Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-31
Potatoes, Beans and Strawberries.
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! III IlllS Communications, IilaJ lneTe
are certain parties tilling the soil who
have no right to complain about hard
times and tight squeezing to "make
tongue and buckle meet"
The first statement is given by the
American AgricUlturist, a flrst-cls IS
farm paper, published in New York.
A prize Of $3.50 was offered by that
payer for the largest yield of Irish
potatoes, grown on "A single acre, dur
ing the season of 1890.
There were forty two contestants,
and the prize was captured by Mr..
Sturgis, of Wyoming, his one acre
measuring up ga bushels. The small
est yield was 2j8 bushels per acre,
while the general average was 448
bushels.
Aroostooke county, Maine, was
the banner county for large produc
ton per acre, and the "Dacota Red"
the best variety planted.
In addition to the prize offered by
the American Agriculturist the State
Of Wyoming gave as a special prize
$3.50 more. Mr.. Sturgis sold his crop
at 80 cents per bushel, thus making
his acre of potatoes bring in the
handsome sum of 81 1878 90.
The second is taken from the
Country Gentleman, also published
in New York. Mr.. Gregory, in
communication to that paper, says
he bought thirty-fve pounds of Irish
potatoes of new and valuable kind,
for which he paid the modest sum OF
So 90 per bushel. He then made an
arrangement with a nurseryman to
take these potatoes and make the
most of them, agreeing to pay hun
eight cents for each plant when trans
planted in open ground.
The nurseryman, on his part,
agreed to furnish manure and proper
cultivation. Mr.. Gregory says that
the slips from these thirty five
pounds of potatoes planted during
the season eight acres of ground, and
that he paid him, as per contract,
81, 800 90. He says the tubers were
sprOuted in prOpagating beds, and
when the shoots were four or five
inches long cuttings were taken from
these and placed in a bed with hot,
tom heat. These would root in
week or ten days, when they were
potted in p inch pots, and cuttings
taken from their growth to go
through the same process. When
ever a sufficient number were ready
they were drawn like cabbage plants
and set in'drills three feet apart and |
given the usual culture.
Tie third and last is letter writ
ten by A. w. Smith, living in Stump
ter county, Ca, to the Rural New
Yorker.
1t says that the house of w. A.
Burpee, scotsman Of Philadelphia,
him with enough China
Bush butter beans" to plant one third
Of one acre, which was $500 hills,
Mr.. Smith acting as his agent,
In this letter Mr.. Smith speaks o!
the crop as a splendid one and the
beans truly huge" counting on
some hills as many as 80 pods and
many blossoms. Mr.. Burpee came
all the way down there to see the
crop and he says it was perfectly
to behold. Says also that
his home crop was fine. Now let us
see what results from this.
In Mr.. Burpee's seed catalogue for
1891, he says that owing to the
great demand and limited supply he
,an furnish the "Bush Lima" bean
only in packages, each paper con-
aiming four beans and price 30cts.
or the four, or 7! cts. each. | don't
.hink this estimate unreasonable, so
[ will give the readers of the LEAF
the benefit of it. Mr.. :
smith says ne planted / acre ION this
here were 1880 hills. | don't ,
hink it at all unreasonable to say
zach hill averaged 30 pods or 90
BEANS g beans to pod.) This esti-
nate also gives us six dollars and
cents as the product Of each
ill, which multiplied by 10, 800 gives
snug gross product of SOL, l25.00 for
acre, or 1878, $500 per acre. Does {
lot profit like that make an average !
head swim? Think of the !
product Of one acre of beans selling
or as much as the wheat crop of
county, while a fell
ow would only sell about a pint to
ave enough funds to buy first d
lass riding horse.
Sanco Panza says: "Blessed is the I
IAN that invented Bush butter t
cans" | am sorry that | am not u
hat man. Some of these days, l
owever, | am going to invent L
inc days wonder in the shape of a {
rawberry that will make you folks -
! GAINESVILLE open your eyes. =,
HENRY p. WILLIAMS.
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