Condon globe., January 28, 1910, Image 3

REGULTS OF III
TENSIVE FARMIHG
i i. . i. .
MOurdSKa man ivitis.a
Twenty acres of land
pay handsomely.
It would doubtless be of inter
est to every farmer to know
something about "the most suc
cessful farmer In the United
Rtates:" what he does and how
he does it.
But, how do you know who he
is; how can any one person, who
acts as judge in this big show
or contest, determine who the
best or most successful farmer
is since it would take one man a
life time to inspect only one
tenth of the farms in the Unit
ed States?
Well, perhaps we n'hould am
end by saying "the man whom
the Department of Agriculture
Bays is the most successful far
mer in the United States."
That is putting it exact, and 'it
must be admitted that the De
partment of Agriculture is in
position to know what it is talk
ing about When first they hear
of a particularly successful far
mer they investigate his farm
and his methods.
This man who is the most suc
cessful farmer in this country
lives near Pawnee City, Nebras
ka, and his name is Arnold Mar
tin. He has been showing the
Department of Agriculture some
things it didn't know.' before.
An expert has been investigat
ing Mr. Martin's system and the
department has issued a bulletin
tolling farmers all over the coun
try just how the Nebraska 'man
manages things on the plot of
ground which he calls his farm.
Martin is no ameteur, but de
votes his entire attention to ag
riculture, and every cent of his
income- is produced from his
work on the body of land which
he owns, seven miles from Paw
nee City.
In Nebraska as in Iowa ' and
other middle-western states, it
is generally considered that a
man must tend at least 160 acres
in order to make money. Mar
tin's farm contains just twenty
acres and from this body of land
he cares for his family and sav
es $1,000 each year.
While Martin raises a certain
amount of fruit, his principal
crops are the usual farm crops,
corn, potatoes, wheat, alfalfa,
etc. Not a foot of the twenty
acres is permitted to remain
idle, and two and three crops of
of something or other is raised
on every acre every year.
Martin came to Pawnee City
ten years ago from Switzerland
without a cent All he knew
was fanning. He went to work
as a farm hand and in three
years managed to save up $275.
Then he started out for himself.
"Twenty acres is all I ' want
ed," he says. "That's ehsugh
land if farmed rightfully, for
any man."
Martin found his twenty acr
es. It-was rocky and not worth
farming so the owners of the
surrounding farms declare. As
proof of the poor quality of the
land, Martin paid only $12.50 an
acre for for it, while surround
ing land was worth; from' $50 to
$75 an acre. The new purchaser
paid just $100 down and gave a
mortgage for the balance. The
remainder of his money he used
to buy farm implements and live
stock.
The bulletin which the depart
ment has issued concerning Mar
tin says: .," ....
"His neighbors used to laugh
at the young farmer and nick
named him "Hazelbrush" but
they now say he is making; jnore
money off his. twenty acreswthan
we are oil our 160 acres. 1 He
does not want any 'more lanfl,
but wants to farm what he has
better than he does how."
So successful has the young
farmer been that today, seven
years after he purchased his
little farm, he is entirely out of
debt, has a (food house, fine
barns, cash in the bank, and a
standing offer of $2,500 for his
twenty acres of . ground. Last
winter he spent three months in
Switzerland, and for the past
three years he has been to the
Colorado mountains evtry sum
mer on pleasure bent
Says the government bulletin:
"The intensive methods pur
sued by Mr. Martin are of par
ticular interest The land is
kept busy from spring untill fall.
At the last cultivation of pota
toes, corn is planted between
the rows. A full crop of pota
toes and a fair crop of corn is
produced from the same ground.
As many as 700 bushels of po
tatoes and 75 bushels of corn are
produced from each acre planted
in this way.
"After the potatoes ripen the
com keeps the weeds
down. By the time corn needs
the ground the potatoes are ripe,
and the corn is in the shock be
fore it is time to dig the potatoes.
Some parts of the potato patch
are sowed with millet and sor
ghum just before the last culti
vation. This makes a good crop
of feed and does not hurt the
potatoes. Squashes are some
times planted in the same way.
The onion patches grow corn
and melons, which are planted
in rows between the onions.
Part of the orchard is set with
small fruit and part is planted
with potatoes and truck.
"In dry spells all the water
that the windmill will pump is
used for irrigation and it is here
that intensive farming reaches
its height The water from the
well flows directly to the ditches
as pumped. ' A little manure is
scattered in the ditches to pre
vent washing.
"The orchards contain 900
pear, 200 cherry, 800 peach and
a few apple trees. The trees are
planted in Btraight rows and be
tween are raspberry bushes, to
matoes, cabbages, and sweet po
tatoes, With beets close by."
