The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-05-03
MADE MONEY ON CABBAGE PATCH.

WHUE WOWEI OW ORDpSUE TAIOus
People who arc talking bard times;
that there is no money to be made on
tho fam, would do we'll to follow The
of DR.. b. Il. Smith. This
gentle man has n lot in Eiherton con-
Ia ming less than thee quarters Of nm
acre--to be acurate, 70.100 acres :
GU which ho has cleared already this
year. $1S5. This profit camo from
the production of cabbage. LNst fall
he planted this plat of ground iu
this vegetable, which have been laid
by, and Friday he sold the crop for
$3.50 to Mr.. j. g. CHM.
Within the next month this crop
will be harvested and sold, after
which DIR. Smith proposes to put tho
same ground in celery. on which he
hopes TO again make big profit. The
doctor says he owns and operates a
three horse farm. and has pitted his
lot against the profits Of his farm for
this rehabilitation Star.
The Star, III an editorial, which fol,
lows, speaks of what can DO dine
with cabbage patch; and if it can
DO done there it can bo done here,
and elsewhere. Cabbage culture can
be made to pay in Pickens county
just as much as anywhere in the
State. DR.. Smith, at Easley, has 4
plat of ground planted in onions,
and he proposes putting this plat in
cabbage rs soon as the onions IRE
taken ur. lie is planting for market,
and incidentally for Il profit, which
he will make.
I here is enough fruit that goes TO
waste III this county to keep a big
cannery busy; then with the canning
Of vegetables and the krauting of
cabbage, both for market, handsome
money can bo made. The Stur says
of cabbage culture:
"Heretofore the raising of cabbage
in the middle and lower portions of
our state has been, in almost every
every instance, signal failure. The
mountnineer comes DOWN from the
sun.capped mountains and verdant
hills of North Georgia every winter
with loads Of fine large cabbage,
which he readily sells in our market.
Wo pay good prices, while we look
with envious eye on the mammoth
products Of our sister section and
wonder how this horticultural miracle
has been wrought, we buy the seed
and make the attempt to grow this
table delicacy rs successfully as our
hardly neighbor from the upper por-
ton Of the state, with the ever recur-
ring result total failure. Is there
my reason why we of the mid
die aud lower sections should not
,chicve tho same success as the
region? Dr.. b. T.. Smith,
# this city, has solved the problem,
nd answers the question by his own
emonstration, that we can.
"It seems that we have not given,
he matter proper study and assidu-
us labor, or rather prompt action
nd timely attention.
"Now, tho manner and matter of
)r. Smiths test. He sowcd in cold
rames last October, soliciting the
,ost and standard varieties. He
placed them under thin or open cover,
% as to give hardness aud strength
% the plants, thus preparing them to
esist and overcome the winters cold
md to stand against the attacks of
,vcry variety Of climate made upon
tho vegetable life. There is, we will
say just here, Ly way Of parenthesiu,
4 close analogy between vegetable
md animal life. Tho plants thus
'aised and by natural causes ably
provided with strong and vigorous
habits to meet contingencies, were
ransp!anted to the beds in which