The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-08-16
PROFITABLE FARMING.


The Independents d:scussing the ques-
ton, "Does farming psy?" aud as proof
that 1t does, cites the instances of what ha-
teen done. We quote them as evidences
.. rot Of the profits farmers usually re-
,cieve; but Of what they might do if they
would farm according to the best system.
enrich, drain and cultivate their land per-
fectly, and raise only the most profitable
crops:
Judge L. D. Bailey, president Of tie
state Agricultural Society, has 9, 400
acres, fifteen miles southwest Of Law ence.
In 1864 he sold his corn for 81 35 per
bushel. On the lst of August be bon hi
100 acres of wild prairie for 1850. He
cut and Iaksd the grass by mach inery,
and could gather only about half of il, al
the rest was not burned over The previous
winter, and so mated with dead hav that
the machine could not work. After tie
nay was cut and cured, his neghbors
stacked 1t ION shares The Judges halt
was $50 tons, which he sold on the ground
for Sl,G4O. Thus his first crop from
the wild prairie paid for the entife tact
and the cost of cutting and stacking the
hay.
amos Lawrence, of Boston, kept a
record during long life, of all his meF-
camille acquaintance, and found out that
OF every hundred who entered business
ninety seven failed of success. A similar
record kept in New York showed a result
but little more favorable. Agriculture.
willie II does not produce such sudden &C
@ al Accommodations of wealth as trade,
CASIO - with the sudden dissipa-
70 hoI a''euuN~ "de often Witsessfs 9.
''on o. estates 'hat Ia ~ where men
Many instances are kno" =, 90
have begun life with little or nolblL-
who have accumulated, By farming exclu-
siVely, from fifty TO one hundred thousand
dollars, and some even more.
ga young man in Western New York,
with few hundred dollars to commence
with owned before he was forty, farm OF
700 acres OF fertile land, from which he
saved annually an average of about
$4,000.
'.a''Men who have made twenty or thirty
thousand dollars by farming, may be
counted by thousands, and never in a sin
gle instance have any of them incurred
any danger of becoming bankrupt"
Mr.. A. c. Fulton. of Davenport, Iowa.
states in the Prairie Farmer, that the gross
receipts from his farm of GO acres, in
1864. amounted to S1O,I1I. The net
profit. after deducting expenses, etc,
was 81 ,905. Twenty acres were put 10
wheat and corn, the remaining in onions,
potatoes and sorghum. 1t was The onion
crop undoubtedly, which afforded such a
large profit.
We remember particularly an instance
OF unusual success in the culture Of on
iors. One gentleman, living at Marble
head, Massachusetts,. raised 1000 BUSH
els of onions from IA acres of land, equal
ing 500 bushels per acre. Three hundred
TO 400 bushels are very common yield,
and 800 to 900 are not unusual They
usually bring 81 per bushel, although
they range sometimes as low as SO cents
II kept until spring, and sold. they will
realizs in advance of so to 100 per cen,
upon last falls prices. The above crop
was sold at SO per barrel. Total for the
crop, $4,000.
An editor travelling in the central part
Of this State, in 1862, gives the following
examples of success in ordinary farming
''lsaac n. Sexton, of Venice Cayuga
county, N. Y, occupied 100 acres. which
he bought seven years ae o at 500 per acre.
making the farm cost $4,000 He paid
$4,000 at the time Of purchase; during
the seven years he has replaced poor fen
ces with durable ones, added farm bull.
dings, and paid the remaining SO 600.
The annual net profit, besides Supporting
family comfortably, was over $4,000.
which placed at interest, with a similar
yeariy addition would amount in life of
forty years, TO 100000,
''Fayette Van Lien, Of eScipio. san,e
county, who had $1,000, FIVE years age.
paid half this amount, or $500 as the
e hrst payment on an eighty acre fam,
costing $500; the remeining $500 was
applied in purchasing animals anu iuple
menls. He hvs paid yearly average of
S64O for the eighty acres in the FIVE
years, aud reduced the debt to 81 800.
"George II. Chase, of Sprinpori, pur-
chased 100 acre farm for $50 per acre.
and, occupying three years in learning
his new trade, has now in seven years Tile
drained the whole, and made other i'm
provements, ell paid for by the products
orlhe land, and has been offered 500
per acre, or double its improved value.
"Henry WoodfoId, Of Conquest, same
county, has farm Of 123 acres, which be
bought Eve years ago for Sc 400, paying
toward it So. 600. He has sInce paid the
remaining IS, 400 from the farm besides
constructing several hundred rods OF
board fepce. In other words, be has
cleared over $4,000 yearly (couuting in
teTest)' besides supporting bis family"