Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-10-24
$500 TO $500 IN
ACRE PROFIT MADE
IN GROWING CELERY
Experiments by Lewis County and
Puyallup Valley Farmers
Successful.
REQUIRES CONSTANT CARE.
Cinnamon Only Ranchers Near
Here to Raise Vegetable
Commercially.
REQUIRES CONSTANT CARE.

Wideawake farmers of this part of
Western Washington have been partic-
ularly interested in the success obtain
ed by the farmers of Lewis county and
the Puyallup valley in the experiments
made during the last year in the rails
ing of celery, and also by the China
men cultivating the gardens down the
east side of the bay near Olympia.
SO far as is known by the local
Chamber of Commerce no one in this
county besides these Cinnamon has at
tempted to grow celery on CONNER
cial scale. These Cinnamon get an
average yield of from $500 to $1,000
an acre, making them profit Of about
$500 an acre, according to Secretary
H. L. Whiting This profit is con-
servatively stated, for Chehalis
newspaper published the following ar
ticle last week:
Ralph Swayne, who has a portion
of his fathers farm on Coal creek, has
had successful season in the celery
business. Mr. Swayne set cut $4,000
plants on about one-eighth of an acre,
and off of this small patch he has sold
500 worth and figures that he will
have 5000 worth altogether, which fig-
ures up to about 81 800 per acre. Even
at that, Mr.. Swayne says that his crop
this year is not as large as it has been
before, when it has, averaged as high
at $4,000 per acre.
'The land in Coal creek is especially
good for raising celery, as it is handy
to water, plenty of which is necessary.
Fertilizer is also necessity, and good
swamp land is generally considered the
best for celery raising. Small patches
of celery are an excellent crop for an
easy living. as it is possible for one
person to do all the work on it and
keep the expense low"
The Puyallup Valley Tribune, in tell
ing of the shipment of a car load Of
celery out of that valley, said:
Such celery it does ones eyes good
to behold. The stalks were of greater
than average length, being fully "a
inches long, and of bleached white
color to the very tops. The stalks
were SO tender as to require great
care in packing and shipping.
''The shipment was made by Smell &
Sons, proprietors of the Spring Hill
dairy farm of Puyallup. They have
/, raised celery in small quantities with
good success for several years, and
this year they devoted five acres to the
/; luscious vegetable. The crop consists
of over three carloads, and the ship
F; ment made Tuesday is the largest sin.
gle shipment of celery ever made in
, this section. They make small ship
ments to various near by markets ey
G. cry day.
"There is very good money in rails
ing celery in this section. Mr. Smell
4 states that the profit on the five acres
he raised, not counting his labor
= would be in the neighborhood of $500
per acre. The stalks grow to goot
81 height and large size carrier tnan II
e. Eastern sections. The work is some
n what arduous, particular care beins
n needed. but the returns amply reward
the extra Efforts
~ Quite "a few farmers in this count,
have their small celery patches fol
home use bur have not gone into th,
raising of this succulent vegetable OF
a large scale. The experience of thes'
:, farmers in Lewis county and the Puy
~, allup valley would indicate that her
is a source Of great profit that is praC
4" tically undeyeloped in western Wash
H. ington and one that would pay Thur
* sion county farmers to Investigate.