Middletown transcript., 1894-02-17
HE MADE IT PAY.


A Sussex Farmer shows How a 40 Acre
Farm can be Made to Pay.
B. r. B. Woodall one of the enterprisins
young farmers near Milford, contributes t.
the Chronicle long article detailing hi
experience and impressions on the above
subject Our farmers may get a suggestive
thought from the following extract.
Five acres year is enough to commence
improving ifyour income from it does no
allow you to improve more. From seed
time to harvest is long enough to be in
debt for the feed in growing any amount,
or kind of crop, for the next years crop
mutt be fed also.
The next thing is to sow clover seed,
Our present scarlet clover seed is God
send to the poor man with poor land, fol-
by the use of phosphates to start crop OF
it you can enrich the poorest acre of land
in Sussex county in three years, if it is
drained land, so that it will grow twenty
bushels of corn.
Fruit is a necessary product on the far
mer and he should not be without some
kind of it the year round but you should
not go into it so extensively at this day or
in the future. Extensive fruit growing has
almost ceased to be profitable. But a few
acres handled by every farmer may be
made profitable. warn you against nurs-
cry men or their agents from distance
Purchase your trees and plants from re-
liable men at home as far as you can.
never had to pay more than the trees or
plants were worth, bought from home
nursery men, and they always proved to
be what they represented. In fact to have
yor farm pay, you should deal with those
that deal with you if it is possible to do so
I bought six grape vines once for $8
that might have bought at home for
enc dollar and fifty cents. have seen the
men that have swindled the farmers Of
Delaware out of thousands of dollars with
their wiry tongue beautifully colored pic
lures and their selected specimens of fruits
preserved in alcohol.
Try to sell nothing but good fruit either
home or city mark ct as this has proven to
be and will be and will ever be the sure
hope of success.
Never cultivate more acres than you can
work with pour own hand, or can see to it
often. A crop may be ruined by one work
ing done by inexperienced hands. Setting
ofplants, trees or sowing seeds should be
done by some one who had experience.
Buy your seeds from reliable seed houses
regardless Of cost. Have every acre you
own bring one or two crops each year. Do
calculate what your profits will be on any
one product. / have hundreds Of times
been asked does this certain fruit or vegeta-
BILE pay? Yes, every kind that is adapted to
your soil and climate pays if you can han
die and attend to it properly. The small
farm can raise all the vegetables needed for
the family the year round, and have some
to sell, you can raise your fruits and have
some to sell you can grow your hay and
that is needed to feed your family and
stock, you can raise pork from the culls off
the farm and have pork to sell, you can
fatten an old COW that has ceased to be
profitable for butter. If you have not one
every year to dispose of in this way you
often purchase one cheap.
PAY IN DELAWARE FARMING.
The following are the results of Mr..
Woodall's farming last year near Milford
Produce sold from Shawnee vegetable and
ruit farm, 1893: