The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-29

The editor of a southern agricultural
periodical devotes a paper to showing his
constituents how the Yankees get rich. The
information in his lively article viii be a
good bit Of knowledge for the Yankees
themselves to get hold Of.
The aim of the southern editor is to induce
his readers to go into fruit and vegetable
culture and canning. He tells us the dried
fruit industry of New England and the
Middle States alone amounted last year to
over SC, 1000, 900. A tomato canning factory
at Bordentown, N. j., clears SO, 600 year,
over 1873 per cent profit on its
capital A peach and pear canning house
In California pays dividend OF III per
cent Yea, verify, even SO simple yet strong
q thing as horse radish has millions in it.
The grinding and bottling of horse radish
alone occupies no less than six firms in New
York city. Any barren hillside IN. the land
will grow this fiery root Our authority de-
clares that fat Pennsylvania farmers and
blue-nosed Connecticut farmers clear $500
an acre Off just horse radish, and nothing
more. What is done in the north, the writer
urges eloquently, can be done in the south.
Two-thirds CT mankinds food ought to be
fruit and vegetables. Instead of being, as
too many farm people are, death on meat, >
their health, wealth and happiness would lie
far greater if they took their animal food
largely in the shape of milk, butter, cheese
and eggs, and dropped their chunks of fat
pork and their old ham bones. Bounce your
frying pans and try it, another year.
Besides, hear what that invaluable citizen,
Peter Henderson, tells us of the profits OF
gardening, An acquaintance of his living
upeu q fifty-acre farm near Rochester began
timidiy TO grow table vegetables dozen
ffruf he ,Isrr
half acre, feeling his way and getting ex-
perience cautiously Now he cultivates thirty
of his fifty acres in vegetables, mostly early
cabbages Last year he Melted over 5000 an
acre from them, $1,000, and he mildly adds
that it wasn't very good year for cahbage,
aithar. Suppose, now, his little farm had
been ia wheat and corn last yeTa He would
scarcely have got enough from 1t TO pay bis
taxes and bury himself With. A Maryl4nd
farmer plants 100 acres in cautelope melons,
and clears 5000 year.
There Is a swamp near Kalamazoo, Mich,
that Is heavy and mucky. That is TO say,
there was a swamp. To-day it is rousing
great celery field Five thousand tons of
celery stalks year are shipped out OF this
swamp chat was and $4,000 are shipped
back to Kalamazoo in return. The lacky
fellows who take in this money are just
common farmers like the rest OF Us Mr..
Henderson mentions yet another case. A
farmer in Pennsylvania lived near a village
Of 1000 Inhabitants. He had patch of
land in sweet corn and Strawberries Mar
keted in the village alone it rendered him
hack money mt the rate Of S175 to the acre.
Wasn't that better than thirteen bushels Of
wheat at seventy cents bushel2
TO 60 into small fruit and vegetable gar
duing successfully, one should be tolerably
near market. Driving your teams three
a. TOUR mics mp q steep hill or over horrible
country roads will tend to take off the prutits
1he best soil for gardening i dark, rather
nnu<1y ground. A clayey soil Is not so good
e><her Tor Vegetables or fruits. though for
07liA i may be greatly improved by mix
mgi A. With sand, Leaf mold or muck and
n1rna lime
" Ecr Tho best garden soil, manure to the
nI1l0znt d ssventy-five tons an acre should
y uss1 The outlay win be repaid.
Here Is paragraph clipped from en- ad.
dfsm by If. Henderson:
With proper attention think there IL
8YSrY indnccment for many farmers 70 add
2<i~ profitabls brunch 10 fheir firm opera,
cn& Ths kind Of garden products That would
{ - m1ot profitable would be, Think, IN smal
<l|t sfraWberries raspberries> black berries
4 1f&nes In vocetahles. asparagus, beans
h8ak3, fnbbafe caniidower, ce1erE
r6fn. cu6urnberx melons, rn{iish. spin
tomato d15 fuznip Much vii
Is 1ke locality what Is besk 20 grow
4 ~ S. sh1p ffom southern point TO
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