Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-02-05

corn is from 30 10 80 bushels, which
sells ut SO cents per bushel, netting
from Sl5 to $50 per acre. Wheat
yields from 20 to 80 bushels per
acre, which at 81 per bushel would
net from $50 to $35 per acre. The
return from tobacco il from 500 TO
l,01o pounds per acre, the selling
price ranging from $I4 10 SIG per
hundred pounds. aggregating from
Sli2 to $40 per ncre. These are
understood to be miuiinum figures.
aud the yield per acre might be
largely increased by superior cultiva.
ton.
AS mere suggestion of glimpses
on possibilities which appear to the
observer, may be pardohed for hint
ing Mt what might be made from two
other classes Of farming. viz: fruit
culture and truck farming.
One acre OF ground eau with safely
let us say, sustain one hundred an.
PIE trees, The yield OF which, ii prop
eriy managed, would, OH IL conserva.
i've estimate, De not less than one
Thousand bnsicls, or by American
measure three hundred and fifty bar
reis. Apples sold in Roanoke dur.
ing tie past fail for $3.50 per barrel.
exclusive OF the cost of harvesting
ard packing the fruit, which expense
here falls upon tho purchaser. Thus
tho yield from one acre in apple or
chard would be, approximately, $500.
these figures arc upon basis of tie
sale of the entire crop, to be shpped
to Northern and European markets.
Taking the above us IL fair estimate
of fruit culture, / assume that a
truck farm, could, with ease, be made
To yield from 5000 10 $1,000.
NOT An IMAGINARY STATEMENT.
Many OF my readers may feel dis.
posed to doubt the above figures and
to shake their heads in disapnrov,l.
| beg TO say, however, that, person
ally, am not one possessed with Il
desire to ill tho brains of nv coun
trymen with false statements. |
have had tho opportunity, both in
cast and west ir;inia, to thoroughly.
study the existing condition of the
farming industry and can with Il
clear conscience pronounce the opin-
ION that Virginia is II State in which
ener%J and activity will bring sure
and often brilliant rew.r,ls.
40 RAILROAD AMI - GnHp.
Although L am dali passing to and
fro Over this railroad rs an employe
oil the company, wish TO say right
here, that unlike ineuy companies Cd.
ernling i'll the North and Northwest,
the Norfolk and Western R,i!road
Company does not own II single acre
Of lnnd, hence my statements must
not be regarded i'll the light of clean
advertising i'll her interests. Having
no lands Of its own for sale. this cor
porat!on can have no direct pecuniary
interest in the bringing of immi.
grants into the State, for the ok
press pnrp2sc Of making sales of real
estate property to them. You will
then ask the motive. The benefits
which Tie Norfolk and Western Rail
road Company expects to reap are OF
more Indirect and are TO he
derived from the increase of tralli,
inciient to IL denser population and
more extended cultivation of the
lands through which its lines pass
than now exist.
In conclusion, would add that my
employers are prepared to extend tc
every enqnring Swiss or German
and myself would deem it an hon
or, 20 join with them i'll extending MI
possible information and any cxplar
atoms which may he desired.
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$50; 1852
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