Middletown transcript., 1895-03-30
A9ritultural.
Of Interest
ITO Farmers
HE MADE IT PAY.

HE MADE 1T PAY.
A Sussex Farmer Shows How 40 Acre
Farm can be Made to Pay.
From an old newspaper the follow
ing interesting statement of one OF
Sussex county's most enterprising far
mers, concerning the results Of 1893,
is taken. The farmer is Mr.. B. F, B.
Woodall, of Milford, and report of
his experience and results for 1894
would be very interesting. Mr.. Wood
all said:
Five acres year is enough to COM
mence improving if your income from
it does not allow you to improve more.
From seedtime 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 must be fed
also.
The next thing is to SOW clover
seed.
Our present scarlet clover seed is a
God send to the poor man with poor
land, for 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 pro duct to the
farmer and he should not be without
some kind of it the year ronnd but you
should not go into it SO extensively at
this day or the future. Extensive
fruit growing has almost ceased to be
profitable. But few acres handled
by every farmer may be made profita-
BILE. warn you against nursery men
or their agents from a distance. Pur-
chase your tlees 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 your farm pay, you
should deal with those that deal with
you if it is possible to do so. bought
six grape vines once for SS that |
might have bought at home for one
dollar and fifty cents. I have seen the
men that have swindled the farmers
of Delaware out of thousands of dol
lars with their wiry tongues beauti-
fully colored pictures and their selected
specimens of fruits preserved in alcohol.
Try to sell nothing but good fruit
either home or city market 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 your own hand, or can
see to it often. A crop may be ruined
by one working done by inexperienced
| hands. Setting of plants, trees or
sowing seeds should be done by some
one who has experience. Buy your
seeds from reliable seed houses regard
less of cost. Have every acre you own
| bring one or two crops each year. Do
calculate what your profl s will be on
any one product. have hundreds of
| times been asked does this certain
fruit or vegetable pay? Yes, every
kind that is adapted 10 your soil ami
climate pays if you can handle and at
tend 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 pro6ta-
BILE for butter. II you have not one
every year to dispose of in this way
you can often purchase one cheap.
PAY IN DELAWARE FARMING.
The following are the results of Mr..
Woodall's farming last yet year near
Milford. Produce sold from Shawnee
vegetable ana fruit farm, 1898: