The Republican journal., 1914-08-06

These were faithfully studied. The
best seed obtainable was bought and
though he did not know how to use it
with the Wisest skill and economy, Sedg-
wick was able, by the first of May, to
point to three acres of potatoes coming
up evenly and WELL and which represent
ed an outlay liz cash of fifty eight dollars
for the seed and seventy-two dollars for
the chemicals. The formula used was,
per acre: Nitrate of soda, $50 pounds;
dried blood, 300 pounds; snlphate potash,
$50 pounds; acid phosphate, 400 pounds.
They were so far in the country that
until an automobile could be afforded a
daily trip TO the city was not practicable,
but the market man had told them of the
steady demand there was for all the sum-
mer vegetables and they, therefore,
planted peas, sweet corn, beans, string
beans and limas, bought some tomato and
cabbage plants and set them out, and
after thoroughly pruning and fertilizing
with house waste some discouraged old
currant bushes, discovered in what had
once been 1.-The garden found their
hands full of pleasant outdoor work.
The neighbors began haying about the
first of July. Sedgwick offered to help
them if they in turn would help him. In
that way he paid what he owed for his
spring blowing and got his own hay in as
we'll. He judged that on some thirty
five acres cut over, he harvested twenty
five tons of witchgrass and herdsgrass,
and the weather being particularly hot
and favorable for the purpose, it was all
put into the barn in first-class condition.
He had noticed that his neighbors kept
cows and sold their milk at the door. He
inquired the price they received and
found it was thirty-two cents can OF
eight and half quarts. Careful search
aided by the shrewd judgment of his
neighbors, resulted in the expenditure of
eighty dollars for large high-grade
Holstein of some four or five years old
which presented him with bull calf two
weeks after he bought her, This was
about the first of May. The calf he sold
for five dollars and his seventyfive dol
lar purchase, as she then cost him net,
yielded an average of twenty quarts of
milk day for the next ensuing three
months. Of these he sold daily seven
teen quarts, or two cans, which brought
him in sixty -four cents day, or fifty
eight dollars for the three months, and
had had two quarts day for his own
use besides. The feed in the pasture and
around the door yard was much more
than one animal could consume. and he
bought no grain. His pig, however, or
rather his ''saouw," which had cost him
eight dollars at the time of the COW pur-
chase, now presented him with family
of six little pigs and it was necessary to
spare some of the milk and to buy little
grain for her and them. AS soon as pos
sible this interesting family were turned
into plot of four acres, enclosed at one
corner of the pasture where grew two
gigantic oaks, and under the stimulus OF
four barrels of spoiled corn, scattered
judiciously and at intervals, they rooted
loudly for the farm and SO made ready
ready next years potato ground.
th;nk ot there S mone eS in s hens Prob.
ably!' he answered, 'let's see if we
can't get some out, !" and they did. Their
adventures here, however, form chap
ter by themselves. Suffice it to say that
the net results were encouraging at the
end of the year. And SO summer wore
on. They sold five bushels of green peas