The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-09-14
FARMER AND PLANTER.
ON ONE ACRE.

oay every wheres the more intensive
the greater the profit. Throughout
New England. and in other parts OF
the country, the farmers are reducing
the cultivated area and concentrating
all labor and fertilizer upon it; and
the result is that larger products come
to make re ward.
The crops referred to below were
raised in Massach usetts within fifteen
miles of Boston. They were not OK.
cept'onal crops; the crops of n series
OF years might be more and they might
be less. On one acre were 500 bushels
OF onions. and were sold for dollar
. oushel. If they had been kept
awhile, they might have been sold at
$3.50 a bushcl The cost of the crop
was $l55 80. and the profit at 81 a
bushcl was $644.2o. Another crop of
sold for 81 bushel; the cost was
$191. so, and the profit $452. so.
On one acre has been raised 1000
bushels of potatoes, and 1000 bushels
from an acre has been reported often,
but such yields are exceptional They
show, however, what can be done Tin
spite of buss), when industry, judg-
ment, soil, fertilizer and climate form
practical work ing combination. One
acre produced 32S bushels of potatoes,
and they sold for ST. a bushel, or for
S41o; the cost of raising was S16O; net
profit, $3.50. Another crop of potatoes
of SOC bushels sold for so cents a BUSH
el' or S4o1-6O: cost of raising, *11e; net
gain, $es2.6O.
cents a b,ashel, or $s25; cost of crop,
500; profit, $2i6. OF parsnips, 500
bushels. sold for u dollar bushcl, Or
$500; cost. 1888; profit. $457. OF cab
bages. $500 heads. averaging six
pouhds a head, or $4,000 pounds, or $50
barrels. giving one hundred pounds to
the barrel. When the cabbages were
gathered. the price was one dollar
ariel, or $3.50; but they were kept
and sold later for three dollars Il bar
rel. or for $3.50 The cost of the crop
was s1o"; profit, $1,34s The cabbage
plants were in rows three feet apart
and the plants in the rows eighteen
inches apart
The man who knows how, who has
the right kind Of soil md uses the
right kind of fertilizer can make every
"a bba ge plant produce a sal:.b,c head. |
a cabbage crop is sure Of sale, e$pc-
,ial1y If near the city. On one farm |
vher re cabbage is a special crop. the |
leads are sold sometimes in the field |
~ the row. The Irish part of the |
is the great cnbbar. con-
sumner. A family Of five put into the
:ellar last fall three hundred heads.
l he Irish women go to the farm mem
Toned, walk up and down the rows of |
abba Ee, feel of every head, and take
heir choice: and the Irish woman is
q closer buyer, Or has that
'pinion of herself, never intending to
'ay the price asked if l,ayglipg will
educe it. And thus in cabba ,re-time
II this farm the field resounds with
'rogue and with dcnunciation of tho
a bbages. which the Luycrs declare
re the worst they ever saw, THE
bikes av some av which they wouldn't
hrov to Il dacint Pig
But the farmer gives no heed, goes
bout his work and let's them walk uo
nd down and talk all they want to,
moving that they will come to his
rice at last The price includes de-
very in the city Some of the buyers
re SO careful or suspicious that they
enand to see the row of cabLages
ney have selected on the wagon:
yes off it till the wagon
omes; literally. they sit down
pom it and wait for the team. Then
&c buyers help load. Most Of them
eep COW, or at least a pig, and hence
'cry loose head, every stray leaf is {
lea ned. and when the row of cabba ges ;
on the wagon not bit of ca bhage =
af an inch square can be found where ,
lat row stood. G
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l some parts of the country, in New 7
nSIand, anyway, especially the firm I
ssh. hard-shell kind like the Hub t
'rd, the squasi, is more and more in Il
vor as an article of food. 1t is e
rived on aristocratic Ia les in the city T.
the shell-half shcll--as it h
ew, without the addition of il
~ spices. condiments or season
e. Some Ct the modern c
olSs proceed to spoil a squash as soon c
it is cooked. When it comes to the S
bic no one would know by the taste f.
hat it was; the squash flavor has all "
en- knocked out of it; it is not squash; G
is something else. t.
On one acre. ALTO pounds, or ten a
MS and 1,41o pounds, of sauashes p
&c raised The cost of raising was d
{ IS The selling price of squash C
; les from $50 to $50 4 ton, according Y
Che season of the year: they arc low "
$50 a ton. but usually before the G.
l:ter is over bring $50 ton. The IL
y ashes from the acre III question Il
nc sold for So ten. An acre a
at yielded SSo4 worth of early C,
tatoes produced the same season, IL
or the potatoes were dug, $50 fl
shells of turnips. sold at fifty cents
'ushel; the turnips cost 1855, and 81
profit was $50. G5: with the pota- nj
IS that acre produced $iS3. G5. O,
rom an acre came ABB boxes of w
awberries, sold for Sjls.6O; cost, is
4; profit, S314. so. Another straw az
ny acre produced 1867 boxes, and in
for S6o?; cost, S,44: profit, $365. he
other, 1.S4t boxes. sold for S657; 70
t, $3.50; profit, 1898. An acre of q,