Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1879 — Gill Edged Farming Will Pay. [ARTICLE]

Gill Edged Farming Will Pay.

Miv Aaron Jones, of South Bend, Indiana, gives us a striking illustration of the advantages of gilt-edged fanning. Mr. Jones is the owner of a fine farm adjoining the city of South Bend in this state, a portion of which he cultivates himself, and tho remainder he commits to the tender mercy of “renters." This season he bad a field of corn side by with tiro rioters, with little difference in the SioIT, the three fields wero planted from the same seed, Mr. Jones furnishing the seed- At gathering time he had a purchaser for I,<HK> bushels of corn. Mr. Jones showed him tho three fields of eofn. The field of hisawn cultivation, ho priced the corn at thirty-three and a third cents per bushel; the next best at thirty cents ; the nextat twenty-five cents, remarking to ihu purchaser that it was immaterial ty him which he preferred at the prices named. The choice of the thirty-three and a third cent corn was roadily made. This ia.ftot all,.kite flshlof his. uwn. oulujatiun yielded seventy-five bushels per acre, the next best forty-five bushels, and the poorest thirty-five bushels. Mr, Jones ways that

hiijsneccs* was largely, if not wholly owing to the condition-of hiß*laod, being thoroughly pulvortxed bofore planting,“and the cord carcl\il!y*eiiltiv.*tod, continuing die cultivation through the harvesting^?wheat. The profit* of gilt-edged even cow, are satisfactory. Figure them up nnd note the result. Mr. Jones is keenly alive to the interests of “farm drainage,” contemplates tire thorough drainage of a farm) that is considered rolling. Ho eeee at [a glance that he will protect himself against the surface washing, aud bo greatly benefitted by tho rain water parsing down through the soil, every drop of it being freighted With fertilizing mutter washed out of the air. And we assert gill-odged farming will pay. —Drainage and Farm Journal.