The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-20

teen inch center heads hold Il Dushels-
The three-bushel crate is seventeen inch
head and the cabbage crate twenty inch
head The slaves are half an Inch thick
and one-duarter Of an inch wide. IL is a
self-heading barrel and shows its contents
without having u empty the barrel. Maj.
RIVALS does not think there will be such
losses from heating by the use OF this barrel,
and the lumber entering into its compost
ton will be refuse lumber, heretofore avail
able only for fuel.
a YEARS GOOD SHOWING.
Turning from the subject of crates.
Mai. Ryals, in answer 70 a question as 10
what he had raised on his farm last year,
replied that he had shipped about 1000
barrels Of potatoes. He continued TO ship,
receiving from So to 81 per barrel, AID =,
when the price dropped to 81 % he quit
shipping. After the Johnstown disaster,
| when the railroad communications were all
broken up be again began shipping, and
he sent 453 barrels by one steamer which
Melted him e., $50.
He shipped from 1000 TO $500 crates of
| cabbages, receiving as high as e. per crate,
but the average price was from 81 IS TO 50.
There were also shipped north from his
farm about 1900 crates each Of peas and
| beans, and ], 800 crates of tomatoes. Beans
aud peas did not sell so well, but cucum-
bers sold well, and he made a great deal
| OF money on squashes, which were all sold in
the home market His strawberries and
asparagus were all disposed of in the local
market at good prices.
FIFTEEN ACRES IN ASPARAGUS.
Maj. Ryals says that he has fifteen acres
| in the Palmetto asparagus this year which
promises well, and the strawberry vines
have not been affected by the frosts of last
/ week. He has five acres IN Strawberries
| this season, and for the second time in his
| farming experience he has had ripe straw
berries in January. He thinks Chatham
county is the best locality in the country for
strawberry culture.
He will plant sixty acres in Early Rose
and Thorburn potatoes about Feb. l, and
one barrel of Rural New Workers, a new
species. As the seed costs 50 per barrel,
| Mai. Ryals thinks it most too expensive to
plant more than one barrel as an expert
ment. He says he has twenty acres in
cabbage, and fifteen acres Of patch is LOOK
| ing very fine.
His first planting of peas was finished the
| day before Christmas The plants are
seven to eight inches in hight, looking well,
and the frost did not apparently injure
them. His second sowing is coming up and
another crop will be put in this week. He
will have twenty acres in peas.
| MACHINERY IN FARMING.
The latest improved agricultural imple-
| illCttAn al . cLhDAONGQ Ou bLo uOWH u
the patent appliances which unload a wagon
load Of hay in three minutes. Three white
| and thirty colored men are employed on the
place all the year around, and in the har-
vesting seasons a little army Of pea and
bean pickers and extra help are hired. 1t
requires eighteen mules on the place
MAJ. Ryals said that Chatham county, if
| every available acre were under cutiva-
ton, could not raise too much, and he has
| found truck farming more profitable in
years where the crops were large, although
prices ruled low. TIE truck farmer would
not do so well if only a little was raised
and high prices obtained. The object is to
get the southern vegetables to market SO
that the laboring classes can afford to buy
then-the millionaires who can afford to
pay 80 cents a spoonful for peas are not the
ones who make truck farming profitable.
GREAT MARKET TO SUPPLY.
Standing on Brooklyn bridge and look
| ing over the acres OF roofs, and the millions
Of people in Immediate view, Maj. Ryals
said he was struck with the boastfulness of
paper in a little Florida town that it had
| supplied New York with 500 crates of
beans, and it talked as if New York would
have had a bean famine If the 500 crates
hadn't gone promptly, aud STAYED off the
famine why that 500 crate shipment"
| said the major, "wouldn't have been a bean
apiece for the people living within view of
where stood on Brooklyn bridge. You
would have had to had a microscope to
have determined the share of each onen
Maj. Ryals' idea is that an intensive and
Intelligent system of farming in Chatham
county, embracing every available acre,
would not glut the northern markets, as the
population is multiplying, and there is no
danger of overproduction of southern vege-
tables. Crops must be attentively Guilt
waited, shipped in good condition, and good
results will follow.
| OVER 5000 PER ACRE.
A calculation shows that the 125 acres on
Maj. Ryals' farm last year produced $2l6
worth Of products per acre. By the census
OF 1880 there were q, 957 acres of improved
lands, and the estimated value of all farm
productions, including that sold, consumed,
or on hand, for the year 1879 was S642, III,
or only $26 so to the acre. Guilt
waited with the same intelligent and
practical care which Maj. Ryals gives to his
farm, the value of the farm products of
Chatham county last year would have
reached the startling aggregate of S., ia
7l2. These figures ought to set those who
farm in a slip shod way to taking lessons
from Maj. Ryals, who has shown them that
farming will pay. He says his fertilizers
cost him from $12 to $15 an acre. Mai.
Ryals does not starve the plant, or waste
his land, and the result is that crop succeeds
crop with unfailing productiveness.