The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-03-19

the stalk had gotten to be six or eight
feet high; in fact. they turned yellow
before we had any dry weather, but l
made nearly eight (s) bbls. Of corn to
| the acre.
The red hills utterly failed in grass
sown in the wheat fields, and l plowed
these hills up the latter part of August,
spread them with manure and hauled
soil from the edges of bitches and odd
places, spreading it on with the ma
| nure. and then | sowed them with Grim
son clover. | divided the grass field
that was in wheat, using one-half for
pasture and one-half for hay. | har
rowed and rolled the part which | had
in hay, gathered up the rubbish which
| put on small spots, too small to plow,
where the grass had failed. cut
about one ton of hay to the acre.
| sowed wheat in the field which |
had in corn | used a fertilizer, con-
ssting of bone, blood and tankage one
half, and the other half equal parts Of
S. c. rock and kainit, using 400 lbs.
per acre on the good land and 800 lbs.
per acre on the CALLED places. | made
| about ten I0) bushels to the acre, the
CALLED places failing. AS this was a
| new field | used the same treatment as
on others, viz: manuring, soiling, and
| sowing crimson clover, the rest of the
fields having a beautiful set of clover
and timothy. That year QS95) l had
twelve (l2) acres in potatoes, Early
Rose, a Early Northerner, and made
| about 500 bushels of potatoes. AS
fast as l dug the potatoes | prepared
the ground and sowed crimson clover,
| and had field of clover that was as
beautiful as one would wish to see.
This ! plowed uEder the following
May. and on June End, which was en-
tirely too late, l planted corn, making
ten OO) barrels per acre.
| had all my corn on crimson clover
| sod, but in the other field | had red
clover turned under the second crop
and then sowed with crimson clover.
This field was in rye when l took the
farm, and was planted i'll corn May
2Oth, making 10 barrels of corn per
acre. Last year | had twenty-five (25)
acres in corn, which | have now in
wheat, seeded with timothy and which
| will SOW with clover this Spring
Last year | fed twenty (2O) cattle and
could have fed fifty just as well from
the provender | had. just hauled
out the fodder by the wagon load and
let the cattle eat as much as they want
ed and trample the remainder into ma
nure. Right here l will say a word
for the Maryland Experiment Station.
NV cattle had become tired of eating
corn bran and cut fodder. They were
at standstill, with scarcely any az
petite. Here there was danger oftheir
falling off instead Of fattening. | read
in pamphlet, called How to Feed
Cattle" sent me from the Experimental
Station, that oil meal aside from being
a fattening food was also an appetizer,
and l purchased ton. The result
was astonishing, and my only trouble
after that was to provide enough for
them so ravcnous had become their
appetites.
l paid 81 cents for my cattle and
sold them at an advance of SIS per
head, not including their expenses, but
considering the large quantity of ma
nure that had accumulated think the
investment was very successful.
Last year GS96) where | had pota-
toes as fast as dug them l prepared
the ground and about the first of Sep
tember sowed timothy and clover and
now | have about ID acres with fine
set on it.
Last year (lo96) my potatoes were
a failure, owing to the ''Scab,' but as
have an so gallon kettle | utilized
the small and scab5y ones by cooking
them for the hogs.
My orchard, which had been set out
about fifteen years ago by former
owner, had not been trimmed for mum
Der of years and was in terrible con
diton, and it took two men, one al
expert, four weeks to trim it, and il
now looks as well as any orchard
ever saw.
| was frequently on the farm the
year before got possession of it, anC
| never saw clover blossom on it
The fences consisted of brambles, cut
down, and fallen trees with a strand Of
wire, here and there. nailed to sassa
tras or locust bush. You could not
get within twenty feet Oft the fence line
had to grub up to the line and ther
} | put soil on the poor sl,ots and pu'
up II seven strand wire fence. a neigh
Dor who has lived oh an adjoining farm
for 40 years told me that he had never
seen the fence line cleared up before
| would rather have soil on the pOOl
. knobs than manure, as soil has more
humus than manure and is much more
lasting. This brings me down to th'
present time.
In August | began buying cattle
from Southern Mary land and the coun
: ! ties of Virginia bordering on the Pc