Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 1, 1912, Page 19

KORWICH BULLETIN. MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1912 seull of the whole United States is only about fifteen bushels per acre. And conservation, which we're Jjust beginning to talk about—and which be because there is something wrong with the soil or the l fen Years Advance in Agriculture. that average is ralsed considerably by the comparatively high yields most of us, even now, are inclined to sner at as a sort of “fud.” of the crov. Only lasc fall T walked over the oat-field which » nelgh- || Things are moving. Iven on thé farms of New London and of the east. It is such states as New York and Pemnsylvania and They save manure, for one thing, which we let go wholly to waste bor had just reaped. The land was originally quite rich. A crop of i Windham counties they are moving—a littie. 1f one can’t see much Massachusetts, yes, and Connecticut, with their yields of 25 and 27 and o Al Metirioruts o' a. trastion of 1t reslovaiae by our sliMlees potatoes had been grown on it the year before, and the land had been - change, from day to day, the change is visible on a comparison of to- *28 bushels, which bring up the average for the whole. If they were methods o storiug. - There's little Defimark, for example; “1t's & TEHtY fertilized for them. One result was that the cats grew about six feet I day with ten years ago. disregarded the average yield of the wheat states of the west would Sartattis. abovt) ae. Bl jad the tiree stiitis of MugsElaettl Cons high—and then tumbled over. | don't think one-half of the Stalks ware " The latest census returns show that between 1900 and 1910 the be less, even, than it is. Connecticut hasn't as many acres which will Radlit Wi RHio0s THRGE: Dot nekrly an’ bkt et VermbAt S0 New cut by the reaper. They lay too flat on the ground. The owner had b alue of farm property in the two counties increased from $18,823,000 grow wheat and corn as Illinois or Towa or Nebraska. But where Hampshire; not anything like half as big as the single state of Maine. no time to get on with a scythe and hook up the lodged grain. Wheth- t $48,000—a gain of over $3,000,000. The value of the land in wheat is grown in Connecticut, it\yields much better than in any of And it's wholly & farming country. It hasn't manufactures éhough er there were any berries on it or not, the straw was worth something, ¥ farms grew by more than $1,100,000; the value of farm buildings by the states mentioned. As to corn, why, all that's necessary to do is to ill & single factory on the Shetucket, All the people are farmers And it was half lost, half of the natural value, half of the possible i more than $1,200,000; the value of domestic animals, poultry and bees to point to the last two years when the record crops of the count: and the sors of farmers. Nevertheless, it's one of the richest coun- vield on a twenty acre patch. Now, this wasn't the fault of the land almost balf a million; and value of farming tools and machin- have been produced in Massachusetts and Connecticut, respectively. tries, acre for acre and man for man, in the world. Moreover, it's get- nor the fauit of the crop nor the fault of the seed nor tne fault of the ' ery by over $230,00 3 The best crop of the best acre in the famous “corn belt” never equaled ting richer all the time.. One way it is doing this is just by saying season. It was due to faulty management. The ground wasn't in the |} That looks pretty good, eh? Shows that the old clock is still run- the best crops produced in these two New England states. The aver- manure, Those who have observed the Danish farmer's stock and right shape for oats, to begin with, and the owner had put in at least ning. anyway, and that it isn't running all on tick, either. 