. Bulletin. 1901-13. Agriculture; Agriculture. PLANNING A CRClPPINO that, food will run sliort. In such cases the only rosoiirce is to buy, unless the farmer is willing to dispense with a portion of his stock. It should be remembered that when a farmer is buying feed he is also buying fertility. One of the most successful farmers in this country saj's: "I usually keep enough stock to eat all I raise, and I usually take the chance of keeping a little more; for it does the farm no harm to buy a little feed if it is ; FARM SELECTED TO ILLUSTRATE THE METHODS USED IN PLANN
. Bulletin. 1901-13. Agriculture; Agriculture. PLANNING A CRClPPINO that, food will run sliort. In such cases the only rosoiirce is to buy, unless the farmer is willing to dispense with a portion of his stock. It should be remembered that when a farmer is buying feed he is also buying fertility. One of the most successful farmers in this country saj's: "I usually keep enough stock to eat all I raise, and I usually take the chance of keeping a little more; for it does the farm no harm to buy a little feed if it is ; FARM SELECTED TO ILLUSTRATE THE METHODS USED IN PLANNING A CROPPING SYSTEM. The plan selected to illustrate the methods used in arranging a cropping system to fit definite conditions is one recently drawn fur a farm in northern Illinois. The man- ager had already determined approxi- mately the possibilities of this farm under the particular tA'pe of farming he desired to follow. The number of conditions to be met was imusually large. Figure 1 shows the arrange- ment of the farm as it was presented to us. It will be seen that the arable land aggi'ogates 103 acres. This is all good land, sloping in a fairly iuiift)rm manner to the south and west, suffi- ciejitly for drainage purposes. It was desired to keep about 25 cows, 5 to head of horses (some of these to be kept for city owners), 50 to 60 hogs, and 100 hens. It was desired that a farmstead be reserved iii the northwest corner of the arable portion. It was preferred that all the stock slioidd be provided with pasture. At the outset it was plain that ordinary permanent pastures for aU this stock would occupy too much land. It was therefore decided to provide more pro- ductive tomporarj' pastures. The con- dition of the land justified the assump- tion of the following yields: Silage, 9 tons; hay, 2 tons; .soiling corn, 7 tons. It was assumed that by feeding 5 pounds of hay or 20 pounds of soil- ing corn per head daily, the pasture could be made to carry 1 cow per acre. 102—
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