AN EXAMPLE OF SUCCESSFUL FAEM MANAGEMENT. 17 
MANAGEMENT THE FIRST YEAR. 
It was desired not to spend any more money on the farm than was 
absolutely necessary and to make the farm earn interest on the in- 
vestment as soon as possible. This fact makes the example all the 
more practical for the farmer of average means to follow. A tenant 
was engaged to live in the house and do the work on the place under 
the owner's direction. He was given one-half of the oats, buck- 
wheat, and potatoes, and was permitted to keep four cows and to 
have the income from them, provided he fed all the hay and roughage 
and used all the straw on the farm, returning the manure, straw, 
etc., to the land. The tenant was also to do all the improvement 
work for the owner which he had time to do, such as picking up 
stones and cutting hedgerows. A small apple orchard was reserved. 
The owner furnished all the lime and clover seed and one-half of the 
other seeds and fertilizer. The tenant furnished his own teams, most 
of the machinery, and all the labor. The owner furnished a potato 
planter and a digger. 
Mr. English took actual possession of the farm on April 1, 1910. 
Owing to the time of starting it was impossible to carry out the defi- 
nite plans for improvement and only such crops as could be planted 
conveniently were used the first year. Consequently, the land was 
not as carefully prepared as it would otherwise have been. The 
potato seed available was very poor and only 400 pounds of commer- 
cial fertilizer were used, thus making a low yield, the 4 acres pro- 
ducing about 90 bushels per acre. About 5 acres of buckwheat were 
sown, yielding 116 bushels. Lime and acid phosphate were applied to 
one 8-acre tract. On this tract 300 bushels of oats and an excellent 
stand of clover were obtained. Ten head of young cattle were pas- 
tured on the west slope, where the land was rough and not available 
for tillage. The old meadow was cut, yielding about 1 ton of poor 
hay per acre. 
Permanent repairs cost practically $400. During the summer 
the tenant cut the brush and young trees in the hedgerows on the 
farm and generally cleaned up about the place. The balance on the 
owner's books showed that his account with the farm at the end of 
the first year, on April 1, 1911, stood as shown in Table IV. 
