The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-09-30

perience and observation, that there Is
good living for medium-sized FAM
lily in every twenty-five acres of land
in West virginia.
There is on every twenty-five acres
at least one acre of bottom benches
or hilltop Did you ever. stop to think
what can be done on one acre OF such
land? First of all, make that acre
rich. Cram in humus by hauling
rotten longs, leaves, ashes and man
ure. Never burn vines or weeds;
compost them. II you can, add lit
tie commercial fertilizer selected to
suit the special crops you are to grow
Plant a few onions in the fall
Make good hotbed and grow let
tuce and radishes all winter. when
your hotbed gets cold, renew it, keep
ing it covered in cold weather.
Plant tomatoes, cabbage seed and
eggplant in boxes in February. Plant
peas in the open in February. Pota-
toes, satisfy onion-sets, parsnips,
beets, kohlrabi, turnips, carrots in
March. Try a little sweet corn and
bunch beans the latter part of March
If the frost gets them, try again.
You haven't lost much. Lay your
seed potatoes about March Goth.
Follow your early crops with late
ones, such as mustard, kale, etc. Get
from two to three crops year from
your acre. But don't forget to keep
up the fertility by adding plant food
OF some kind every year.
What about the remaining twenty
four acres of your farm? Plant an
apple tree, cherry tree or a plum
tree in that nook. Plant grape
vine by the porch. Set some pie
plant and horseradish in your plot,
too small to be plowed. Put some
strawberries and currant bushes on
those smaller bluffs. Asparagus
brings an early supply of delicious
food.
Take the smoothest of your land
and raise cow-peas and clover for
your chickens and pigs and see to
Then plant two acres in corn for
your chickens and pigs, and seee to
it that you raise not less than fifty
bushels of corn to the acre. This Will
leave you eight or ten acres for pas
ture, a part of which-the sleeps
may be left in woods for a wood-lot.
Get the best buildings within your
means Begin small and add to and
improve as you can, or as your needs
grow. / have seen cottages costing
not more than $3.50 above the own
er's labor, that were palaces besides
some rented for IS per month in the
city. A little taste in arranging the
premises, a little blue grass, few
flowers, a few vines, few bushes
some whitewash on the fence and
outbuildings, and a little content
ment with godliness inside the home,'
and you will shed tears of regret
should you wander away from this
beloved spot when you hear the very
mention of Home, Sweet Home"
Don't Worry about the market.
Raise what you eat and eat what you
raise and sell the surplus. A little
butter is like money in your
purse. and fresh eggs are silver in
your till. You can buy your clothes
with butter and eggs, or settle your
grocery amount with them, and dare
say the sheriff would accept them on
your tax receipt.
And don't measure your success by
the amount of mony you can jingle;
for what is money good for anyway,
but to buy the very things that you
have around you in abundance on
your miniature plontation?
With fruit from his trees, vege-
tables from his garden, golden butter
from his own production, fresh-laid
eggs from his own hens, who has
better right to live and live Well
than he with a Small Farm Well
Tilled?-E. Dieffenbach, in Tobacco
Tidings