3 age crop of the average farm in the “corn belt” isn’t as good as the béfris ‘ave Mimply amased at'the amount of manufe e kets wd uses twice as many acres as he could take care of, for another thing: T But there are always two sides to a board and two ways of Jooking average crop on the average farm in Connecticut ought to be, whether He keeps all the stock his acreage will warrant, which, fn the present don't know how mauy bushels of grain he actually got, nor how many at a picture and two things least—which you can show by figures. it is or no. What man has done, man can do, and what one man has Vear, is just about twice as much)as a similar acreage in Connecticut n;us rtr slrfi;‘. ”"‘, 1 do know that he might have got just as much While the value of the farms has increased, the amount of im- done another may come somewhere near doing, if he tries as hard is supposed to be capable of doing] and he saves every ounce and every ;:u:d ‘;i(:p(‘?'o hx“”l _A!]ml\;oh l(;u;,d alt a decre!nsod labor cost, if he had proved and unimproved land held in farms in 1910 was 659,743 acres, and works as wisely. drop of the manure they make. He draws the manure, as it is made, &2 o wed"‘n“ n‘" ‘,“,"‘ ::_‘em 1 fl_"d ‘0,,},’-7 crop. Also, I know that which is 26,669 acres less than acreage of 1900. While the value of Now, there's no use attempting to make up hard-and-fast rules every day, or as often as a load accumulates. st m;_“ ‘ni l“m:a':(m.! rfi ac ;e‘!‘ “‘ ich r;:u-\t bhave cost him & ' bulldings and implements and stock has grown, the area of improved for farming. Nor is there ‘any great gain in Farmer A blindly imitat- R R AL iyl ,p ; -[xlxm ln:;;hdy and clover seed, is prac- ‘the farms actually operated dropped off by 12,000 acres. ing Farmer B, who may have raised better crops. One star differeth The Shicik £ % thé R g und _’r‘ o odzed oats. He'll have to plow v | This you'll observe, is different. It has a different look and from another In glory, one farm differeth from another in cubsedness. e age of Manure in the Open. ghe Iot asain wnd put & dot move labor and. o/ ot imore‘geNtin: KNS | »s & different tasts in the mouth, The population of the two coun- No man but the wearer knows where his shoe pinches, and no man Have yon any ides of how ‘bl fhis fie’ ttém ot dstly Brawine he gets it back into tolerable grass. has grown in ten years by an even 10,000; values of farms but the farmer knows so well what his own land will do and what maves?, I once kept careful tab on the ameunt of manure which was Now, that particular neighbor isn’t a dum fool, by any manner of farm property have increased, but the amount of land actually it won't. thrown\ on the heap behind a two-horse stable. Then 1 kept equally means. He's well up to’the average of us common folk. He mae 8 | d the amount of land held in farms have both decreased. But—as President Cieveland once said—it is & condition which careful tab from the amount which was drawn from that heap, after | ‘stake—just exactly as vou and I have done, over and over again. Here's a question for the local granges to think over and explain. confronts us, not a theory. it had lain a year. In bulk, the pile yielded less than one-ninth of He mismunaged a crop, just as we have done. But when we make 3 r D i T i Hapgimaiay ‘S b tloish] what had been thrown upon it. That is, for every nine bushels of un.xf.lhb\ and w n.q}; we miemanage—you and I—we are not bound in ain: the land hasn't actually disappeared off the map or the face A Million Dollars Spenl For Fodder. than one bushel of manure in the spring to haul on the land. Of g 3t . $ Nt " ? the earth, Its still there; hasw't been lost, straved or stolen. Some course, it was somewhat heavier, bushel for bushel, and it was some- St . i i o becomo so ushamed of the way it was farmed that Here's over a million dollars spent by the farmers of just two what more rotten and probably more quickly available as’plant food. | 4 od tis face with bushes to hido from sight. Or it may be counties buying feed for thelr stock; buyin it fram out of the state; It wouldu't be fair to say that the manure plle was warth only one- A Queer Argument Against Increase d of statistical hide-and-seek In the census figures. It sending their money out of the state to buy it with. For remember nineth of what it would have been if drawn out and spread, fresh P S A 3 D ould st least b interesting to know what has hecome of it. right here, that when you pay your money to your local grain and But it is certainly-safe to say that it wasn't worth one-half as much, iy 1,,:3“,‘9,'_:“.“:; ‘}”E,‘.