The record-union., 1896-04-05

warmer portions of these three States,
and indeed a little further north, sec
ond crop can sometimes be produced
The Agricultural Experiment Station
at Manhattan, Kas-, had fair success
when 225 days elapsed between planting
| the first crop and digging the second,
but growing season OF 1876 days proved
too short for two crops. ss1..
| The second crop is grown by meth
| DDS somewhat different from those em-
ployed with the main crop. Small po-
tatoes from the early crop are extensive
| ly used for seed, and these should be
planted whole Cor with only a small slice
removed), for when cuttings have been
planted in August a poor stand has gen.
orally resulted
| 1t is best to allow the crop which is
to furnish seed potatoes for second crop
| to remain in the ground until the vines
] are entirely dead. However, the culls
may be used even when the early crop
| is dug before complete maturity. To
prepare these culls for prompt growth,
and to eliminate those too immature to
sprout, the small potatoes are exposed
to the light in a shady place for several
days, or until they become greenish;
then they are spread out on the ground
| in a single layer and a little dirt sifted
among them, covered with straw or
| pine needless and the bed kept con-
stantly moist. 1.-The potatoes will sprout
earlier if, before bedding them under
the straw, small piece is clipped on
one end and rejected.
BUSINESS SIDE OF FARMING.
Farm and Home: The farmer must
convert the products Of his land into as
nearly a finished shape as possible. 10
| this end a farm which produces hay,
corn and oats should be provided with
enough livestock to consume these pro-
| ducts. There is a twofold object IN
view: To receive an increased price Tor
1 these products and to maintain and in
crease the fertility of the farm, which
| III return will yield more abundantly
and constitutes one of the objects ear
nestly sought. My actual experience in
this direction has proved satisfactory
In a farm of 100 acres, sixty are culti-
waited in three-years' rotation of corn
and oats, wheat and clover; fourteen
| acres are put in corn and six acres In
oats, both being followed by wheat, and
then seeded to clover, which is allowed
| to remain but one year. Then forty
acres remain for pasture, which sup
ports 100 ewes and their lambs during
the summer months
| The seasons crops now being raised
it becomes necessary to convert them
as nearly as possible into finished pro-
duct, which in the present instance is
mutton. During October in addition to
my own lambs sufficient number are
4 MIR a p6 To L. T inc
about October 1st while yet on pasture,
and continue until January, at which
time I sell. Immediately after selling
my fat lambs 200 more are purchased
usually of farmers who do not care to
feed. These 1 at once commence to
feed. continuing until the latter part of
April or 1st Of May. This lot is always
shorn in early March. It aids in fatten-
ing them and it is amazing to see how
much faster sheep car be made to gain
after their wool is taken off In this
manner the product of the sixty acres
titled ground is made to yield a large
| quantity Of valuable manure and a.
| comfortable bank account.
In January, 1895, 1 purchased 200
| lambs at cost Of $472, weighing at
that time an average of seventy pounds.
They were fed until May 1st and sold
for 81 50 per 100 pounds, when they
weighed ninety-two pounds each.
Meantime they had sheared 1.425
pounds of wool, which sold for 12b
cents per pound, or SITS H. The fol-
lowing shows cost and profit:
Fed IA tons of hay at 81 ton 9S 90
Fed S2a bush corn at 4Sc per bush 156 96
Fed loo bush oats at soc bush. -. 80 90
| Credit. @''o 90
Sold 200 lambs, av. 81 lbs at "a So. $500 40
Aolai.. 81, 070 81
Gain over cost price, $315 A, or about
AZ per cent. This shows the market
value of the feed which the lambs con-
sumed was S2S4 96, and 1 received
So9o o2 for 1t, which was just 21O per
cent. or its market value. In other
words, the hay brought me $14 20 per
ton, corn 81 O1 per bushel, oats 63c per
bushel, the manure paying amply for
my labor. e
Thus it will be seen I have profitable
employment the entire year. During
the summer, with the help of a kind
Providence, I grow crops at an even
100 per cent. Of their market value, and
| during the winter months add just no
per cent, as was the experience last
year, by having them consumed on the
farm by sheep. The mistake of many
farmers is in thinking they can be
profitably employed only while grow
ing their crops This is not right. No
business can prosper by following it
| hS in,
Just so with the farmer He should
strive to put into practice a method
that will give him profitable employ
n-ent the whole twelve months-H. D.
Rohrer, Seville, Medina County, Ohio.
POULTRY NOT A LUXURY.
just why poultry should be regarded
| as one of the luxuries to be reserved for
special occasions in SO many farmers
| families it would be rather hard to de-
eide. A pound of poultry, according to
the Farmers Magazine" can be pro-
| duced by THE farmer as cheaply as a
| pound of beef, mutton or pork, and
| there is no good reason why poultry
should not be found very often on the
| farmers table 1t is just as profitable
to eat the poultry and sell the pork, and
| a great deal more wholesome, for as a
nation we eat entirely too much pork
for the general good. The most of the
pork eaten is principally fat, and this
does not add to the health or strength
of the consumer nearly as much as the
| consumption of an equal amount of
poultry would With a supply of chick
ems, ducks, turkeys and geese, the
farmer could have variety in the way
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