1910. 
THE RURAE NEW-YORKER 
666 
A FARM IN SOUTHERN OHIO. 
Fig. 230 shows the home of Mr. D. A. 
Garringer, of Fayette County, Ohio. Our 
readers will naturally he interested in 
knowing about the farm which produces 
such a pleasant home. Mr. Garringer gives 
(he following facts : 
This farm consists of 250 acres of 
black, sandy loam. Principal crops are 
corn, wheat and oats. We follow the 
three-year rotation, corn, wheat, oats 
and clover. According to season, corn 
yields from 40 to 75 bushels to acre, 
wheat from 15 to 40 bushels, oats from 
40 to G5 bushels, clover from one to 
four tons per acre; when cut for seed, 
from one to four bushels. Price of 
corn at present time (January) is 60 
cents. Price of wheat from machine 
was $1.10. No corn is sold off the 
farm, but it is fed to stock raised on 
the farm. We generally put from 50 
to 65 acres in corn, 40 acres in wheat, 
from 12 to 15 acres in oats, about 60 
acres in Blue grass pasture; also cut 
from 35 to 40 acres of clover and Tim¬ 
othy for hay. 
A word as to cultivation. Plowing is 
done with four-horse gang plows. Soil 
is prepared for seed with double disk 
cutter, followed by heavy drag. Corn is 
cultivated with riding cultivators. Last 
year 40 acres were put in shock. Hogs 
were turned in on 12 acres, which we 
find is an easy as well as profitable way 
of disposing of corn. What corn was 
not fed to cattle was husked with shred- 
SEEDING ON OATS. 
H. JLa Orangeville, A’. V.—I have a 
piece of land, six acres, which I sowed to 
oats April 0 It is Dutchess silt loam six 
inches deep, with clay bottom. Three years 
ago there were oats on it, but never was 
seeded. What would be the best to put 
on the oats now? It seems to be good 
land. 
Ans. —Now that the oats are sown, 
it is pretty difficult to advise what to 
apply, or whether it would really pay 
to put on anything, for the oats will be 
up by the time this reaches you. To 
get best results from commercial fer¬ 
tilizer, particularly the mineral portion, 
it should be mixed with the soil. What 
your land probably needs most is vege¬ 
table matter to make humus. A crop 
of some green matter plowed in would 
give it, if you have no manure, the 
cheapest way. If you could apply with 
a manure spreader, about six loads to 
the acre, I would almost guarantee a 
crop of oats on the land you speak of. 
Of course, you may not have the ma¬ 
nure, or if you have no spreader, in 
that case, spread the manure as thin as 
possible, then go over it with a fork 
and shake out all lumps, and afterward 
run over it with a weedcr or slant-tooth 
harrow, at a time when the manure is 
not very dry. This will do the oats 
no harm; in fact, the breaking of the 
crust will rather help them. If you 
have no manure, I would suggest sow¬ 
ing 100 pounds to the acre of nitrate 
THE HOME OF AN OHIO FARMER. Fig. 230. 
der and fodder run into barns, of which 
there are three on farm. About 600 
bushels of wheat was thrashed, also 
about 500 bushels oats. From July 2, 
1900, to December 31, 1900, I sold $2,000 
worth cf hogs that were raised on the 
farm. At present I have 45 pigs, rang¬ 
ing from 50 to 100 pounds. I keep 
from 10 to 12 brood sows, and have 30 
head of Shropshire sheep. We feed from 
one to two loads of cattle a year. I 
generally buy from 800 to 900-pound 
cattle in Spring, graze them through 
the Summer, and feed out in Novem¬ 
ber or December. I sold two loads 
last Fall that brought $2,500. We aim 
to keep eight horses for working and 
driving. We raise two or three colts a 
year; therefore, generally have one or 
two for market a year. I keep six 
cows for milk and butter supply dur¬ 
ing the year; also raise a few good 
calves. We have a good place for 
poultry, raised about 400 young chick¬ 
ens last year; generally keep about 200 
during Winter. I have one tenant on 
farm who, with myself, and 14-year-o!d 
son, do the work on the farm. My 
father being a farmer, I have worked 
on farm since I -was eight years old. I 
have been farming for myself for 16 
years, and have no desire to leave the 
farm and go to town. My wife was 
city bred, but I have never heard her 
express a desire to return to the city. 
As we have all conveniences the city 
affords, we can but say that on the 
farm is the place to live. 
D. A. GARRINGER. 
‘Doctor, is it absolutely necessary to 
operate on me?” “N-no. But it’s cus¬ 
tomary.”—Toledo Blade. 
of soda, but this must be done very 
shortly. It will start the cats at a 
time when they will doubtless suffer 
for available plant food. The nitrate will 
cost you not less than $2.50. I believe 
it will pay. I am sure that had you 
applied 200 pounds of acid phosphate 
and 20 or 25 pounds of muriate of 
potash to -the acre before sowing, you 
would have doubtless had excellent re¬ 
sults. Now you will have to be the 
judge, consulting your pocket-book, 
whether you can afford to lose the use 
of the money spent for the fertilizer for 
a year, in case you get no returns in the 
oat crop. It will not be lost, and sub¬ 
sequent crops will get the benefit. Both 
of these minerals—particularly the for¬ 
mer—tend to fix not very far from 
where they are put. You must remem¬ 
ber the oat crop is one of the most 
exhaustive you can put on land. It 
makes much of its growth before the 
bulk of the plant food in the soil can 
be made available by natural heat and 
conditions in the soil, which develop as 
the Summer advances. It is a rank 
feeder, drawing heavily on minerals. 
Each pound of dry matter in the oats 
will have taken at least 300 pounds of 
water to grow it. On rather light land, 
deficient in available plant food, one 
would better put on almost any other 
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Archibald. What is the reason?” “Be¬ 
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