‘f“’;,“”l";,“‘s"o':.tt':;h‘“,‘?n“i;‘;d Brpibisicifyre s You don't really suppose, do you, that a 85,869-acre farm has been feed dealer, he keeps only that small part of it which embraces his And even then no account is taken of the liquid manure, practically cOUISHE! be Sthnl &t Beis,, Mo et B R abandoned” in eastern Connecticut since 19007 profit. The rest all goes to Chicago or Minneapolis or some other far- all of which was wasted by this method and which is certainly worth hérn abhnddned Bt $hk 60 i ook > 1»"; mills have al $ig : away western point to pay for the stuff he buys there in carloads, as half as much as the whole of the solid manure. Assuming that the ool g Mg i il s Rt i i feeds, PO - ot bV e GE Nl Farthk Gt dre nbt! "keedinl yoRE Sibhky, &t Hoima” solid manure wasted in manurial value by one-half and that the wast- ol £ Wa Gk et b"::“”m‘"‘u""‘;‘,‘“““- after you had A Large Number of Mortgaged Farms. hen you use it to buy, even of a local dealer, the things he must buy ed liquid manure was worth as much as the half that was saved of s P PN (et e N 3 " G hons i DA of sonté from abroad. All you're “keeping at home” is the Dercentage of profit the solid, this farmer threw away, every year, fully three-quarters of fave b Ire plaow, 16 tatittiquite; trile Riukt) Salt™. CiiGNUIRERSINER erhaps the farm T ge sitvation may have . m_xn Aip g he rakes off. And you're keeping that at his home—not your own, the value of the manure he might have used to enrich his land. have been abandoncd. There are still some millstones turning or some - L ot i dabe 0 L5 e Sk et Right there is the point: If it is in any way practicable, wouldn't The Danish farmer saves every bit of his manure, solid and liquld, | 1t they wars iy gunecticut, And there would mighty soon be more, if they w d 1 h y really at home, 1. e, in y ¢ every ten mortgaged! One would like to know, if figures about it be wiser to keep all that money really at hom e., right in your Ho is as fareful of it as we are of the ground feed that we buy by We Conusoficut Haritess Aout i Sw G, own breeches-pocket—all of it—including the dealer’s profit as well as he Nk’ et Dilckmisconty Xnows N5 oh g Fegras il for doing business over our shoulders. The advance of milling knowl- wera ainab r it was mostly on :\n-se mortgaged farms thi B ANt Ot Vo Wb (665, by FAISIE, Four Uik 76l \Tight Ofl/the r:uonzwhy hsl do;:yzzn}i;“lzn& buvoh:s‘:x\:‘n;r:‘;:m:;d t‘]‘::?‘ is._ d?-r..‘ edge and the spread of invention has made the modern mill almost an acreage of proved ,.‘..1.1 ;,1‘(](:: \'(‘;i.i{nm”m i mk e far? - oné wessi Wiy his faidk ds amsswlly Getting Fioker, SRd Be ans: ?lm‘-u.rm\‘nllllv\lnv‘ and, in its smaller forms, a rather cheap one. It . o g g e Gt <o el b That's a question to which the average Connecticut farmer, who also getting richier. He wouldn't think of buying fertilizer 80 1ong 18 | ing o ve. semn 16wt b pashels of grain in some town wail- Tandon county 755 per cent. of all the land is farmed; in Windham knows the value of money and how hard it is both to get and to keep, a single ounce or a single spoonful of his barn-made manure was be- ool Bive s milIKSetsTMREA, ChoRbIe of fetie St i v:'?t.mw": S TE¢ B chit, i dverae for. tie Srinle WHALH 16 Ghly "hSDed can have but one answer for. Ing wasted, Ho saves it all and grows his own feed with it, thereby worry much over {hat ! by s ¢ eithe: X i R hy . Eion saving both fee and fertilizer bill—two bills which amounted to s ; 4 squale the record of cither. In aias of in- T e e e VRt ERNOUINO0 £ “tm, Tareiees or o, TS et L Now don't get the idea that some swell-headed amateur In the o g 3 ties, in 1910. newspaper is undertaking to tell you how to run your own farm. That them is of 1037 acres, which is exceeded only in As to that, every individual farmer is and ought to be his own : is most decidedly not Il this is itel or. Y erag state is §1.5 acres. It is pleasant to judge. He knows hils own farm better than any one else can. At Moreover, this single matter of manure is only one of the det i e A 'ry:.l:mvls,ull :l]:vln'lmkinr:)twm:;‘;t;l;[ B’:&‘:FZ&’;'Z = s in both countles of a thousand acres 16RAt Sie. GUEHY: tol: Tut 1t tentivies il 346 ednalbis for iiny. Sarmer whereln the European farmers excel us. They study their soils as we probably know a litile something about it. But you don’t know it all 211 of less than a hundred acres. to leap to a conclusion, even about his own farm. It's slower work don't—many of us; they care for their crops as we don't—many of and, if you've got the rool of the matter in you, youw'll be the first ering