The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-17
six-Hundred Acre Truck Farm.

One of the largest market gardening
and farming enterprises in the North
Atlantic states is carried on near New
Haven, Conn, by A. N. Farnham saws
the Agriculturist. Forty years steady
progress, but with no outside capital.
nave developed a business that in ex-
tent and general completeness under
single management could hardly be
eXcelled. To operate the 600 acres of
tllage force of 200 to 400 men and
over $50 horses is needed. The re-
pair shop is a good-sized building. in
which four blacksmiths are kept busy.
while the harness shop employs three
experts in leather There is a farm
butcher shop. ice houses, storage house
seed houses, etc. Many of the help
live in tenant houses about the farm.
which is like village. with its varied
industries.
The crops are grown on the scale
that might be expected on such farm.
The onion storage house will hold 9. 900
pushels and looks as large as most
barns, yet onions are not more a spe-
cialty than other crops. There are
fifteen to eighteen acres of the on
ions, but there are fifty acres of sweet
corn, forty acres of potatoes, thirty of
tomatoes and similar areas of cab
bage, celery turnip, beans, SQUASH.
strawberries, etc, occupying each the
space of a goodsized farm, as most
farming goes in that vicinity, and
often in a solid block of each crop
which makes an imposing sight. Even
the lesser specialties make a good
showing, as for instance a block of
nine acres of rhubarb five or six acres
of leeks and a kohlrabi patch of like
size. To list the crops would be much
like repeating the index of a vege-
table and fruit catalogue. since the
farm is capable of supplying almost
anything that can be grown outdoors
from asparagus by the ton to water
melons by the car.
A neld of lima beans in full Yigor
was thrifty sight; solid block of
$4,000 poles. each a cone of green and
white to the top, with swaying ten
drills seeking for further nights to
climb. 9TH lima bean seed, said Mr..
Farnham, lis carefully selected, like
all our seed, and only well developed
and well ripened beans planted. The
land is plowed the fall before if Dos
sible and heavily MANFRED. The beans
are planted about May /. six seeds 10
hill. The poles. which are cedar.
and very durable. are set straight and
even before planting
All early planted limas are stuck eye
down; after May 10 they will usually
come up planted anyway Missing
hills and scanty ones are replanted
again and again. to leave no gaps.
They are hoed five or six times AMI
cultivated ten or twelve times. They
are picked as fast as ripe, and at the
end OF the season the vines are strip-
ped from the poles, cleared of the re-
naming pods and fed to the cattle.
which are very fond of them. The
only enemies are cut-worms. which are
dug out by hand when plenty enough
to do much harm.
All these crops are grown with sta
BILE manure as the standby, although
ready-miXed commercial fertilizers are
used to assist. Besides the large GUAM
titles of manure made on the farm IL
is also obtained from l25 stables or
nearly every large one IN the city the
usual price being about 81 per load.
II IL hauled 70 the farm every week
day in the year and is usually applied
TO the soil at once. These liberal ap-
plications OF manure. together with
very frequent cultivation, help 20 i'm
prove the drought-resisting power OF