The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-05
The Kind of Market That Is Profita.
BILE.

Alter quite long experience IN trult
and vegetable growing, 1 am satisfied
there is a kind of gardening that pays
and kind that does not pay, says w.
H. Jenkins in Southern Rural. 1 know
| of no other business in which the mex
perienced are more likely to fail. Es-
pecially is this true when one is obliged
| to sell in a market where there is much
| competition. The markets now are gen.
orally well supplied. and only that
| which is of the best quality brings
! price that is remunerative to the grow
! er. To grow fruits and vegetables of
the best quality requires skill. All de-
| Ponds on the manner in which the work
is done One may work the whole year
as l have found by experience-and
I get no returns for his labor. The gard
ener must acquire a reputation of hav-
ing the best goods, and so long as he
maintains this reputation his success
| is assured.
The above has been proved by an ex-
perience this season. One of my main
money crops is celery This 1 grow by
| a method very similar to the one which
has been called the newest celery cul-
ture.' The celery was planted on very
rich ground, in rows, with alternate
| spaces between them of twelve and
Il
grown few inches high a mulch of
| manure was placed in the eighteen
| irch space, and the blanching boards
were set up when the celery was about
l foot high, so that the rows that were
| II inches apart were between the
boards, thus boarding two rows to-
gether, but keeping the boards apart,
so they would not cover the plants un-
| til they have grown above the boards
which were about IS inches wide The
field of celery was irrigated by pouring
the water on the mulch of manure be-
| tween the rows with the hose. The
| plants on part of the field have grown
more than three feet high, and some
| OF them with roots on weighed eight
| pounds
1 grow the White Plume and Golden
Self blanching by this method, and the
large, well-balanced punches sell very
readily for so to so cents a dozen ny
| salesman, who goes on the road for
me, tells me that there is no competi-
| ton on such goods, and the price is not
| questioned
Because of lack of help to do the
work small portion of the field was
not mulched and irrigated, and the
| season being very dry the celery made
50 small growth that it was hardly
marketable at any price. The only diff
ference in the culture was in the
| mulching and irrigation. This cost
| about >$35 an acre, and by expanding
| this additional amount a field of celery
was made to pay a good profit that
would not have paid the expense of
growing without the mulching and ir-
| rigation.
Strawberries are another one of nv
money crops. BY planting the varieties
that are the most marketable and the
best adapted to my soil on rich land,
| giving them Sood cultivation, and
| Keeping the runners cut, SO as to keep
them in narrow rows-about 16 inches
wide-then early in the winter applying
thick mulch of strawy manure, and
in the spring raking a portion of it oft
the plants, so as to leave a thick mulch
between the rows, to retain the mois-
| ture during the drought that will prob
ably come during the summer, l grow
profitable crop To grow a crop of
! inferior berries requires a certain
amount of labor; to grow the large,
handsome berries that always sell for
a price that pays the owner for grow
ing them costs a few dollars more an
acre for manure and few days more
work in cultivation, but the expendi-
ture of these will probably make the
difference between success and failure
Cauliflowers | have always found in
! good demand and at remunerative
| prices. The market is not generally
overstocked, because few people under
| take to grow them for market, think
| ing their culture is too difficult. l have
found nothing very difficult in their
! culture. | give them almost the same
treatment as cabbages, except when
the plants are about half grown l place
mulch of manure between the rows
| and then irrigate them in the same
way as the celery. and this generally
insures the crop If a drought should
cCme when the plants are heading the
| crop would be uncertain, but the
mulching and irrigation prevent their
suffering for lack of moisture at this
time and make the crop a profitable
| one.
While some of the other fruits and
| vegetables may be more easily grown
than those l have mentioned, yet the
same principles apply in the culture of
| all First is needed suitable garden soil
and this should be of loamy nature
free from stones and other obstruc-
tions. This must be we'll drained and
filled with the kind of plant food the
crops need: then with the right selec-
ton of varieties well planted and at
the right time good cultivation, and the
use of the mulch, TO retain moisture in
| times of drought, on some crops, and
| If possible supplementing the rainfall
by irrigation, when needed then hav-
! ing a good equipment of tools, and you
| are in the way to success.
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