The sun. (Fayetteville, N.C.) 1883-188?, 1884-06-17
FIELD AND FARM.
Col. Bill Arp tells the Georgian

answered In some Places, L toun(
some nice wei. educatedvtgirls cult
waiting small fruits and dzyegetables
for market. They didn, xplow thu
ground but they, planted and hoee
and weeded and gathered the crop
| saw an acre of strawberries thai
too sisters had planted and they
made frolic Of it, that is they Went
at it with will and took a lively
happy interest in it, and they gather,
ed 1000 quarts and said they would
get a thousand more, and they packed
them in the little baskets and the
baskets into crates and sent them
north, and their sales had averaged
80 cents a quart. Their total ex.
penses for hire Of hell and cost Of
baskets and freight to market was
5000 and this left thousand fol
their work and watching and con-
stant care. Well those girls are
proud and independent. Their father
had five acres and he was making
money-a good deal Of money.
| never saw nicer business nor one
so simple and sure. The land was
poor and sandy. The rows three
feet apart, when the plants get we'll
set plow opens a furrow close by
on each side and this flrrow is nearly
filled with cotton seed and then the
eartlris thrown back on the cotton
seed, after that the vines are mulched
with pine straw and that is all. |
never saw vines as small or berries
as numerous, | counted 24O on one
plant. They laid on one another.
This vine had been picked three
times and there were 24O left. They
frequently picked a quart from 3
plants and left many not ripe. They
pick till 3 O'CLOCK in the morning
and the girls averaged Is quarts by
that time. They begin again at 1
in the afternoon and get 15 quarts
more. When they hire pickers they
pay u cents quart to glrls and 2
cents to boys for the girls are more
careful and do not mash the berries
no spill them and do not eat every
big nice one they come across.
But this is not all. These girls
have got a crop Of faspberrles just
behind and they will make two or
three hundred dollars off ofTElem
and they are growing currants and
gooseberries and talk about going
into potatoes and beans and grapes
and all that, we'll why not? Fruit
growing is nice business for girls
and so is raising vegetables.-f
mer and Mechanic.
Diversified Farming in the South.
". S. Barron, Of Barlow county,
Georgia, writes to the Commissioner
of Agriculture of that State as fol-
lows, concerning his farming opera
tions:
q! cultivate eight acres Of land as
follows: Two acres in corn, peas and
pumpkins; it makes me eighty to
one hundred bushels Of corn, twenty
to thirty bushels peas, and three
hundred to five hundred pumpkins,
weighing from twenty to fifty pounds
each. One acre in sweet potatoes,
making one hundred and fifty to
two hundred bushels. One acre in
turnips and Irish potatoes, about
two hundred bushels. One acre in
wheat, twenty-five to thirty bushels.
Three acres in oats, from forty to
sixty bushels per acre.
| keep two milk COWS; the butter
more than pays for their food, the
butttermilk is fed to my hogs; there
by raising more than twice as much
bacon and lard as [ can consume.
[ keep money on hand and pay cash
for everything | buy. | also raise
few extra fine beeyes and milk cows
for sale. never carry my stock or
provisions to market and ask d man
what he will give me for it, AS |
never go III debt ! keep my produce
until people want it, and then they
will come to my house and ask me
what | will take for it. | am fifty
three years old. | live at home and
do my own work. have plenty to
eat and wear and some for charity
And the Commissioners replied to
him, very pertinently:
"Pursued as you follow farming,
it becomes the only perfectly insur-
ed business among human avoca-
tions. While God sends rain and
to bless the earth, and the
farmer feels that he must not only
sustaiu his own family from the soil,
but the non-p'odacer by his surplus,
there can be no such word as fail.
with industry--sensible econo-
heap manure and plenty of 1t,
and then abundance of house sup
plies, with our climate, water and
other advantages, we will in the near
future be the most comfortable and
we'll to-do people on earth. |
wish you all success, and your ex-
ample universal imitation
For constitutional or scrofulous
ratarrh, aud for consumption i'll
tuced by the scrofulous taint, Ayers
oarsapariila is the true remedy. 1t
has cured numberless cases. 1t will
stop the nauseous catarrhal dis
CHARGES, and remove the sickenino