The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-07-22
JASPER AUGUSTINE IS BIG FARMER
Has 1000 Acres and Is Asriculturist
on Very Large Scale.

that he Cultlvates a larger acreage
and employs more men than any
other. At any rate there is no
agricultuIist in this part of the
state who farms on such a scale
and does it so thoroughly and sue
cessfully.
Mr.. Augustine has a tract of
1000 acres of valuable land which
lies around Addison, mostly
in Somerset county, but strip of
about 400 acres stretches over into
Maryland. He has under cultiva-
ton 1900 acres of fertile soil and
his fields range from 10 to 81 acres
in size.
Large herds of cattle Craze in
his pastures, vast fields of growing
corn give promise of rich harvest
this fall and acres and acres of
meadows stretch out in a waving
sea of grass.
There are between 800 and 400
acres in wheat and oats which is
headed nicely and ripening fast so
that the wheat will be ready to
cut next week. There is one field
of 26 acres of buckwheat and an
other of IS acres. Mr.. Augustine
supplies the entire surrounding
country with buCkwheat and MANY
a family enjoys the pure buck
wheat cakes in the winter which
come from the product he raises
on his farm.
This year Mr., Augustine has
between $50 and 400 acres in
meadow. He started to cut the
grass Monday and three mowers
cut IS acre field in four hours.
Last year he had $50 to 500 acres
in meadow which turned out be-
tween $50 and 500 tons OF hay,
but owing to the severe drought
of last fall the crop this year will
not be half that of last year al
though the acreage in grass is con-
siderably larger. Instead of hav-
ing long riCks it is Mr.. Augustine's
plan to put the hay in small stacks
where it dries out better after rains
and prevents heating and rotting.
There are many fields of corn
which range in size from I6 to 81
acres. The farm is equipped with
all modern machinery and there
are three cultivators at work in
this large 50 acre field all the
time. There will be a bumper
corn crop on this farm, one that
would do justice to some of the
large western farms.
One of the big meadows consists
OF IS acres and some of the grass
is feet, 7 inches high, towering
far above the buggy wheels when
one drives into it, When there is
a slight breeze the grass rises and
falls in waves Ike the pillows of
the ocean.
In the Maryland part of the
farm are four hundred acres in
blue grass where there are between
400 and 500 cattle grazing nearly
all the time, Mr.. Augustine is
an extensive cattle raiser and his
stock is greatly in demand and
farmers come there from Fayette,
Somerset, Greene and other coun-
ties to look over his herds and
buy choice stock to add to their
herds.
Nineteen men are employed on
the farm the year round and 90 to
IS in harvest time Jasper's son
John is general superintendent,
but Jasper is there during the
summer season and well into the
fall and has every detail we'll in
hand and is hard worker himself.
being in the field at 6 O'Clock in
the morning and laboring hard
until darkness comes on at night
Everything about the farm is
kept in the most perfect order.
All Of the fields are enclosed IN
fences which are repaired and
painted and white washed every
spring and carefully kept through
out the season. Everything about
the place is kept neat and clean