The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-06-18

in I'll. We hatch them all with incuba.
tors, and do not allow the hens to set.
s. \ My farm consists Of about
forty.eight acres, all told; nearly all is
in pasture land, with q few acres of corn.
We live quite expensively, but / lay by
about $500 to $1,000 year, clear money
but we all work"
WHAT 1T ALL MEANS.
I have been led to quote very fully
from this letter, because it contains q
point that is worthy the consideration Of
all wide. awake farmers, viz. that the
best results can be reached when but lit
tie land is cultivated and the work done
thoroughly. If every farmer in upper
South Carolina to-day would grow fruit
more extensively it would be found to
pay we'll. Take, if you please, the
following table, prepared at my request
by well-known fruit-grower in Orange
County, N. Y:
1000 peach ees..."......."..".....p 60O
1 200 apple trees. es.,.................. 500
Labor in planting g................".... 5O
Manure, work, &C., until the trees - .
u,
Three patent evaporators for drying
fruit......."............ 3U0
Six machines for pairing, coring
and slicing. Observation-Disclosures" l80
One extra man for so days.......... 60
Total. tal..............................s1,S9 1890
The result will be about as follows:
10000 pounds dried peaches.....,S geo
10000 pounds dried apples......." 300
.",........."...S!,6o ,6oU
In other words an Investment of less
than $4,000 will, in the course of three
to six years, yield a regular revenue Of
about 81 500 per annum. In estimating
the amount Of dried fruit produced about
one.half the usual yield of young trees
is taken as basis Of calculation. The
land can be used to good advantage, as
the trees should be planted at least forty
feet apart. -
THE. CULTIVATION OF ONIONS.
Another point for the confederation of
farmers is onion growing. The soil Of
South Carolina is we'll adapted to this
purpose, but as yet none of the farmers
have seen fit to experiment on large
scale. At Chester, ~, y, are, several
farms where nothing but Onions are
grown, while in New Jersey MIR. Joseph
Van Auken has gained the sobriquet
"Onion Joe," from the fact that he
raises. about $4,000 bushels Of onions for
market each year. lie gets about $3.50
barrel for them in New York City,
pays seventy cents freight, and
clears about $4,000 every year. He
grows nothing but the yellow onions.
From the village of Chester last year
there were shipped via the New York,
Lake Erie and Western Railroad to New
York, 1877 ,226 barrels of onions. From
this State, the railroad men tell me,
onions could be put into New York at
about one dollar barrel-which would
leave-taking the market price at $3.50
and 1925, a good profit for the farmer
about 20 per cent. better than cotton
where the yield does not exceed one bale
to the acre.
OTHER VEGETABLES.
And still another point-the cultiva.
tion of horse radish. This will at first
blush. seem absurd, but there are used
in this country nearly 100000 bottles
of horse radish every year, and no less
than six firms in New York City are
buying the root, which they grind and
put into bottles for table use. One bar.
rem hill side planted in horse radish,
which needs no cultivation, pays the
Connecticut farmer about $500 per acre
every year. The cultivation Of horse
radish is most extensive in Connecticut
and Pennsylvania.
These ''little things" are mentioned
just to show the secret of Yankee success.
A great many people here speculate upon
how the Yankees manage to get rich; it
is because they "save at the spiggo"
and do not waste anything.
A CHANCE TO GET RICH.
1t has been demonstrated very con.
clusively in the last few years that peo-
pie in this country cannot get rich from
cotton-planting. 1t is hard aud
Improbable business except in certain
favored communities where the yield of
cotton is large. A little travel, consid-
erable observation and the exercise of
moderate amount of common sense will
soon show the farmers that there are
hundreds of methods for winning bread
outside the old rut of cotton planting,
where all the profits are gobbled up by
the factors and fertilizer dealers, and the
farmer grubs and grubs from years end
to years end while those who "handle"
his cotton succeed in laying by comfor'
table completeness.