FERTILITY — FKUIT RAISING. 763 



HAY PAYS BEST. 



I have made the most of my money by raising and baling 

 hay. I cut eight hundred acres that will make from one to 

 one and one-half tons per acre. I can cut and put it in the 

 barns, by the aid of machinery, for two dollars per ton. I can 

 press it and deliver it on the cars for two dollars per ton, and 

 send to the markets of Louisville, Cincinnati, Madison and In- 

 dianapolis, where I get from eight to twelve dollars per ton, 

 which, after deducting interest on cost of land and the use of 

 buildings and hay press, wear of machinery, and use of teams, 

 leaves a clear profit in a fair season of from four to six dollars 

 per acre. 



FERTILITY KEPT UP. 



In order to keep up the fertility of the land in raising hay, 

 I recommend the following every fifth year. Turn under in 

 June the entire crop, cross plow in September, sow to wheat, 

 seed down to clover and timothy, three-fourths timothy. That 

 amount of clover will not hurt the sale of the hay, and has a 

 good effect in keeping up the fertility of the soil. 



FRUIT RAISING. 



I have about two thousand bearing apple trees of the 

 choicest kinds. I took high, rolling clay loam, resting on 

 limestone, subsoiled it eighteen inches deep, laid it off thirty 

 feet apart, and planted the trees carefully, spreading the roots 

 and putting good soil near them. I cut back the tops, culti- 

 vated in corn two years, and fed the corn ofti the ground. I 

 sowed to oats and clover, hogged off the oats, and turned 

 under the clover the second year in June. I have turned under 

 clover for the past six years. The trees are fine and thrifty 

 and bear large, fine fruit in fruit years. 



I do not sell apples largely in fruit seasons. The price 

 is very low for Summer and Fall fruit, and our Winter fruit 

 does not keep as well as further north. 



BEST APPLES. 



I regard the Early Strawberry, Early Margaret, Golden 

 Russet, as the best early apples. The Maiden's Blush, Rambo, 



