The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-09-11
FARM ANDGARDEN
Truck Farming Near
Large Cities.
HOW 1T PAYS BIG MONEY.
Where Land is Plowed in Summer
Drag Should Follow Closely
After the Plow.
HOW 1T PAYS BIG MONEY.

poaiu ohif Ret colHeT on INT
truck farms OF this country said New
York marketman with turn for stats
tics, II wouldn't trade jobs with Van.
derbilt or Gould il they'd roll both Their
jobs into one, What do you think the
truck farmers pulled out OF us dealers
here and there about the country and
carried home with them the last year
Only a little more than seventy-six mil.
lion and half. That's all! Out OF that
they had to pay their help, OF course,
which cost 'em something like $g, 500.
900, for they hire PIT 200 men, to saw
nothing Of the 10000 women and 5000
boys that help out with the work. And
their seeds knocked about million and
half more out Of the proceeds, and
they had to put up trihe Of $40, 900 900
Tor fertilizers. But after taking all that
out they had good round $50, 900 900 to
put away in the sock for a rainy day.
Yes; you give me corner on the truck
farms Of the country and you can have
all that Gould and Vanderbilt make. if
you want it.
Speaking about truck farming-and.
by the way, there are over half million
acres Of good land in the country that
don't do anything else but raise garden
and field truck for markets with a capi-
tai invested Of over 500, 0O0. 900, and
call on 10000 horses and mules. and
about $1,000, 900. worth Of implements to
help do the work-where do you sup
pose all OF these nice, bright, green
piums and tempting cucumbers YOU see
in the big restaurants and the swell
fruit-store windows in the spring, before
the snow is gone, and for which Won
have to put down a good half dollar be-
lore you can get one-where do YOU sup
pose they come from? | knew you'd saw
bermuda, or some other place down
South, But you're way off. These
early cucumbers come from climate
about as near like Bermuda as Califor-
MIA is like Minnesota. These cucum-
berE come from New England, from the
cold and storm-tossed coast OF Maine and
Massachusetts, and even from New
Hampshire. The growers OF cucumbers
lD New England get more out of an acre
Of land than the growers OF any other
crop IN this or any other country. They |
think nothing OF netting $1,000 |
Tor an acre OF cucumbers, but they also
have 272 acres that they grow them on.
Df course you will understand that these
'ucnmbers are not grown outdoors.
they are the products OF the
greenhouses, and New England is the
'nly truck-growing district where the
raising OF cucumbers in this way has
been made successful and standard
branch OF the business. In other pa;ts
u the country the cucumber crop aver
lges net profit Of from $26 to $3.50 an
lere, the latter figure being made in
Texas, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas
'ut we never get any OF their eucumbers
lere. New England heads all other
'egetable-growing districts in return for
III OF her truck products, the least she
makes being 800 an acre on watermel-
ms, which is $20 more an acre than the
lghest price Southern watermelon
rowers receive for their crop. Asa
natter Of fact, the Southern water
1elon-grower thinks he is doing very
'eil II he can get net price Of $3.50 a ,
arload Tor his crop, and car will hold
ne yield OF three acres. New England :
cts nearly 500 more an acre for her {
alery crop than the crack Michigan
elery-growers get for theirs. In the !
latter OF tomatoes New England finds
Q difficulty in selling her crop for $500
q acre, the next highest prica heing l
aald to New Jersey and Long Island,
hose tomato farmers get an average of $
-bo an acre for their crop. But it is
lrllous that cold New England should !
ad the country on early vegetables, !
MT it2" l.