Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-09-10
A FARM OF llz.O
ACRES AND HOW
II IS OPERATED
Thirty Acres of Alfalfa q
Be Cut for Seed IS
Second Cutting
$50 ACRES or WHEAT
$50 ACRES OF BARLEY
Five Acre Apple Orchard That's Sure
ID Make South Dakota Rec
ord In the Near Future.

ord In the Near Futvre.
-Four miles south 81 WATERFOWL
there is q farm In one body which
comprises 1920 acres, including the
pastures and hay lands. The crops
or 1914 are shown In the following
acreage:
$50 acres of wheat
$50 acres of barley.
lib acres of fax.
so acres OF oats.
3b acres OF corn
30 acres OF alfalfa.
g7 acres of potatoes.
5 anres OF young orchard.
8 acres OF forest trees.
by Mr.. Robert Schulz, with the as
s~istance OF members OF HID family.
Hired help is not employed except
Ing in harvesting and threshius.
All Within the Family.
Mr.. Schull's assistants are his i've
sons-Victor, Arthur. Bert, Lloyd and
Ray, ranging In ages from Ri to
Mrs. Schulls helpers are her fur:
daughters-Carrie, Mabel. Doris md
Iva A1lc AlSAg tAdk Eu6 t6tSSI NWH
render may be inferred from their
respective ages: 5 and I Carrie II 16
and Mabel Is 10, and each does her
part In household duties
Mr., Schulz and his sons ara able
to handle the twenty head OF horses
required to operate the farm. HI adj
dition to the horses. tractor does
the most OF the blowing In the fall,
gasoline supplying the power. Ten
burrows are turned at time. lie ii is
seen this big plow is not going to be
able 70 complete the work in time,
the horses and boys, with gang
ploWs,rush to the assistance or the
mechanically propeller pldTs
No Blowing Lsft ovsr.
81 don't like to have any piowsng
left over for the SPRING, re1svKsd
Mr.. Schulz, In speaking Of the York.
Fall plowing, q know, erses ! 3
much better purpose, takel as d
waole.s 81
Mr. Schulz owns and his hoyg OPP
crate a thresher, SO that even the
threshing is done within the family,
with only temporary help in getting
the grain to 1.-The machine, IL tireshed
from the shock, as was the case this
year.
The Wheat Yield.
Last year. said Mr.. Schulz, as hi
was waiting at the granary for q
load OF grain to come over from the
machine, we had 10000 bushels o.
wheat but this year we shall moi
have to exceed about 1000. ii wheat
yielding this fall only about 10 bush,
els to the acre.
Mr.. Schulz had his barley all Ii
the bin, and there was a quantity
exceeding 5000 bushels, running al
most 10 bushels to the acre.
Fine Field Of Corn.
The 35 acre tract Of corn Isl un;
doubtedly I'M Of the best fields oi
corn In the country. 1t was already
out of the way Of frost when The
newspaper representative visited the
place last week.
4 am quite certain said Mr.,
Schulz, that my corn will average
right through at least 80 bushels Ii
the acre. And the scribe, ais q mar
who has husked many a bushel III
days gone by, felt that Mr.. SCHULZ
estimate was not too high.
The Numerous Buildings.
The buildings, besides the pleas.
antly situated house, consist of gran.
aries, wagon and machine sheds, hen
house covering a large basement for
the storage Of potatoes icapable of
housing 1000 bushels of spuds}, hog
pens, and one OF the largest and
most completely equipped barns In
this section Of the state. One side
of the barn Is apporticned to the
horses while the cows are quartered
on the other side. Above ig a large
loft for the storing OF tons upon tons
Of hay.
From the grain BIN along In front
OF the horse manger and COW stan.
chions there extends an overhanging
runway for the big feed box, 30 that
the grain may be conveyed by me.
chanical appliance the fill length of
the g and scooped out to eacn
animal in turn.
Alfalfa ! Paying Crop.
While alfalfa is largely an expert
rnent In this region, Mi. SchnlI,s Ell.
perfepca with his thirty acre field
has convinced him that alfalfa Id d
great paying crop. Observation-Disclosures
tbs rather dry spell during the lat
ter part OF July and the month 81
August. the alfalfa Was green
throughout the hog pasture and was
making q good growth The ffty
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