The Newtown bee., 1901-01-04

the New England towns for one hun dred years, before the iron blow came into use, you will find that farms in general were higher in price than they are now and there was more sound, sub stantial wealth in farms than there is at present. believe there was a high CT tone of Christianity, good morals, kindness and sympathy one towards the other, and believe their schools in plain, practical, common sense matter, were superior in that hundred year period than they are now, and was it not there, in this period raised some of the greatest statesmen this country has ever known? At that time chil- dren learned'the four simple rules of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division on about six pages. Now they have got to go over about 600 pages to acquire the same knowledge, and spelling, geography and grammar were about in the same proportion.
 It is true that sciences have made great progress, but I don't know as it has anything to do with the folderol of school education of to-day. Parents are severely burdened for the price of school books that the bookmakerS, teachers and principals may become rich, and this they call high system of education, and it is just about all the re is to it., except that it creates excessive taxation.
 My idea of putting this system of half blowing before the farmers is to show them how they can double the value of their lands and crops at about half cost.
 With this system have no use for harrOwS, markers, weederS or cultiva- tors nor patent fertilizers. My opin- ion is not to have the foot print of a team on the plOwed land if it can be avoided, but to half blow the land ov- CT in two foot wide furrOwS at least three times. When you want to SOW rye, oats or wheat level the furrowS with chain bush and blow in the seed.
 Old fogy farmers used to leave their grain fields in the furrOwS to avoid winter killing and if the land wanted l for pasturage in this manner we get about double surface and double the feed, and all the voidings of the cattle are going to stly oa the land. I be- lieve if this system of cultivation is carried out, it will be the Mo ses of de- liverance for Overburdened farmers.
 Particulars of how I raise three acres of just as.good corn per acre as formerly raised one acre. (Book on General Farming, $1.)
 see in some of the farm papers that one man says he has kept his buildings painted since 1854. If he laid out $1OO to commence with and lays out BIO each year for 90 years, con- pound interest at 6 per cent, it will cost him about $4 ,OOO, and should the $1O be laid out yearly for another 50 years, at the same per cent, the whole cost for the 100 years will be about $75, ,OOO.
 The house where my grandmother lived was built about 17SO, sides cover- ed with pine shingles, anl never was painted, and most of the shingles are in fair condition now. Had the farm buildings been painted as per above the amount to date would be a quar- ter of a million dollars.
 Agricultural editors make their boasts if farmers want to know about farming. ask them. My opinion is they know as little about practical farming in it's correct principles as a crow knows about theology. Their agricultural college nonsense, where it costs $5 to get one, scientific voodoo- isms, heather incantations, where they give smart Latin phrases which is of as little benefit to the common farmer as the quirl to a pigs tail. I am afraid that book farming with the dead flat system of once blowing for a crop, and also the use of patent ferti- lizers with excessive narrowing and stamping with teams, so deadens and sours .the soils that it is the direct cause of the potato blight, rust, scab, rot and bugs, and also of rusty and smut grains which has been the loss of untold millions of dollars to our far mers. OLD FOGaY FARMER, HARDSCRABBLE DISTRICT, l Under scientific
 farming, U. s. A. H. B. PLUMB, l