Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1911 — Run Down Land and Live Stock. [ARTICLE]

Run Down Land and Live Stock.

The Indiana Farmer mentions ah incident Of recovering run down land of a farmer in Pennsylvania', who bought 70 acres of such land some 12 years ago. This farm then furnished feed tor two horses and six cows. The average annual income amounted to less than S3OO, supporting in a very common sort of way its owner and family. Today this farm maintains 40 head of cows and enough horses to do the * farm Work. Last year the sales from it reached near $4,500. The change has been brought about by intelligent farming, in which soiling—that is, keeping the animals in stables instead of pastures and feeding green crops to them —has been one of the leading. princi-