Oklahoma Farmer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 15, 1908 Page: 1 of 16
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GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA, JULY 15, 1
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TRUCK FARMING A MONEY-GETTER
HOW TO MAKE SMALL FARM PAY
Ten acres of the model farm should
be reserved for the home lot. This I
should apportion as follows: An acre
and a half for the house with its sur-
rounding lawns, orchard, berry patches
and kitchen garden; one acre for the
barns and feed yards, with half an
acre adjoining for a stack yard in
•which to store all fodder the barns
cannot accommodate.
would carry what little water the
stock in it required.
The home field should absorb the
remaining five acres of the reserve and
should be devoted to miscellaneous
crops.
Fertilizing t^e Truck Patch.
For convenience's sake I shall as-
sume that the home Held lies in the
shape of a parallelogram 40x20 rods.
As to its fertilization, it would of
course be profitable if the field had
bill necessity, as all the crops I rec-
ommend are greedy, so later on* will
need top dressing at the rate of 500
pounds per acre. These measures are
absolutely necessary or else the home-
field will merit the opprobrium now
heaped on the truck patch.
As to preparing the soil, my time
schedule provides for the man and
team spending four days in the home
field during April, which should suf-
fice to plow, harrow and roll it thor-
tilizing and the planter when seeding
sweet corn or beans, besides making
cultivation easy and giving the plants
plenty of air and sunlight.
Potatoes are the first crop to con-
sider. They should be planted late
in April or early in May. As to the
best way to use them for seed doctors
differ widely. I prefer to select
evenly sized tubers, running some 300
to the bushel or five to the pound,
which I split In two.
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Two acres more would be required
for a tightly fenced pasture in which
the spring calves may frolic, and the
cows with their offspring luxuriate
during the summer and autumn.
This pasture, for convenience sake,
should be between the house and the
home field, as thus the skim milk
and swill from the former and the re-
fuse from the latter easily are avail-
able, while a pipe leading to the pas-
ture from the pump in the, back yard
, been heavily manured the previous
year. As this probably will not 'be
the case, all the fine manure avail-
able should be spread on it "before
plowing. If the supply obtained is not
sufficient to furnish twenty loads per
acre, which according to my estimate
would cost the growing crop $8, an
equivalent to this value in f mie fer-
tilizer must bt sown broadcast and
IniiTiedlutely ].rwtc under. *
This will not cover the whole feed
oughly. The home hand and the extra
horse will be able to do most of the
hand work and light cultivating after
the crop is once started, but the team
will bo occasionally necessary.
Make Rows 3 1*2 Feet Apart.
I believe in plenty of room, even for
crops that are usually give little, so
I shall assume that all the crops, un-
less specially mentioned, are in rows
three and one-half fe#t apart, as this
facilitates the use of the drill in fer-
If the potato ground has been re-
cently prepared and rolled, straight
furrows, fully five inches deep, should
be drawn with a single shovel unlesa
a potato planter is available.
When the planting is done the
ground should be lightly liairowed and
again rolled. A week later half the
allowance of fertilizer should be ap-
plied with a drill in the same way as
recommended for corn, and after an-
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