AN IDEAL SMALL FARM.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 89, 14 September 1868, Page 221

AN IDEAL SMALL FARM.

- BallymakohiFarmers’ Club Seport.) J IT or<^er to see whabintelligent industry : a small farm of twenty Irish acres, farmed-oti the,Belgian principle, I makethe following calculation' ; and • "farming’ihust beginiinthe brain, I ’-%*;fkdbh''-toarrange, the: farm that it !®Ppear ; thus on paper Four acrea for graefi crops; Wo for potatoesjvand two: for tbihiips, said’ four 'acres to be followed by a pat®, -and ’laid downwiih grass.and . j clover : two aores- of lea broken-, for., 'oats, inaking in all six acres of oats.' • The' lea bat- land to be succeeded- by a crop.of jflax. Sow an acre of vetches in:the spring,:to bp P?-, the cattle in autumn - or-harvest, and have four, acres of grass and clover, two ■ for house feeding- milch} cows, and- two f or k ee p e remaining five acres, pasture, . thus making- twenty acres, fodrf milchj'cpws, andjfeed. them in the house winter andsummer, on two acres - . be cut catclvit.By-the '-f 1 over;it*wilLJbe ready-fo ... but again, and the farmer will' n'ow havfe ■ > acres" °f a second, cutting—the .. two : !t: ■ :^ or ’the caiitle and u tiie ; : .two - ; ?PC B 'cut : bv > er a second time,’ i yetcKds^inrtKe -*9"^wiUriiißjfc, nnfil the - wintey ... '*§ e J*,ihg} ; pf straw and turtiips.be introduced' r . calves on .the four. cows, ..and keep ; them uiitil they: are .two years old, which’ ’ - CBt V bb:grazecl on tj.iejfiv© acres of pasture; ' Gxve the four calres the autumn and winter - a pres;cut over for the cattle 5 but by nb‘means., permit any stock of any : , ; ktod'} to ■ run;on- the new. grassanid ® there will be a disappointment in the --ndlpWingi crop being' as early as-; desired. - c ®” rs bd the straw '^ lv ® tlie hay, with 1 a' change-occasionally t? tho horse and young stock, and • • “ thb calves in wintbi- have a few' turmps. - 'ithe-aix acrcs of oats be carefully cut : V ;M^. lfc «'tob"ripe r ;:>'a little green .when - ~v-?®,>b- ? 3 - -®b m ® Bap m the straw; will the cattle.’ r -f)rawi'the .bf'tKe stpoksi .intb tlie yard; which good:' stadds, ' and th.etched as fibon. as tlie. stacks" are built. ;-??.^9, I peahs l ßtack in the field, ais: the straw ; isOr.ihpre by " rain, , r®?®> 9? course, lose its sweeWess; Tlie i pbl 18; , B bb u ld be threshed just cattle . use the straw in order tohave it sweet and ; _ Keep four pigs,’ which cin be fatfened,on bulk of the co ws in 'Bummer, with ~ soihe; potatoes,' - and' fed V on *' ®ie,t wo .acres'of potatoes' will be Quite sufficient fqr this aiid the. ps e of the •? } 'fifteen . “barrelsr of bats 1 to thebcre 'at an'average of - ..;flas; ; |-fit^an;''average;of £2O . . at £lo each 5 - v pe£pti^,tlie : 'result will ' "v-'v'’ M- . i .-! '

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of-four,/ bul we ;:ppeferita’ s over. In con sequehcri of' tholargeguah tities of excelleiit, manure laiid on : the ' fartn from yeSr 't& year/ it will fie very ■rich , and tbocrops maybeestimated proportionately 1 large. If'this systekris/to be worked ' out either by the smallfarmer or the large, it mnßfc.be consequent upon a good agrlcul tural training which; should be given in youth. 1 ■ 7 ; :

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