The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-02-21
Profitable Market Garden Crops.

OF early grown crops, if one has a
warm soil, radishes make one of the most
profitable, as demanding little expense
except the punching, which is necessary
only when you are sure of your crop and
a sale for it. 1t usually finds large sale
at a good price if very early, and is often
raised as stolen crop. Another advan-
tage is the quick returns secured, the
crop being raised and marketed in from
from forty to sixty days.
Onions, year in and year out, probably
yield the most profit of any other garden
crop, but should never be undertaken in
large amount at first, nor even upon a
small scale 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 in
born hatred of weeds he is pretty sure
of crop.
On cool soils and well titled, early
peas are a good crop, but provisions must
be made to have an abundance of pick
ers 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 between the rows, fine crops of
melons or squashes can be grown after
them.
Early cabbage pays well when well
titled on very rich ground, but most be-
ginners for in attempting at first to grow
largely or early cabbage and late eel
lery, two of the most difficult crops to
grow, and demanding the largest outlay
and risk
Early beets for punching are usually
in free demand and pay well, having no
pests, and safe for the late crop should
they miss the early market. But the
grower must remember they are bulky,
and 1t takes great many wagon loads to
realize 800.
Early potatoes in every market are
sure of demand and one of our surest
crops. Economically managed, it always
yields fair profit, and often a very large
one. Mulching with manure to be
ploughed under for the second crop
insures good yield, and being all avail
able for the other crop, really costs the
potatoes nothing.
Sweet corn usually pays well if brought
into the market very earl y, or very late,
but it is so easily raised that in the sea-
son the glut drives the price to low fig
ure. But is is profitable 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,
"can't help but pay" and the demand
grows with the supply till we can almost
say that 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 a large demand is always certain,
and the grower of a large crop rarely
fails to realize we'll. Failures are often
due to insufficient fertility, but more
frequently by neglect the bugs are al
lowed to destroy them.
Tomatoes, if once well rooted, are the
most tenacious of life, and Loyalty yield
at least fair crop, whether the season
be 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 i'm
mediate table use and canning, that, with
tact in marketing, or by canning all sur
plus, fair price ought to be maintained.
| annually market several hundred bush
els but never have sold bushel for less
than seventy-tive cents, and more usually
have obtained dollar. On the wagon
ready for market, l do not think they
cost me more than thirty cents at the
highest.
The root crops, beets, carrots, parsnips,
and rutabagas, grown upon clayey loan,
pay we'll in most markets, but the i'm
portant items of expense are their cul-
ture and harvesting, and the most econo.
mic methods must be studied. Roofs
Manual.