The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-03-08
TO RESTORE A FARM.

TO RESTORE A FARM.
T. B. Terry, of Hudson, Ohio,
speaking of restoring land, said that
what he did was to buy run down
farm in Hudson in 1879, moving on it
with his wife and being as poor as
the farm. The most important thing
he added to it was a mortgage OF
S., 700 at per cent. and he had an
old horse, few tools and nine cows,
kept practically out of doors. The
land was so run down that he could
not raise weeds on it. Without know
ing anything about the ACCESSIBILITY OF
it he sowed a field with clover. 1t
grew and two years later plowed
it up for corn. Not having manure
enough he used what he had on the
land near the highway and the clover
sod got none of it. The same year,
in his ignorance, he rented five
acre field of a neighbor and plowed
and narrowed it, rolled and narrowed
it and then gave it more rolling and
narrowing while the neighbors laugh
ed at him. He sowed it to Hungarian
grass and got bumper crop which
netted him $40.
Thus, to begin with, he learned the
value of clover on the one hand and
tillage on the other. He needed more
manure and the clover was furnish
ing that, therefore the immediate
thing. was to raise more clover, to
make more manure to raise more
clover. Being, luckily, too poor to buy
fertilizers he bent his efforts to save
what was produced in the barnyard.
The first year his wife helped him
load what little hay the place pro-
duced; the first and second years 1t
was hard work to meet the interest
money and the taxes, and the cloth
ing of the couple was only kept to-
gether by miracle. In twelve years
the mortgage was gone the farm was
producing $50 bushels of potatoes to
the acre against forty the first year.
1t had from thirty-three to thirty
eight bushels of wheat to the acre
against eight when he took it, and it's
doing better now than it did the
twelfth year Glover, he says, is all
any farm needs if it is raised on the
farm, fed out on it, and the manure
returned to the farm. The clover is
rich in nitrogen, which it takes from
the air. Its roots run deep down into
the soil where they get what potash
they need and the farmer needs ard
the dense shade a thick crop of clover
makes is ideal for the production of
phosphoric acid.
GETTING AND KEEPING A COW.
w. F. McSparran, secretary and
treasurer of the American Jersey
Cattle Club of Lancaster county. Pa,
in speaking of Getting Cow and
Keeping Her. said that, to begin with
the dairyman must be intelligent or
else it made little difference what
sort of cows he owned. He should
endeavor to get a good cow and then
keep her in that condition, for it was
as possible for a COW as for human
to grow in grace. The dairyman should
keep cows for dairy purposes and not
try to secure two or three different
QudlIllSS III TIE SdLA6 AluC. II was
impossible to secure a good COW by
going out into the world and crying
'iCo' boss" There were but two ways
open; one, that of buying and the
other that of breeding. Buying is
risky even for an experienced man;
he had rather have the judgment of
a good woman who loves cows than
that of an average dairyman. IN
breeding cows the farmer works in
partnership with nature and nature,
having a great deal of time, is never
in hurry so the man dies before
the work is fully completed. Having
got a good cow the owner should
strive to keep her in that condition.
She is not a machine like gasolene
. engine and she needs a good deal
more care She does well in the
spring and summer because she has
plenty of food and water; to do we'll
in the fall and winter she must be
kept comfortable and also have plenty
of food and water.
CARE OF POULTRY HOUSES.
The best remedy for lice in poultry
houses is to add a pound of concen'
trated I've to wash boiler of soap
suds, and apply the suds hot on the