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Eight acres of corn for silage, treated with 10 tons manure and 600 lbs. 



chemicals, in air dry, equivalent 



Eight acres oats and Canada peas, treated with 600 lbs. chemical fertilizers 



per acre 



Eight acres in clover, treated with 500 lbs. mjneral chemicals 



Eight acres potatoes, treated with 8 tons chemical fertilizers, 2,000 bushels 



at 60 cents 



Eight acres Hungarian and some grain crop treated with 10 tons yard 



manure 



Eight acres timothy treated with 500 lbs. chemical fertilizers, 24 tons at $18. 

 Eight acres timothy treated with 500 lbs. chemical fertilizers, 24 tons at $18. 

 Eight acres pasture, treated with 500 lbs. chemical fertilizers 



Total. 



Dollars. 



$1,200 00 



432 00 

 432 00 



$2,064 00 



Tons. 



40 



24 



32 



24 



120 



One hundred and twenty tons hay, 15 per cent, shrinkage in 

 the mow and work stock supply out will keep 45 cows. These, in 

 my back town, 85 miles from Boston, will give $100 per cow for 

 milk for Boston market, by good feeding, or $4,500, or a total cash 

 income of $6,564, aside from house, orchard and garden income. 

 Petite low pressure farming with hopeless income gives way at 

 once to one of possibilities. Forty dollars per arable acre should 

 pay all costs. 



The new farming is one of greater intellectual motion and 

 elevates the social status of the farmer. It involves capital and 

 employed labor which has a similar influence. The greater play 

 of intellect and larger volume of returns, with less of personal 

 muscular work, and a business more executive in character, is 

 more attractive to youthful ambition than one limited by the dull 

 routine of one man-power farming. 



The average quarter section of land not the farms of those 

 present having a wider outlook than absent farmers, but of the 

 average Missouri farmer, whose crops are reported at 26 bushels 

 of corn, 12 to 13 bushels of wheat, and 25 to 26 bushels of oats, 

 will not give an income of $1,000 total, out of which comes a long 

 list of running expenses, aside from the family bills. This leaves 

 little, very little, for the bank. 



What are your possibilities ? I used a six year's rotation when 

 handling your college farm. What ought a farm to do in such a 

 rotation? 



20 acres corn equal in silage to 120 tons hay. 



20 acres to oats and Canada or cow peas or some protein food 60 tons hay. 



20 acres clover 80 tons hay. 



20 acres wheat, 800 to 1,000 bushes at 80 cents, $640 to $800 



20 acres timothy 60 tons hay 



20 acres timothy 60 tons hay. 



380 tons hay. 



