Norwich bulletin., 1912-09-28
INTENSIVE FARMING OR EXTENSIVE EFFORT
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(Written Specially for the Bulletin)
 Some of my good friends are in clined to think that I'm a little too en- fhusiastic, not to say credulous, about what is called intensive farming" One critc said to me the other day:
 Why, you're not a real farmer any way: you're gardener. Of course you have to treat h garden different from a farm"
 Hush a bye, Baby, right there" answered. twill you tell me WHY anybody has to treat garden diff ferently from a farm
 And, by cracky, he couldn't!
 When you come down to brass tacks, kha main difference between the work &R of garden and the working Of a farm is that you put the same work and the same fertilizer and the same care on an acre of garden that you would on ten acres of farm. In order to get your money back and fair wages for your work, you must get about as much money off that garden acre as you would of the farm ten acres. Manifestly, you can't increase your yields of oats and grass and corn etc. ten times by any practical care. It's quite. a job to double them. So you have to raise in your garden crops of kind that win sell for more than farm crops. Therefore, you put the garden into asparagus and green peas and lima beans ,and caulifiower, etc, instead of into corn and potatoes and hay Then you slam on the manure. regardless, and blow as deep as the top- notch of the clevis and the sad- dles-off- the harness will let you and put on your acre of asparagus about ten times as much work and perspira- tlon an you would on an acre of corn or oats. (Also it might be- added, in this parenthesis, l-e-e-t-l-e more horse sense than some farmers use dn corn and oats.) Then you sell the produce from your acre of asparagus for considerably more than ten times what you could get for the yield of an acre of corn or oats. That is. provid- ing you have an average season and any sort of luck in your market.
 Gardening is simply intensive farm ina carried to the "nth'' degree, with special crops which will pay for doing 1t. With common farm crops there would be little profit and much danger of actual loss in drawing everything so fine because their
 
 differences in practice do not nuilify the principle A man don't farm it'' on i've acres of land, if by farm ing 1t" he means the raising of oats and hay. He is. perforce, driven in- to gardening But he can farm it" on twenty acres and make more off his twenty than his slapdash neigh bor does off forty. s4
 Do 1t by raising distinctively farm crops, too. cems, now; let's reason together.
 Jones has forty acres in drops.-ten of fl in corn and potatoes, ten in oats, and twenty in hay He has one team of horses and one hired man. He pays The latter s25 a month and board,-- which is about the same as $S5 in actual cost. His team costs him at leaet a dollar day to feed, another f10 q month. He can get out about nfty. loads of manure a year. which ht puts on his ten acres of hoed crops, ct the rate of five loads to the acre. He hasn't any for the oats or the grass. They must get along with what the corn and potatoes leave.--of that five loads -the-acre sprinkling
 He manages to get about 150 bushels of potatoes, about forty bushels of corn, about thirty bushels of oats, and about a ton of hay to the acre.
 Meantime, he is paying interest - whether he knows it or not,-on his full investment in forty acres at say $100 an acre.--s4.000 in all which, at l. six per cent, Is $40 He is also pay . ing taxes on the whole. He Is also maintaining fences for the whole, etc. and so on. and 30 forth.
 ------ V Just across the road, Smith, who all 70 had forty acre farm, has sold ofI half of it. cutting. his interest charge sQuariy in two. At the same time he by one-half the cost of fencing anG the like. He keeps a team and a man