The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-09

MARKET GARDENING F'OR FROHII.
Miss Mary E. Cutler, Holliston, Mass.
is counted among the successful farmers
of her state. And success in farming, she
has shown, means not only to grow
crop. but TO turn that crop into money
Eleven years ago she was school
teacher, but the sudden death of her
father a farmer, gave her the alterna-
tive of selling the homestead or giving up
her school, and her decision was to keep
The farm and work it tor all 1t was
worth.
This farm comprised less than seventy
acres. sioping to southeast and north
west. located on the Boston & Albany
railroad, about an hours ride from Bos-
A few days ago, Miss Cutler was called
to Boston to tell the Warmers meeting
what to grow for profit and now to DO
it and it is interesting, TO know that
some of the things She told from her
experience are the same old lessons that
our successful farmers say at the BOARD
meetings and Institutes, showing mat
whether in Massachusetts or New Jer-
sey or Utah, success Turns upon the
same sort of hinges, and there Is noun
ing new under the sun.
Miss Cutler began her career as farmer
in nidwinter and with the first purpose
of working, for the nrst year, only halt
as much land as her father nao zone,
Samuel Downing and Calvin Cooper say
il: Putting in less labor and getting
more profit" The year proved that not
enough vegetables were being grown TO
suDDlv the demand the quality Of her
produce created, and Ehe next year more
land was given to this crop. Inc uTSI
thing wood-be market gardener must
think of she said, is 10 locate near a
good market. This does not always mean
a large city Of the largest cities, as IN
towns producers realize better ana more
:, Ia
their customers look more TO the quality
For a market garden she has found a
rocky soil should be avoided, as deep Gull
tiVaffon is necessary. and a clay sub
soil is drawback, as, unless under-
drained, the land will be cold and late.
The proper soil will have a SANDY or
gravelly bottom, and the locatlon, IL
one may have a choice, Will be with an
eastern or southern exposure. The dlfter-
ence between a southern and northern
exposure is often crop year, ana
because the land to the south is avail
able earlier, and a first crop can be got
ten out of the way in time to have
second follow.
said, look first for quality, and pay the
price if ii is any ways reasonable. with
cheap or old seed, the expense of pre-
barring the land, fertilizers, time and Ia
Dor IS thrown away. Trying new varie-
ties is interesting, but it is also dfsap-
1,ointfng and expensive, as not more than
in twenty proves 10 p6 OL I<JIe value
that the old standard sorts. New varie-
ties should be tested a public expense at
the experiment stations and agricultural
colleges. Small gardeners should not at
tempt to grow their own seed. as it is
cheaper TO buy where there is a reliable
firm to deal with. When scotsman
proves satisfactory stick to him. Don't
go running after strange gods, but let
A good year for one crop is generally
an of year for another. and the success
with the one helps out the other. But,
II a crop fails one year go into ii Heavier
than ever the next, as the majority of
the growers will be discouraged and will
net Try 1t again. 1t is not enough for sue
cess to cover a crop deep with fertiliz-
ers; il must also be dressed with energy
and Ingenuity and intelligence.
Market gardening is not easy. work,
and it is wen SO. All farming. is hard
to do; if II were easy it would engage
a low grade of men and it would be
low-grade business. No one who mas
passed the three-score mark should I'M
dertake market gardening as a business;
il is too taxing. If the work is not early
1t is late, and if not late it is early, and
too much Of a demand upon vitality.
The best fruit and vegetables to grow
are those that will make over into the
roost money. Aim to have a variety in
kind and color for the market wagon.
and in each season all that belongs to
T. with some things in advance Of it.
Market gardening today is not as pro-
fitable as ii was ten years ago, but OPP
with lower prices there remains a 1alr
profit. One secret in success Is in not at
tempting to do too much; that is. in
having effort exceed the capital ana ex-
perience at command. More men have
stranded from trying to do TOO much
than from any other cause.
one farmer of the audience expressed
himself as much pleased with Miss Cut
1ers success, but was afraid the impress
sion was going ort that farming car be
made TO pay, and he knew it couldn't
1Sow, could q woman, Miss Cutler or any
other, start out without capital or ex-
rerience and make il pay?
This the chairman ruled out as an un-
fair question, although what was gen
orally expected of women's work. Even
& man, he said, couldn't be expected to
succeed under such disadvantages.
But this farmer was tnsistent Didn't
Miss Cutler get better prices because
dealing with friends?
To this Miss Cutler made answer that
friendship is poorest pay" The pro-
ducts from her farm were sold in the
nearby towns and mostly to strangers.
IN no other business is experience more
necessary, and when gardening under
glass is added there must be Intelligence
and skill The all-roBnd market gardener
of today must be an engineer, ma
chinist a carpenter a botanist and a
horticulturist. He must take time to be-
come familiar with all he has TO look
after. 1t takes the wisdom of Solomon
to get along some days, when everything
hurries. We must go TO school in the
business, and it must be born in US, too.
A market gardener needs capital. With
an acre of land he should have at least
500 to start that acre on. ] never send to
Boston II ] can help it, as the commits
sion men will make just what returns
they please There are places besides
Boston where people are hungry ana VIII
buy garden stuff.
always put the business man of the
farm upon the vegetable team. 1t never
paws to set a boy 10 Go a mans Work.
Lei the best man do the selling. Another
thing, there are canning factories with
in easy reach of my farm, and these
have taken my surplus. The price these
nav is small, nut they are not particu-
lar as to quality and packing
BONANZA IN -FOUR ACRES.
william Kruger came tc Sidney. Ne