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Hart &Vick 64 Stone St. Rochester N.Y 
Making the Most of Eight Acres 
I own eight acres of good strong Penn¬ 
sylvania soil in a college town just out¬ 
side of Philadelphia. I wish to develop 
this, with the idea of as complete an in¬ 
dependence as possible on that size plot; 
in other words, I want it to be as near 
self-supporting as possible. This is about 
what 1 have planned to do and raise; 500 
to 1.000 liens (layers) ; one to two acres 
small fruits (berries) ; remainder in tree 
fruits (apples and peaches). I have both 
the capital and experience necessary in 
all these lines, and a first-class local mar¬ 
ket. with recourse to the city as a selling 
center. My problem is this: I want to 
confine myself to a one-man proposition ; 
that is, I want enough work to keep one 
man busy, and I should expect to be able 
to keep a man and his wife (for house¬ 
work) and pay their wages and main¬ 
tenance out of the proceeds from the 
farm. The land faces southeast, and is 
about 400x000 ft. It is a suitable loca¬ 
tion to display the articles for sale from 
a stand on the front of the plot, as it is 
on a main traveled road. As high prices 
can be obtained for the products as can 
be had anywhere, as the town is a rich 
man’s town. Hundreds of autos run past 
the front in the Summer season. Cau I 
pay a mau and his wife wages and their 
maintenance from this place? What ad¬ 
vice cau you give? E. T. B. 
Philadelphia. Pa. 
Theoretically there should be no diffi¬ 
culty whatever in manipulating eight 
acres of land to support one family. Here 
in Lancaster County many families live 
comfortably upon the proceeds of from 
one to three acres. Very little comment 
is necessary on E. T. B.’s plans, except 
that 1 y* acres of berries—I infer straw¬ 
berries, raspberries and possibly black¬ 
berries—will cause so much work that 
quite a few extra men and girls will have 
to be employed during the picking sea¬ 
son. 
If the remainder of the land is planted 
in apple trees and interplanted with peach 
trees, the space remaining for cultivation 
should be ample (the first _few seasons) 
to grow sufficient crops to pay operating 
expenses. Cultivating is rather inconven¬ 
ient where a row of trees is in the way 
every 20 to 22 ft., but it can be done, and 
profitably at that. Early potatoes and 
early sweet corn would bring quite a 
revenue. Immediately after these crops 
are removed the soil should be disked rip 
thoroughly and sown with rye and Winter 
vetch. This will keep the land from leach¬ 
ing during Winter and add humus in the 
Spring plowing. Do not plant corn too 
close to tree rows, or some injury to 
trees will result. 
One thousand or more early tomatoes 
will be found profitable. If there are no 
hotbed facilities, it will pay to have some 
man with a greenhouse grow these plants 
for you. Good plants in 3 in. pots give 
a heavy early crop, and bring profitable 
prices. Bonny Best is the best early 
variety. Keep all suckers removed as 
they show. Train each plant to a light 
stake and pinch out the top when third 
or fourth blossom cluster has set. Allow 
one leaf above last bud -cluster. If you 
want a succession of fruit, plaut Stone 
or some other well recommended variety. 
There are many other varieties of vege¬ 
tables that should be grown to complete 
the list for local sales: peas, snap beans. 
Lima beans, beets, cabbage, cauliflower, 
etc. Cauliflower is interesting to experi¬ 
ment with, but not always reliable. The 
early peas and beans can be followed by 
celery, and later crops with spinach, which 
can be sown as late as September. Head 
lettuce seed can be sown at about that 
date, covered with sash’during Winter and 
planted out very early in the Spring. 
Enough work can be made to keep 
several families busy during the Summer 
on eight acres of land, but just how much 
actual cash the soil and labor will pro¬ 
duce depends entirely upon the efficiency 
of the planning, and the ability with 
which the-plans are executed. I do not 
know how many bens one man can care 
for. but the farm will not. require any 
attention during the Winter. Here in 
our county the gardeners with several 
acres find employment away from home 
in the Winter. e. ,t. w. 
TOP-DRESSING TALK No. 5 
Top-Dressing Wheat Pays 
At the beginning of the growing season the young wheat plant, weakened 
by the severe winter weather, needs plenty of quickly available nitrogen to 
restore it to a healthy, vigorous condition. 
The average soil does not supply enough usable nitrogen this early in 
the season, and unless a nitrogenous top-dressing is applied the crop is held 
back to the detriment of the final yield. 
Quickly available nitrogen, applied just as soon as the frost is out of the 
ground, will stimulate stooling and result in more and better filled heads. 
Where the stand of wheat is a little light this increased stooling is absolutely 
necessary, if a normal crop is to be obtained. 
Tractor Plowing 
Your inquirer. Mr. Barrett, of Missis¬ 
sippi should have both disk and mold 
board plows for his tractor, but if he gets 
just one. then get a disk plow. The 
tractor mold-board plow is uot much good 
to turn under vegetation of any kind : the 
inside plow will clog rather easily. The 
disk plow will last the longer of the two. 
and costs less to keep up. For the kind 
of land mentioned it will very likely prove 
much the superior. Euless Mr. Barrett 
already lias a tractor it would be advis¬ 
able for him to purchase one only after a 
satisfactory demonstration on his land. 
Stiff clay is the hardest kind to plow 
there is. It is quite different from loam 
soil as a tractor plowing proposition. A 
ilittle caution might prevent a mistake. 
I Oklahoma. g. c. wyant. 
Experiments on the Farm of M. Kindig, Seville, Ohio. Gain from 
Top-Dressing with Sulphate of Ammonia 13 bu. per acre. 
ARCADIAN 
Sulphate of Ammonia 
_Arcadian Sulphate of Ammonia is the ideal top-dressing fertilizer. It analyzes 
2S l /i units of ammonia, all soluble and quickly available. Being a non¬ 
leaching fertilizer the application can be made as early as needed and less 
wilTbe required to produce results. 
Arcadian is fine and dry and can be applied evenly and uniformly by hand or 
with the grain drill. Fifty to one hundred pounds per acre is sufficient. 
Arcadian is for sale by the larger fertilizer dealers and their agents. 
Write Desk No. 10 
for Bulletin No. 86 The 
“More Wheat” 
Company 
'New York, N.Y. 
Medina, Ohio 
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Dibble's 
1921 Farm Seed 
Catalog 
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