TWELFTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART X 485 



encToped hog tight and planted In the order named; potatoes, corn, wheat 

 and oats, c'over and timothy, meadow and pasture. Manure is applied to 

 the potato land the year before for the reason that if it is applied the same 

 year it causes scab. 



The year following a crop of potatoes, corn is planted, the only prepara- 

 tion necessary being covering the field twice with a double disk harrow. 

 The deep plowing for potatoes carries an effect which is still evident the 

 second year. Few weeds and a good corn crop are practically a sure thing. 



After the corn comes a crop of wheat and oats sowed in the proportion 

 of one brshel of wheat to three bushels of oats. The preparation for the 

 small g'-ain crop includes only the removal of the cornstalks and going 

 once over the field with a double disk. Then the wheat and oats are drilled 

 in. Grass seed is applied after drilling, with the wheelbarrow seeder and 

 harrowed in. Equal parts of timothy and clever are used at the rate of 

 two bushels for five acres. Manure is applied thinly to the poor spots 

 before fitting the ground in order to insure an even stand of grass. The 

 next year Percherons, Short-horns and Poland Chinas graze, nibble and 

 root and add their share of fertility. It helps the clover to grow and store 

 up more nitrcgen for succeeding crops. 



The next year the rotation is again begun with potatoes. The advis- 

 ability of th's plan is best atte-sted by the fact that last year the corn 

 averaged s'xty bushels per acre, oats forty-two bushels, and hay a ton 

 and one-half, and this in a season when drouth most seriously influenced 

 all yields. 



WHAT ONE FAMILY DID ON ELEVEN ACRES. 



BY DOUGLAS E. HAMMOND, CALHOUN COUNTY, IOWA. 



(In Wallaces' Farmer.) 



I believe the most important thing to success in any occupation is a 

 natural love for it. Many of our country boys and girls like country life; 

 but do not possess sufficient means to acquire from SO to 160 acres of land, 

 and therefore give up in despair, and seek employment in our already 

 overstocked cities. 



To show what can he done on a small place, I will give you a few facts 

 regarding the proceeds from eleven acres of land the past season. Pre- 

 vious to our coming to this place, I do not think $50 a year was sold 

 from it. During the past season over $700 worth was sold, not counting 

 the butter, eggs and meat, both beef and pork, besides more vegetables 

 than we could use. We kept three cows part of the time, and two all of 

 the time. They were Jerseys, and four quarts of milk would make one 

 quart of cream. We sold this milk — every drop we could spare — for 8 

 cents per quart. Had regular customers for it. A cow averaging six 

 and one-fourth quarts per day is equal to $182.50 per year. The average 

 well-fed Jersey cow will exceed this the season through. I merely men- 

 tion this to show you how we got the money. 



