The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-04

IN order to get the very best profit the
mail fruit farm should be in fact
sga0rH fruit farm. This is most en-
true. Small fruits demand
such close care and high cultivation
i'm order to make the best success that
40 one man in a thousand can hanqle |
them properly on large area. Nor
is II a good plan to have many acres
in the farm. il you are going into fruit
culture, even if you do not intend to
out them all to that use. Fruit will
paw only when it is well looked after.
A fruit farmer must give his whole
attention to his fruit. If he does that
it will pay; If he does not, it will
likely end in loss. II there are 10 or
20 acres in fruit and 40 or so acres in
other crops, there is strong prooa-
bility that some one of those will de-
mand attention just when every effort
should be given to the fruit, ana
very little neglect there at critical
time will be far-reaching in its evil
consequences. If one cultivates moth
ing but fruit, and yet has many acres,
the temptation is always to plant too
much and too fast. A few acres of
small fruit will give any industrious
man a good living and enable him to
save some money. A good many
acres will often fail to do either.
There are only two classes OF men
who can afford to have large small
fruit farm. One is the capitalist, who
can afford the initial outlay and who
has the ready money to meet the
large annual expense that will be en-
tailed during the earlier years OF the
venture. The other is the man who
has begun with the small farm and
has stuck to the small farm until he
has thoroughly learned the business
and is making money from it. Then
if his market warrants it might be
we'll to apply portion of his earn
ings to an extension of the business;
but under neither of these conditions
will there be found the same profit
per acre as rewards the careful tiller
of the small farm.
A good many of our readers will
have some turkeys to market very
soon, and, of course, they desire to
procure the very highest price. 1t
may aid them in this if we give the
result of our own observation of the
turkey market during recent years.
There are more turkeys bought for
Thanksgiving than for any other of
our winter holidays, but the market
then is always we'll supplied. Every
y
especially turkeys, in good condition
for selling at that time, endeavors to
dispose of them, and so avoid the later
and longer feeding. For this reason
many markets are overloaded at this
time, and it is only the very finest
stock that sells at satisfactory price.
By Christmas there is another good
supply ready, and every one PUSHES
every bird that they possibly can in
| to the market, apparently thinking
| that the last chance to sell them. By
reason of this it is again only the best
| that sell we'll. and very often the price
| ia broken by the over-abundant sup
ply; but after this there is adearth OF
offerings, and, although there is not
again so large demand, there is al
ways a good call for turkeys on New
| Years Day and moderate demand
through the next two months. Very
often the prices are better at New
| Years than at Christmas, and better
after the holidays than before. We
mention these facts at this time
especially to caution against putting
any but the very finest stock on the
market when it is so full as 1T always
is at Christmas. 1t would pay much
better to hold such, at least, until the
rush is over. One other sugge stlor
in regard to selling, when one has 6
large flock. Very many manufact.
urers and others employing a large
amount of labor have of late year;
adopted the generous plan OF making
a gift of a turkey to each II thetl
| wOrkmen upon some one OF the holl'
DAYS. A contract can often be made
to supply such concern with hun
bred or more, and better price OBJ
tanned than if you put them in the
hands of q commission man or solo
them to a local dealer. To the credit
of such concerns, be it said, they al
ways demand the very finest birds
that can be procured, and il one in
tends to grow them for such trade II
would pay to keep the bronzes anC
get the heaviest weights possible.