"I think I have found a reme
dy for poverty and hard times,"
says Martin, Any man can pick
up ten or twenty acres. On ten
acres he can make a living. On
twenty acres he can get rich. 1
can't understand why a man will
stay around a city working f oi
starvation wages when he can
walkout into the country 100
miles and get a farm and be in
dependent "My only market is a small
town of "2500 people, mostly
farmers themselves. If my
farm was near a city I could
make a great deal more money
on it And where I am I must
haul my products seven miles to
town."
The government intends to ex
ploit the style of farming carried
on by Mr. Martin and to teach
farmers all over the country to
follow the methods of the "most
sucoesful farmer in the country."
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Origin of the Famous Smithso
nian Institution.
THE CONTROL OF ITS FUNDS.
Unele Sam's Treaaury Holds Its Men
ay, Whloh Can Bs Uwd Only n Ap
propriation by Congreas Its Pecul
iar Halation to tha Government.'
Although Ibt noma of tbo Builtbao
olati liiMtltutlou la a common bou
bold wurd iu America and fulllluOS
uf iN-rauiia lime rUlled tbe great build
lni; In WaxtiliigTbu where ara storad
the vuiitrltmtluns of sctenve wblcb
liaw Imm-u Kullit-nd under Its suxplt ...
few uiidi-rnlaiid Ilia real relation of tut
liiHtltutlon to t Lit national government.
Mint iM-ntou twllevt tbat H la a parr
of the govitrnmi'iit
Tbo HinlthNoiilau Institution, says tlit
Washington Times, occupies peculiar
rulutluu to this government It la
port of It. and yet It la not a part. Its
moneys ara In tba United State treas
ury mid can be uaed only on appro
priation by congress, and yat ibis
tuoucy does Dot belong to tba govern
moiit It Is to tba government only
bs tb money of a ward Is to a guard
Inn. James Smlthson, who contributed
tbe bulk of tlie fund In tba bands of
tbe Institution, was an Englishman,
tbe son of a peer of tbe realm. lie
was a man wbo could trace bis ances
try back to royal blood. Ue never vis
ited in America and' was never known
to have any particular partiality (or
America until be wrote bis will In
1820. He died at Genoa In 1829,k and
wben tbey opened bis will this la what
tbej read:
"I bequeathed tbe wbole of my prop
erty to tbe United States of America
to found at Washington, under the
name of tba Smithsonian Institution,
an establishment for tba Increase and
diffusion of knowledge amoog men."
This property amounted to about
SS00.00O, wblch was In tbat day a
princely fortune. Six years after his
death tba United 8tates legation at
London was Informed tbat there was
about $500,000 In the possession of the
adjutant general of tha British court
of chancery awaiting claimant
immediately there arose In America
all kinds of opposition to tbe accept
ance or the money. John C. Calhoun
mid William U. Trenton urged with
all the lire of their eloquence tbat It
was beneath the dignity of this gov
rntnetit to accept such a gift. But
John Qulnry Adams and others pre
vailed, ntid Kit-hard Kuan wan sent to
Ciiirland to prosecute the claim of this
.oreruuteut.
Tie wa aumfwful. and on Sept. I.
S1H, the money waa delivered at the
nlnt In I'hlludelnlilu in tbe shape of
.(H.IXSO gold sovereigns, which were
uluted Into I30S.31M8 In American
money.
This sum by careful management
uid by additions from otber charitably
Inclined persona hna now become about
$1,000,000. which the government keeps
and pays Interest upon for tbe main,
teuance of tbe liiHtltutlon.
For tbe first eight years tbe money
lay In tbe treasury while plans were
being formulated for the permanent
establishment described by Smlthaon
In bis will. Thousands of letter were
received, and there were schemes
enough proposed to bankrupt several
governments. Congressmen debated
over this fund repeatedly, and hun
dreds of pages of the Congressional
Globe were given up to It.
Tbe Institution bus been worked out
on such broad lines as to be one of
tbe greatest forces In aclentitle re
search In tbe world.
Tbe board of regents la composed of
the vice president of the United States,
the chief Justice of tbe United States,
three United States senators, three
representatives and six cltUens of tba
United States at large.
The National museum, the weather
bureau, the soologtcal park at Wash
Ington, tbe fisheries bureau and tbe
astrophysics! observatory bave been
developed by tbe Institution.
The objects of tbe Institution, as
described by Its first secretary, Joseph
Henry, bave been adhered to through
the years of Its existence. Tbey are
to Increase knowledge by original In
vestigations and study either In sci
ence or literature and to diffuse know!
edge not only through tbe ' United
States, but everywhere, especially by
promoting an Interchange of thought
among those prominent In learning In
all nations. No restriction Is made
In favor of any one branch of knowl
edge. .
The leading features of the plan of
Professor Henry were. In bis own
words:
"To assist men of science In making
original researches, .to publish them in
t series of volumes and to give a copy
of them to every first class library In
he world. ,
Hooka, laboratory accommodations
and apparatus bare been supplied to
thousands of Investigators throughout
the United States.
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friend. "Which one was it?" 1
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