The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-14


a general thing comes out at the end of the
year with good profit. An agriculturist
is a theoretical farmer, man who puts
more money into the Ian than he ever gets
out of it, and one who is always trying
some experiment to make fortune and
seldom makes a cent. Well, | have been
both, and while | was a farmer / made
money. / believe there is money in farm
ing to-day if the proper business brains are
used in running farm, and L doubt not
that matters will finally regulate them
selves, and the farmers will again become
prosperous.
Where has the most money been made
in farming during the past year," l asked.
II can't answer that" was the reply,
"but great deal of money has been made
in Florida You remember the Disston pur-
chase, by which Hamilton Disston, of
Pennsylvania got possession of hundreds of
thousands of acres of swamp lands of
Florida. He has drained great part OF
these and they are the most fertile lands in
the world. Well, A. S. Mcclure, of the
Philadelphia Times, had an interest in some
of these lands and two of his nephews who
had not succeeded very well in the west
asked him to give them something to do.
He let them have some of these lands and
they cleared this year $4,000 on their to-
mato crop. That is, l think, pretty good
THE RICHEST IN FLORIDA.
1t consists of six OF eight feet of muck,
and 1t will grow vegetables to perfection.
Other parts Of Florida are not as rich as is
generally supposed, and you would be sur
prised to know that oranges need a great
deal al fertilization. | visited once one of
the best orange groves in Florida
and the man told me he
would sell it for ZOO, and that it had cost
him this much to make it. He had one tree
that was wonderfully fine, which produced
the finest oranges in the state and was far
superior to any other tree of his orchard.
asked him what was the cause of the differ
ence. He replied: 1.-THE difference is in the
feed. That tree has eaten hog every year
since it was planted" "How's that!n said
L. well, you see about the time it was
planted we had dead hog and we dug a
hole and put him in and planted the tree
right on top of him. The tree grew so much
faster than any of the others by the next
year that concluded to continue the ex-
pertinent, and | killed another hog and
buried it in its roots. l have done that
every year up to now, and find that the
tree has paid for its hogs many times over
and the fruit will bring fancy prices in any
Market
Senator Blair tells that
THE CHEAPEST FARMS IN THE UNITED STATES
are in New England. He says there are
lots of good land for sale there at So per
acre and wants the other farmers of the
Senate to buy country homes there. Hol-
man, OF Indiana, has a hundred acre farm
at Aurora, Indiana, not far from the Ohio
river. He makes some money in farming
and is, / an told, solid with the farme 81
alliance. Nearly all of the southern states
men own farms and Senator Pugh, of Ala
bama, once told me that he could make
ID per cent, right along out of farm
ing in the south. He has his work all done
by negroes. General Joe Wheeler is said
to be worth about a million dollars. He
came outsof the war poor and he has made
all of his money out of farming. He has a
large estate in Alabama and he runs it on
business principles. Senator John Sher-
man has two farms at Mansfield, Ohio. but
/ don't think he makes much out of them.
He keeps them well stocked and he has
lately given part of one of them to the
City Of Mansfield for a park which Is now
known as the Sherman Heineman Park.
THE BIGGEST FARMER OF THE UNITED STATES
is Leland Stanford. He gave somewhere
between fifty and eighty thousand acres to
the university which he is now building.
and not long ago when riding in the train
with Senator Allison, through the northern
part OF the state. the cars passed through
large tract of wheat. This vast plain of
wheat stretched as far as the eye could see
on both sides of the road for miles, and
Senator Allison asked Stanford what he
thought of it. Stanford replied, at is
very fine field of wheat, and l wonder
whose 1t is" ut is yours,'' said the con-
ductor, who was standing near Stanford
Indeed replied the millionaire. 81 did
not know it. / knew l had some wheat
in this part of the state, but l did not think
we had come to it as YETI
Senator Stanford engages in all kinds Of
farming and he makes his farming paw.
His vineyards produce the choicest of Cali
fornia wines and he has great warehouses
stored with California brandy He evil not
sell his brandy at the present low prices
and he has sold none for six years. He can
afford to keep it and he believes it will paw
good interest on the amount of money in
vested by the increase in value with age.
He makes about million gallons of wine
every year, and one of his vineyards con-
tains 1000 acres. This is, l think, the
largest vineyard in the world The vine
yards are. SO large that the United States
has a custom house connected with it in
order to collect the duties properly.
AS FRUIT GROWER
Senator Stanford has some of the finest
fruit farms in California. He had for a
long time great deal of trouble in getting
the fruit picked. He used Cinnamon
finally, as the white men would go off on
sprees, and the fruit had to be picked when
1t was ripe or it was no good. Great waste
would come from delay. He then adopted
a plan, which he has now, which is most
humanitarian and profitable. He gives all
the boys of the public schools of San
Francisco who will take advantage of his
offer, chance to come out and pick fruit
on his farm. He takes thousand of bows
every year, takes, them to his farm and
keeps them there month"; paving them 81
a day for their labor. He has an immense
barracks built in which they sleep, and he
sees that they are well fed and well cared
for. His superintendent have them divided
into gangs and they are carefully watched
over as to morals. No money is paid until
the end of their Job, when each boy car
ries home with him $50. He also takes
about peck of English walnuts and the
Senator has bags made of fixed size which
he fills and gives one to each boy upon his
departure. AS to payment when he first
brought the boys out on the farm he began
to pay them their wages as they earned
them. He found, however, that a lot of
POOL SELLERS AND GAMBLERS
surrounded the farm and got the bows
money away from them by inducing them
to bet on wheels of fortune, baseball and