The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-01-25
"TEN ACRES ENOUGH. "
A Valuable Little Book Issued by the
Carolina Trucking and Development
Company.
Wilmington Messenger.

Company.
Wilmington Messenger.
We are Indebted to the Carolina
Trucking Development Company Tor
n copy ola very charming little BOOK I
bearing the above title. This book,
bound in cloth. octave size, OF two
hundred and fifty pages,is remark /
able one in more respects than one.
1t is on the subject of intensive farm- |
isg and was written to show what a
man OF pluck and energy could do in
the way of making Il competency Tor
himself and family on small farm
by growing fruits and vegetables for
the city markets. 1t is an interest
ing account of the experiences OF a
man who gave up his business in a
CITY and moved with his wife and six
children to an eleven-acre farm pur-
chased and stocked out OF the pro-
ceeds of the sale ofhis business in the
CITY. There is much of advice and
practical information in it for those
who contemplate truck farming, and
it will afford pleasant reading to
Others not intending to take up such
occupation. tits an interestingly and
pleasantly written account OF the ex-
periences of the family-as interest
ing as a novel. But it is not fancy
sketch of present day conditions; for
a remarkable circumstance about the
book is that it was written about 40
years ago and portrayed the condl-
lions then existing.
For some wears the book has been
out of print. The CultivatOr Pub
fishing Company of Atlanta has is
sued a reprint of the original, and III
the preface it is stated that the cor
ditiOns existing at the time OF the is
sue Of the original were so similar III
many respect regarding the matters
therein treated that it was found
necessary to make remarkably few
| changes, only one or two chapters
| requiring rewriting, these being such
as on the subjects of "Revolution in
Agriculture and "Where to Locate.
The book is exactly the thing Tor
farmers and truckers in this section
| OF the country whose chief aim is to
! contract the area planted and at the
| same time expand the results of their
farming. A general distribution OF
this book among the truckers OF
! Eastern North Carolina would, we be-
lieve have good results in aiding in
increasing the value OF the trucking
| business in our section.
We remember reading a few years
ago an account of a Frenchman who
lived near Paris and supported his
family on the proceeds from sales OF
the products OF quarter of an acre
of land. His was farming of the most
intensive kind with frequent repeti-
ton of crops. Every square inch Of
his little patch Of ground was highly
fertilized and was kept growing one
kind or another ofcrops all the time
| This Frenchman's experience aud
success was brought to mind by
reading the book referred to in this
article.
'Ten acres enough''-This is the
key note to successful truck farming
in this section, as we'll as elsewhere
, What we need to make farming sue
cessful to the farmers and means O
adding to the h IS gffRR sTa n prosperity
c1ons and the wasta- L. H'''iS'le etl
renters can cultivate carefully ant
keep under a high state of fertiliza
ton.
We are glad to know that n move
ment looking to this end is being
theoretically and inteiligently pushed
in our midst. Small farmers with 6
good class of owners or tenants
whatever their nationality may be
is the present-day need of our section
and we are glad to believe that in the
very near future this much desired
state OF affairs will be realized.
Accompanying the book treated oil
in this article is chart Showing
times for planting different crops in
Wilmington section" desi gnating for
each month in the year the vegeta.
bles which should be planted. This
chart was prepared by Mr.. Albert S.
Root, soil expert for the Carolina
Trucking Development Company,
showing that in this section garden
ing and truck farming can be carried
on the whole year round:
January-English peas, radish. onions,
bects and cabbages; the last three are
planted in hot beds; also figs. grape
vines, fruit trees and cassava
tebruary-English peas, radish, beets,
cabbage, tomatoes, egg plant, carrots,
peppers, Irish potatoes, turnips, spinach,
ngs fruit trees, grapes and cassava.
March-Onions, radish, Irish potatoes,
turnips, beets, cabbage. tomatoes, pep
pers, spinach, egg plant, and rhubarb.
1 a nfoln v ,o1D
| beans, table peas, okra, cucumbers,
squash. sweet potatoes, onions, toma-
toes, beets, peppers, asparagus. and rhu-
barb; also COW peas, velvet beans and
| teosinte
| May-COrn, squash, beans, late melons.
| cucumbers, tomaroes, okra, sweet pota-
toes, asparagus, beans, peas, squash,
| anC velvet beans.
| June-Beans. tomatoes, corn, COW
| peas and velvet beans.
July-Rutabaga turnips, COW peas,
| cabbage, beans, beets, Brussels sprouts,
irish potat' 'es and strawb berries
August-Straw turnips, kale,
collards, beans, Brussel sprouts, cabbage,
beets and lettuce in latter part of month.
eptember-Mustard, collards, cab
page, kale, turnips, strawberries, and
lettuce first part of month: also alfalfa,
clover and vetch.
october-Lettuce Strawberries, radish,
onions, cabbage. beets. mustard, turnips,
spinach, caulifiower, clover, alfalfa and
vetch.
Observation-Disclosures spinach, cab
bage, beets, lettuce. turnips, kale. cauli-
Hover, clover alfalfa and vetch.
Observation-Disclosures, turnips ,beets,
spinach, onion sets and cabbage under
glass; and figs, fruit trees, grapes. clover,