Show A bli FORTY ac ACHE 1 lv PAE M to show what antich much labor on little land accomplishes we present a brief statement drawn from the hampshire county mass lass A agricultural so chetys transactions there given in tho the statement of mr stebbins of south deerfield on entering his farm for the premium of the society the farm in question contains 41 acres ten of it worn out sandy land when it came into his possession pos over twenty years ago but he resolved to have a better farm to this sandy field three acres the first year he applied 1 clay at the rate of fifty loads per acre followed by loads of manure and lbs ibs of plaster this was all ploughed sloughed hed in in to together gother the land planted to corn and a fair crop was the result after corni corn oats were sown and the ground seeded to clover by the use of clay and manure he says 1 11 I have made all my land as good as the best arid and increased my pasture pa ture one hundred per cent itin in quantity and quality of product As to deep plowing he finds tho the best way v y to be to employ the subsoil plow ile he turns under his manure four or five in inches hes deep and then sub soils the bottom of the furrow as deeply as possible co corn rn is planted two years in succession the better to mix soil and manure and to fit the land for grass and he now sows bows barley instead of oats as a more I 1 profitable crop I 1 the secret of his lies in the fact that instead of one hundred loads of manure as formerly he now makes maizes thre three eh hundred undred and fifty loads supplying liis his yards freely with absorbent earths and using salt lime and plaster to a considerable cons id crable extent in 1854 the products of the forty one acre farm in the usual farm crops crops were ivere worth a fraction under 1000 a and d the net profits 1116 75 there were ai twenty three acres in in mowing thirteen I 1 acres inborn arid and potatoes three in br barley I 1 and two in wheat the reader may here see that a large farm is not essential to profitable management tile graph |