The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-05

not a fit subject for a detailed financial statement, but for more than a quarter of a century 1t has taken care of the family, and something more.
 Another Maine man has netted 8, 900 a year off one. acre of straw berries Another Maine man has, by growing cabbage between the rows of straw berries, got over $2,O0O an acre, gross, off of his berry patch. A Vermont man got over 5000 quarts of strawb erries off of a quarter of an acre, and sold them at an average of 15 cents a quart. This is 8 rate of $3,o0o an acre. A Massachusetts man has taken $1, 900 off an acre of strawberries. A Vermont man got HOO bushels of strawberries off Of four acres, 35,20O quarts, which means about $1,0O0 an acre, if he got a fairly good price for the berries.
 A Boston market man went down in to Norfolk county and bought a five acre patch of land and is specializing with entrants. He has 10000 bushes, and they average around eight quarts. He gets from 15 to 25 cents a quart, the price varying for the varieties. For white fruit he gets about 15 cents, for red he averages 20 cents, and for the
 black he gets 25 cents. His currant crop probably brings him a gross of around $16,000 year. He also has peach orchard, a lot of dwarf apple
 trees, which are very profitable, lot of pear trees, rhubarb, raspberries,
 DEackD6TT16Sy ana several k1nOS or gar.
 den truck. He is essentially inten- sive farmer, and the casual observer would think that he was overcrowding
 his land, but he knows what he is
 about, and feeds the land for the work he demands from 1t, and gets. He is
 very good example of a farmer who
 farms with the idea that the land can
 be made to produce about on the scale
 of the farmers wishes and knowledge.
 As an example of this, there is a man
 who has 9, fairly large garden and uses one-f1fth of it for blackberries, which he cuItivates intensfve1y. He gets 1000 quarts a year, and averages not less than 10 cents a quart for them. There is a Vermont man who be- lieves in all kinds of fruit and berries. He has a farm that his great-grand- | father founded in 1780, bringing 75 small apple trees on his back from southern New Hampshire. At a recent fair this man had 200 varieties of fruit
 and vegetable on display, fl of which | were apples. He has 2,50O fruit trees, with 80 varieties of apples, 75O plum trees, and 700 cherry trees. He had | 1000 small chestnut trees, some of
 which were discarded, but the majority
 used as a nucleus for a, big chestnut | orchard. He has several kinds of wal | nuts, with which he is experimenting.
 He has four acres of raspberries and | sells all the berries at 10 to 12 1-2 cents per pint, mostly to the 2OO0 summer | residents within a few miles of his
 far1 H also has 1000 currant | bushes. Apropos of this mans chest | nuts, there is a man in New Hampshire
 who gets $500 a year from native
 chestnuts grown in his pasture.
 | A Massachusetts man raises entrants
 and gooseberries, getting about IA quarts a bush of the former and a net
 of $4O0 an acre from the latter. A Vermont man has 600 plum trees, gets about two bushels from a tree and sells l them at an average of $3 a bushel- s. 600 from the orchard. He has been