METHOD OP FARMING. 699 



W. G. HUSCROFT, 



STEUBENVILLE, JEFFERSON COUNTY. 



Methods — Clover — Feed for Milch Cows — Farm Receipts and 



Expenses. 



LOCATION OF MY FAKM. 



My farm is situated on the State road leading from Steuben- 

 ville to Cambridge,— two miles from the former city, and the 

 Ohio river, and on tlie high land, about five hundred feet above 

 the level of the river. The soil is mostly sugar tree and bhick 

 walnut, but there is some white oak and beech subsoil and 

 limestone cla}'. 



It lies mostly to tlie south, and the natural crop is blue 

 grass. My farm contains one hundred and fourteen acres, 

 which have been under cultivation about seventy years. 



METHOD. 



My method of farming is as follows : A sod is broken up 

 in the Spring and well top dressed with stable manure, then 

 planted in corn. The next Spring it is planted in oats, and in 

 the Fall again top dressed with a mixture of about twenty-five 

 two-horse wagon loads of stable manure and one bushel of 

 common salt. The ground is then thoroughly pulverized with 

 the harrow and roller, and sown in wheat and timothy. 



Of the crop of 1878, there were in wheat twelve acres, 

 sown with the drill, one and one-half busliels to the acre. 

 When threshed, there were five hundred and ten bushels of 

 good clean wheat, or forty-two and one-half bushels to the 

 acre. The variety was the Clawson, sent from the Agricultuial 

 Department at Washington, six years ago, weigliing sixty-three 

 pounds to the bushel. Over two hundred bushels of this crop 

 I sold for seed. There were nine hundred and five bushels, or 

 fifty-six and one-half bushels to the acre, of oats, from sixteen 



