The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-29
ON ONE ACRE.

Intensive farming is the order of
the day everywhere; the more intens-
i've 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 product coma
to make reward. n
The crops referred to below were
raised in Massachusetts within fifteen
miles Of Boston. They were not excep-
tional crops, the crops of a 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 hG6 been kent a
while, they might have been sold at
$1.5O a busheL The cost of the croD
was $155.S0, and the profit at 81 a
bushel was S644.2O Another crop OF
onions yielded ga bushels and were
sold for 81 per bushel; the cost was
S19l5O, and the profit $452. so.
On one acre has been raised / sOo
bushels of potatoes, and a thousand
bushels from an acre has been report
ed often, but such yields are evcsauG
tionaI. They show, however, What ca1
De done Qn spite of bugs, when indus
Try, sou, Judgment, fertilizer and eli
mate form practical working com
pinatlon One acre produced 32S bush
els OF potatoes, and they sold for 81 % ,
DuShel, or for $40: the cost of rails
ing was $50; net profit. $3.50. Another
crop or potatoes of 502 bushels sold for
80 cents a bushel, or $4O16O; cost of
raising, $119; net profit, S2S2.6O
OF carrots, $50 bushels, sold for 50 1
cents a buShel, or 1925; cost of crOL
S109; profit, $216. OF parsnips. $50 busR- :
els, sold for a dollar a. bushel. or $3.50;
cost, $133; profit. S457. Of cabbages.
1900 heads, averaging six pounds a
head, or $4,000 pounds. or $50 barrels,
giving one hundred pounds to the bar
rel When the cabbageS were gath
cred the price was 81 a barrel, or $3.50;
but they were kept and sold later for
So a barrel, or for s., $50. The cost Of
the crop was $1O2; profit, $1,24S. 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 and uses the
right kind of fertilizer, can make
every cabbage plant produce a. salf
able head. A cabbage crop is sure on
sale, especially if near the city. OIN
one farm where cabbage is a. special
crap, the heads are sold sometimes
in the field by the row. The Irish
part of the population is the great
cabbage consumer. A family of five
put into the cellar last fall three
hundred heads. The Irishwomen go to
the farm mentioned, walk iup and
down the rows of cabbage, feel of
every head, and take their choice; and
the Irishwoman is usually a close
buyer, or has that opinion of herself.
never intending to pay the price asked
| if haggling will reduce it And thus
Z l., <s-Tr1
| reSoundS with brOgue and with de-
nuncfation of the cabbages, which the
| buyer declares are the worst they ever
saw. 1.-THE loil1eS av some av which
they wouldn't throw to a dacint pigH
But the farmer gives no heed, goS4
about his work and let's them VA
I'D and down and talk all they waS7'
| to- knowing that they will come to his
| nrice 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 cabbageS
they have selected on the wagon;i
They hardly dare take their eyes on
it till the wagon comes, literally, they
| sit down upon it and wait for the
team. Then the buyers help LOAD.
/ Most of them keep cow, or at ieast
a pig, and hence every loose mead
! every stray leaf is CLEANED, and wnen
| the row of cabbages is on the wagon
! not a bit of cabbage leaf an men
square can be found where the row
stood
In some parts of the country, in New
En@Iand ANYWAY. especially the firm
flesh. hard shell kind, like the HUI
hard. the squash is more and more
/ in favor as an article of food II IS
| served on ariStocratic tables IN the
4 city in the shell-haH shell as II
grew. with the addition of any spices
| Condiments or seasoning. Some of the
modern cooks proceed to spoil
SQUASH as soon as it is cooked Wne9
! If comes to the table no one Wouiu
know by the taste what II was tnS
SQUASH flavor has all been knocheu
ont of it; it is not squash; 1t IS some
On one acre, 24210 pounds. or 10 tons
/ aDd A1O pounds of S0uaSheS were
raised. The cost of raising was SS4;
4 The selling price of squash wares
| from 500 to $50 a ton. according 10 uae
! season of the year: they are now az
500 a ton. but usually before the VIM
ter is over bring $50 ton. llS.
snuashes from the acre in queStlo5 &
| were sold for S55 a ton. An acre tnNS
| Welded 1904 worth OF early potatoes
produced the same season, after tne
r,ota toes were dug $50 bushels OF tur-
| nins sold at 80 cents a bushel; the
turntps cost S5.S5, and the profit was
s15e.65: with the potatoes that acre
produced S463.65.
From an acre came 461S boxes Of
Il stra wberries. sold for $61S.60; cost $244;
profit. 1914. so. Another strawberry
Il acre produced ASST boxes. and sold for
ss0s: cost. s244: profit, 1856. Another.
Asa boxes. sold for 1851; cost 1853;
profit, 1898. An acre of raspberries
Welded 1914 quarts; sold for S5S0.20s
Il cost. s144: profit. $3S6.20. BlaclSberries
769 Quarts sold for $76.70: cost. $1S27;
profit s5S.43 AS stated the crops gEv-
en- are not exceptional; they are OBJ
tained year after year in the regi4ei
where they are. specialtids- George
Appleton, in Farm and Fireside.