Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-11-01
FARMING SEVEN ACRES.

handsome Profit of Connecticut Farmer
in working Small Farm.
G. M. Clark of Hrgganum, Conn,
writes the Moodus Comm Advertiser as
follows:
nave previously given you the re-
suit OF my first crop of hay, 1901, which
was 1890 lbs. now have the second
crop in the barn, which is 3S, AGO lbs.
Inc total from the two crops this year
from the seven acres is 1902 $50 lbs, an
average of l4,72l lbs. per acre. Certain
iy more than Z tons of well dried hay
per acre for the year. The total cut in
IL years from the rs acre field is 9G
tons 339 lbs. / could now get more hay
Dy sowing new seed upon this section,
out think that shall continue another
year or more see how long timothy
and red top can be kept going with
once seeding when each crop is fed
with bone, potash and nitrate of soda.
l don't contine myself entirely to the
cultivation of grass. / sowed an acre
OF oats for hay this year. The yield
was $500 lbs. Cut,in the milk it makes
excellent feed flor horse and COW. |
also sowed II acres to japanese millet
on land that islquite dry, but the season
Deing wet 1t grew to five and seven feet
nigh and yielded when well dried 13.100
IDS. 1t took nearly two weeks to dry it.
Some one said that it was bad plant to
get started in the land, that it made the
land foul, so removed it from the field
where it grew as soon as possible and
took the double action cutawav disk
harrow ana killed it, but it certainly
killed hard. | could have killed the
hardest sod on my farm easier. If | had
let it alone it would have produced 3 or 4
tons more and seed enough to have
covered the town. When sown on
moist land early it will make two large
crops, 10 or II tons to the acre.
Prehaps you will remember about nv
sowing some timothy and red top the
first of November, 1900. The grass did
not come up till spring. | let quarter
of an acre of it stand, fertllzed it as
usual and cut it the middle of July. 1t
produced less than POO lbs. of hav. 3 -
acres of the same kind of land adjoining
sown 40 days earlier produced 80, 4l5 lbs.
of dry hay cut July first.
Three years ago last spring | set out
1425 japanese plum trees. If nv life
be spared few years longer | will tell
you about them. They produced about
400 baskets this year. The fruit was
very large. | used no fertilizer of any
kind, but kept the land intensely cult
waited to depth of and inches. didn't
raise weed or spear of grass; nothing
but the largest and best favored plum.
of this kind | ever saw.
My little book on grass culture cost.
but stamp. Send for one. Ever,
farmer should have it. | will get In tn,
plums later.
From time to time there has beer
some questions raised about making
money in intense grass culture. Below
| give the results of seven acres fo
twelve years, giving the facts ant
figures covering all the outs and ms
| have figured the price of hay at 81:
per ton, but the average price for which
| have sold 1t has been over SIG per ton
Labor to intensely cultivate the soil, sl29
1856 quarts of timothy seed $3.50.
1913 quarts of recleaned red top seed, sl9GC
Sowing grass seed, Sl4.
H. tons OF fall dressing, S3G per ton, I l26
| 30 IL tons of spring dressing, al per ton
$llSs.5O.
Total cost OF production, sl474GO
Total product, 5GS tons, at SIP per ton, :10jt
Less total cost, S47i6O
| Total profit in II years, $552l 40.