Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-04

curely. The Gay began huslsing I had .. photograph taken frora which the ac- conapanying- cut is made. l want you to note the size and thickness of t4e stocks" In no part of the patch was it possible to drive rigging between them Also note the basket of lraeked corn. It was filled from just twenty four nil s, yield which kept up even- y over the whole piece.
 Nell, it is all cleaned up now, and this morning BrinGle. the COW, is wan dering over H. salvaging fragments of stalks small turnips, etc After every thing was in, I carefully measured the patch, and found that it contained ex- actly twenty-four shundredths. of an acre just q trife less than a quarter. l huslled from it 8 little over forty-fve bushels Of ear corn. And I have eighteen tWenty-fouF ear traces Of fine Seed-corn. \ neighhor who is a dabster at figures reckons that the yield was better than 92 bushels of shelled corn to the acre Of course, that isn't any "record.' But 1 wasn't gtnning for records" The corn was simply Fan old mans plaything," and as such the old man is rayther proud of 1t.
 In addition to the grain, the patch gave me almost 8 ton of bone-dry* stalks for coW-fodder; a wagon-load of yellow pumpkins and q most 8 wagon-load of purple-top turnips. These last have but just been cellared. They Were growing like weeds, when pulled, and would have doubled their bushelage in the next fortnight. But 1 don't like to pull tur- nips oGt of the snow would rather take few less. and get them in when they can be handled comfortably.
 On the whole, looking at the little quarter-acre patch as the DIaything it was intended for and the trying out. in 1921, of the farming methods Of 1891, the results arc more than 8 little inter- testing to me. I hope the story will in-
 terest some of you, also.
 ! What does if teaehe Oh, well. about thirty-nine things, at least thrty-eight of which I'm going to let you wool out for yourselves if you want to. The one 1 thing that iupresses me is the showing i of what farm manure will do-when you
 can put it on recklessly and extrava- l gantly. This patch got at the rate of i forty-eight two-horse loads to the acre. That's Tremendous application Farm iers with considerable acreage under piow can't do that sort of thing. They haven't enough of the manure and can't
 buy. beg. borrow. or steal enough. IF l they could. there is no doubt they could raise mighty good eorn-for . few years. anyway. But, even then ex7eri- ence indicates that the crops would peter out, eventually, owing to the lack Of potash and phosphorus in the stab,e manure.
 This particular patch of mine has been
 treated to scientifically graduated doses
 of al-round fertilization for twenty-fivs
 years. It has had stable mannre right
 along, In reasonable amount Also not
 ash and phosphorus and lime in ouanti.
 ties indicated as needed If 1t had never
 had anything but stable manure return
 cd to it. l have grave dcs5ts as to what t would have done, this time. Certain. ly, the land which father and grandfath.
 CT used to grow good farm corn on witl farm manure alone gave steadily lessen ing yields in their later days. You car
 draw your own differences and reaci your own conclusions
 , For myself. wish I was able to pn ! that same patch into soy beans. mex year, fill the soil with nitroge1~g ~gatherins 2 I potash-extracting bacteria, along tn lines of Prof. Esten's developments, an, 7 sec what would happen to the mex
 crop!
 D. In other words, Id dearly like to hiteI l up the sumption of the old-fashione, @ farmers with the Knowledge of the new 6 est agriculture, and see what such
 4 team would dd!
 l. That, however, is something I sha, s have to pass over to younger hands. ] THE FARMER.