Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-08-11
MOST TALKED OF FARMER.
wonderfuI Method r Remarkable
Results.

ResuI,%
! Some agricultural Ipers have won
Tered II the methods | Eat j. D. DIETRICH
has applied with remarkable results to
fifteen acres Ok land can be adopted
with equal 81 1ess fo.', large tracts.
DIETRICH says2f can be d, pc ana he is
now trying to prove it. He has sold
j the fifteen acres in Montgomery
county, Pa, where he has achieved a
national fame, and has taken $40 acres
10 Chester county, to which he is ap-
plying the same methods He will try
10 demonstrate that he cam do this on
a large farm what he has accom-
plished in a small way. He has no
doubt of his success. and iflhe proves
that the highly intensive methods he
has practiced for years in raising crops
for dairy purposes can be realized on
Ia large scale he will have practically
solved the question Of profitable agri-
culture in the eastern states.
DIETRICH is a clergyman. whose fifteen
acre farm has attracted attention sim
4y because more money Is being made
from it than from any other fifteen
acres devoted to the dairy Industry in
the United States. WhenI the little
farm came into his hands. about
twenty years ago. the AND was so
worn out that it could not produce
vegetables enough for yhe kitchen or
hay enough for a horse and two COWS.
For years now this little place has pro-
duoei everything required for the sus-
tenance Of from thirtg-two to thirty
five COWS ana two horses. excepting
such conca7t rated feed as bran and
cottc1seedWnral; also all the yege-
tables neea' by the family. Dairy
men usually link they need at least
three or four acres to each head OF
live stock. but here is.a man who
makes each acre support two head
Il may readily be seen that if Det-
"lch ) methods are capable of practi-
cal application by a large number of
, farmers the influence upon production
aud profits will be enormous. The ex-
perts of the agricultural department
have estimated that a general appli-
cation Of Detrich's methods would be
worth 100000. 900 a year for the.dairy-
interests of the country. Farmers
have been greatly interested to learn
how he does It. All the agricultural
papers for the past year have given
much attention. to his operations He
has been in great demand as lecturer
at farmers institutes. and his place
became SO overrun with visitors that
he had to cry halt, II he were paid,
he said. to run his place as model
farm il would lie all right, but II &c
was TO be continued as private enter
prise he must really give mere atten,
ton to his own business and less TO
! that Of the general public. :
u, = said that the agricultural de
partment at Washington EXPECTS soon
20 devote bulletin to the story of Mr..
Detrieh's little farm showing how he
has succeeded in increasing its pro
ductivity some four t0 'fivefold per
acre above that of the average
His hteen-acre farm first. became
known through two long articles in
the American Agriculturist in 1902 It
was shown that he had developed one
of the most extensive systems IL rails
! ing crops to feed the dairy stock that
! was known anywhere. and that the
management and feeding of his herd
had reached a degree Of proficiency
| that was scarcely eaualed by any es-
pertinent station: and all the work on
this remarkable farm is done by one
man and a small boy. excepting ions
few weeks II the harvest qtirtie We
speak of ont one harvest tim when
we refer to the work OF thtage
farmer. but DIETRICH raises thsp-DeSs
a year on his place,
! The first thing he did was to find
out exactly what his soil lacked IN che
constituents of plant food. and then
to supply the deficiency. To tell what
,lhe did would make long story, of in
lterest chiefly to farmers and students
of agricultural chemistry. 1t is suf-
icient here 20 say that no scientific
fertile than that which he had been
tilling for years. When he seeds a
piece to clover in August the crop in
November win be thick and matted
underfoot like the nap OF a velvet
ICarpet, When he raises corn the crop
It's often high enough in six weeks to
hide horse, He cuts three crops of
nay year from each of his hay fields
/ His corn. barley, oats. rye and Canadi-
an field peas are all raised TO be cut
green for fodder or for siIage. and
each bit of grond sives thresfbig crops
la year These green crCvs make
splendid feed are sweet and NAi OF nu-
tritioa. and the animals never tire OF
them for their food is varied from one
! crop to another,
He has a method of curing his hay
instead cf drying Il. thus preserving
most Of the original qualities of sweet
ness and freshness. He has never
bought pound of fodder, straw or
litter. For seven months his animals