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Show MONEY MADE ON A FEW ACRES Following Is an extract from an article ar-ticle ln tho current Issuo of Farm and Fireside, descriptive of n wlso Ohio farmer who Is doing well although al-though his farm is small: "Ono of tho most interesting farms In Ohio Is a twenty-flvo aero tract of land near Arcanum, In Darke County Coun-ty that Is owned by Mr. Allen Geer. Of recent jears tho doctrlno of tho little farm well tilled" has been wide ly preached, rarely practised. This practical farm which Is worked by Mr. Geer Is ono of tho few exceptions excep-tions .whero tho possibility has been matured into a profltablo actuality by tho Intensive pursuit of modern methods and up-to-dato management. Tho farm Is divided into live-acre plots on which a four-year rotation Is followed: clover, cdrn, tobacco, , and wheat constituting the crops that are raised. Tho land lu of a rolling nature, whllo tho soil is a rich, black loam which is never sur-foited sur-foited with water, duo to six hundred hun-dred and fifty rods of tile laid at a maximum depth of thirty Inches, which furnish adequate means far thorough underdralnage. "In the five years which ho has owned his twenty-flvo aero farm ho has distributed five thousand tons of manure over the fields. A largo portion por-tion of this fertilizer he secured In tho neighboring town for- hauling of it, whllo tho rest of the manure cost him from ten to fifteen cents a load. "To show that his efforts in replenishing replen-ishing the fertility of his boII have not been In vain, it is only necessary to mention that last year this progressive pro-gressive countryman harvested four hundred and fifty bushels of corn of fine quality from his flvo acre corn field, whllo for tho past three years his wheat has never gone below thlr-ty-nlno bushels to tho aero. His most profltablo cqbIi crop has been tobacco; his 1911 return from four and three quarters acres amounted to $707,40. His tobacco usually averages av-erages around 1,350 pounds to the acre. "And tho best part of tho proposition propo-sition Is that the Geer place Is a regular Klondlko nugget In Its ability abil-ity to draw money. Dui.ng the last Avo years Its owner, In addition to gaining an ample livelihood for himself him-self and hlg family fro u the farm, has annually disposed of raoro than $900 worth of produce that was rals-c1 rals-c1 on this llttlo tract." |