Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-03-01

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Address by G. VI. Clark, Higganum. Ct, be
fore his home grange.)
We are here for an hour to talk about
money making upon the farms. There
are many things we can do to make
money. | shall tell you how to make
money in grass culture. Let others tell
ms how to make money in other products.
The best results cannot be obtained in
any science except by careful study and
hard work. To get at the bottom we
must work, must learn to love work,
above everything else learn to love work.
II is better for one to take but one thing
at q time and follow it long enough to
get positive facts. Life is too short for
one to find many, and an hour is too
short to describe them. / am here to
tell YOU in a few minutes, what | have
found in eighteen years in the cultiva-
ton of grass. | am making this talk to
Jew of the most intelligent people on
earth, to that class oi people who con-
troll the world, the farmers. The farms
furnish the brains. Sunshine and Tree
air stay the tide. We get that on the
farms. We can make money there.
But we must 90 TO work in scientific
manner on the farms.
In the production of all kinds of crops
we must have more intense cultivation.
The Clark's Getaways will do it. Others
may, but it must be done. No matter
what crops, the more we cultivate the
better. Cultivation and civilization 90
| hand in hand We get our living from
the earth, mostly from the farms.
will now give you the results of intense
cultivation on a few acres of poor land,
what farmers here and everywhere call
worn out lands.
Every farmer in the country can have
one of my grass circulars by sending a
two-cent stamp to George NJ, Clark,
Higganum, Conn. On page II of the
grass circular you will find that, with
hay figured at $50 per ton, you can
make $50 year per acre, at SlS.OO per
ton YOU can make 5000, an average OF
over $1,000 an acre per year, and grass
is a very sure crop.
On pages l3, Ii, 10, l6, and IL OF the
grass circular you will find details. L
sow redtop aud timothy in equal parts,
IA quarts each kind of seed to the acre.
They grow well together and produce Il
ton and a half more hay to the acre
when thus Sown. The circular tells all
about it. My first experience on sixteen
acres in two crops produced over 100
tons. over six tons to the acre. On one
flat section of seven-eighthS of an acre
covered with clay, gravel hard-pan, no
vegetation on it, at one seeding, in four
teen years, twenty eight crops, produc-
ed ll4t tons of dry hay, a net profit OF
81 10000, over $500 per year. a sec
ton of five eighthS of an acre, in two
crops this year, gave rate OF l,+OO
pounds to the acre, at $1,000 per ton,
gave net profit of Sll7.OO. Not year
i'm the eighteen but what some one or
more acres of this field have produced
more than six tons, sometimes over
seven tons first crop. Again, there
never has been a year in which less than
six tons have been grown in two crops.
That is not due to favorable conditions
10 start with, it is due to intense cultlva-
ton, fertilizer, and care.
The outside cost of hay does not ex-
ceed 81 for labor, S3 for fertilizer, total
cost per ton for we'll dried hay in barn,
81. The most remarkable sample will
be shown this year from quarter acre
section where the first crop cut was
over four feet in height and weighed
,, All pounds. Second crop cut this year
from the same field was over three feet
high and weighed 2,240 pounds, making
n feet in height. Each crop was fully
headed and blossomed. The third crop
did not blossom, but weighed 1,I5O
pounds, at the rate of ) l-2 tons to the
acre. The total weight of the three
crops from this quarter acre section this
wear was 6,40l pounds, or at the rate OF
25,644 pounds per acre, and total
growth of over nine feet, This quarter
acre section at $1,000 per ton produced a
rate of $4,000 net profit per acre. The
general average of my field for eighteen
Years has given net profit of over
$1,000 per year per acre, hence say we
can, if we will, make money in grass
culture.-Maine Farmer.