Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-15
yearly as rule, some meadows yielding 1s

yearly as a rule, some meadows yielding 10
tons an acre.
The Paris market gardeners pay rents OF
S126 an acre as an average and yet make
living and lay up money. They not only
make the soil by huge dressings of stable
refuse, but heat the soil for scores Of acres by
hot water pipes in cool frames. and when
they give up a place they take soil, pipes
and frames with them by provisions of the
lease.
The rocky islands of Jersey and Guernsey
are perhaps the highest types of culture at
the present day. jersey farmers make $500
an acre yearly from early potatoes Tor the
London market; they have more than one
cow to each acre Of meadow in grass, and
average $3.50 to each acre of the island.
Guernsey, with ], 800 souls to each square
mile, and more rock than Jersey, has devel-
oped greenhouse culture. The raising of
hothouse grapes was started 80 years ago by
lew men, and now the island exports
yearly so tons of grapes, which bring S215,-
winter.
Kitchen Gardens Under Glass.
Kitchen gardens under glass are now the
rule. Three-fourths of an acre covered with
glass and heated for three months in spring
of beans as first crop in April and May, to
be followed by two crops more during sum-
mer and autumn. One gardener is en-
ployed, with two assistants; small amount
OF coke is consumed, with a dollars worth
OF gas month for a small watering engine.
Prince Krapotkin writes that he saw a
quarter OF mile of green peas under glass in
April which had already yielded 5000
pounds of excellent peas, and were full, as
If untouched, and he also saw potatoes dug
from the ground in April at the rate Of five
bushels to 21 feet square OF ground. The
immense wineries of Mr.. Bashford, in Jer-
sey. cover IL acres; their cost, excellently
built was ~ "a a square yard. The whole
work is done by 36 men, and 1000 loads of
coke and coal heat the whole for . season.
A well-known writer on agriculture states
that "the money return from these 13 acres
of glass greatly exceeds those of an English
farm of 1900 acres"
30 Farming Does Pay.
My dear madam, this knocks in the head
the prime objection of your sons to soil
culture-that it does not pay. It does pay
within reach Of home and town better far
than ranch farming, which boys were wild
about ten years ago. The luxury Of life
possible to scientific gardener within few
nourS OF any ROOQ Town Is DeyOnQ Lnat Oh any
man not millionaire.
True he may not have SO, 900 staircase
like the Gardiner (Me) chairmaker heard
of the other day, whose house has cost him
S100, 900 more tnan he meant to spend al
ready, but he will have as much or more OF
beauty and delight of another kind-the
luxury Of roses in midwinter and violets at
Christmas, grapes and peaches by February,
palms and Australian fern for his halls, the
choice of all seasons on his table, and above
all, healthful and sure vocation. Men
must eat at times, and in fair times have
flowers and rich fruit as we'll.
Fifteen Years for q Fortune.
There is hardly town of $500 inhabi-
tants in this country where q clever gar
dener could not by 10 years of we'll directed
work make himself the richest man of the
place. True, sluggard cannot do this, nor
a man void of brains, but nowhere do brains
and hands work together to such purpose as
in high culture of the soil. On every side
we see the solid, staple fortunes made by
men in horticulture, who began as poor boys
with their hands only, and had to work out
their own training. To-day the work is
more of science. That it is not generally
understood is the more fortunate for those
who first enter the field.
and beauty Of life that I have gone out Of
MY way, as it may seem, to urge this pict-
ure upon you. The conventional idea OF
sedentary, brain-working lives is suicidal.
The young men and women Of education
or half education crowd into business or
rofessions which house them in bad air
with stinted sunlight, which leave one-half
their powers useless, to the Injury of their
entire development, and the result is
what7
success at the Cost of Health.
They are not all successes, that il sure.
Two-thirds, if not three-fourths, of them
have hard lives to make q scant income as
lawyers, doctors, writer's, teachers, political
hacks and subordinate business men. Those
who make a success, as it is called, have too
often sacrificed their vital organs one or
more of them, in the attempt.
Take the most envied, perhaps, Of all-the
successful literary men, whose types are fg-
ureheads of all the popular stories. Hardly
one of them is to be called q healthy man.
They have chronic headaches and rush of
blood to the head almost as dangerous az
apople1y or occasional attacks of paralysis
which take the smile off life.
Worse than all the mind leans from its
balauce-they take cranks socialistic, or
TolsIoi-istic, or nationalistic. The brain
has lacked the rest OF hand work and open
air work day after day. One cannot work
the brain at high pressure three-fourths the
year and rest in month or two of idleness
any more than he can sleep in q month
enough to make up for the wakefulness the
other part Of the year.
Suggestion for the Fair.
One would hope that authorities might
see the excellence of Prince Krapotkin's
suggestion for the Worlds Fair, namely in
stead OF building vulgar Eiffel tower, cover
a hundred acres with glass as an expert
mental garden to show what can be done
in high culture. Forty acres he proposes 10
devote to flowers and tropical vegetation,
the rest to vegetables and fruits to be con-
sumed by tons during the exhibition. SIT
will not cost tenth what the tower will"
he says, "but it will pay expenses and will
make a complete revolution in the ideas of
mankind as to the culture and profits of the
SOIL 1t will stimulate invention in a field !
where it is greatly needed, and will be a |
new departure for the century. The Chicago |
exhibition will have duly eommemorated !
the centenary Of the Republic in this way,
while in its Tower of Babel it will have but |
paid tribute to profit mongering."
SHIRLEY DARE.
The Latest Craze.