The Detroit times., 1914-09-14
MAKES z ACRES
Guido SO BY AN
INTENSIVE PLAN
Farmer Shows How To Get
Along Without Hiring Help
Onions Eclipse Wheat
TURNS WORK INTO CASH
BY AN UNUSUAL ROUTE
Shows That Farmers Might
Make More Money G Max
ing Changes In Crops

OLEY LINE. Pa. Sept. IL. - When
Llewellyn Leinbach. one or the pro-
gressive farmers Of the Obey valley
was IL years old, an all-around- good
boy on q neighbours farm. he was
known as the little hired fellow"
who worked for his board and cloth
ing. a bit Of pin money and the privt
lege, OF attending the rural school.
This practical training. with that
already gained on his parents farm,
was mere stepping-stone 10 q much
higher ideal, that has enabled this
progressive farmer TO place his cali
ing upon strictly business basis and
conduct the affairs OF an s8-acre farm
In the same manner as successful
merchant attends to the many de-
tails Of his business.
Business tact" says Mr. LeinbacL.
now 66. lis the keynote Of success
for every farmer who expects to
make living ana nave q little to
spare for bank account nowadays"
When he was but 16 years old
every young man In the Obey valley
was talking OF war Too young 10
become a real soldier, he left for
Washington and got q job as team
ster for the commissary department
OF the government. He liked II, as
he was always greatly attached to
horses. 30 he stayed until the war
was over. when he returned and hired
himself 10 the same farmer he had
worked for before.
Next he was O school teacher, and
after one term he went to Freeland
seminary at the Trappe. now Ursinus
college, Of Collegeville, where he com.
pleted his education. Then he was
clerk In general country store, then
q merchant and hotelkeeper with his
brother-in-law, o. H. Hinnerschitz, ~
Obey Line; but after four years mis-
health began to fail and he thought
II was about time he went back to
farming. and he did. Here his fore
fathers had been farming according
to the old custom, raising wheat al
q cost close to the selling price. with.
out having any remuneration for their
labor Leinbach, however. soon real
ICED that the up-to-date farmer must
begin to raise his own horses instead
of paying Illinois and Iowa farmers
fancy prices for them.
Eighty-eight acres are enough ia
keep anybody hustling. whether he IL
q dairy farmer. q cereal enthusiasm OF
believes In the intensive system Of
growing vegetables and small fruit
Living only about eight miles from
Reading he always considered the
borough of Pottstown q better mar
ket TO sell apples, potatoes and vege
tables, as trade from the farmers
wagon was better.
| While those trips were made only
now and then. years ago, they taught
this up-todate agriculturist q great
lesson. He found that It paid better
to raise. onions. peas and beans than
wheat and rye. at Q dollar or even
more per bushel. Farm labor was
becoming scarce and hired men and
hired girls we're hardly to be hired
1T any price.
So he became an intensive farmer
instead Of an extensive one. and de
voted his greatest energy to two Of
the best acres Of his 8S-acre tract
leaving the balance to grow grass
and corn, as grass could be turned
into hay with little work. while corr
would be most valuable In another
way. Thus. he started TO raise full
bred hogs, turning the corn into cash
via the pork route.
These conclusions we're reached
seven years ago, and since then the
inow-and-then trips have been changed
to weekly and semi-weekly ones, and
instead Of selling few products
everything In the vegetable line II
raised on the two acres. AZ well al
Strawberries, raspberries. blackber
ries and gooseberries. Then there
are lots Of fruit trees scattered oveI
the farm, and apples, peaches ant
cherries added to the income.
There are at present 100 peach
trees. and a promising apple crop Il
expected. In the truck patch the croI
last year amounted to 80 bushels o
onions, so bie'kets OF tomatoes, 30'
quarts OF lima beans. which were
sold at Is to 80 cents q quart; 40'
quarts OF stringbeans, 1000 pickles
and cucumbers. 500 boxes OF straw
berries. 800 quarts Of raspberries ant
enough sweet corn to supply ever!
customer with two good meals eacf
week during the season.
This season there were 1000 linz
bean stalks to rely upon. and half
busnel OF seed onions were plantei
while the strawberry patch was en-
Ilarged. There will be crop OF sew
leral hundred bushels OF tomatoes ant
2. 500 cabbage plants were set out.
Mr.. Leinbach knows the actual cos
of producing every crop, az the busi
ness methods he learned as q mer
chant enable him so to keep his &C
counts that he knows whether
pays best to raise beans or peas; o.
whether tomatoes bring more none!
- .~r~ than pofafopQ