The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-02-05

are very plain, he made use of the
old barn, not caring to spend the
money for model dairy barn; he
is after che money, not the show.
You would be impressed as much
with what you did not see as what
you did see; no display; no fancy
or elaborate buildings or devices.
No pasture or yards for cattle, no
fences, no unusual kinds of crops,
no chickens, no hogs; but you do
see the richest IL acres of ground
you ever saw, not that it is of any
better natural quality than lands
in good old Cecil. The land on either
side was poor, showing what a heavy
and oft repeated application Of
manure will do for soil, as the soil
on Mr. Dietrich's farm was wonder
fully ricE and mellow. Mr.. Diet
rich is a professed book farmer.
He believes in every educational
influence that brings agricultural
knowledge into the farmers realm.
Experience is a good teacher, but
not every one is an experimenter.
Many persons have experience,
but results only to their sorrow.
Success comes only from the appli-
cation of real truthful knowledge
that is reduced to laws preserved
as records in book form.
His cattle are kept in an ordinary
we'll lighted barn basement, clean
and disinfected with creolin. The
cattle were Jerseys, clean, clear
eyed, and soft skinned, with loose,
smooth, and fine coats, raising
their heads to be stroked as we
passed. 1t made one feel like rails
ing their hat and saying, How are
you, MADAME They showed loving
tender care while stabbed for years
in their well white washed quar-
tiers. Mr.. Dietrich thinks the calf
the first year is better stabbed and
tethered an hour or two each day
in fine weather but never long
enough to lie down on damp
ground. Second year, good pas
ture; the action of thighs in
walking helps to develop the ndder,
after that, stabbed, as grinding the
feed and manufacturing milk is ex-
Lercise enough. When visiting Mr..
Dietrich's little farm, 1 was de-
sirous to learn something to bring
home for my brother farmers and
myself. l know you are all ready
to ask: What did you learn? 1 think
it can be put in a few words: farm
less land, keep more stock, of some
kind; any kind we may fancy to
consume orr produce, that it may
be returned to the land, increasing
its fertility and the productiveness
of our soil. What others are doing
we ought to be able to do. 1t is not
his milk, or its price that made the
greatest impression upon me, it
was his crops. measured rye
straw, z fit. long, saw third cutting
timothy hay that made at least Ia
tons per acre and the sod there on
the 18th day of Nov. had made
such a growth that any Cecil Co.
farmer would be so pleased with
such sod on LIST of June, that he
would neglect his work to admire
its beauty, and wonder where he
could find barn room to store it.
1t was what that little place pro-
duced that interested me. Oats
and peas are sown together very
early in the spring. They are
made into hay and in August the
same ground is sown to clover and
;. timothy and the next year gives
three mowings of hay. Rye is cut
and reseeded to corn, followed by
rye. The land is thoroughly worked,
narrowed, rolled, pulverized by a
clod cutter and drag at each seeding
until il is like an ash heap. No soon
er IL one crop removed, than another
is planted, thus keeping the ground
busy the year around. On leaving
this farm we felt fully convinced
that ten acres was enough for any
lone to farm. From here we went
to visit Mr.. Stephen Francisco's
Fairfield" farm situated about an
hours trolley ride from Newark,
New Jersey. This farm is now a
company property with Mr.. Fran
cisco as president and chief
stock holder, in fact, about the
whole company. He has his fore
men to hold stock that they may
feel an interest IN the business.
Mr.. Francisco said about % years
ago his stock in trade was 13 cows
and two horses. BY the aid of his
good wife, the product was ready
for market by four o'clock in the
morning. After returning thanks to
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