and hopeful. Whatever may be said about the crawling to a conclusion—but somehow, If you crawl and take your us; they cultivate as we don’'t—many of us; they co-operate in buying to admit as much. There may be possibilities in that old farm of s money-inaking capacity, when managed by some time aboat it, you'll find out more about the stumps in the way. You thelr supplies and selling their produce, as we simply won't. vours which you haven't wholly understood, even after all your long fact still remains that, for the aver- may, likewise, pick up a little new and surprising information about As a result of these and other things, their lands—old and wor years of farming. Perhaps it simply won't grow efther corn or oats— tle farm, well tilled.” ) THE BULLETIN'S CORN GROWING CONTEST FOR 1912 $230.00 in Prizes for Competing Farmers IN SEVEN PRIZES—S$100. to 1st; $50.te 2nd; $25. to 3rd and 4th; and $10. each fo nex! three in order which didn’t look, on the outside, as if it might raise a few other things, if it were given the right chance. But prehaps you can't grow corn or oats on it. It may be & potato farm, good for the tubers, but not for cereals. Well, in that case, vou'll'simply have to keep on buy- ing your feed, and raising potatoes to pay for it. Ewen then, it is certainly to be hoped that you will not be satisfied with a yield of 100 bushels to the acre. If your farm s a natural potato farm it ought to do at least twice as well as that. There are too many thousand potato- Facts Disclosed. 1 by the census of 1910, however, 1d earnest thought by the farm- © the facts relating to farm ex- 09—tk r covered by the census re- r e # of New London and Windha counties paid out, in ) or ther, or farm labor, $951,112. This is, of course, ex- . of t wn labor. It is what they paid to others in wages, d rei r f he It is the cost of the “hired man” for " b sam b paid out for fertili $181,810; this, - o C « y m-made manpures, It was their a id for feed for their stock, during 1909, $1,020,- n At o1 r whether, if they had paid that additional the feed they needed—and left thelr farms in better Opportunity to Increase Crops. grower veraging from 200 to 250 bushels a year to make it possible any longer to doubt the feastbility of such crps. If your land oesn't To Promote Corn Growing in New London and Windham Counties The Bulletin makes this offer for the best acres of corn grown by produce them it means one of two things, and two things only—either boy ‘or man- it isn't as good potato ground as you've thought, or else you're mot THE RULES OF THE CONTEST: managing it right Who May Compete—Any farmer in New London or Windham Counties may compete. No contestant will be awarded more than one It may be that your land isn't specially adapted to elther cereals prize. Only one entry can be made from a farm, which can be made by the owner, his son or lessee. ; or potatoes, but is fine for vegetables or berries or urcharding. It Date of Entry—Notice of intention to compete should be sent to the Bulletin Company on or before May 1, 1912, el "“ ::x“‘; ‘\"““i;“:‘!:e°“;“ff_:l ’;’::::fc"‘n:“‘gf;'f“m:“f;h:'uz"“& It will be better to enter now, even if you may decide to withdraw later. dronteetoll) Amount of Land—Any amount of land may be planted, provided it is actually one acre or over in extent. The awards will be made Ko ion e bise Whow-Thasd thlhbb bl awell b Pack bt upon the wield of one acre only. This one acre must be one plece, and may be selected by the contestant at harvest or before, but must if you'll take the trouble to find out. You're the judge and the jury and and more manure they might not have raised come within and be a part of the plece entered in the contest. the sheriff for your own farm. You're also its doctor. And its feeder. Survey—The acre must be measured and staked off by two disinterestod parties not in the family of tke contestant or in his employ And its trained nurse. And its midwife. The quantity of land within the lines must be exactly 43,560 square feet. No allowance will be made for howlders, walls, fences, trees, swampy or poor land or for any frregularity, either natural or artificial, or for missing hills. All boundary stakes must remain in original R position until after the awards are made and announced. Why Should You Put Out a Million and a Quarter? B Tiklina 5 The quality of the corn will be decided by a free labratory test made by the Storrs College expert from one quart of selected corn. z : 2 e ety i Nk e gures relating to certain ncipal crops—I'm ¥ % o] \ Only, I beg of you, stop ani vl - a get. through this statiatical part as you are!