The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1889-05-03
PECUNIARY PROFITS OF SCIENCE In
AGRICULTURE.

A recent prize offered by an Eastern
horticultural society for the largest
money product from given area of
small fruits was awarded to straw
berry grower whose sales from two
acres amounted TO more than seventeen
hundred dollars and Mr. f. p. Roe,
in Play and Profit in my Garden, has
told us how he secured gross return
of slightly more than two thousand
dollars from the same amount of land
In the report of the last annual meet
ing Of the New Jersey Horticultural
Society the following are gwen as some
of the yields obtained by its members,
although the season had been uni
formly bad Early cabbage produc-
ed s435 per acre asparagus, four acres,
produced 5000; seven acres, $1,000 ;
four acres, $500 per acre, and some in
stances as high as $500 per acre.
Mr.. Peter Henderson tells of an as
paragus grower near Atlanta whose
crop gave for three successive years a
net profit CT $500 per acre and as IN
stancing departures from old methods,
cites the case of farmer residing
near Rochester. ''who half a dozen
years ago timidly made the attempt of
growing a half-acre of his fifty. acre
farm in vegetables for village market
His venture was so satisfactory that he
gradually increased his area, so that he
now uses thirty of his fifty acres most
ly in growing cabbages for the Roches-
ter market. He further informed me
that the net profit from the cabbage
garden last year was six thousand five
hundred dollars, or little over two
hundred dollars per acre, and that it
was not very good year for cab
bages at that, And for the enconr-
agement of those mot to the ma
nor born,' the some authority gives
the following case as being within his
personal observation ga college bred
man of twenty eight, failing in health
from office work, purchased farm of
sixty acres at Newport, Long Island
The second year he tried a few acres in
vegetables and small fruits, which he
found sale for in the village of North
port at most satisfactory prices. Twas
on his farm in the summer of 1888,
and must say that for a man who had
got his knowledge almost wholly from
books, his venture looked is if it would
be complete success" In the dairy
region of the southern central New
York, where the writer's boyhood was
passed. and where the chief agricultu-
raj attractions consist of gently un-
dulating landscape and some most en-
ticing trout streams, the general farm
ing community have found themselves
compelled to live '.rather close to the
bone" A rise or fall of half-cent
per quart in the wholesale milk mar
ket Of New York city may be sufficient
to turn the balance from one side to
the other Of their profit and loss ac-
count. Yet among their number is
Princeton alumnus, the record of
whose work l have recently seen, who
by the application of agricultural
science to the growing of crops, the
manufacture of ensilage, and the feed
ing of stock IS enabled to pursure the
"even tenor of his way" which is to
harvest an annual profit many times in
access of the average three and one
half per cent. of his State.-JANEs X.
REEVE, IN Ha'pes Magazine.