CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1906-12-20
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for its quality throughout the United
States.
While most Canon City gardeners
and ranchers raise enough celery for
their own use, there is probably not
more than a dozen or fifteen of them
that grow it for the market, due chief
ly to the fact that they are more fam
iliar with the cultivation of something
else 1t is estimated that there was
not to exceed eight or ten acres of
celery grown for market in the Canon
City district last season. which was an
increase over any previous year.
There will be larger area devoted
to celery next year than there was
this, and It is believed that within a
decade there will be from one hun
dred and fifty to two hundred acres
of it grown within a radius of three
or four miles of this city, and that the
local product will drive the Michigan
article out of the principal markets of
the state.
]. T. Calvert of Brewster avenue,
South Canon, is one of the pioneers
in the cultivation of celery in this
section and has been very successful
with it. He is perhaps the biggest
grower of summer celery in this coun-
ty, much of which he ships direct to
the dealers of Leadville, Cripple
rraaL opd Colorado Cpripus uhora ha
has no difficulty in dominating the
trade, owing to the superiority of his
product.
7 Other extensive growers of celery
here are ]. R. Calvert, William Ken
ley and Nelson Brothers, all of whom
have found it to be one of the most
profitable crops which can be grown
in this locality.
The Hot Springs addition to South
Canon seems to be the favorite local
ity among gardeners for growing cell
cry in this district, but whether its
success there is because of the pecu-
liar conditions of the soil and sur
or whether it is attribut-
able to the ripper experience of those
who cultivate it, 1t is difficult to state.
Certain it is, however, that it grows
to perfection there, indicating spec
ial adaptability of the soil to its re-
quirements. Small areas planted to
celery there have yielded an annual
revenue at the rate of more than a
thousand dollars an acre, leaving the
gardener with surplus of eight or
nine hundred dollars an acre after
paying all expenses connected with
the cultivation and marketing of the
crop.
Something like $4,000 celery plants
is ordinarily grown on an acre of
ground. although this number is oc-
suits are obtained at about that pro-
portion. The plants are put out about
the middle of June, or a little later,
and the soil is kept moist about the
roots by frequent irrigation.
Most of the celery raised here is of
the self-bleaching variety. although
that process is accelerated by wrap
ping each plant in paper, leaving only
the tops exposed to the air.
When the first frosts come the win
ter celery is dug, put into trenches
and covered with light coating of
earth, where it is sometimes kept as
late as the middle of February, being
crisp and tender to the very last 1t
is somewhat difficult to procure data
in relation to the cost of cultivating
and marketing celery, although it is
agreed by those who have given some
attention to it that it pays handsomely
II intelligently handled.
Nelson Brothers expect to put out
100000 celery plants next summer,
and no doubt others will also engage
in its cultivation on an extensive
scale.
Celery appears to be destined to
become one of the big garden crops
Of the Canon City territory and an
important source of financial income. ,
The demand for it by consumers with
in easy shipping distance of here will
always exceed the possibilities of the
supply.