—In T EalEs iy, oames. to Wagshut the ooniaption. inz when you and the other 5378 farmers of these two counties pay w London and Windham countles had in corn out, every vear, about u million and a quarter dollars for feed that vielded, at harvest, 489,515 bushels of corn. This 2 might be raised in the two counties, and for fertilizer that might be 3 - =g i8 bushels per acre. This past year White o Col- the dirt you crawl over—if you crawl slowly enough and dig your as they are—produce better crops than our new lands. Their experi- ved, over and above present savings, from the stock now kept in nsville raised 112 bushels of shelled dry corn to the acre. If our two fingers and toes deep enough nto i, every bitch, : ; ence 1s simly incuntestadle Proof of the fact that continued farming em, the they Biad piambed, b 4 Because one hasn't ever raised his own feed 18 not conelusive proo —If so be it is wise and honest farming—does not exhaust land but i R s 7 oy hoacbg oot & g ermvs el ety c:-m:.,:: that he couldn't, it he tried. Even the fact that he may have tried it improves it. The farm which has been worked constantly for a thou- g el ,‘;fi;?fif‘??i‘:f'm‘”.“.‘.?c'.?."f H:?;".‘..f"f i they actually did! once and failled doesn’t warrant a verdict of guilty against the poor sand vears is a better farm than the one which has lain untouched Denny maved th.ianure {s golng to be worth & QLN to Your SAN KA \ A I Gails Wibsiby hate, vl NiTmag St & huodred Budd farm. It may be well that the failure was due to an unusual season, all that time—if only it had been really farmed, not robbed and plun- | O Atiar s # { i S of ool » or to mismanagement, dered. The single field which has been wisely farmed for even a year T A > 1y, o toad \ f e BRedl Se B RIG | bo (it siia gation HHak. o iy v s~ or two is, at the end of that time, a better field than its neighbor | don't tell you that you, individually, can raise your Cheaper Take oats. In 1909 the two « ies sowed and harvested 2,076 7 By wood: farrie hat h - which has lain idle the same time, than you can buy it, for I don't know your circumstances, your farm, - f oats, getting from th 4,194 bushels of threshed grain. This SIAUNGRAC IORS IS Jest s SO Eood fkemer, 18 thke e Qwik up, or But I do say that it would be a big saving for your pocket, N i . : without a blush or a stammer, that he doesn’t know all there is to ! S nor you. Bi o say th o "5 S in g . p ishels per acre, 1 don't happen to recall the Ehnit Aot Iibading Nk Shens,. 308, soly it atuplaly oF sereescits A and a big improvement (o your farm, if you could keep in that Bos i R, T b g eyl g madpedor o g ooyl There's about as much use of reasoning with such a creature as there What we're trying to come at is just this: Even if we farmers of D e il e ke et var C T 3 R N e B o LTt is In trying to make a rope out of sand, or in carrying water to put eastern Connecticut should spend as much money for extra work and oo, -1t 1’ ot vnlikely that & good many heve déver tHSRNEVIES ML ot g S o W e W R T out a fire in‘a sieve. It's generally the sophomore who has just begun extra manure to raise the feed We now buy a8 we pay for that fesd, feod and tortiiizer buying a6 & farm lsak.. On an averaps Yedtiliokn ARINN she r two coubtiss hed Goné dniy DAV &8 Well, they would e ERSy OF PIKDS Mhiq fuewans, of Deud ani . dogmstioaliiany erd sl bo making money; because we'd be enriching our farms and hat you don't by very much, Individuaily, A little bran, now and . b At shors then thall /i it question In_science. The gray-haired old professor, who has been enhancing their value. Also, the million or so we now send to Minne- then: shbug of horse.fecd ocoasionally: perhape: s Httla cotibasssdalk 5 Uhbrthy ARV, st DTS fas 8006 hiabicls o2 studying and experimenting and testing for half a century, will be apolis or some other distant place would remain right here, doing bus- or linseed cake, or something of that sort. Your own personal pur- & more apt to take your question in silence and chew over it for a iness among