The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-10
Fsur Paying Crops Per Annum.

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 In an interview this morning with one of our leading truck farmers, we | gleaned the following facts, figures l and features" respecting some of his trucking operations, which may De of interest to some of your readers: We paid special attention and took | great interest in the results he had secured and is now securing from one little patch of four acres now in beans (snap beans) about ready to begin | shipping.
 In September last (1sos) he sowed spinach on the four acres, and, begin. ming after Christmas. he cut and mar | keted the spinach at the rate of 100 barrels to the acre, getting therefor in | Northern markets from $2 to 37 DOT barrel, or an average of about S45O per barrel. On Washington's birthday Feb. 22, he cut spinach at $5.50 pef barrel.
 In March he transplanted 175,000 let. tuce plants in this four acres. Just a few days before cutting his lettuce he planted beans (snaps) between the let tuce rows. He cut 450 bushei baskets of lettuce to the acre. which sold for l $2 to $275 per basket. The beans are | now nearly ready to begin shipping. | The last week in May he planted can- 1 teloupes between the rows of beans, at | proper intervals. He will get at least | I50 to 250 baskets of snaps to the acre, good for s1 to s2 per basket, and in | July will get 250 crates of canteloupes to the acre, worth $1 to $1.50 per crate His gross sales will reach 42,OOO to the acre. If his net profits do not reach S1 .000 per acre 1t Is because of gross mismanaEement somewhere. Nature will do her very best to help this gentleman make $1,000 per acre per annum from that four acres of land. This, take notice, is not hot house work nor fancy work. It Is bus mess, strictly business. from start to finish--from one end of the year to the other.
 Nor Is this a special effort upon his part to make a record or to beat some other record. It Is regular thing for him to do, and he is doing 1t every year. He uses liberal supply of fer tilizers, especially those with a bone base (and there is a right smart heap" of fertilizer in hrs hat), he also uses good implements, and believes in thor ough cultivation and manipulation of the soil.
 He keeps his land busy summer and winter. He keeps 1t covered all the year with growing crops, so that nei- ther the frost of winter nor the sum mer's sun finds any bare or uncovered soil to work upon. Notwithstanding the fact that he grows successfully and easily four crops per annum from the same land. he has all of the month of August to prepare this land for an- other routine Of four crops
 If the regular farmer would but pur- sue his calling as intelligently and as vigorously as our trucker friend what wonderful results might not be attained in the Old Dominion.
 Such results could not be secured un- less the soil and climate were very fa- vorable. Even then such results would not be secured except that the markets demanded the produce, and the freight rate and shipping facilities were favor able. The fact is that our soil and climate are both very favorable, and when 1t comes to freight rates, if we measure by the rate, we are within 25 miles of 100000 consumers. If we measure by hours, we are within 25 hours of 2O,000.000 consumers There fore the soil. climate and markets, are all stimulating. Tn such case man will naturally do his best.
 A. Jeffers.
 Norfolk. Va.