Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-05-23
AGRICULTURAL.
pROFIT1 Bile MA RKETGAR t.
DEN CROPS.

lnOSC prOlltaUle, ao ueLh''ui"S ''o'ie
expense except the punching, which
il necessary only when you are sure
of your crops and sale for it, ltus-
ually finds large sale at good price II
very early, and is often raised as
stolen crop. Another advantage Is
the quick returns secured, the crop
being raised and marketed in from
forty to sixty days.
Onions, year in and year out, prob
ably yield the most profit of any gar
den crop; but should never be I'M
dertaken in large amount at first, nor
even upon a small s,ale if the ground
is poor or weedy. New ground one
or two years clean titled is especially
favorable, and along with this, if the
grower has an Unborn hatred of weeds
he is pretty sure of crop.
On cool soils and we'll titled, early
peas are good crop; but provision
must be made to have an abundance
of pickers whenever wanted. 1t IS
also cleared from the ground in time
to allow of picking cucumbers, late
cabbage, late roasting ears Of corn, or
turnips, and, by planting tetween the
rows, fine crops Of melons or squash
can be grown after them.
Early cabbage pay well when titled
on very rich ground, but most begin
ners err in attempting at first to grow
largely of early cabbage and late eel
erv, two of the most difficult crops to
grow and demanding the largest out
lay and risk,
Early beets for punching are usu-
ally in free demand and pay we'll hay
ing no pests, and safe for late crop,
should they miss the early market
But the grower must remember they
are bulky, and it takes great many
wagon loads to realize 500.
Early potatoes in every market
are sure of a demand and one Of our
surest crops. Economically managed
it always yields a fair profit and often
a very large one. Mulchins with ma
nure, to be plowed under for the sec
ond crop, insnres a good yield, and
being all available for the other crop,
really costs the potatoes nothing.
Sweet corn usually pays we'll if
brought into the market very early
or very late; but it is so easily raised
that in the season the glut drives the
price to low figure. But it is prof
liable hog and stock feed, even while
green. Feed stalks and all, so there
need never be any loss upon it.
Melons upon sandy soil in good
heart, if protected from their many
pests, cant hel p but pay and the
demand grows with the supply till
we can almost say thai no market has
for any length Of time been glutted
with them. But eternal vigilance is
the price" Of melons.
Winter squash, especially Hubbard
have become such staple in the
market that large demand is always
certain and the grower Of a large DROP
rarely fails to realize we'll. Failures
are often due to insufficient fertility
but more frequently, by neglect, the
bugs are allowed to destroy them.
Tomatoes, if once we'll rooted, are
the most tenacious Of life, and loyal.
ly yield at least fair crop, whether
the season be a continuous drought
or one protracted rain. Often it is
imprudently marketed and the price
driven very low. But it has become
such standard fruit for immediate
table use and for canning that, witt
tact in marketing or by canning al
surplus, fair price ought to be main
tanned. I annually market severa,
hundred bushels but never have sold
a bushel for less than seventy five
cents, and more usually have obtained
dollar. On the wagon ready fol
market | do not think they cost me
more than thirty cents at the highest
The root creps-beets, carrots, par
ships and rutabagas-grown upor
clayely loan, pay we'll in most mar
kets; but the important items of ex
pcnse are their culture and harvest
ing and the most economic methods
must be studied. Roots Manual.
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