Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-09-05
FARMER AND PLANTER.
ON ONE ACRE.
come OF tho Possibilities OF Intensive
Farming,

intensive farming is the order OF the
uay everywhere; the more intensive
the greater the profit. Throughout
New England, and in other parts OF
the country, the farmers are reducing
tne cultivated area and concentrating
an labor and fertilizer upon 1t; and
inc result is that larger products come
TO make reward.
The crops referred TO below were
raised in Massachusetts within fifteen
miles OF Boston. They were not cx-
ceptional 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 a dollar
a bushel. If they had been kept
awhile, they might have been sold at
Sl.5o bushel. The cost of the crop
was Sl55.sO, and the profit at 81
bushel was $6442O Another crop of
onions yelled GA bushels, and were
SOLD for VI bushel; the cost was
Slsl. 81, and the profit S459. So
On one acre has been raised 600
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 lin
spite of bugs, when industry, judy
ment, soil, fertilizer and climate form
apractical working combination. One
acre produced 32s bushels of potatoes,
and they sold for 81. 81 a bushel, or for
S4lo; the cost of raising was Si6O; net
profit, $3.50. Another crop of potatoes
OF 500 bushels sold for so cents BUSH
ell or aOl.6o; cost of raising, S119; net
gain, S9s2.6O
VI carrots, $50 bushels, sold for fifty
cents bushel, or $685.; cost of crop,
800; profit, $2l6. OF parsnips, 500
bushels, sold for dollar bushel, or
$500; cost, 1888; profit, S457 OF cab
bages. $500 heads, averaging six
pounds head, or As, COO pounds, or $50
barrels, giving one hundred pounds to
the barrel. When the cabbages were
gathered, the price was one dollar a
barrel, or $3.50; but they were kept
and sold later for three dollars a bar
rel, or for 81, $50. The cost of the crop
was S1O2; profit, Sl,24s. The cabbage
| plants were in rows three feet apart
and the plants in the rows eighteen
inches aparto
The man who knows how, who has
the right kind of soil and uses the
right kind of fertilizer, can make every
cabbage plant produce a salable head
A cabbage crop is sure of sale, espe-
cially if near the city. On one farm
where cabbage is special crop, the
heads are sold sometimes in the field
by the row. The Irish part of the
population is the great cabbage con-
sumner A family of five put into the
cellar last fall three hundred heads.
The Irish women go to the farm men
toned, walk up and down the rows Of
cabbage, feel of every head, and take
their choice; and the Irish-woman is
usually closer buyer, or has that
opinion of herself, never intending tc
pay the price asked if haggling will
reduce it. And thus in cabbage-timt
on this farm the field rcsounds with
broguc and with denunciation of the
cabbages, which the buyers declare
are the worst they ever saw, 9TH,
loiISes av some av which they wouldn't
throw to dacint pig"
But the farmer gives no heed, goe'
about his work and let's them walk VI
and down and talk all they want to
knowing that they will come to hi
price at last, The price includes de
livery in the city. Some of the buyers
are so careful or suspicious that they
demand to see the row of cabbage
they have selected on the wagon
they hardly dare take thci
eyes off it till the Wagon
comes; literally, they sit dow
upon it and wait for the team. Thei
the buyers help load. Most of then
keep COW, or at least a pig, and henc
every loose head, every stray leaf i
CLEANED, and when the row of cabbage
is on the wagon not a bit of cabbag
leaf an inch square can be found whcr
that row stood.
But the crop of an acre-squashes
In some parts Of the country, in Ne,
England, anyway, especially the fir
flesh, hard-shell kind like the HUI
bard, the squash is more and more i
favor as an article OF food. 1t
served on aristocratic tables in the cit
in the shell-half shcll-as
grew, without the addition G
any spices, condiments or season
ing. Some of the moder
cooks proceed to spoil squash as 500
as it is cooked. When it comes to tn
table no one would know by the tast
what it was; the squash flavor has a
been knocked out of it; it is not squash
it is something else.
On one acre, 2l,410 pounds, or tc
tons and 1,4l0 pounds, of squashe
were raised. The cost of raising wa
$34.75. The selling price of squas
varies from $40 to $50 ton, according
to the season of the year; they are 10y
at $40 ton, but usually before tn
winter is over bring $50 ton. TIL
squashes from the acre in questio
were sold for SIS ton. An acr
that yielded SSO4 worth of earl.
potatoes produced the same season
after the potatoes were dug, 81
bushels of turnips, sold at fifty cent
bushel; the turnips cost Sl5.S5, an
the profit was s159. IS; with the pots
toes that acre produced S463.65.
. From an acre came 4,6l3 boxes {
Strawberries, sold for S6ls60; cos
s244; profit, $374.60. Another straw
berry acre produced 1857 boxes, an
sold for 5000; cost, s244; profit, $50
Another, 4,s44 boxes, sold for sos
cost, $3.50; profit, s3os. An acre {
raspberries yielded 1914 quarts, sol
for $500 20; cost, S144; profit, 1885, 2
Blackberries, 769 quarts, sold fl
SIG. 20; cost, Sls.27; profit, $3.50.
stated, the crops given are not excel