Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-28
THIS IS SURE MONEY.
Local Get-Rich-Quick Scheme
Often Returns SIS to $1OO
Per Acre From One Crop
BIG PROFITS in cucuMBERs.
It Is a Poor Season Tha. Does Not Yield
$50 Bushels of cucumbers to the Acre
and Often the Crop Reaches 800
BusheIs-Marshall Vinegar Company
Guarantees so Cents Per Bushel.

Marshalltown has a get rich quick
scheme which is no fake. 1t is nothing
more nor less than the cffer the Mar
shall Vinegar Company makes to gar
deners who raise cucumbers for its
pickle factory. written contract
guaranteeing so cents per bushel for all,
cucumbers raised, yielding from SIS to
Sloo per acre for one years crop. is a
set-fich-qulck scheme that is different
from all others in that there are no
ifs or lands" about it. The company
binds itself to pay so cents per b,,shel
for every bushel of cucumbers properly
picked and delivered at the factory.
Ii the people living on farms and
hVe-acre tracts within thirty miles of
Marshalltown only knew what gold
mine there was in raising cucumbers
this factory would soon exceed the slu-
ooSe plant In size or be forced to with
draW It's contract offer. The cucum-
bers are planted best from the 10th to
,he zVth OF June, after nearly all other
farm crops are we'll seeded. The Gull
cure is as simple as tina: of any garden
truck except that the ciltivating must
pe done With care, and hence the best
results are obtained from two to fen
acre tracts. The harvest lasts from
july 10 10 Sept. ID, when the cucum-
pers must be picked every day. and this
requires considerable Labor. about one
PICKER to every arce. altho large boy
or girl can do the work OF man at II
Mr.. Doolittle, the manager of the fac
tory. says that yield of $50 bushels
from an acre should be expected every
year. aitho he has known many n Mar
shail county gardener to harvest and
sell 5oO bushels to the acre in a single
season. Thus for a few months work
gardeners can realize S15 and some
times $50 per acre fro,i a single sea-
sons crop.
The greatest profits are made by the
small farmer, who with his wife and
three half grown children can take care
of five acres nicely without hiring any
help. 1t would be only an ordinary sea-
son that would produce 100 bushels to
each acre and when the cucumbers had
all been delivered at the factory in
sacks and in sizes of from one to four
inches long there would be the neat sum
of $500 coming to the family for pleas
ant outdoor work done mostly during
the children's summer vacation.
The cucumber crop is the only crop
a farmer can raise with The price guar
anteed to him before. his harvest comes
Grain farmers expect to see the price
of their product fall the moment a good
crop is promised. but the Marshall
Vinegar Company contracts for the en-
tire, crop of cucumbers at so cents per
Eushel, good season or bad. If this op-
rortunity We're fully realized the people
of this vicinity alone would flood the
factory with raw material. AS it is, the
factory runs the year round employs
twenty people and is one of the sub
stantial institutions of the city. The
company always advises late planting
tc insure the best results and the ex-
perience of farmers has been that the
crop is not an extra hazardous one att
all to raise. Gardeners within reach of
this newspaper should talk with Mr..
Doolittle about his get-rich-quick
scheme. There is sure money in it for
the Industrious boys and girls and it
has the elements of large returns def
nitely guaranteed. contingent alone
upon this productiveness of the season.
sell and gardener.