. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. FARM BUILDINGS. 613 and tlio kernels larger than usual; the estimate of yield being sixty bushels per acre. The average estimate yield of the entire wheat crop was twenty-five bushels per acre, while 600 acres of it produced, on the average, thirty-fivo bushels per acre. Three other ranches are also owned by this gentleman, one located three miles from the former, and containing 455 acres, 200 of which were in wheat, and another of 1,250 acres, on Butte creek, 550
. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. FARM BUILDINGS. 613 and tlio kernels larger than usual; the estimate of yield being sixty bushels per acre. The average estimate yield of the entire wheat crop was twenty-five bushels per acre, while 600 acres of it produced, on the average, thirty-fivo bushels per acre. Three other ranches are also owned by this gentleman, one located three miles from the former, and containing 455 acres, 200 of which were in wheat, and another of 1,250 acres, on Butte creek, 550 acres of which were in wheat, and 700 acres in grass, which would aver- age two tons of hay per acre. The third, known as the Feather River Ranch, contains a tract of VOO acres of wheat. The same authority continues:— " Mr. Schaeffer is one of our pioneer ranchers, having settled upon his home-place in 1855. At that time he was poor, but by dint of great perseverance lie has accumulated a competency, and to-day possesses one of the best farms in Northern California. Farming upon the scale that he does necessarily requires the use of numerous hoi"ses, to accommodate which he has upon the several places eight large bams, as follows: At the home, three bams, with a capacity for 100 head; Butte Creek, two, with stalls for 40 head; Feather River, three, capable of accommodating 60 head. At tjiis season of the year he has only 20 men employed; during plowing-time he works from 35 to 40 men, and when harvesting begins from 50 to 65 hands are numbered in the forca Parks Bros., of MarysvUle, are interested with Mr. Schaeffer in Feather River Ranch, but aside from that he is alone. His system of farmiug is to plow deep, sow plenteously, drain low lands, keep everything moving, have machinery in good order, take good care of stock, and pre%'ent tlie little leaks so common among the Cali- fornia ; Some of the other large farms that might be mentioned, and which se
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