The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-02-04
MORE PROFITS FOR FARMERS
Greater Amount Of Money VIII Pc
Made by Americans When They
Learn to Market Crops.

American farmers WILL secure. great
er profits when they have learned
how to market their products to the
best advantage. They need In the
first place the widest possible diver
sity Of crops and next a keener AoT<
edge Of selling.
The small inland city b the best
place for disposing Of farm products
Many sagacious farmers have private
customers for their hogs. chickens,
butter, eggs, etc. Where this Is the
case much more than the waolesSSe
market price Is obtained.
Those living within few miles OF
thriving city can secure private
customers for fruit and vegetables,
as well as for butter, eggs and poul-
try. This Is the most profitable way
of marketing. The farmer gains the
middleman's profit and the customer
is pleased to obtain fresh products
without unreasonable trouble Or eS-
pense.
It would seem incredible that there
are not enough vegetables raised N
some Of the states for the interior
markets. but such is the fact MeT-
chants in all Of the little cities are
accustomed to ship in such products
as celery, onions, peas. beets, cabbage
cucumbers, caulifowers and even p>
taioes
These are articles that pay eno%
mously compared to grain farming c
dairying. They involve little expense
or risk and their production serves 10
distribute the seasons labor evenly
and to make it more profitable than
when # is confined to one or two prod
ucts. So long as city populations de-
velop at the ratio shown IN the last
decade there will be no danger OF
raising too much fruit or truck.
The producer in disposing Of honey,
berries. cherries and other articles
which come in the line Of fancy farm
ing gets twice as much by selling to
private customers as to commission
houses. It makes a lot Of differences
whether a man with an orchard 10
ceives $1-25 OF $3.50 a bushel for
cherries.
These figures fairly represent the
commission dealers price and the rate
paid by consumers. The wholesale
price Of honey Is IL to Il cents. but
private customers pay 90 to q cents
In butter. eggs and poultry this prtar
cipie applies with similar force. Near
~ every town housekeeper is glad
to contract by the year for regular
supplies Of fresh produce. There Is
profit on both sides in an arrangement
of this kind.
This argument for diversifcatsoo
and business applies to both big and
little farmers. It is unwise for land
owners to neglect fruit, vegetables
and the general run Of what they
call truck. There are liberal profits
in these products il they are handled
with skill and sold to advantage.
When the farm is conducted so there
is. a regular income from variety Of
little things 1t only takes ordinary
sense to give success either 20 man
or a woman.
5 It pays well to be able to furnish
in their season such articles as strSw-
berries, currants. cucumbers, cherries,
apples, raspberries, sweet corn, cab
bage. honey and other products of the
kind
These pay ten times as much as
the grain crops. An acre Of cherries
or apples viii net about $50 after
paying for the labor Of picking and
marketing. The others are equally
profitable, or nearly so.
The. markets have never yet bee0
over-supplied. In fact they seem to
be further from that condition today
than ever before.