ourselves and for curselves, chases don't amount to very much, and o't impress You 88 O EHeet o of e F e e el e M Mot while, and then give you a hesitating hypothesis as to what may, Dos Not long ago a western visitor told me of a little experience two consequence. But “it’s. “many a mickle mawes a muckle;” i's the 4 i i o 8 vy S n sibly, help you to arrive at an explanation. So the farmer who really of his neighbors had with corn, Their farms lay side by side /ang e ndrops that fill the springs and the Nt aprings that Mesa bush: scre, and the averago vield of bockwheat only sbout knows the most Is usually the most modest about his own farming, tho were about as like as two peas. That year they both planted eorn at the brooks, and the little brooks that swell the river. When you come “ B - : & -[‘:I"':’“uf‘_e'r‘:ge s:“:;““!,r;'fi :is}d;‘e!l gn admit hl‘:; u:m xaflt{res:nd mxs‘\‘-( kes, and the most eager to the same time. One put in a hundred acres; the other put in forty, to appreciate the amount that you have, all of you together, paid out, i o e o -1HG TOkE TSRS mites thés y Afi:‘:;‘r’ ng:(n, b :’;cltrllmos -:}r;:r;s J;‘c:mi R0 “ fj,aoh had three teams. The forty-acre man plowed deep, harrowed ear by year, for these things, then the sizability of the sum ought to ac atoes, was s per acre. This isn't so awful P vibia erain activa gt Wi nov-Iook! Dver e altstion sedts. sead b CE o e s A Gniod bedig ek hip el strike you uncomfortably. Nearly o millon and & quartel SERIREE ad. By 3 \e potato growers of the island of Jerseys Yol the JEiBk wetutal id (ne Sithids by Ak bitoY T8 % ol the thma on ta s to work. - He kept his timed'{saims by et of New London and Windham counties alone; over seven millions and & : B R e & Uy g ; results and | ; y which they were achleved, the time on that forty acres. The other man plowed in a hurry and quarter in the whole state; that’s the sum we farmers are paying oth- s ushels t three acres, The Ohio and thoughtfully consider whether you might nct be able to save for harrowed just enough to get dirt to cover the seed. He cultivated er farmers for farm-prodiced things. That's what we're paying cther a o #8430 Duklich &3 Wire I8 &ty yeds— your own pocket, the money you have been accustomed to pasing out the hundred acres once, in the usual get-through-as-quick-as-you-can farmers to produce on -other farms g . PRECE R IRCESA ST ¥, or stock feed. R 3 way. The man who took care of his forty acres and gave his land While it is very possible that, in individual cases, this going off 3 3§ : Don't forget, in thus thinking it over, that if you should spend adequate tillage, cribbed two thousand bushels of ear corn that fall: the farm to-buy farm produce may be necessary or judicious, it is in- when we come to hay that the showing is most discour- exactly as much more for labor and fertilizer, every year, as you now the hundred-acre man who merely slobbered over his fieid had to ‘hunt heremtly improbable that the practice is generally either mecessary or y & wo countles had in hay and forage crops of all sorts that spend for imported feed, you will still be better off. For the fertiliza- in the weeds at harvest time to get five hundred bushels. The expense ise. As a rule, a farm Which won't grow farm crops isn't a very use- . And cut from those acres 111,564 tons tion and tillage needful to grow good crops I8 a lasting, at least & con- of cultivating and caring for the forty-acre lot was almost if not quite T iarm 1o chtar tas sauch of & fer s . alogk-oui DRbatt W h tinuing benefit to the land fertilized and tilled. I don't know what that 88 much as that put on the hundred acres adjolning. Hut the result ke 15 s e It ks Mook all rikhit, BGt 1£°xhe, Vamak ANMIEEAI A little over a ton and a fifth to the acre! acre on which Mr. White raised his 112 bushels of shelled corn was Not only did the forty-acre man get four times the crop, but he left O e aarttity baicts’ St tink fet . cldoktakkie T EEE BU Even the clever ¥ield, whiich ought to be abouththe eaviest of any worth before he put the corn in. But, whatever it was, it is worth his forty acres in such sHape that they were eager to grow another i il 3 ¢ the cultivated grasses, was only 31,000 tons oft 30,000 acres. And o SEaT I ond Seal Iiue J156 orth more o staw fotetoes on: At ik oloniig st e e N e TR R