The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-02-14
Che Renpsha gglegraph
Thursday, Feb. l4lh, 1857.
Prohtableness of Cultivating the Soil.

Proftableness of Cultivating the Soil
| Tbs following facts and figures, showing the
profit of judieious husbandry will be interest
ing to all tillers of the soil. bs
We will notice first Strawberry culture,
! A Strawberry grow err writes the Ottawa Re
publican concerning his success in the culture
of this fruit. In April, 1865, he planted an
acre of Wilson's Albany Seeding on bottom
land on which corn had been gown for twenty
years. 1t was plowed and narrowed once and
no manure applied. The plants were set in
! rows, five feet apart, and two feet distance in
! the rows. Lines of dwarf pears and York cab
bages were cultivated bet veen the plants
The strawberry plants commenced fruiting on
the 5th of June last and continued till the Both
when the berry business was eSplayed out y
The result was the sale of t0S bushels. from
the acre of ground, besides what was consumed
by the family for an aggregate of $731. 90. Paid
! for picking 500 IL leaving as the net proceeds
of the acre, $6020S. On the approach of win
ter the plants are lightly covered with oat
straw Alter deducting literally for the cost
of plants and setting them out, and other Incl
dentals, the result would seem to Indicate q
very handsome profit on the investment"
Equally good results might be given with
Blackberries and Raspberries, and indeed the
small fruits of all kinds open an almost unlim-
tied field for those who have a taste for horti-
culture, and fortunes are being made in their
culture.
Grape culture is also attracting attention,
and promises to be very remunerative. Here
is what Wisconsin man las done:
GEORGE HAUsMAN, one of the great wine
growers of Wisconsin, made last year z103C
gallons of pure grape juice from 400 Concord
vines, or $40 of an acre, and 800 gallons OF
pure grape juice from an acre of Norton's Vir'
ginia containing 200 vines"
Iowa also has some profitable experience in
this branch as the following shows
"a German resident of Keokuk, Iowa, foul
years ago last Spring, bought ten acres of
ground five miles from the city, on the rapids
and the same season planted four acres of 1t
in cuttings. While the grapes were maturing
the recent summer, he was offered two thou.
sand dollars for the chance of his crop. He
refused to sell, however, and his vintage yield
ed him 800 gallons of wine, worth $500 q
gallon, So, 800 for one years crop of grapes
This is an enormous profit, and seems more
like the gold finding stories, of California fif
teen years ago than an incident of agriculture
in Lee county, Iowa.-COlema''S Rural World
Here is what can be done with garden veg
etables.
"A gentleman in Auburn last year raised
$1,000 worth of garden plants and vegetables
from one acre ofland, and this year he will il
ordinarily successful, get So, 900 worth from
Many are familiar with the account of the
sixty acre cucumber plantation of L. H. But
Ter, the extensive pickle manufacturer 1t was
mot favorable season, yet he realized the
following result. ~
Zone acre of this piece yielded 165 bushels,
but this year the average of the whole sixty
facres was only 81 bushels per acre A good
tcrop iss125 bushels per acre, but the severe
Edrouth this summer greatly lessened the yield.
A good picker will pick ten bushels ina day,
land the picking season usually lasts four OF
five weeks After the cucumbers were picked
they were assorted and packed in salt, at the
rate ofhalf a bushel of salt to the 40 gallon
cask, and in due time picked in vinegar and
put up for market. Mr.. Butler was offered
SIG per barrel for his cucumberS in the salt,
which offer he declined.N
So that at the offer he declined he would
realize between SIC, 900 and ST 900 in one sea-
son.
The culture of cabbages also furnishes good
profit, as the following quotation shows:
1.-The New York Tribune says the great cab.
bage growers about New York city generally
calculate upon 10, 900 head per acre, allowing
4 four superficial feet to each plant, which gives
a surplus of {, $50 feet for missing plants. We
e suppose the crop may average five cents a
head giving $400 an acre, which, considering
it is a second or third crop of the season, af.
fords pretty good return. Cabbages often
follow peas, with which radishes or lettuce
have been grown; the ground from which an
early crop of potatoes has been taken, is often
PLANTED with late cabbage. Near a city, there
is no doubt about the profitableness of the
crop; and we believe tia valuable one for food
s for cattle and sheep. It increases the flow o.
milk, but it does not improve the quality"
Onions are also becoming an important arti
Gle of commerce, and good profit results from
growing them.
An acre of good land with good seed ant
proper cultivation viii yield on an average
from three to five hundred and in very favora
g. BILE seasons, sometimes as high as seven hun
dred bushels per acre. At the prices which
they have brought for the past three or fou
years it is easy to see their profitableness.
Sheep husbandry has proved both a pleas
ant and profitable branch of agriculture, es
pecially during the war.
But Dairying is perhaps attracting more at
tention than any other branch of agriculture
at the present time. Certainly there is great
income arising from it, which warrants the at
tention paid to it. We make only one extract
p out Of many:
&C. Fl. Wilder, of Evansville, Wis, who hal
~
making the 26th of last April, and closed Oct
18th Average No. of cows for the season 339
lbs milk received 995, 49, lbs. Of
cheese 103, $50; average DIS. of cheese per COW
305; No. lbs milk per 10 cured cheese Q GIG -
Average value per COW above $50, lowest S41
highest $50. Who says dairying don't pay al
the west %
The establishment of Cheese Factories which
are fast becoming so popular at the West as
well as the East, has the tendency to greatly
limit the raising of calves, and as the prices OF
cows is now double what it was but short
: time ago, we prophecy some one will make
snug sum by raising a large number of them
/ and selling them in two or three years for
E mileh cows.
: The poultry yard when properly and judi
ciously conducted often proves a source of
great profit. Here are some figures The
Country Gentleman says one gentlemanin Ohio
has thirty hens, which in seven months from
January LIST, had averaged seyenty-one eggs
Another correspondent had picked up $40
eggs, from ten pUlets of the white Ieghorp
variety, from the first of last September. to the
LIST of July this year, or Isl each in ten months
Still another, from ten Brahmas has had 73s
eggs, ornearly seventy four each, from March
lst to July 3lst, besides raising 60 chickens.
Here is another extract
| "a friend OF ours had 4, 600 eggs from TWEEN
ty-nine hens between the LIST Of January last,
and the 1st of September. This is an average
of about 13S eggs, orabout 11115 dozen in eight
months,a good deal better you seed. Mass
d, PlOlCndn.
Still another
Mr.. Albert c. Vose, near Manville, keeps
about $50 and hens. He informs US that
during nine months of the wear those fowls
give net profit of 81 per day, or saw $500 per
year Is not this keeping fowls to some pur-
pose In Mr.. VOse's enclosure there is a run
ming stream and fruit trees The trees afford
shade, while fruit bearing is improved by the
fowls WooHSocket Patriot
With the above extraordinary yields it hardly
seems necessary that eggs should bs SO scarce