The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-08
On One Acre.

Intensive farming is the order of She
day everywhere, says George Appleton in
Farm and Fireside 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 contrating all labor and fertilizer
upon it; and the 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 exceptional crops
the crops of a series of years might be
more and they might be less. On one
acre were 800 bushels of onions, and were
sold for dollar bushel. If they had been
kept awhile, they might have been sold at
$1.50 a bushel. The cost of the crop was
$155.S0, and the profit at one dollar a
bushel was $644.20. Another crop of onions
yielded GA bushels, and were sold for 81
bushel; the cast was $3.50, and the
profit Si5250.
On one acre has been raised 1000 bushels
of potatoes, and a thousand bushels from
an acre has been reported often, but such
yields are exceptional. They show, how
ever, what can be done Gin spite of bugs,
when industry, judgment. soil, fertilizer
and climate form a practical working
working combination One acre produced
1928 bushels of potatoes ana they soil
for SIPS a bushel,. or for $40; the cost OF
raising was $3.50; net profit, $3.50. Another
crop of potatoes OF SOP bushels sold for 50
cents a bushel, or s4O16O; cost of raising,
$119; net gain. $2S2.60
OF carrots, $50 bushels, sold for 30
cents a bushel, or 1925; cost of crop, S109;
profit S2l6. OF parsnips, $50 bushels, sold
for 81 bushel, or $3.50; cost $133; profit,
s457 OF cabbages, 1850 heads, averaging
six pounds a head, or $1,000 or $50 barrels,
giving 100 pounds to the barrel When the
cabbages were gathered the price was 81
a barrel or $3.50; but they were kept and
sold later for 50 a barrel, or for 81 $50. The
cost of the crop was S102; prifit, s1,24s
The cababge 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 salable head. cabbage
crop is sure of sale, especially If near
the city. On one farm where cabbage is
a special crop, the heads are sold some
times 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 300 heads. The Irishwo-
men go to the farm mentioned. walk up
and down the rows of cabbages, feel Of
every head, and take their choice; and the
Irishwoman is usually closer buyer, or
has that opinion of herself. never intend
ing 10 pay the price asked If haggling will
reduce it. And thus in cabbage time on
this farm the fields resound with brogue
and with denunciation Of the cabbages,
which the buyers declare are the worst
they ever saw: THE loikes av some av
which they wouldn't throw to dacint
pig"
But the farmer gives no heed, goes about
his work and let's them walk up and down
and talk all they want to, knowing that
they viii come to his price at last. The
price includes delivery in the city. Some
of the buyers are so careful or suspicious
that they demand TO see the row of cab
bages they have selected on the wagon:
they hardly dare take their eyes of 1t till