Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 160, 10 May 1912 — Page 7

THE RICH3IOND PALLADIUM AXU SUN TELEGRAItl, FRIDAY MAY 10, 1912.

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INCOMES FROM WELL-TENDED ACRES

BY ISAAC L. TOTTEN. It la surprising how few acres are really required to provide a good living for a family. ' When one acre is farmed along the most advanced lines it produces food stuffs in marvelouely large quantities. . It was our pleasure to vlsifan old acquaintance a short time ago who is doing things almost phenomenal on a five acre tract. Three years ago he began grownig vegetables, not a variety, but Just one kind; because he has no market for a general line of vegetables. This practice of specializing, we believe, is, in most casej), productive of better results than that of generallzaIng. As the saying goes: "If you do not want the shot to scatter put in a single hot." We learn that a thorough study of the crops we are trying to produce on our farms makes for larger proats,

so many different kindB of stock to look after we cannot, because of time ad the lack of competent help, do Justice to them all. This old acquaintance of ours does not depend upon the local market for the sale of his product, be sells his entire crop to the buyer who comes to his little place to buy the vegetables. By handling only the one crop he can study its requirements better than If be were raising a variety of crops and be does not have to devote time to peddling or to standing on the market square. "Concentrating my efforts on the one ctod." said he. "affords an oppor

tunity to go more deeply into the special requirements of my business. "There are few men who could make a success of any marked degree If they tried to practice law, medicine and do a number of other, things of a professional nautre all at the same time. "It would be a physical Impossibility for them to do Justice to so many things, while in centralizing their efforts on one line of endeavor they attain the highest degree of efficiency In that one line. "The same reasoning, I- believe, holds true in the farming business as In the others." An outline of how our friend handles his five acres will show that there Is substance in his reasoning. His soil was exceptionally wet, and this, of course, means that he must do a certain amount of draining. The Crop which he raises requires considerable moisture, but not quite so much as the soil held throughout the planting and growing seasons. The problem, then, that confronted him when it came to the subject of drainage was: 1 How should he drain just so much and I no more, that is, how could he keep from overdrawing his land. The solution was quite simple when he reasoned it out. He put In enough i tile to drain the soil thoroughly when necessary and when he wanted to hold the moisture in the ground he used a piece of a board as a valve to shut off the water at the tile outlet. "One Sunday," said he, "my wife and I went visiting. That was during the growing season and I had the tile shut off. While we were away from home there came up a heavy rain storm which flooded my vegetables. When we came home we bad a little lake all our own; but we did not care to run as ummer resort; our business was that, of growing vegetables. "When I saw the water it did not take me long to get on my rubber boots and hurry as quickly as possible to the tile , outlet and remove the t I il.., Hvn..Mln.1 IV. n J

ing their work. Within three hours from the time . that I removed the board the water had p-aotlcally all disappeared -.from the surface 6f the ground and I, then put the board back In Its place, at the tile outlet to hold the remaining quantity of" water. He does all of his plowing in the fall ; because he has learned through experience that by so doing he can get out his crop earlier in the spring than if he waited . until spring to do the plowing.By plowing the ground in the fall he claimed that the weeds will start earlier in the spring and give .him a chance to kill most of them before the crop Is planted. He virtually tends the greater part of his crop before he plants it. - - Before he put out his crop this spring he used the harrow six times and the drag four times, and it is not difficult to imagine the condition of his seed bed. His soil is naturally loose, too. As soon as the seed-is in the ground he begins to use a hard weeder, and If it does not rain too often before

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runs the. weeder lengthwise then crosswise, then diagonal twice. The hand weeder is used because he ground is so soft that a horse would make deep holes in It while walking across the field. Through experimenting, our friend has learned what kind of fertiliser his soil requires. This year the fertilizer for his five acres cost him about seven dollars an acre, which is more than the average rental for most farm land. He uses only potash because his soil seems to contain the other plant food elements that his crop requires. Theoretically, however, he will have to eventually use a complete fertilizer. When he selects his seed he tests it thoroughly before buying and before planting. He takes one hundred seed and places them between two moist blotters where he leaves them until they geninate. In that way he can tell what per cent will grow and buys the kind that tests the best. Some seasons the seed tests higher or lower than In other seasons and he governs the amount of seed that be sows according to what the test shows. Price is not a consideration with him in buying good seed. His war on weeds, as stated before, begins before the seed is in the ground and continues with the weeder and wheel hoe and fingers after that. As Boon as the vegetables peep through the ground the wheel hoes are at once started and following this operation is the hand weeding. Weeds are his greatest enemy and he must wage a continuous war against them or lose the. crop. There

are other enemies, too, in the form of

insects and worms that are to be contended with, and he is forced to spray thoroughly to destroy them. The business management comes in for a large share of credit when it comes to making his profits. He knows all the time what he is doing and what it is costing and also knows to a fair degree of certainty just what the proit will be. He plans his work and then

works as closely to that plan as condi

tions permit. "I aim to follow the principles that make any other business successful," he remarked. "Time, labor and ex

pense are the three items that must be considered. I plan all my work so that it can be done in the shortest possible time with the least expenditure of labor. Waste must be eliminated." We asked him to give up an idea of the profits from his business and he said: "I began work here three years ago on a capital of $700. During the three years I have cleared enough to pay for and build my six room cement block bungalow, my cement barn and chicken house and I have also made enough to finish paying for my land. I have got my land well drained and I have made a good living. I have an equipment that has a value of about $400 and I have about $400 in the bank at the present time. This is certainly not a bad showing from five acres of land and it goes without saying that it is better to farm one acre rich than one acre poor.

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NESTS IN COLONIES. Homes of tho African Grosbeaks as Big as a Native's Hut. The biggest bird's nest in the world, not excepting the stork's," Is butlt by the African grosbeak. It is really 100 nests or more bound together with closely interwoven sticks, Tines and strands of coarse grass, and Is not built by a single pair of birds, but by a colony of them. It is of such enormous size that at a little distance it is often mistaken for ne of the native huts built in the trees uo frequently found in wild tropical countries where man eating animals abound, and the only way to sleep in safety is to "roost high." The birds usually select a thorn tree, probably because of the protection afforded by the sharp, long thorns against marauders. All around the nest the roof of sticks, thatched with dry grass, projects to let the rain run off. A deep fringe of grass hangs from this cornice like a curtain to keep out any stray drops. These great nests are added to from year to year, each pair of mated birds building on the main nest. Sometimes the nest becomes too heavy, and the branch breaks or the great mass of sticks falls to the ground, destroyed by its own weight. The grosbeak is no larger thau an English sparrow and just as gregarious. New York Tress.

Tangled, I am at home to no one except Mr. Brown," said the lady to her new maid. "Now, be sure to remember that. She stayed at home all the afternoon, but nobody was announced. Then she sent for the girL "Didn't anybody call?" she asked Impatiently. "Yes, ma'am five gentlemen. An I told 'em all that you wasn't home to anybody but Mr. Brown, an they all went away, ma'am." "You idiot! You haTe alienated all my friends by your stupidity! Didn't any of the gentlemen leave any message?" "Yessum. After I'd said it four times I got it mixed up, an' I guess I told the last gentleman that you was home to everybody but Mr. Brown. "Well and what did he say?" "He says. 'HaI'm Brown! an then he turned around an run off Jes' like the rest of 'em." Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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