Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-04-30
TFE DELAWARE TRIBUNE. wILMINGToN, DEL

| as To lose by having too great variety to
look after. Specialles would pay them in
| finiiely better; but even this rudimentary
| fact they have to learn. II one class expects
| too much, another undertakes to much.
Every one who proposes coming out of
the great city 10 reside upon farm, partic-
| ularly he who desires to thus support his
family, should determine beforehand what
he intends to do,-whether to go into gene
| raj farming, into fruit growing, or into
"truck" or market-gardening. In choosing
| he should consult his tastes as well as his
| MEANS Ii his object be grain
farming, he should so where land is TO be
had at low rates. II his taste should lead
him to prefer the iruit-culturc, he should
hug the avenues that lead directly to the
great markets. In these crowded cities,
though hundreds may be daily driven out TO
| seek homes in the country, yet thousands
remain there whom the scverest monetary
structure never reaches. They know of hard
times only by hearsay. Such always have
money wherewih to crafty their appetites
for whatever Injuries the market may pre-
sent. They keep the opera in full play, no
matter how many hungry thousands may he
around them. Al their grand parties, the
floral decorations alone cost more than the |
value of small farm. The winter straw
berries on their tables cost ten dollars . |
quart. On these avenues he may buy land |
with safety. Population is crowding INTO |
the regions which they traverse. Unless II
: has been unduly inflated by speculation, such
land must annually become more valuable.
The first charge on agricultural products
is for transportation to market. Hence
q whatever one may have to sell, the nearer
| he NAV be to it, the less will be the charge.
This is one reason why the great market
gardeners plant themselves SO near the cities.
! Their products being bulky, and less valua-
4 BILE than fruit, cannot SO well afford high
!, charge for freight. All these essential
II points must be considered by those who are
u about leaving the city, as well as by others
II who are changing from one style OF farming
is to another. The producer of berries on
, large scale must locate where the population
= is sufficient TO furnish hands TO pick the
Ie fruit in season. Strangers To New JERSEY
50 horticulture often wonder how we fiid
fl pickers enough to gather the great quaint
~ lies of berries which are cultivated among
- us But the pickers seem to have multiple
- ed rs the berry culture has extended, until
the two branches Of really great trade now
III work in perfect harmony When the fiuit
-, ripens, an army of pickers seems to spring
az M out of the ground Every town and vii
he lage sends its swarms OF women and children
to into the strawberry field. The country
schoohouses are abandoned, that the chill
lren may share in the profits OF the fruit
harvest, An ordinarily smart girl will pick
hundred quarts per day, and 20 home long
Of before nighi-fall with two dollars in her
pocket. Such pay for this class OF help will
empty every school house in the country.
Then follow the raspberry and blackberry
thus giving long and profitable employment
to body Of trained pickeIs whose numbers
and skill insure the prompt harvesting OF The
crops. The vast quantities of earlier held
pcase grown in New Jersey, the pickles, thu
tomatoes, even the turnips, are gathered by
HE same industrious class of people. The
10 whole picking business is known and covc
~ ed as profitable one Where fruit growing
die has long been established, there all the es
OF sentials for conducting it proiitably will b.
lis found within reach and therefore it is Z
ooa such locations that the prospective fruit
~" grower should direct his attention.
efs In every human enterprise, there is SOM
my hazard of failure. Business in the city i
ms infinitely more uncertain than in the country
H.. 1t is true that lucky hit in cotton or il
80 stocks may make one wealthy in day, com
nS' pared to which all horticulture is II yer
oily slow coach. The next turn, however, ma
onr strip the millionaire OF his last dollar; bl
"a. our slow coaches move steadily on, satel
~ y. and comfortably, because we do not max
dis haste to get rich. Failure is not peculiar t
nd II country occupation. The earth contain
The within lis bosom Il sure living for all who il
l., dustriousy and intclligenty labor to cXtia'
it, If they fail in doing So, they must NJ
nee accuse the soil, but themselves. The iai
pay IRE springs from some fault exclusively the
me own. But il is well that bad luck, wheth
.olr III town or country, seems to produce no di
1'" enlargement to others. Where one drol
zone out Of the ranks d fresh candidate is reat
the 10 take his place. The stock exchanges
luu the grea, cities have thrown out innumer
$50, bic pecuuiury wrecks but are they n
5"'' more crowded with fresh adventures tn
lule every? So country life may have its disa
add poniments but none of them are absoll
two wrecks.
and In chosing land, where immediate incoi
is desirable, il will be cheaper to pay vi
nros may seem high price for an acre well !
ed with beating fruits, than much less
> ,f -. one in which the plants must be set al
- tended until they CONT to yield acrop. SUI
2 y, | land will pay interest and proiit from |
'i d"u start A beginner may be embarrassed
- ~ - - his want of experiences but he can call
~ NC the skilled help of the ncighborhood, tr,
", ,i. which he will lie constantly learning
.N;,s himself. His very ncNpcrience will ma
'''u him traclable. and DESTROYS OF doing so. I
:, -" absence Of hca1long self concei, will
~ W. useful to him. lie will have nothing Ia !
y. learn He must not invest every thing
,' ,,'"' land, as floating capitol prnporlioned
''ite. The number Of his acres will he indispensa
w., to success. As plants grow slowly, so m
NM NM llc exercise patience. DO sol expect tor
~, ~, lizc the frs, year. tie profit which the
,,',I cond or third may be matte to produce.
my" first is usuallya year Of prcparaton,in VIII
,,,, many things must be done that will not
VIII 4uirc repeating. BE careful moi 10 esp
,'ii,iI' loo much, and disappointment will not
y, ~. low. Let not All excessively WIT urdry :
W ,,,., ~. son produce encouragement or disgust
''.ue such happen to us all. They are sol
W., ."'s' times great drawbacks, especially to be-
~ !, ners; hut they are never actually ruint
n !, Where one lluii thus perishes, two or tt
w. II escape aud pay well As 10 glutting
,,s',., market, that fear is subsiding There
't" ' certain fruits Of which no sullicicn, sup
y ui- has yet been raised. Among these are +,
NM ,,';ls berries and curunis, all which pay 81
M'Se profits. A devotion TO these Two ir
.s so,', alone, on few acres, will produce am
''o'No returns fully equal to the value Of
f, win land on which they may b. grown. liel
y. ~, ii those who are now enioined - disp'
Ws,, and scatter into the country will begin "
| ", he Industrious nrrSpVCiing. and hope