Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-14
RETIRES ON HIS OWN FARM
All Chores
o Farming.


essful Farming.
! that the family needed for themselves
or guests at any time, the tenant to
keep the rest.
This has proven a profitable invest
ment, for the tenant and quite satisfac-
tory to Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson. The
milk is brought to their house each day
in just such quantities as they order.
Likewise the tenant takes full charge
I of the flock of chickens and returns
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson one-half of the
| eggs and one-half of the money re-
| ceived for any poultry sold. Thus
there Is nothing to keep the Wilson's
at home whenever they desire to stay
away over night or to make visit of
several days or weeks. II would only
be necessary to let the tenant know,
even by telephone, and to have him
take care of the horses if left at home
Every Modern Convenience.
The house is supplied with hot water,
heat, a gasoline gas plant for lighting
and cooking. two pressure tanks in the
basement for furnishing hot and cold
soft water and we'll water wherever
needed in the house, and a successful
sewage system with vitrified tile lead
ing TO a cesspool several rods away
with tile drainage for the overflow.
No solid material can pass farther
than this pool.
Such a large and thoroughly mod
SCI oil Io
if built in the city, would have cost
much more than the $1,000 paid for the
new building, moving and repairing
the old one From laundry room and
wOOdshed for a years supply of cook
stove wood to the large and beautiful
ly finished rooms and chambers, the
Wilson's have built just what they
wanted and just as many rooms as
they desired.
Pioneer Glover Growers.
Mr.. Wilson's farm methods and re-
suits are we'll worth studying The
home place contains only 100 acres.
He and his brother, Oliver Wilson,
were the first to raise clover in that
vicinity, and they have grown it for
more than 80 years with good results
And this is one of the first places in
Illinois to adopt the sowing of clover,
and this crop has been grown there ex-
tensively for many years. Mr.. Wilson
and John Swaney estimate that three
fourths of all the oats ground in that
vicinity is seeded with clover. The
neighborhood yield of oats was 40 to
So bushels per acre and of wheat 16 to
% bushels.
1920 Check for Clover Seed.
Until two years age A. B. Wilson fed
most of his grain, keeping many hogs.
Never more than so acres is corn. and
usually no more than 40 acres of corn
and 40 acres of oats are grown. A great
deal of clover seed has been saved
and sold. Once he marketed three
crops of clover seed from this place at
one time and received in payment a
check for S1,260. 1t was necessary to
buy only 25 bushels to fill the order.
Some cattle have been fed, but most
of his cattle are sold from the grass.
Sheep are also kept.
PIows Under a Clover Crop.
Mr.. Wilson is in accord with DR.. |
Hopkins latest clover advice, and this !
fall or next spring will turn under a |
fine catch crop of clover, about liz |
tons per acre, which grew in the oats. !
About 80 bushels per acre of corn were
grown on one field, the second year
from clover and timothy sod which had |
been pastured a number of years, while
a neighboring 20 acres of corn yielded |
about half as much-another object |
lesson in soil fertility and good culti- |
walton. Mr.. Wilson has frequently |
grown so, 20 and 80 bushels per acre of |
corn. A great deal Of manure has been |
hauled onto this land, covering the en-
tire farm couple OF times. The clo- /
yer straw is hauled back to the land. t
Usually Just one hired man is kept.
10 or 20 Bushels Increase OF Corn.
Mr.. Wilson says that most farmers
Of that community are taking better
care of their land, and that. in Magno- |
la township there has been an average |
difference OF Is or 30 bushels per acre
Of corn the last 10 years between, the
production of those farmers that have |
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