Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-09-10
A FARM llzO
ACRES And HOW
IS OPERA TED
Thirty Acres ii Alfalfa ID
Be Cut for Seed is
Second { Ting
$50 ACRES OF WHEAT
$50 ACRES OF BARLEY
Five Acre Apple Orchard That's Sure
II Make 4 South Dakota Rec
ord Id the Near Future.


-Four miles south or Watertown
there lis a farm In one body which
comprises ll20 acres, including the
pastures and hay lands. The crops
or 1914 are shown Ia the following
acreage:
$50 acres of wheat
q ESQ acres of barley sS
8S l15 acres OF dax.
80 acres OF oats.
35 acres or corn.
30 acres OF alfalfa
acres Of potatoes. sss
s S acres Of Young orchard
5 acres OF forest trees.
This farm Id owned and operated
by. Mr.. Robert Schuil, with the as
sistance OF members OF his family
Hired help Is not employed except
ing in harvesting and threshins
All Within the Family.
# Mr. Schull's assistants are his Ave
sons Victor, Arthur, Bert, Lloyd and
Ray ranging In ages from 21 to 4. Iss
Mrs. Schull's helpers are her fnur
daughter Carrie Mabel, Doris and
Eva. The help that the latter two
render may be inferred from their
respective ages 3 and 4, Carrie is I6
and Mabel is 13, and each does her
part In household duties.
Mr.. Schulz and hts sons ara able
to handle the twenty head OF horses
required to operate the farm. III ad-
dition to the horses, q tractor does
the most of the plowing In the fall.
gasoline supplying the power Ten
/ burrows are turned ait a time IL ii lid
seen this big plow is not going to be
able to complete the work in time,
the horses and boys, with gang
| plows. rush to the assistance of The
rnechan nicaliy propelled plaws.
No Flowing Left Over.
II don't like to have any pi3wsrlg
left over for the SPRING rem .rKad
Mr.. Schulz, In speaking ofS the work,
Fall plowing, you know, serges rc
much better purpose, taken as d
Nnole.' =
Mr.. Schulz owns and his boys op.
lerate a thresher, so that even the
threshing is done within the family,
with only temporary help In getting
the grain to the machine, IL thresiled
from the shock, as was the case this
year. slss.
/ The Wheat Yield.
Last year, Z said Mr.. Schulz, as h.
was waiting at the granary for a
i load Of grain to- come over from The
4 machine, we had 10000 bushels b,
| wheat, but this year we shall moi
have to exceed about 900, our shea,
yielding this fall only about 10 bush
i els to the acre. Z
Mr.. Schulz had his barley all irl
the bin. and there was d quantity
4 exceeding 5000 bushels, running I'll
most 19 bushels to the acre.
Fine FieIc. Of Corn.
4 The 35 acre tract of corn is I'M
1 doubtedly one OF the best fields 81
! corn in the country. 1t was already
4 out OF the way Of frost when The
i newspaper representative visited the
place last week. II
= am quite certain. . said Mr.
Schulz that my corn will average
4 right through at least SO bushels X
the acre.. And the scribe, as mar
/ who has husked many a bushel ii
DAYS gone by, felt that Mr.. Schultz
4 estlmate was not too high,
The Numerous Buildings.
The buildings, besides the pleas
antly situated house, consist Of gran
i aries, wagon and machine sheds. hen
house covering d large basement fol-
4 the storage of potatoes Capable of
/ housing 1000 bushels of spuds) hog
4 pens, and one OF the largest and
most completely equipped barns Id
4 this section OF the state. One side
/ of the barn is apportioned to the
I horses while the COWS are uuartered
on the other side. Above Is q large
loft for the storing Of tons upon tons
OF hay.
From the grain bin along iii front
of the horse manger and COW stan.
chions there extends an overhanging
runway for the big feed box, so that
| the grain may be conveyed By me.
chanical appliance the full length al
the barn and scooped out to eacn
animal ii turn
Alfalfa Paying Coop.
While alfalfa fs largely an experi.
mont Ia tliis region, Mr. Schull,s ex.
perience with hIs thirty acre field
has convinceds him that alfalfa ii q
great paying crop. NotWfth standine
1.-The rather dry spell during the lat
ten part OF July and the month Of
August the alfalfa was green
throughout the hog pasture and Was
making q good growth. The fifty
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