Plan No. 777. Cut-Over Land Farmer
This farmer purchased a farm ten years ago near Newport, the county seat of Pend Oreille County, Washington. He bought 268 acres at $23 an acre.
The farm is on the bench land where the soil is a sandy loam, particularly suited for growing vegetables and grass crops.
Here is what he says:
“After the cordwood has been removed, the slashing and burning of the rubbish and brush, leaving the ground free of everything except standing stumps, should not cost over $10.00 an acre. It is my own experience that it has not cost that much. Most of it I contracted at $7.50 an acre and on two different tracts the contractor made over $3 a day. The slashing should be burned in the fall whenever possible and a mixed pasture grass sown in the ashes before the heavy fall rains. No cultivation is necessary, as the light ashes make an ideal seed-bed and a heavy, rich pasture is assured the following season.”