The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-07-16
THE INTENSIVE PLAN OF FARMING
Profits on so Acres Have S11,5o This
Year.
Raleigh State Chronicle. I

!. mare costing 81 900 in Vermont. Mr..
Dunn purchased this farm of 60 acres
in 1881, paying fifty dollars per acre.
He considers it worth now not less
than $1,000 per acre. If the farm were
sold at this price, the money thus rea.
lized would nave to be loaned at 20 per
cent. in order to earn what the farm
: has netted this year. The following
is his crop:
s acres in cabbage, IS acres in aspa
ragus % acres in potatoes, 10 acres in
beans.
A magnificent growth of asparagus
can now be seen in his field. 1t takes
it three years to mature; it will then
yield for seven or eight years. The
profits from this are large, and it can
be grown on poorer land than other
crops.
On being asked if he had ever lost
during any year, he replied During
my first years experience I lost $138-
but have always made money since
that time. Any man in the world
who understands his business can
make money trucking. There is no
business in my knowledge more GER
tain to yield good profits. T would
gladly welcome thousand settlers IL
terested in this bushes. There is land
in abundance around New Berne much
better than mine was in the beginning.
Fortunes are awaiting those who
come. My profits this year on 60 acres
have been sll,500, above all expenses.
regard the potato crop as the most
certain. 1t yields better rel ,rn than
any other crop. The repor. ,ot ont
some time ago that I had made 40
barrels Of potatoes to the acre and since
then I have received twenty-five let
ters inquiring as to the truth of this
statement, repeat again that on
three acres, I gathered 42O barrels or
40 barrels to the acre. On twenty
three acres, realized ITO barrels to the
acre.
II regard the pea crop as the most
uncertain, because it is the cheapest
crop and hence too many are planted. |
But it is impossible to raise too many
potatoes. In ten days 100000 barrels of
potatoes were shipped away from New
Berne."
On being asked TO- .e few brief
facts in regard to lis D1ethod Of ydck-
ing he answered "I believe in the |
intensive plan of farming. Suppose a |
ton of fetilizer will cause one acre to |
produce fifty barrels of potatoes and |
suppose a ton and a half of fertilizer |
will increase the number of barrels to |
one hundred. The cost of WORK is the |
same in each case, the only additional |
expense being the extra half ton of fer
tilizer.
The following formala has been |
worked out by me from past expert
ence, and I shall gladly have them pub
lished for the benefit of those in
terested:
POTATO CROP FERTILIZER
800 lbs. nitrate of soda.
500 lbs fsh-scrap.
500 lbs. acid phosphate.
400 lbs. muriate of potash.
This gives 2.35 per cent. of ammonia,
7.35 per cent. Of phosphoric ACID and
10 per cent. Of potash.
CABBAGE CROP FERTILIZERS
rs per cent. Of ammonia.
6.5 " phosphoric acid.
rs potash.
BEAN CROP FERTILIZER.
5.5 per cent. of ammonia.
9 phosphoric acid.
5 I" potash.
Every farmer should make his own
fertilizer for two reasons: N He
knows just what he is using; (2) it is
economy to do so. I can make fertili-
zer at cost of s25 ton which ready
made would cost me $40 ton."
Riverside farm is model farm, and
Mr.. Dunn is a model farmer. Every
thing I saw had the appearance Of sys-
tenn and order. In his pasture were
several blooded horses, one of which
was a colt 81 months old, which was
the loveliest ever saw. When grown
it will be at least sixteen hands high.
The trucking interest here is yet in
its infan,y ", although the crop this year
has sold for over half-million dollars.
Fortunes can easily be made if anyone
desires to attempt it. The New .Berne
market is two weeks ahead of Nor
folk. hence no better field can be found
than here. Here We see man who,
ten years ago, paid $1,000 for land that
to-day is worth 500, coo, and has yielded |
net profit this year of s11, 500. These
are plain facts. Land around New
Berne has thus increased from $50 an |
acre &c $1,000 an acre. Doesn't this
look as if New Berne were on boom |
Let Western towns boast of the tobacco |
crop if they choose, but predict |
brighter days for the Eastern part of
North Carolina than ever before, and /
prosperous and happy people.
Came Honestly by It |
from the New York Waekly,7