The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-25

the United States is s20l4: that OF nursery
pfOQuSts. $40. Of onions. Slass OF sugar
cane. 81 and OF small fruits. SSl. Yet
tHeie Is a hundred acres or more or
wheat and corn. with per acre value OF
less than 50. grown where there Is one
acre or the above mentioned CrORs- ENen
slippery elm produces bark thai would
give DER acre value Of $500 year As
paragus is the most profitable garden
vegetable. q prominent gardener figurins
his yield al 500 per acre.
IL has been figured that an acre Of land
under glass will produce as much as fifty
acres in the open. vet even the small
farmer seldom takes such method OF In
creasing his income. Flowers under glass
are the most profitable crop. II IS esti-
mated that s.. 000 GO worth Of carnations
are grown every year. IL VIII be news 10
most people that John D Rockefeller Is
the greatest producer Of Violets IN Amer
lea His TarrytoWn estate IS IN the very
center of the Hudson river violet row
ing district. and he welcomes every dol
lar that comes from the sale of his VIC
lets The success Of Two women i'm grow
Ing violets on the eastern shore Of Mary
land has been the talk of floral circles Tor
some time. These women Were without
income and dependent upon their own
efforts. They elected 10 grow NiOteIS-
and studied the subject with the care that
a physician studies medicine. Although
they have only been in the business few
years they have an independent income.
The economic value of the work OF those
who seek 10 introduce rev crops. and 70
combine be naturalization the good points
Of old ones. is little realized by the aver
age reader Il has been estimated by
one wen acquainted with the subject that
the work Of Luther Burbank has IN
creased the value % crop production on
This continent TO the extent Of at least
SD eco q wear. There are no less than
a thousand prominent plant stuo 'nts now
working along the lines Of plant hybrid
ization. and 1t is thought that the next
Q L
in the growing of small crops than All
| the years before, IL IS believed tnat the
orange viii soon be- grown proittablN as
far north as South Carolina the crossing
of the sensitive Florida orange Win lne
| hardy but worthless orange bush Of the
north making this extension Of its range
possible.
Perhaps the most hopeful indication for
the future is the Pingree potato patcf
E idea carried To its logical conclusion. lt
and around every city there are hundred:
OF vacant lots. and the charity assocls
tons have been assisting the poor 10 cur
/ tivatp these spaces. transforming then
into spots of beauty instead OF ey es0TeS
/ The poor and the unemployed are thus
| given an ODnOrtunity TO occupy theil
time with profit. II is said that during
[ recent year the VaCant-lot gardens OF
/ PhiladelDhia gave employment 10 oFel
/ 500 families. and that the products net
/ ted SmOn0 not 10 count the health 81
mind and body that grew out or the Wofk
The lessons that have been leaihtu ~
I farming vacant lots have LED many ram
Sizes to move into the country. where rem
I is rheap to 20 into the trucking business
Z for themselves Having had the al
vantage Of practical scientific INSTRUCTOR
/ there are few failures among them. MOS
Of them work small crops that bring DIS
/ Copyright. 1909. bx Frederic J. Hsskin-
Tomorrow-The Express Business.