OHIO. 



ULRIC BLICKENSDERFER, 



ASHTABULA COUNTY, 



Energy in Farm Work — SJcillfully Directing Sired Help — Sys- 

 tem in Managenient — Improving Appearance of Farm^lnex- 

 spensively — Clay Soils — Foot Rot in Sheep — Farm 

 Accounts. 



FARM MANAGEMENT. 



Residing upon a farm from the age of eight till long after 

 attaining majority, educated for the calling at an Agricul- 

 tural college, I acquired both a practical and theoretical knowl- 

 edge of its details. Observing that moderately large farms were 

 not paying as well proportionately as small ones, when in theory 

 they should pay proportionately better, like any other business, on 

 account of the manifest advantages which operations on a large 

 scale have over those on a small, I made this subject a special 

 study, practically, and after acting as a superintendent of 

 a farm of nearly one thousand acres, and then of another of 

 fifteen hundred acres, the result of my experience is, that a 

 large farm can unquestionably be made to pay as well as can 

 other kinds of business, if properly managed. By this I mean 

 that it is necessary that the farmer have a thorough practical 

 knowledge of and experience in the business, a tireless energy, 

 attention to its details, and the faculty of managing hired help 

 advantageously and keeping accounts with every crop as if it 

 were an individual. It is impossible to say which of these 

 requisites is most important ; all are absolutely essential to 

 success. 



All this is best illustrated by narrating actual experience. 

 The farm first above referred to, was situated near Conneaut, 



