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'THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
DRAWING UP FARM PLANS. 
It lias been pleasant work, for two 
or three evenings past, drawing a map 
of the farm and planning where to put 
next year’s crops. The soil of our 
farm varies from a sandy loam to 
heavy clay. In the river lot are two 
acres of clay in new seeding. Five 
acres at the back of the farm are also 
heavy clay, three acres of it being in 
Timothy and two plowed for oats. In 
between these two fields, the land is 
mostly sandy loam with good-sized 
spots of heavy clay cropping out in 
many places. This peculiar arrange¬ 
ment of the two soils explains why I 
have divided the fields into so many 
small plots. I presume I shall be crit¬ 
icized for cutting up the land in such 
checkerboard fashion, but I have only 
25 acres, and have worked this place 
more or less for 15 years, most of the 
time in connection with a larger farm, 
and know every inch of ground, and 
can calculate pretty well, by this time, 
about what to plant and where to get 
the best results. If I had a larger 
place I could not spend time, of course, 
to look after so many different pieces. 
Above the two-acre river lot is a 
damp strip which I propose to set to 
celery. Between this and the farm¬ 
house is a good-sized garden plot of 
black loam, which I shall plant to 
onions. Potatoes will be raised on the 
bit of new land east of the farmhouse. 
I want to keep the “bugs” picked by 
hand from this patch, to prove to my¬ 
self whether Paris-green induces blight 
as I have read and am inclined from 
observation, to believe. I have an- 
another strip of new land above the 
road, and here I shall also plant pota¬ 
toes and spray them as usual with the 
Bordeaux Mixture and Paris-green. 
Along the- shore of the river is a 
heavy growth of cedars, and on the 
western border of the farm, just above 
the cedars, is a block of Sugar maples. 
Six years ago I set out 96 trees, and 
there are 66 there now. They have 
made a remarkable growth. Below the 
road is one more field which is divided 
into several plots. On the lower, por¬ 
tion, which is a sandy loam that holds 
moisture well even in a dry season, I 
have planned to set out blackberries 
and red raspberries. I have now in 
the large field above the road, a six- 
year-old blackberry bed, a three-year- 
old bed of red raspberries and black¬ 
berries, and a two-year-old bed of red 
raspberries. These older beds do well 
in favorable seasons, but are badly af¬ 
fected by continued dry weather, even 
when heavily mulched. I think the pro¬ 
posed bed in the lower lot will be near¬ 
ly ideal for berry culture. I have two 
plots of strawberries, about one- 
fourth acre in the two. The bit of 
new seeding in the lower west lot, I 
mean to cut early, plow, and sow to 
buckwheat. 
For my corn, I have heavy clover 
sod plowed under; have a quarter of 
an acre for Telephone peas, which are 
the only sort we can spend time to pick. 
They are extra large and sweet, but 
are rather a late-maturing variety. 
Another quarter of an acre will be put 
into beans. I have had “spells” at dif¬ 
ferent times of trying to grow Alfalfa. 
It usually looks fine as it goes into 
the Winter, but has never done well 
the second year. I shall put in a few 
rows near the henhouse and cultivate 
between the rows, to see if I cannot in 
that way, get a piece started for my 
hens. 
The side-hill, just above the road, is 
a bit of land sloping toward the south 
and protected from even south winds 
by the willows in the run at the base. 
The temperature here is often like an 
oven. Tire soil is a rich sandy loam. 
It is very early ground, and as we 
usually do not have frosts until late 
in the Fall, on account of nearness to 
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the river, this piece of land has a very 
long season. Strange to say, I have 
never had a good crop of anything 
here, except hay. Corn, potatoes, gar¬ 
den stuff, oats and buckwheat were all 
disappointments. If I could afford it 
I should like to try the experiment of 
setting this piece to grapes, which in 
our climate do not do well. My pres¬ 
ent plan is to fence it for a bit more 
pasture. It is seeded to clover now. 
Every year the work of the farm is 
mapped out in this way. Well laid 
a little, while at the house it is only 
running when needed. I am telling 
our people what I saw done in north¬ 
ern New Hampshire some 45 years ago. 
A Mr. Lang laid a concrete continuous 
pipe from spring to house and barn. 
He hollowed out the earth at bottom 
of a five-foot ditch, and put in concrete 
enough to form bottom of pipe, and 
laid on a rubber hose. Measure should be 
at least V/t, better two inches on the out¬ 
side, and then put on more concrete, so 
as to form at least three inches over 
rubber hose, thus leaving even thick¬ 
ness of three inches all around the rub¬ 
ber hose. Then further on laid some 
more concrete as above at bottom of 
ditch, and after the concrete over rub¬ 
ber hose was hard enough to hold its 
shape he pulled the hose along and laid 
on more concrete. This he kept on do¬ 
ing till he got to the house. You will 
see that he had a concrete pipe that 
was all one piece and below the frost. 
There would be no rust in the pipe, nor 
leaks. Our 500 feet of iron pipe troubles 
so much that I think it best to put 
down the Lang concrete pipe. If one 
wants to tap main pipe at any place 
on the route, put in a brass pipe with 
two flanges running both -ways length¬ 
ways of concrete pipe so one culd use 
a Stimson wrench to couple on a 
pipe for carrying water wherever you 
wish. I do not think it would cost over 
five cents per rod for the laying of the 
concrete pipe. After a few rods were 
laid and your men got used to its work¬ 
ings two men could lav it very fast. 
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