Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1910 — Up-to-Date Farming Pays. [ARTICLE]

Up-to-Date Farming Pays.

A university president tells of a recent graduate of a university in New York State who engaged In fruit raising. Four years ago he devoted nine acres to Baldwin apple trees, which last year produced 900 barrels of apples. The expense of spraying, etc., was $634, the income was $2,400 and the net income was $1,766, or $196 an acre. His land was valued at S2OO an acre, and so he got 100 per cent on his Investment. Another student tried his hand at hay. He tried the growing of timothy and found It was ten times better th*" other kinds, and Is making big returns on Its cultivation. Another by a scientific crossing of strains in cattle was enabled to make poor cattle the equal of the best