The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-05-01
GheAteItigerteer,
Dnirying and Market Gardening.

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market garden farm at the foot Of CAM
bells hill, on the West Liberty pix
about three miles from the city. NJ
Hill has been in the dairy business abon
five years. His first experimen. was oI
the farm OF Isaac B. Kelly, three mile
further towards West Liberty on TIN
same pike, on which farm he continued
the experiment two years Since tha'
that time he has occupied his present 10
cation, the same being 4 farm belonging
10 Miss Adeline Caldwell Of this city
This farm contains about ITO acres, oi
which O5 are in pasture, 10 in timber, 25
in farming land, and 10 devoted tomarket
gardening. On it Mr.. Hill keeps twenty
cows, and from their milk supplies are
.oectable number Of customers in The
ci,y, running two wagons for that pur-
nose. From the lst Of juno to the lst Of
September he gives his cows no other feed
than the rich grass grown on the G5 acres
Of pasture. On this they thrive abun.
dainty. In the winter he feeds them
mill feed, crushed corn, (cob and
corn, hay and fodder, varying the
amount and kind according to the wealth.
er. The average yield OF milk from a
COW i, about one and one.half gallons per
lay. This he sells at ten cents per quart
in winter and eight in summer, Allowing
an average Of nine cent? the year round,
anil one and n half gallons OF milk per
day, the result, per'cow, will be near
" 5000. Out Of this is to come the ex.
pensc of feed and price of help, horses
and wagons, tolls, milk left over, &C.,
which, according to Mr.. Hills account,
p1res the profits down to about SIS per
COW. This would give him $500 per
rear for his trouble and capital invested.
But, as we said, Mr.. Hill, in addition
to his dairy, runs a market garden. Con.
cerning this branch Of industry he fur
nishes us, in like manner, some interest
Ing information. He tells us, for instance,
that cabbage is his principal and most
profitable crop. From the lat to the Goth
of February he prepares his hot beds and
sows hia seed, and about the middle o!
April Tor rs soon rs the season permitsl
,cts out his plants. He sets the rows q
feet apart and the plants l6 inches apart
This gives him about 10000 plants to the
acre. Allowing them all to mature prop,
crly, and to be sold at only m average Of
5 cents per head, IA very low av.
erage) and yet an acre will yield
$500 worth OF cabbage. Mr.. Hill sows
two crops, tue latter one about the mid.
die Of April, and these he sells out the mid.
die Of May and harvests by the lst of No
vember. He generally selects a heavy
line stone soil on which to grow cabbage.
For the early crop he sows the Early
York and for latter growths the Flat
Dutch and large Early York. The field
crop in the country generally composed
Of the Flat Dutch and Drumhead varie-
ties.
Tomatoes are another profitable crop
Tor market gardeners. The early crop
issown in hot beds, about the same time as
early cabbage. When tho plants are
from two to three inches high they are
transferred to "cold frame" bed IA bed OF
earth simply, covered with sashl and
kept there until about corn planting,
when they are set out in the field. Mr..
Hill plants in rows six feet apart, the
plants being four feet apart. II staked
and tied up, the rows need only be four
fee, and the plants three feet apart. He
b,gins to market his early tomatoes the
last Of July. Atthat time they frequent.
ly bring dollar per peck. The variety
known as the "Trophy" he considers the
hest field crop. Togrow tomatoes to the
hest advantage a light sandy loan soil is
needed.
Early corn is another crop to which
market gardeners pay a good deal Of at
,cntiOn, inasmuch as it pays we'll. They
get it in the last OF April, aud
keep planting on every ten days for a
month or six weeks, making from four to
six plantings in all. Mr.. Hill plants a
half acre to his first crop. The best soil is
a good black loan, alittle sandy. He
plants in rows three feet and hillstwo feet
apart, three stalks 10 the hill. For his
first crop he plants the extra Early
Sugar" variety. He estimates his yield
at 1900 TO 1900 dozens per acre. The
first sales bring thirty cents per dozen,
then on down to twenty, fifteen and ten
cents. The crop ought to average $500
per acre. He generally plants two acres
OF course all market gardeners plant
potatoes. A garden without potatoes IL
Hamlet with Hamlet left out. For this
crop iriablc clay soil is needed, that is
crumbly soil, easily pulveriled, me
dunn as to richness. The early croE
should be planted the last of March, and
the cuttings sheuld be extra large, from
medium sized potatoes. The rows should
be feet apart and the cuttings 8 inches
Large cuttings give strong germ. Thu
crop ought to yield 100 bushels To- th'
scre-and not over that. First sales are
often disposed Of one dollar per peck
then at rs, 80 and % cents. The averagE
for early potatoes is say Sl5o petbusheI
and for the season through one dollar
This brings us to Onions. Mr.. Web
,ter used to say that the most sublime
passage in modern oratory was that won
deriul one in the midst Of Sir Robert
pcel's great speech on "Frec Trade" in
the House OF Commons, wherein he said
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