Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-01-01

Early NaIenLlue is pEeIeIdUI6--COStS about
SIG per bushel aud yields about 100 for
| one, and sells for abont the same rs peas
sent in ventilated berrel5
TOMATOES. -Always piaut the seed Of the
large, smooth ral-neVer plant any other.
The seed must be sown early IN JANUARY,
in hot beds-must be set out as early as the
frost will permit, and be planted about
feet by feet, or 2. 500 to the acre earliest
sell for SO per bushel, then down to 81
for the latest, and averaging here $500 to
the acre. Always shipped in Slated boxes
containing L bushel.
CUCUMBERs.- Plant the Early Frame as
soon as frost will permit, in Spring. Ma
nure highly in the hill, send to market in
! bushel Slated baskets earliest sell for
$50 per bushel from Florida, and so per
bushel from here this year. They are usu-
ally planted i by 1 feet, or $500 TO the
acre.
| IRISH POTATOES. PLANT the Early Good
rich Dikeman and White Sprout, average
Weld of the Goodrich 35 bushels for one,
the other varieties about half that quantity !;
earliest bring about IS per barrel, and the
latest about IS. This year the average net
Weld to the acre here was $500.
RAsPDERRTEs- think will not ship from
! Wilmington.
| GRAPEs.-Plant the Concord, Hartford
and Clinton cuttings. about 400 vines to the
acre. They cost about $50 per 1000 -
After second year they will yield half
bushel to the vine, and will sell from 10
! to 20 cents per pound, shipped in paper
and wood boxes holding from two TO five
pounds to box.
The foregoing directions for planting
and the prospective increase are given for
what th ey are worth, and we hope they will
be found valuable TO our farmers.
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where, can be done here, in the fruits and
vegetable culture, and in many cases far
better here than elsewhere, let us look
at the results in some of the cases given.
/ PEARs-Will yield an average OF one
| bushel to the tree after the third year aud
will readily bring ten dollars per bushel,
and with 300 trees to the acre we can see
gross income of $4,000 per acre, and not
less than $1,000 net income to the acre.
AS practical fact, half al acre Of pear
trees, ten years old, upon the Eastern
Shore of Maryland, have produced for the
last three years fruit of the annual value of
$500.
PEAcHEs-After the second year will
average one bushel to the tree, and will
sell at an average Of s. per bushel, and
early ones for not less than $40 per bushel,
say 125 trees to the acre, we have from
$3.50 to $1,000 income per acre, or say an
average of 800 per acre net income.
STRAwBERRIEs-Yield about 5000 quarts
to the acre and over early ones will aver
age half dollar a quart or 81, 800 az
acre, but 500 to $500 net income.
BLACKBERRIEs-Wi yield about 900
quarts to the acre and will bring 40 cents
per quart, or 800 to 81 900 per acre, and
require but very little cultivation. The
vines will last twenty to thirty years.
They ripen in our climate directly after
the strawberries, and go to market in the
same crates and boxes.
RAsPBERRIEs-Ca be cultivated here to
! great advantage, but it has been thought
they cannot be transported in good con-
dition TO market.
! We think, however, that they will be
cultivated and means for their transporta-
! ton will be provided after a while.
! They will yield about as stlS1ndantly as
blackberries and sell at higher prices.
GRAPEs--Will yield the largest income
Of any of the fruits per acre, and to follow
out the facts to a conclusion seems so much
like the fables OF the Arabian Nights that
few are disposed to believe the half that is
told them. They produce $4,000 pounds
to the acre-a fair average for good lands
and sell them as we readily can do, if early
in market, at 20 twenty cents per pound,
and we have $4,000 for the income of a
single acre.
IF we make wine, say ], 200 gallons to the
acre, we can readily see how large an in
come per acre can be realized even at
fifty (5O) cents per gallon.
The yield from peas, tomatoes, cucum-
bers and Irish potatoes will vary from 5000
to 5000 per acre.
Therefore we can all see that there is
money in great abundance in the culture
of all these articles, if we will go into the
business intelligently and with a determi-
nation to succeed.
We must not put our hands to the pillow
and look back. We must not, in other
words, give up a work so great and so
valuable because of few failures in the
outset because we do not fully understand
the work to be done.
This work is destined at no distant day
to make our section prosperous and thrlt-
ty. It will bring to our aid the most reliable
white labor, as we'll as all the industrious
colored laborers that are disposed to make
an honest and thrifty population, and we
want no other kind.
Your committee could dwell upon this
subject at much greater length and tell you
what Future there is before us, but we
question Of labor that we need most here,
and what the country can sustain.
It has been estimated by an English
writer that our whole Southern country
contained previous to the late civil war but
about two and half millions Of laborers,
and yet the Southern States of America
alone exported in value of its products,
more than any country on the globe, ex-
cept Great Britain, and if we except her
manufactures, more than any country. All
this in the very face of the great labor pro-
duc1ng countries of Europe and their aid.
Now, suppose We could bring to our
shores-to tho Old North State-half mil
lion of industrious producers foreign or
native) and employ them or help them to
employ themselves in the growth of the ar
ticles we have been describing What a
change would soon be wrought in our con-
dition
Without diminishing the cultivation of
the great staples, cotton, corn and tobacco,
we could send to market millions of dollars
worth of truck and fruit from lands that
are now looked upon as worthless, or Of
| but little value.
[ have been informed within y day or
two by persons knowing the facts, that the
strawberry crop Of the vicinity Of Norfolk,