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

bad management, and unwisc, and nccd-
less expenditures, Just as it often hap
pens in trade, where 4 large and "nour-
ishing business only leads to heavy loss
and financial ruin. Profitable farming.
like profitable trading, implies judicous
management and wise economies. The
expense per acre may well be large, pro
vidcd no part of it shall be unnecessary.
The point to be aimed at is TO make the
expense per pound or per busIcl of the
crop grown as light as possible, and to do
this the acre must be made to produce il
maximum number of pounds or bushels
We find in the Rural New Yorker some
examples illustrating this principle: Mr.
Luther Smith, of Chcmung, New York
raised Il crop of corn, averaging two hun
drcd and forty-onc bushels of ears to the
acre, which ut eighty cents Il bushcl for
the shclled corn, gave for the grain
alone, after dcducting expenses, Il profit
of scvcnty-onc dollars and thirty-livc
cents per acre. Hon. Harris Lewis, of
Hcrkimcr Co., New York, raised forty
1our tons or bccts per acre, ut Il cost of
less than five and Il half cents per bushcl.
or little over one dollar and seventy
cents per ton, against Il market value of
seventeen dollars per ton At this price
the cash product per acre would be seven
hundred and torty-cight dollars De
ductng from this the cost of the acre
(scvcnty eight dollarS,) it leaves six
hundred and seventy dollars us the net
profit Mr.. James Brodc, of New York,
rs stated III one of the reports Of the
agricultural department, raised Il crop of
turnlps ut Il cost of two cents and seven
mills per bushel. The product was
nearly one thousand six hundred bushels,
per acre. Maj. lie Blcux raised clover
near Summcrville, 5. c., Gas reported in
the Rural Carolinan,) ut the rate of
nearly five tons to the acre, at q cost Of
seven dollars and fifty cents per ton
against :, market value Of thirty dollars
per ton. Mr.. Alfred Rose, of Penn Yam,
y. 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 4
carret crop Of over one thousand bushels
per acre is reported from Wisconsin by
IL. l.. Fairchild, Of which the cost was six
cents per bushel. Corn fodder (from
drilled corn) has been reported III the
Country Gcntlcman at twenty-five tons
per acre, and at 4 cost Of forty-tivc and Il
nan cents per ton. "Thcsc are cxccp-
tlonal cases." the reader may saw. Tn
fortunately they arc, 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
stlll have good margin Of profit.
DOES THE WORLD MOVE?
an octogcnaran, in late number of
Applcton's Journal, gives some note
worthy facts and figures bearing on in
dustrlal progress. In 1910, while vet a
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
tcntlon 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
thcM, as most striking and best adapted
10 strengthen the faith Of those who be-
ieVc, IN this taithlcSs age, that the world
moves. In 1910 the entire white ar
European population of the globe was
one hundred and eighty millions. In
1919 II is three hundred and sixty mil
hons The producing area of Europe, in
1919, he found to be one thousand and
nllccn millions OF acres that OF the
United States is about two hundred and
hfty millions OF acres, and that of other
countries settled by Europeans about
thirty-fivc millions of acrcs-total, saw
one thousand three hundred millions of
acres, This area, Tor Il population of
three hundred and sixty millions, is but
thrcc and two-thirds acres each while in
1910 IT required five and onc-cirhth
acres Tor the sustcnancc OF each person.
showing that the pr0ductivcness of the
producing surface of the earth must have
become enhanced over fifty per cent, or
ut least onc-half, in order that three and
two-thirds acres should now support rs
many lives as five and onc-cighth acres
did formerly. clad the acquisition Of
this great, significant fact" our octoec
marian adds, "becn the onl 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 yet be made TO
grow upon the same area, and nut tn
rest any fears that may have grown mn
as to the cncroachments of populotion
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 orr 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 gcncr-
ally, Just where and under what condi-
tlons OF soil, climate, and season. clover
and the grasses can be raised, and where
and under what conditions thcy can not
be raised. We care for no mans prccon-
ceivcd notions on these points. We