B s tn 1 olblt WRGE Ok of Eifes s Gveraiid fve e to grow vegetables on; il's worth more to Erow grass o 3 ving summer to catch their breath, after the abus s tn the 1656 NEGRE £l i S Al o i 0 on. Say, I'd like to see how much clear, clean timothy a fellow could they'd had, 5 What the Census Reports Mean. > poor to bear geod mo . if it hadn't been for the inclusion raise on that acre! In that little story lies a moral some of us might well take to When the census reports the amount of “feed” bought, it is to be n the census figures of ‘coarse forage,” meaning, I suppose, corn- o T T i"‘-;rr. Wcl u[—y lohdn too much, to farm too many acres. ‘Other things understood, 1 suppose, that grein, either whole or ground, l-fmu.nL sialks and corn sllage, and which averaged over seven tons to the % being equal, 1t is better for the immediate present to do only what we The term does not include hay, which would be classed as “forage.” { Scos—1t 15 et Seen for the inclusion of that item in the hay and : The Greater Crcfps Raised in Eml_’e' can do well. It certainly is vastly better for the future of the farm Nevertheless, the condition of the hay-mow in the barn affects the - gl SR for By GLiL. . 156 TWo counties would _ Why is it that the average yield of almost any crop is about double A crop the work on which we have to slur because we have so much feed-buying question very sirongly. While few stock-feeders adhers ! RS, ove ettt = bor 101156 Tant in Europe what it is in this country? Farmers out west turn over of it or so many others that we can't give it the time and care it to the old-fashioned theoty that stock can be kept well on hay alone, the sod of a virgin prairie which never before felt a plowshare and demands is going to pay us back for our neglect by inferior yield, it is still a fact that a great deal of the bulk, and no small propor- | e £ never be(jore' grow snything but grass or weeds. Aud they get, on the Worse than that, the field which we thus scant of its due attention tion of the nutritive value of the desirable stock ration is derived from A Wi ‘e average, just about half as many bushels to the acre as the farmers of is going to revenge itself on us by going backward. It will beo ay. When t supply is short the demand for grain is increased L at Do These Statistics Mean to Farmers? England get on land which has been plowed and cropped and plowed and exhausted, worn iuz, oo i Rlaidi Mren T b 1 wall filled, there, 1s-1684 krain callet Se NN Now eve T've got through with statistics from the census. cropped, over and over again, for more than a thousand years. They —_—— doesn't want to feed elther hay alone or grain alone. But with good, The next s to consider what they mean to us of the two coun- get less than half the crop which farmers of Germany get on land . . well-cured sweet hay and clover. one can very largely decrease the tles as farmers; 1o own 5 where they prove us at fault, and to seek which has constantly cropped for two thousand years—ever sinco the Something Wrong in Our Methods. proportion of grain called for by his stables. some means of remedying the fault old Germanli, whom Caesar had such a time licking, dug up the dirt Doen't it seem a little like carrying coals to Newcastle to thi i 3 i i First, it is to be noted that they show we had to buy over a mil- with wooden spades or scratched it with plows made from crooked farmers, in the state where the best corn ever grown in the \\‘m-l\;“; :5 cro .C"FT.',"'Il«n’fffs"nm'»’f"lm:: n:a':vl":flrlle‘m)::?;.:.'g'Ol"“":vurlfl ?;:z on dollars’ worth of feed; import it from somewhere else, to keep sticks. The average wheat yield in the United States, as I have said, is raised last year, sending money to other states where poorer crops of eadon OF 1956, of about & ton and a fifth, Probably. there ke Il r mtock going. ¢ i il less than fifteen bushels per acre; the average in England is about poorer quality are produced, to buy corn? farmers in the state who don't know of the work of the Inte-Glasege R ro B e i R e s s thirty bushels, and in Germany more than thirty-three. Perhaps, the last time you tried to grow corn you hadn't manure M. Clark of Higganum, with his sixteen acre hay fleld. We can recall, each other, and keep the money at home, where it is most needed an Why is it that these old lands produce better