The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-30
FARM AND PLANTATION TOPICS,
.THE PROFITS or HIGH FARMING.


bad management, and unwise, and need
less expenditures, Just as it often hap
pens in trade, where large and " flour
ishing" business only: leads to heavy loss
and financial ruin. Profitable farming,
like profitable trading, implies judicious
management and wise economies The
expense per acre may well be large, pro-
vided no part of it shall be unnecessary.
The point to be aimed at is to make the
expense per pound or per bushel of the
crop grown rs light as possible, and to do
this the acre must be made to produce Il
maximum number of pounds or bushels
We findsin the Rural New Yorker some
examples illustrating this principle: Mr.
Luther Smith, Of Chcmung, New York,
raised crop of corn, averaging two hun
dred and forty-one bushels of ears to the
acre, which at eighty cents bushel for
the shelled corn, gave, for the grain
alone, after deducting expenses, profit
of seyenty-One dollars ands thirty-five
cents per acre. Hon. Harris Lewis, of
Herkimer Co., New York, raised forty
four tons of beets per acre, at cost of
less than five'and a half cents per bushcl,
cents per ton, against 4 market value of
seventeen dollars per ton. AT this price
the cash product per acre would be seven
hundred and forty-eight dollars. De
Quoting from this the cost of the acre
(seventy eight dollars,) it leaves six
hundred and seventy dollars as the net
profit. Mr.. James Brodic, of New York,
rs stated in one of the reports of the
agricultural department, raised a crop of
turnips at cost of two cents and seven
mills per bushel. The product was
nearly one thousand six hundred bushels
per acre. Maj. LIE Bleux raised clover
= S,r
sthc Rural Carolinian,) at the rate of
nearly five tons to the acre, at a cost of
seven dollars and fifty cents per ton,
against market value of thirty dollars
per ton. Mr.. Alfred Rose, of Penn Van.
n. T., raised Irish potatoes during the
last year at the rate of about six hundred
bushels per acre. of which the cost was
nine ana quarter cents per bushel. A
carret crop of over one thousand bushels
per acre is reported from Wisconsin by
ID. L. Fairchild, of which the cost was siS
cents per bushel. Corn fodder (from
drlllcd corn) has been reported in the
per acre, and ut a cost of forty-fve and a
half cents per ton. "Thesc are excep-
tlonal cases." the reader may say. I'm
fortunately they are, but the exception
may be made the rule. They show what
can be done under favorable conditions.
We may divide the results by two. and
still have good margin of profit.
DOES THE WORLD MOVE?
An octogenarian, in a late number of
Appieton's Journal, gives some note
worthy facts and figures bearing on in
oustrlai progress. In 1910, while vet a
young man, he travelled through all the
principal countries of Europe. makinS
careful observations and taking notes Of
the people and their industries. During
the present year, he has again Travelled
over the same ground, giving special at
tentlon to the same class of facts. The
comparisons made on several points are
suggestive, as we'll as interesting, but we
purpose here to note only single one of
them, as most striking and best ADAPTED
to strengthen the faith of those who be-
heye, IN This faithless age, that the world
moves. In 1910 the entire white or
European population of the globe was
one 1ser hundred and eighty millions. In
lions. The producing area of Europe, in
1870, he found to be one thousand and
fifteen millions Of acres, that of the
United States is about two hundred and
nifty millions OF acres, and that Of other
countries settled by Europeans about
thirty-five millions of acres-total. say
one thousand three hundred millions of
acres. This area, tor a population of
three hundred and sixty millions is but
three and two thirds acres each, while il,
1910 it required five and one-eighth
acres for the sustenance of each person.
showing that the productiveness of the
producing surface of the earth must have
become enhanced over fiftv per cent. or
Mt least one-half, in order that three and
two-thirds acres should now support as
many lives as five and cne.eiglitii acres
did formerly. "Had the acquisition of
this great, significant fact" our octope-
:, marian adds, "been the only result of two
long Journeys through Europe, should
have considered my time and labor we'll
spent" That throughout all the Euro
pean world, three blades of corn now
grow where but two grew before, assures
us that four blades may yet be made to
grow upon the same area, and put to
rest any fears that may have grown IN
us to the encroachments of popuIotiop
upon the limits Of subsistence.
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT GRASS?
we wish here to repeat n request made
several years ago in these pages, with the
nope that our readers are now better pre-
pared than they were at that time to aid
us IN solving an important problem. We
wish TO know, for the Benefit Of the
farmers and planters of the south gener-
ally, just where and under what conli-
tions of soil, climate, and season, clover
and the grasses can be raised, and where
and under what conditions they can not
be raised. We care for no mans precon-
ceiyed notions on these points We