Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 2 December 1869 — Page 6

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HOUSE FAIOI AND GARDEN.

A SIXTY ACRE FARM.—The Sycamore, Illinois, True lie-publican gives ail account of the farm of Shepard Wheeler, near S^ycamore, DeKalb count}*, Illinois. Wc make the following extract as a record of actual experience, although we think there are several features in the plan followed that cannot be commended

In some respects this is farmed in an exceptional manner. While its owner depends upon it for his livelihood, he does not live upon it. His home is in the city, a mile and a half distant. Here are his barns, stables, pens, cribs and gardens. Living liere, lie has the advantage of society to his liking, of proximity to schools, to churches and to stores and he thinks, that as he loses no time in his necessary visits to town, he really saves money by living away from his land. One advautage, however, that he has in that respect over most farmers in the vicinity, is in an exhaustless bed of sand and gravel on his place, from which he draws a load to his customers in the city nearly every night when returning from his farm work. But in fact, he is not farther removed from his farm than are many of our largo farmers from their more distant fields, and rising in good season, he generally finds himself in his fields at work befote seven o'clock, which is quite as early as most of his neighbors, who live upon their farms. Then he finds that he can do ten hours' work, and still be at home in good season. We don't pretend to recommend this method of farming to others, but it is worthy of mention that farming can sometimes be done at arms length, and not without profit. Another peculiarity of Mr. Wheeler's management is that he has very little stock. A pair of stout horses, one cov and a couple of dogs is all that he usually keeps. Thus depending upon grain raising alone, he ought, according to the rules of agricultural theorizers. and the laws laid down by popular opinion, to be growing poorer and poorer all the time, for the fiat has gone forth that there is no profit in raising grain exclusively but his facts and figures persistently refuse to agree with this theory. Here are his figures for last year's crop, and we are disposed to doubt if any farmer in the country can show a better yield per acre from his farm

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12 acres of -wheat... .'"T r.T. T. 204 16 acre3 of barley ...639 8 acres of oats." 272 15 acres of corn 440 *4 acre of potataes.. 75

SALES FKOM HIS FAitM.

147 bushels wheat 98 cents §144 55 439bushels barley $1 70J4 cents... 759 20 69 bushels oats 50 cents 34 62 317£ bushels corn 54 cents 172 76 Potatoes *1 50 Butter ... .... 17 50 Eg.cs .V...' 24 65

Total §1,157 78 Estimating what he used for seed, and still has on hand of the same crop, at the same prices, he finds it worth $4:05 56, making the total products of the farm 8 L,622 24, or §27 02 per acre. It wi[l be observed that his crops, although fair, were not extraordinary, nor were the prices higher than usual, except for his barley. He and his son do most of the work. His total expense, paid out for labor and threshings was §51 92.

His butter sold was% the produce of one cow, and was a surplus left after supplying the family. Every one knows that with such a yield as that, and habits of economy, a man is at his ease. Habits of economy, ah! there is the secret of success on farms, small or great. On multitudes of farms in this country there is enough wasted to support a family. In careful saving and judicious management lies the secret of success, rather than in excessive labor or lavish expenditure of capital. We are inclined to believe that the net profit of farms nncler eighty acres in this country, is quite as great as the profits on those over that amount. Hundreds of farmers have failed on the large farms of the country. Did you ever know one to fail on any of the small farms

Mr. Wheeler's sixty acres is all high, dry land, well fenced as it.needs "be, when the owner lives two miles away, and is now surrounded with a handsome, thrifty osage hedge. He has done little in the way of manuring during the ten years he has lived on the place, yet finds his farm constantly improving in its crops. He plows eight or nine inches deep for corn, and next year plows only half that depth, and sows wheat, oats or barley. He plants the yellow dent corn, a good variety, of which last year he sold one hundred bushels for see*i for 8200.

His wheat is a mixture qf Mammoth and China. Sows two bushe to the acre, ahd never fails to raise fine crop. He sows two and a half

bushels of barley, and three and half ot oats—Maine oats. The grasshoppers, last Summer, destroyed several acrcs of his late sown oats, stripping every kernel from the stalk. He usually feeds his hogs on boiled potatoes till Autumn, then corn and meal till they weigh three hundred. He stacks his grain on the spots of poor soil, then draws the grain out when he threshes, and burns the straw, thinking the ashes a wonderful improvement to the soil.

To TELL THE ACTUAL VALUE OP Cows.—The American Stock Journal, in reference to this subject, says "Now we can go into a dairying neighborhood, and point to farmers who are losing from two to three thousand dollars a year by keeping cows yielding two hundred pounds of butter per year instead of those that would yield from five to six hundred pounds in the same time. How many dairy men can tell the relative value of each cow of their herds by actual test There is a little instrument for this purpose that don't cost much, but verj*' few dairy men know anything about it. It is called a 'Lactometer,' constructed by placing a number of glass tubes of equal length and diameter in a wooden frame. The milk from each cow is placed in some of these glass tubes there they stand, side by side, and you can see the depth of cream that rises in each tube, representing a certain cow, and estimate her value thereby. These instruments are for sale in Philadelphia and other cities." Might not our farmers profit bv the above item.

SOAKING CORN FOR HORSES.—A correspondent of the Prairie Farmer writes as follows "One of the best farmers that I know save.s onethird of his corn by soaking it before he feeds it to his horses, ilis plan is this: He places two hogsheads in his barn cellar, secure from the frost, fills them with ears of corn, and pours in water until they are covered. When well soaked he feeds out of one to his horses, and by the time this is exhausted the corn in the other is well soaked. The cobs become jso soft that the horses eat them with as good relish as' they do the corn, and they require only about two-thirds as much corn as when fed without soaking. There is no doubt that the cob eaten with the corn renders the diet more wholesome. A certain amount of coarse leed is necessary to the health of the ani mals.

THE BAKI-EY CROP.—An attempt has been made this year, with fair show of success, to enlarge the production of this grain, and terminate the scandal of its importation. The increase is estimated at 14 per cent, in Indiana, 11 in Ohio, 9 in Michigan, 10 in Wisconsin, 20 in Minnesota, 1 in Iowa, 20 in Nebraska, 2S in Kansas, 22 in Missouri, 37 in Kentucky, 7 in Pennsylvania, 20 in New York and 14 in New England. The quality is generally good.

FOR many years Mr. Mechi, one of the best farmers in England, has been urging upon farmers the importance of putting in their wheat better, but using less seed. He uses a drill that works exactly, and with it he seeds with a peck to the acre, and gets the best of crops. II a peck to the acre, instead of live or six pecks, will answer, our farmers ought to know it, for the breadstuff* thus saved would feed half the poor of Europe.

REV. Mr. Dunham, of Bryant's Pond, Maine, raised this season from a single pea the following remarkable crops: Twenty-five were grown at the first crop, and two thousand, nine hundred and forty at the second making in the whole, by actual count and measurement, 2,965 peas, or three pints.

AT a late meeting of the New York Fruit Growers Club, it was stated that a gentleman in New Jersey kept from two to three hundred barrels of apples last winter in perfect condition by simply piling them together in the open air and covering them with a quantity of salt hay.

A FARMER in Stowe has dug one hundred bushels of turnips this season from thirteen rods of ground.

CRAWEORDSYILLE JOURNAL: DEOEMBER 2,1869.

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Many of the best teamsters pro-j tect the breasts of their horses by a ,, ..

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