Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-06
What Can Be Done
On Twenty Acres.

raised en- 1vc acres. which sold during
I the following winter for from 50 cents
10 81 N hushcl, In 1900 10 acres OF po-
I tatocs yielded 1850 bushels, which
I ovoraeed 50 cents bushel. In 1901,
} with but three ana "A half inches OF rain
/ n, his locality. Martin by constant cul-
I tivation secured NJ bushels an acre on
each OF hls thrce acres planted, or no
bushels IN an which sold ut from 81 TO
81 IS bush from the field, This
demonstrated " the young Swiss the
value ar a email farm properly tarned
IN O dry year.
/ HUNDRED DOLLARS AN ACRE
( PROFIT.
I In 1909 he planted hve acres IN pota.
toes and harvested / 600 bushels, the
early varieties selling for 81 So a bush
u and the balance for Is cents bushel.
His potatoes brought him that year
considerably over si00 an acre profit.
In 1903 he raised ESQ bushels of pota.
toes, which sold for from IL cents 10 81
q bushel. Together with l42 crates OF
strawberries. all raised on oue-half
acre of ground, Martin realized 1888
from his three and u half acres of po-
tatoes and fruit. or about S2SS profit per
acre--ana this on land that just seven
years before cost him so an acre.
During these seven years this practical
and scientific young farmer has real
lied from his potatoes alone grown
or from three to Ave acres of land, over
sl,500, while his corn. fruit vegetables
and other products have realized al
most as much.
During all OF these seven years Mar
tin has been gradually Improving his
farm, but still sticking to his 20 acres
His house Is we'll built comfortable and
lastly painted and furnished He has
erected good barn, has purchased new
implements and wagons fenced his
place, planted hundreds of new fruit
trees, many Of rare and valuable va
rleties, furnished HIS home with COM
forts and Conveniences Moreover, he
has found time to travel and TO en-
joy himself. He has made three trips
10 the Rocky mountains one 10 The
Worlds fair at st. Louis. where his
products took awards of gold medals
in the agricultural entries. and has at
tended the stntc fairs Of Nebraska
and other states making attractive
ana winning exhibits of his products
and has bern elected ia prominent po-
sitions IN the state agricultural and
horticultural societies. He has like
wise found time to attend many farm
ers' institutes IN Nebraska and Kansas,
where he is wont 10 explain the rea-
son Of his success aud plead the value
OF the small farm as monev-maker
So widespread has the fame OF his farm
become that he has during the last
two years beer called to various places
IN the United states to superintend the
laying out NJ model farms along the
lines OF his own in eastern Nebraska.
SUCCESS BRINGS CHANGE IN
SENTIMENT.
Sentiment has changed much in his
own community in regard to the 70
acre farm of this young SWISS. Wnere
seven years ago his neighhors laughed
at his 20-acre farm and allied him
"Hazelbrush Martin" - Potato
Martini" farmers now come 10 MN
from long distances for instruction and
advice. And they buy his seed corn
and his seed potatoes Mt his own price
Within two years after he settled
near Dubois his nelghbors began 10
say: Martin Is making as much money
on his 20 acres and with much less
work and worry. as we are on our quar-
ter section" soon they began to say
that he was making more money than
they were, and they came to him for
the secret They discovered that MS
products were winning all tho prizes
at the neighboring county fairs Then
they saw that at the state fa'P ne was
winning substantial money premiums.
Forty ears of his corn exhibited at the
first Nebraska corn show III 1907,
brought him premium of $40 A SINH
lar exhibit of corn won for him gold
medal at the ST. Louis exposition and
a gold medal at the Portland exposition.
| His fruit won cash premiums at the
state fair for several seasons and gold
and silver medals at the eXpositions
| just mentioned. Each award Increased
| the demand for his products for seed
| purposes which has grown until his
| entire yield Is practically sold long be-
| fore it has matured at practically any
| price he desires to put upon 1t.
CAN LEARN FROM EUROPEANS.
"The Americans win yet learn the
| alue of intensive farming from Euro
| pean-bprn aliens" Is Martins declara-
| ton THE Americana musI commence
soon TO farm as the Europeans farm, as
| n the farm were TO be IN the family for
| generations 10 come and not AS II 1t
| were for sale tomorrow. They must
| plant trees build better houses and
| barns, save and use tnanures for fertal-
| izers. save the straw, dam up the draws
! on their places and sonserve the water.
| seed the hlllsldes, study to preserve the
| richness Of the soil and not waste II in
, a single generation educate the boy to
live on the same farm and make II a
better farm. The old farm. scientifically
| cultivated which Is handed Down from
father 10 son, brings better farming,
better citizens, greater prosperity and
contentment, greater appreciation of the
oldest and modest science of mankind"
Such Is the spirit tof this sturdy swiss
settler in eastern Nebraska. who few
years ago. IN the midst of the states
broad pralres, bough 20-acre farm for
$3.50 an acre, for which he has recently
been offered $50 an acre. Four years
ago he could not write a letter In the
English language, but with his usual
perseverance he went mt the English
grammar and today not only speaks tbs
language perfectly, but writes with pur-
itV and force He Is IN demand ~
agricultural meetings and farmers In
stitutes Is eagerly sought when adj
vice on methods OF practical farming
IS needed and has rapidly become a
force IN the agricultural circles OF his