The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-06-04
A Profitable Forty.Acre Farm,

Inc natlOnal department. Oh bRrl-
culture has recently prepared II bull
letin enlisted "Small Farms In the
Corn Bells Owing to the fact shat
land has so rapidly appreciated In
value, it Is now almost impossiblefor
q man without considerable means
TO buy as much as quarter-section
o, land or even eighty acres. In or
der TO show how the problem may be
solved, the department. ofagrlculture
looked into the conditions OF u few
ten, twenty and iorty-acre farms,
and the bulletin in question Is the re-
sui Of the investigation.
One OF these farms of forty acres
was located In Saunders county,
Neb. The principal crops on this
farm are potatoes and hay. In
1906, for example, there were four
teen acres OF potatoes, seven acres OF
hay, eleven acres In pasture, one and
o hall acres in sweet corn to supple.
ment the pasture, five and q hall
acres In garden and grounds, and one
acre In public road.
The plan on this farm is to pillow
the clover and timothy meadows In
the fall and have the seed-bed well
prepared In the spring before the
potatoes are planted. The potatoes
are cut two eyes to piece, and they
are set thirteen inches apart In the
row and the rows are thirty-eight
inches apart. A four-horse digger is
used and one man with four horses.
together with two teams and wagons
and four additional men, and two
men to sort and store, the potatoes
are dug at cost Of two and hall
cents bushel, without counting the
cost OF the team and the man handl
ing the digger. The yield has varied
all the way from 200 to $50 bushels
per acre. The total cost Of raising
an acre, without counting rent,
amounted to $21 IS.
Our readers will be interested In
the method employed on this farm
TO get stand OF grass. On land
that has grown potatoes two, or
possibly three years there is seeded
In the spring mixture composed Of
twelve pounds OF red clover, two or
three pounds OF alsike clover, and
nine pounds OF timothy per acre, and
no nurse crop whatever is used. The
weeds are clipped once or twice dur,
ing the summer, and a hay crop is
secured In the fall. The second year
two crops of hay are cut and then
there ls usually a good after growth
to pillow under. In 1905, land seed.
ed In this way produced fifty-two
loads, estimated at 1900 pounds
each, from seven acres, or a total
yield OF FIVE and a hall tons per acre.
There was sold from this farm In
1906 products to the value OF ST.
942.50, this being made up Of hay,
potatoes, poultry, Strawberries, sur.
plus cattle and one colt. The ex-
pense Of running the farm amounted
to S43e.05 leaving q net income OF
$1,506.45. The farm Is valued at
$4,000, or 5000 per acre, the value
Of the live stock on 1t amounting to
$3.50 and the machinery $4S4,
making total capital Of $9,764
The net income OF 81 SOC. As amount
ed to 15.4 per cent on the total CAPT.
tai involved.
The owner Of this farm previously
operated 100 acres, but he claims
that be is netting more money on
the forty acres handled In this way
than be did on the larger farm. -
Farmer and Stockman.
Kodol b the best known prepare.
tion that , ohbeed to the people to.
day for dfspepeia or indieeetion or