The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-11-06
WILL FARM
STATE LANDS

STATE LANDS
Ohio is Making Plans fef the Farming Of
State Lands for The Purpose Of Main
tanning the State Institutions. Inmates
of the Institution 10 do Most Of the
s-4 Work.
In the last year the state of Ohio
paid out for butter for the use of
the 10000 inmates Of the eighteen
state institutions over Sill 900. In
the same period there was expend-
ed for eggs over $4,000 and for
fruit over $40. 900.
At the same time there were hun
dreds of acres in the farms at the
state institutions not being titled.
not growing fruit, not used for pas
ture, not used for income producing
purpose that would have helped fur
nish the greater part of the supplies
for which the state was expending
thousands of dollars.
( The state for quarter of CEN
tury had been loudly beseeching
the farmers of the state to take ad-
vice from the scientists at the Woos-
ter experiment farm and learn how
to do intensive farming. While all
this beseeching was being done the
state, itself, was the most careless of
all the large farmers, most conspic-
uous in its laundering work, because
it had the acres.
The board of administration has
decided to stop the careless work Of
the state, and State Agricul,urist
Charles Mcintyre is now oomput-
ing the acreage suited for different
crops and planning for next year
the greatest farm experimental
work the state has eyer seen.
You can have all the help you
want, you can have the money re-
quired to make the work success
full, you have direct control of TO-
900 acres that can and should grow
something of value; all we want you
to do is to produce results" is the
word that DR.. Shepherd of the
board of administration gave. to Nc
Intyre when he started in on the
work.
There will be a. vast orchard
planted at the boys industrial farm
at Lancaster, because Fairfield coun-
ty, once the greatest orchard ce.nn-
ty of the state, still is able to grow
fruit of many kinds if the soil is
cared for and given a chance. The
hills near Athens and Gallipolis will
be used for chickens and thousands
Of them will be cackling all over
the hills the coming summer. The
state institutions need eggs and
with real benefit can use 10000
daily.
The hill pasture land is to be
used for the dairy cows, the better
land for cultivation. Indicative of
what can be done the crop at the
Dayton hospital farm illustrates.
Twelve months ago there was a
field of 100 acres titled and drained
for use. Last spring it was planted
in corn, the first time it had been
cultivated since Ohio bought it.
Mcintyre visited the place a few
days ago when the penitentiary
prisoners were cutting corn and
shocking it and said the crop would
be at least 100 bushels to the acre.
He said he never had seen a better
crop of corn in the state. The corn
had grown tall and there was plenty
Of ears six feet from the ground.
And that crop was made the first
year the land was cultivated and
the soil was not treated in any
way.
To stop the expenditure of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars for
supplies that easily may be pro-
duced on the farms is the task of
Farmer Mcintyre. He likes the
prospect. He expects to show re-
suits next year, enough to justify
his going ahead on a still larger
scale the following year. Within
two years the state expects to have
every one of its 10000 acres in
productive service. raising for use