF potatoes, which sold two Years ago
IT an average price of 81, which. how.
ever, would bring no such sum this wear
There were 400 pounds Of tobacco ~ -
cents, making s4S, and forty bushels of
Jnrnlps at sc cents, making SD total
Sllu Under his circumstances and fba
prices prevailing in his section he cal
culates that the yield from the one
1ourth OF an acre was equivalent to that
OF five acres of corn yielding eighty bnsbt
els per acre, or seven acres of wheat mr.
TOUR acres OF hay, and yet the taxes were !
PAID only on one-fourth of an acre ssT-be
same correspondent describes il, this CON
necuon, me best crop of corn he ever
raised. 1t was on a four acre LOT ON |
which the second growth of the previous |
year clover crop had been ploUe5 In
The ground was very thoroughly nrenarad |
petore planting, and the field check-rowe6 |
the corn planted thickly and after II !
was cultivated a. number of times with |
the cultvator he went over the field and
thinned down every hill in the field IN
three stalks. The result was GOO bIIsba1S
with six large two-horse loads of corr,
fodder and half dozen loads of pumn-
klns, equal to what is called a good cr-on
on twice the number of acre The nayf
year the same field produced 200 bushels
OF oats. While the question of how much
work can be profitably devoted to a given
area must always be taken into consid-
GRAFTON by the practical man in the light
or his own circumstances. there is no
doubt but that larger yields than arc
generally thought possible will result
from thorough cultivation, intelligentlv
e1Ven TO what extent it will pay to give |
Il each farmer must determine for him
self in the light of his own conditions. for
labor cost and prices received for the
crop VIII affect the question