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Show BRAINS BEAT MUSCLE. What a Scientific Farmer Did with Worn Out Laud. A little over a year ago we made some extended comment upon an illustration il-lustration of what mirrht be done on an abandoned farm by a man -who knew his business, says the Boston Transcript. Such a farm has been purchased and redeemed in the little town of Paxton, about seven miles from Worcester, and away from the railroad by a Long Island man, who brought with him a thorough knowledge know-ledge of truck farming. His success the first year does not seem to have been exceptional. We have heard a great deal about the smallness of the potato crop this year, and undoubtedly undoubt-edly the conditions have been less favorable fa-vorable than usual, but our Paxton farmer put thirty-seven acres into the tubers, from which he expects to produce pro-duce a crop of some 4,500 bushels, or from 125 to 150 bushels to the acre. In fact, he has now for some time been sending potatoes to Worcester, the nearest large town, and receiving from $4.50 to $5 a barrel. Even at the lowest yield mentioned this will stand him In a return of over ?200 an acre from land that probably did not eost him a twentieth part of that sum. Of course, there is a considerable debt account, but allowing for all that the profits are fat. Farmers in his neighborhood neigh-borhood are beginning to think that their troubles are not entirely due to worn-out land and generally changed conditions. The fact that they do not know how to make the most of what they have had something to do with it. |