Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-12-08

Below please find report of my second
and third grass crops, together with the
total crop for this year, as compared
with the crop of 1902. My total second
crop, 1903, from fourteen and five-eighths
acres, was 66,2l2 pounds. Three and
half acres, not well cultivated, produced
only 2, 100 pounds; 900 pounds to the
acre. Two and three-quarters acres pro
dueed 1880 pounds; 6,S1l pounds to
the acre. Seven-eighthS of an acre pro-
duced 6,51S pounds; 1882 pounds to the
acre. The balance, seven and a quarter
acres, produced $500 pounds; 5,S3s
pounds to the acre.
Pounds
First crop, 1903. was. lilo, g
Second crop, 1903, was-------.-------.---- 6S,2ll
Third crop, 1893, l'7S'
Total, first. second and third crops ,6S
Average, l2,21S pounds, which was an
average of 95l pounds to the acre more
than that of the 1902 crop, which was
l64,794 pounds; average to the acre,
IL PCS pounds.
The total crop from seven-eighths OF
an acre in fourteen years, first and second
crops, one seeding, was ia tons, 42e
pounds. The surface of this field, to
start with, had little or no vegetable
matter upon it-nothing but clay, gravel
and hardpan. First it was intensely
cultivated; nothing but bone, potash
and nitrate of soda had been used from
the start for fertilizer, at a total cost
not exceeding $3.50 in the fourteen years,
or less than 1925 ton of hay gathered.
The seeding was fourteen quarts of
timothy and fourteen quarts of recleaned
red top to the acre. The crop this year
has the same relative amount of timothy
and red top as when originally sOwn.
Some of it will be shown at the st. Louis
Fair next year. There will also be
shown samples from other parts of my
grass field. The most remarkable sam
pie will be shown from quarter acre
section, where the first crop cut this
year was over four feet in height and
weighed 2,471 pounds. The seconl
crop cut this year was over three feet in
height and weighed 2,240 pounds, max
ing seven and a half feet in height.
Each crop was fully headed and blossom
ed. The third crop did not blossom,
but weighed 1,750 pounds, or at the rate
of three and a half tons to the acre.
The total weight of the three crops from
this quarter acre was 6,40l pounds, or
at the rate of p, GA pounds to the acre.
Fertilizer cost less than S2 ton.
A blizzard struck eight acres of my
second crop while drying, and lifted tons
of it into the adjoining forest. Except
for that. | certainly should have had
forty or more tons, instead of the thirty
three tons which | secured.
have a hay press never before used
this year except once. This year |
found it necessary to press my tirst
crop, to get the second crop in the barn,
which is 60 by 90 by 80 feet up to the
plate.
The five and half acre plum orchard
still continues its phenomenal growth
without fertilizers, making this year, at
last, over three hundred feet growth to
the trees. The intense cultivation Civ
en- it by Clark's double action cutaway
harrow is still doing its work and the
grass crop from the same cause is giving
similar results. While we had two
months in the spring without any rain,
yet this years total crop, as before stat
ed, gave an average of over six tons to
the acre-nearly one thousand pounds
gain to the acre over last year.
II The Tribune Farmer subscribers
will send George NJ. Clark, Higganum,
Conn.,, a two-cent stamp, each will get
circular telling how it is done.-Cor. in
New York Tribune.