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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 25, 
FARMING A SMALL FARM. 
I have a case for your Hope Farm 
man to diagnose. My farm consists of 
eight acres. Heretofore I have not de¬ 
pended upon it much as a means to live 
by except to escape rent and the pro¬ 
duction of such things as fruit, vege¬ 
tables, eggs, butter.and milk, as best 
suited our convenience and taste. But 
for a number of years I have been 
smarting more or less under the re¬ 
straints of a "boss,” and I have been 
longing for the day, if possible, when I 
could make my living from the farm 
and get square with the world. My soil 
is a clay loam with hard clay subsoil; 
had been cropped until rather poor, but 
I have been tiling and manuring until 
I have got it up to where I can raise 
corn and clover galore. It is a good 
place for peaches; I have not had a 
complete failure in peaches in 25 years. 
My soil is a little stiff for vegetables, 
and slow warming up in the Spring, but 
on the other hand is quite easy to keep 
clear of weeds. And what manure I 
put on stays put. 
My resources for 1911 would line up 
about as follows: One horse, good 
roadster; one cow; 30 pullets that were 
already shelling out January 1 40-cent 
eggs in respectable numbers; young 
orchard, three-fourths acre, seeded to 
clover; one acre rye stubble, seeded to 
clover; one acre clover sod, mowed last 
year, good showing for another crop 
or pasture; 1%. acre Timothy sod, 
mowed two years and pastured last year; 
one acre corn stubble, seeded to rye; 
I acre oats stubble, not seeded last 
Fall; one-half acre sorghum stubble; 
one-fourth acre strawberries. Remainder 
is used for garden, orchard, buildings, 
chickens, etc. Sorghum stubble, one- 
half acre, was Timothy sod heavily ma¬ 
nured last Spring; will be well coated 
again by Spring to plow under. Timothy 
sod, 1% acre, was well manured each 
Winter for the third time. Corn stubble 
seeded to rye, one acre, was in clover 
the year before and was well manured 
the Winter previous. Clover in rye 
stubble looks good. The only dark spot 
in the outlook is the oat stubble, 1% 
acre; has not had any manure for 20 
years, except commercial fertilizer; has 
been cropped until quite unresponsive. 
With the foregoing as an outline I want 
your Hope Farm man or any others 
who will to help plan for the coming 
year. s. K. 
Ashland, O. 
R. N.-Y.—This should have been dis¬ 
cussed before, but was unavoidably de¬ 
layed. There is little use trying to make 
a plan for a stranger, because the crops 
must be decided by the markets and the 
inclinations of the grower. If we had 
this place in New Jersey, near our mar¬ 
kets, and with oujr experience with 
crops, we should try to grow this year 
potatoes, cabbage, corn and a small 
patch of celery. We should make a 
large garden covering all the vegetables. 
If the market will absorb them we should 
also try about 1,200 plants of sweet pep¬ 
pers. Some markets hardly know this 
crop, but where there are Italians or 
other workmen from southern Europe, 
peppers do well. 
We should let' the rye stubble seeded 
to clover alone. Cut the acre of clover 
sod early, then plow and fit well and 
plant late cabbage. We should plant po¬ 
tatoes in the corn stubble, the oats stub¬ 
ble and the sorghum stubble, using fer¬ 
tilizer heavily, especially after oats. We 
should plant a fair proportion of early 
potatoes, dig them when ready and seed 
to rye at once. Sow rye also after the 
late potatoes. We take it the Timothy 
sod is not the best. In such case we 
should plow it and plant corn and sow 
a mixture of rye and Hairy vetch seed 
at the last cultivation. On a farm of this 
size it rarely pays to sow Timothy for 
hay. Better depend on clover and fodder 
corn for feeding the cow and horse. We 
could not tell where to put the celery 
without examining the soil. There are, 
of course, many other crops which could 
be suggested, but these are within the 
powers of a man and boy and are all 
reasonably salable. Onions often pay, 
but they require constant hand work, 
and we think potatoes, coni and cabbage 
with celery and garden on the side will 
do as well as anything. 
WHO “PRODUCED” ABUNDANCE PLUM? 
B. TT. C. (A T o Address). —I am sending 
you a page from Lutlier Burbank’s new 
catalogue in which he claims to be the 
producer of Abundance, Burbank and Sat- 
suma plum. I was under the impression i 
that these plums were imported from Ja- ; 
pan. Is this correct? 
« 
Ans.—T he following photograph of 
part of a page from this catalogue shows 
the claim made by Mr. Burbank: 
How to Judge Novelties 
Some interesting facts which have not perhaps attracted the attention 
of fruit growers: Within the past twenty years one hundred and twenty 
new plums have been introduced by various growers, dealers, and nursery¬ 
men, in the United Statev Among these one hundred and twenty are twenty- 
four of my own production, as follows: • 
Abundance Doris October Splendor Sbiro 
Burbank Saisuma Wiekson Giant Formosa 
Gold First America Sugar Sanra Rosa 
Delaware Apple Chaleo Sultan Gaviota 
•Jlale Combination Climax Bartlett 
The last three quite foicfy 
Our understanding is that Satsuma 
and Burbank were imported from Japan 
by Mr. Burbank on December 20, 1885. 
We do not know who produced them. As 
for Abundance, it was imported from 
Japan by Mr. Burbank about 1884, and 
distributed from New Jersey several 
years later. We do not understand that 
Mr. Burbank had anything more to do 
with producing these varieties than a 
nurseryman who puts a new fruit in the 
market. Suppose the nurserymen who 
first offered the Concord grape for sale 
had claimed it as one of their “produc¬ 
tions” ! 
When first brought over Abundance 
was known as Botan. Many Eastern 
fruit growers have characterized Abund¬ 
ance as “the worst curse ever brought 
over,” because the first trees which came 
East were well plastered with the San 
Jose scale. It was from these trees, 
we are informed, that this hated pest 
was first spread. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick renly and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee page 20. 
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