The Washington times., 1915-01-04
FINDS FARM PROFITS
N INTENSIVE PLAN
Successful AgricuIturist Con-
centrates on Two Of Eighty.
eight Acres.

OLEY PINE Pa. Jan. i-when
1lewellyn Lcinbach. ono OF the proxres-
sive farmers of the Obey valley, was
twelve years old, an all-around good
boy on a neishbors farm, he was
known as the little hired fellow who
worked for his board and clothing. q bit
OF pin money and the privilege OF at
tending the rural school.
This practical training, with that al
ready gained on his parents farm, was
"A mere stepping stone to Il much higher
ideal that has enabled this progressive
farmer to place his calling upon a
strictly business basis and conduct the
affairs Of an eighty eight acre farm in
the same manner as successful mer-
chant attends to the many details of his
business.
Business tact" says Mr.. Leinbach,
for every farmer who expects to make a
living and have a little 10 spare for q
bank account nowadays..
When he vas but eighteen years old
every young man in the Olev valley
come ON % a real soldier, he left for wash
ington and got a Job as teamster for
ernment. He liked It, as he was always
greatly attached to horses. SO he stayed
until the war was over. when he re
turned and hired himself to the same
farmer he had worked for before.
School Teacher Next.
Next he was q school teacher, and
| after one term he went to Frecland
I Seminary at the Trappe, now Ursinus
College, Collescyille, where he com
pleted his education. Then he was clerk
in a general country store. then ner-
chant and hotelkeeper with his brother
in-lsw. Q. H. Hinnerschtz. at Obey
Line. but after four years his health
| began to fail, and he thought it was
about time he went back to farming.
! and he did. Here his forefathers HAD
been farming according to old custom,
ia sing wheat at a cost close to the sell
ing price. without having any renuner-
alton for their labor. Leinbach, how
ever, soon realized that the ulj-to-iats
farmer must begin to raise his own
| horses instead OF paying Illinois ana
Iowa farmers fancy prices for them.
| Eighty-eight acres are enough to keep
anybody hustling. whether he is a dairy
In the intensive system of growing veg
etables and small fruit. Living only
about eight miles from Reading. he al
ways considered the borough of Potts
town e. better market to sell apples,
potatoes and veseta oles. as trade from
the farmers wagon was better.
| While those trips were made only now
up-to-date aericuiturist great lessor.
He found that it paid better to raise
onions. peas, and beans than wheat ana
rye. at 81 or even more per bushe'.
Farm labor was becoming scarce and
hired men and hired girls were hardly
to be hired at any price.
| So he became an intensive farmer in
stead Of an extensive one. and devoted
his sreateet energy to two Of the best
acres Of his eighty-eisht-acre tract.
leaving the balance to grow grass and
corn, as grass could be turned into hay
with little work. while corn would be
he started to raise full-bred hogs. turn
ing the corn into cash via the pork
route.
! Fruit In Abundance.
These conclusions were reached
seven years ago. and since then the
now-and-then trips have been chans
} ed to weekly and semi-wcekly ones,
and instead OF selling a few products.
everything in the vegetable line is
strawberries, raspberries. Black ber>
ries, and gooseberries. Then there
are lots of fruit trees scattered over
The farm: and apples, eaehes. ami
There are at present 100 peach trees,
and q promising apple crop Is ex-
pected. In the truck patch the cron
last year amounted to thirty bushels
Of onions. eighty baskets OF tomatoes.
800 quarts OF lima beans. which We're
sold at l5 to 80 cents a quart: 400
quarts Of stringbeans. 5000 pickles
and cucumbers. 500 boxes of straw
berries. 500 quarts OF raspberries and
enough sweet corn to supply every
customer with two good meals each
week during the season.
This season there were 1000 lima
bean stalks to rely upon. and a half
bushel Of seed onions were planted,
while the strawberry patch was en-
larged. There will be q crop OF sew
eral hundred bushels Of tomatoes and
$500 cabbage plants were set out.
Mr.. Leinbach knows the actual cost
Of producing every crop. as the busi
; ness methods he learned as a. mel
chant enable him so to keep his &C
counts that he knows whether it paws
best to raise beans or peas: or wheth-
er tomatoes bring more money psr
acre than potatoes.