crops than our new enough for the field and had to spread it rather thin and buy some most of us, with what incredulity we heard the first stories if the yields | where it belongs® solls, which we suppose to be rich with the Inherited and accumulated high-priced fertllizer, even then, to help out. The crop turned out he got. and how it wasn't till the land had been measured by out- Perhaps you'll answer that our land, here in the east, is too valu- fertility of untold ases. poor. It didn’t pay for the work and the fertilizer and the trouble. clders and till they had watched the cutting and drying and Welghtng able to put Into grains; that the great west, on its cheaper lands, can One reason is that they farm better, over thers. Now, don't get You felt you could buy provender cheaper than you could raise the torn of the wrops, that we were finally compelled to admit the truth of his H raise them mere profitably than we. But that great west hasn't any excited, and go Into an old-fashioned Fourth of July rhodomontade * for it. Yet, if you had saved all your manure—as those pesky Danes claims. But the evidence became too strong for us( in time, and we 4 such “cheaper lands” snitable for grain-growing. The average value over American shrewdness and American intellizence and American do—you'l have had more than enough to cover your field heavily all had to own up that he was raising/about as much hay on One Sefe ; of the farm lands of New London and Windham countles, as reported capacity and all that. If our fathers had used their farming brains over. If that had seemed impracticable, then the use of what manure as we were were on four—about as much as we still average on four. We | 1o the census, is ‘st $16.16 an acre. Men who have good grain land more and their bragging mouths less in the past, we should have been y6u did have on half the area would have resulted in a savhg In- the had to admit, too, that he was getting more clear profit off one ore in Illinois and lowa and Nebraska and even the Dakotas hold it at farther ahead than we are. It is just this ignorant habit of boasting labor bill and an increase in the rate of yleld which might have turned than we could figure off four. Probably no one now questions the ac- anywhere from 360 to 3200 an acre. They grow their wheat and about ourselves, as if we were the pick of the earth, which is helping a loss to a profit. Anyway, it would have made that half you did at- curacy of his claims as to yield or profit. But a lot of us ‘atill ques- thelr corn and thelr oats on land which e:nu more :nld 1; m:‘u.: to hold us back. When we get over it and come to see that we're just tenid 6 wustly betler :for Tuture nse: tion the feasibility of applying his methods to our farms. worth mere, acre for acre, than eastern Connecticut lands. u common folks like others, and that we can sometimes learn a thing or he only sdvantage they have, a two from other common folks, we'll at least have got our faces turned Oats, too. We all know the usual way in which vats are grown, regards land, is that their prairies o . n And the census figures tell us the usual results—36 bushels to th e e e els to the acre i : A 14 them, com- \ “n ha worked cosier than our hillsides and intervales. 1t won't do towards the get-ahead side of the road. They can farm better, right about here. It seems hardly credfble that the farmer who knows bl prriogPoplopidins & -y agianione i kS \ , allow them the Lenefit of alleged “cheaper land,” for it len't cheaper, abroad, than we do. They have to, or they'd die of starvation. They his soll, who puts oats cn land fit for them, Who uses good seed and cat, and tha best way for any particular kind of cat depends upon s Setele haven’t any new land to move to when they've exhausted the old. They takes proper care of the crop—it seems hardly credible that such the cat and the skinner, Nor will it do to say that then can ralse better crops, acre for haven't unlimited areas to spread ont over when the production of their farmer should be satisfied with a vield of 26 busheis. If the yield is acre. They can't; at least, they den't. Why, the average wheat vieid restricted acres begins to fail _And so thev've learned the lesson of no bigger, in spite of honest work and intelligent zeal, then it must (Centinued en Next Page.) PSSR S R S