Norwich bulletin., 1912-09-28

little less than seven acres Tn potatoes, the same in oats and the same in clov- ere Instead of drawing out his manure
 q the spring, when 1t iss half frozen
 nd mdstly unrotted, upon his potato ground at the rate of five loads to the acre, he puts it. in tlate summer or fall, on his clover, at tile rate of more than seven loads to the acre. He turns his clover aftermath under and grows his potatoes on 1t the following season. AS a result of this management, he gets fully 300 bushels of potatoes to the acre, he gets at least sixty bushels of oats, he gets a plump three tons of clover hay, which is better for cows and sheep,--yes, tlnd for horses, too, when carefully fed,--thaff any other kind of hay. As anyone can readily ] see, he is actually getting more pro duce from fis twenty acres than Jones from his forty, at an equal ex- pense for fertilization and labor. At the same time, he is wasting only half as much on interest and taxes and l fences
 Moreover. his intelligent use of clov- l'er hoy enables him to dispense with a considerable share of the inordin- ately expensive grain he would other wise have to buy for feed. That is to say, he Is getting; more money from 1 his twenty acres than Jones sfrorn his forty, and Is spending much less in maintenance charges.
 Still aaain,--and here's the most i'm ; portant point of all,--by his drafting of clover into service as volunteer, works for r-nothing ally, he is win moving out of the air every year, and hsuckling up from the sub-soii more free fertility than | hundred loads of stable manure, laboridusly5 applied could give him.
 He Is not only making more, each l season, but he is annually adding more
 nan all his interest and tax charges would amount to, to theNInherent value of his farm.
 He is making 1t better and richer and more productive every year.
 He is saving half his interest and lat the same time, increasing his Drin- cipal. If that isn't good business, what would be?
 Now, don't want to be understood as saying that things would always work out just according to fule, Some times Smith might not 70 as well Jones mightn't, eitherll Eomdtimee 4Smith might do even better. Taking the years as they come and reckoning by and large from what I have read lfrorn what l have seen, and from what my own experience teaches, am con lvinced that two men cap get more 1 produce off twenty acres, intensively i farn1ed. than the same two can of forty acres, negligently worked in the lusual forty-acre manner. If they
 only get as much they are still Ito the
 good" by reason of what they have
 saved in the maintenance of the ex- tra acreage, and by reason of the
 steady enhancement in value- of the
 half they work. K l Suppose, for instance, you had seer
 something like this happen: A neigh Dor buys d hundred -acre old farm fol about $10 an acre He proceeds tC
 farm about eighteen acres of it, in- tensively, the rest being left quite un. touched as pasturage. On those eigh- teen acres he comes to raise whackins
 big crops so big as to attract univer, 4 sal attention. It gets so that other
 farmPrs, bragging about their corn ol their grass, say that it's ''pritty dun
 nigh, as good as ''So-and- Sos" IT
 less than, ten years, he sells fifteer
 acres of that eightebn for S90 an lacre
 and is now rapidly proceeding to mak,
 another patch just as good and jus as profitable, out of another corner ol
 his old pasture.
 Wouldn't that strike you as fairly
 successful farming" It's just what ha. been done and can be done again. Why, the Department of Agrieultur, demonstrated, under whose guidanc,
 that man Bideauldt, .of whom I wrot,
 last week, has made such a success il T Texas,-the demonstrator declare that there isn't another farm in the vi ) cinity which wouldn't have done jus , as well if handled as wisely and a i diligently.
 ,t There's still another thing about thi intensive farming of small farms; ;-i { opens the way for more farmers.
 At present the sad fact seems to b that the farms of the United State
 aren't producing what the market
 call for; aren't yielding enough to 2
 round. And yet, under present meth iods, we farmers are producing abou Pall we can. The problem before us
 how to get2 more stuff out of tn
 ground and into the markets. To d
 that there must be more.' farmer f farming more effectively, There isn . tgoing to be any more ground to spea ? of. l Intensive farming. which will enabl me Ito get as much off twenty acrs | as l used to off forty, as corslmon] F managed, also permits me to sell ths | unused twenty to another farmer Wh
 by similarly productive management ], can make it do as well as my remain y half. Thereby those forty acres can l q made to produce twice as much Alone farmer can make them, at tl Y same time, provide a living and 8 home for two farmers.
 if Last call and by no means, least e
 tective as an argument is the reflex e ' feet that better farming will have - ourselves. l never knew a farmer Y y who was fit for his job, who didr e get more solid comfort from braggil
 about his crops than he could from II roast turkey with cranberry sauC ,f There's something more, ina big CT
 of handsome potatoes than the mark ', price. or the premium at the ooun .s fair, either, There's the sense achievement, or triumph, of leadersh "a There's the chance not only of boas V, ing over what you'vei done, but al "a of telling how you did 1t
 The farmer who raises slam ban ,o Ling big crop of most anything fe, o at least two inches taller when h. d showing it off than he would if it h
 been q pesBy fizzle
 ,s And, since it seems admittedly tr " that a woman ie only as old as S = eels, the proud farmer ought to be Z - cepted as belnS as llu as ne thinks
 he is.
 Especially when he's beaten the to,
 and the record.
 . Which, he's much more likely to
 by intensive farming than he is , extensive dispersedness of effort. r THE FARMER Revising the Histories.