The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-03-04
Total dollars. ........ .sl5,57l.75

Total acres 262
Total dollars. ........ .sl5,57l.75
Total average per acre.................. .$59.43
The beets haven't cost me on an
average TO raise and deliver them $4,000
per acre. In fact, the cost the past few
years has been quite little less than
this the way | have managed. My
farm is in better condition and pro
duccs more per acre of all kinds of
crops than it did ten years ago. and,
this, i'm the face of the fact that
have bought no cattle or sheep and fed
in the last ten years, which | did quite
lot of the previous ten years.
You see by these figures that have
made an actual average profit of $4,000
per acre on every acre I've grown for
ii years. | have raised all other ordi-
nary farm crops since | raised beets,
the same as l did before, and have yet
the experience to go through with of
clearing up $4,000 per acre above all
labor and expense on any other farm
crop, three years in succession; which
plainly tells to me that | am foolish if
| don't crowd sugar beets all | possibly
can upon my farm.
Am intending TO put in 40 acres of
sugar beets the coming season, and
have the ground in the finest condition
possible TO put them out just as soon
as the weather will permit. Am put
ting them out following beans, and
will fit the ground not over two inches
deep, which l can do very cheaply. All
weeds were kept from the beans.
Therefore, I'll have no weeds to con-
tend with TO amount TO anything
either at thinning time or hoeing.
After the beets, this ground will be
left in the finest shape to put out very
cheaply and raise big oat or barley
crop, seeding down with clover, cut
once; then, turn over and put TO beans
again, making a four-year rotation
from one blowing and but very little
work to put all the crops in after the
blowing for beans. The ground being
firm all the time and in the proper con-
dition to grow the crops rapidly.
The land used in the above rotation
does not need any fencing, which is
another item Of expense cut out. get
my corn and wheat from three-year
rotation by blowing once. A clover
pastured the first year, turned over in
the spring and put TO corn, the corn
cut and wheat put in the stubble in the
fall, seeding the same down the next
spring. Then, the next year, pasturing
the clover. In this way, the corn
stubbles do no harm, and, this part of
the farm is the only part that needs
fencing. 1t has cost me four years of
hard study to figure out and adopt
what have told you in the three above
paragraphs.
Now, my dear reader, if you have
any rotation that will beat the above,
| certainly would like to learn about
it, for | am not going to lay down and
say l am satisfied. | am still looking
for something better, if it can be found.
l could talk to you an hour yet upon
the why's and wherefore's of this ro-
tation, but space will not permit.
Hence, must stop.
If you wish to know any particular
points in regard TO the same, write me,
and l will gladly discuss them with
you. L must end this, but can't posi-
bly, do so without making a little
summary:
First Sugar beets have given me a
net income of S3000per acre for eleven
years.
Second-Have put the farm in a
much higher state of cultivation, and
made it much more productive than |
possibly could have done without beets.
Third-And last, but not least, have
given me better idea of the posi-
bilities of the soil than | would have
acquired in 40 years by the raising of
ordinary farm crops.
i am more than satisfied. Follow
my example and you will say the same
possibly in much stronger terms than /.
GARNER ALLEN"
clover sod to beans, then beets.
Will make you happy, make you sweet
Then follow the beets by sowing oats,
No blowing Is needed-iust drag and floats.
Then, seeding down to clover again
VIII bring you back where you first began
Follow the above next summer day,
Your wife will smile and children play.
Blessing the time your heart was changed
To raise Sugar Beets and less grains