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

THE PROFITS OF HIGH FARMING.
Large crops arc not necessarily profit
able. They may be made to cost more
than their market value, OH account of
bad management, and mwisc, and need
less expenditures, just as it often hap
pens in trade, where a 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 we'll 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 bushcl of the
crop grown as light as possible, and to do
this the acre must be made to produce a
maximum number of pounds or bushels
We find in the Rural New Yorker some
examples illustrating this principle: Mr..
Luther Smith, Of Chemung New York,
raised crop of corn, averaging two hun
drcd and fortyone bushels of ears to the
acre, which ut eighty cents bushcl for
the shelled corn, gave, for the grain
alone, after dcducting expenses, Il profit
Of scvcnty-onc dollars and, thirty-live
cents per acre. Hon. Harris Lewis, of
Hcrkimer Co., New York, raised forty
four tons of bects per acre, ut Il cost of
less than five and a half cents per bushcl
or Il little over one dollar and seventy
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-cight dollars. De-
ductng from this the cost of the acre
(scvcnty eight dolars,) it leaves six
hundred and seventy dollars as the net
profit. Mr.. James Brodic, of New York,
as stated in one of the reports of the
agricultural department, raised crop of
turnlps ut cost of two cents and seven
mills per bushel. The product was
nearly one thousand six hundred bushels
per acre. Mai. lie Bleux raised clover
near Summcrvillc, S. c., Gas reported in
the 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 Yam,
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 bushcl. A
Garrett crop of over one thousand buslcl.
per acre is reported from Wisconsin b,
IL. l.. Fairchild, of which the cost was ST:
cents per bushcl. Corn fodder (from
drilled corn) has been reported in tho
Country Gentleman, at twenty-five tom
per acre, and ut a cost of forty-fve and :
halt cents per ton. "These are cxccp
tlonal cases." the reader may say. Un
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 late number of
trs,nl
worthy facts and figures bearing ON In
dustrial progress. In 1910, While vet =
young man, he Travelled through all the
principal countries of Europe, making
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 well. as interesting, but VIC
purpose here to note only single one of
them, us most striking and best adapted
to strengthen the faith of those who he
heve, in this faithless age, that the world
moves. In 1910 the entire white or
European, population of the globe was
one hundred and eighty millions. In
1919 IL is three hundred and sixty mil
lions. The producing area of Europe, in
1875, 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
thlrty-f!vc millions of acres-total, saw
one thousand three hundred millions of
acres. This area, Tor population of
three hundred and sixty millions is but
three and two-thirds acres each, while in
1910 it required five and onc-cighth
acres for the sustcnancc of each person,
showing that the productivcness of the
producing surface Of the earth must have
become enhanced over fifty per cent, or
Mt least onc-half, in order that three and
two-thirds acres should now support as
many lives as five and Onc-cighth acres
did formerly. Glad the acquisition of
this great, significant fact" our octoee-
marian adds, "becn the only result of two
long Journeys through Europe, should
have considered my time and labor well
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 vet be made to
grow upon the same area. and mt to
rest any fears that may have grown up
as to the encroachments of p0nulot;op
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
wish to know, for the benefit of the
farmers and planters of the south gener-
whom ov,I Il. IL.