Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-03-26
CHAPTER Va.

waited acre OF Irish potatoes sur
prised the neighbors with ths
49, amount 1t produced. Two hun
dred bushels we're what he harvested
from the patch. and. selling them al
90 cents per bushel. he had 500 t
show for the first crop. 1t was only
the LIST of June. so be Immediately pre-
pared the land and planted the acre
again in June corn.
After that the work came thick anc
fast The cane was ready to be clt
He moved 1t. let 1t cure and staeked
AWAY two tons OF fine hay N the barn
He could have gathered another cloI
Of cane If he had let it remain. but tho
pumpkin yams must be planted. 50
he prepared and bedded the grotnd
and one cloudy day just before a risiu
he pulled the potato slips from The he'd
where be had grown them and painted
this acre also with a second crop
The cotton then had TO be piowed
and when that was finished the -four
acre cornneid. In which ne was also
growing a dourishing crop OF pump
hluns Wuc NuiithS Iva Lii
The peach and plum crops were very
short this year, owing to a late frost.
but the Powell orchard never suffered
in this respect. The old trees had q
bumper crop Prices being good. afte!
Mrs. Powell tAd' preserved what she
wanted. Sem sold $40 worth of plnms
and S11e worth of peaches. making a
total 81 $3.50 income from the fruit,
not to mention the preseryings for fam
~ use.
Early In the winter. before the fam
lily moved. Sam had made arrange
ments with a breeder of a fine strain
of Plymouth Rock chickens to get ter
sittings of eggs. For these he was
to pay $3.50 u sitting Mrs. Powell
already owned Il mixed breed flock OF
fifty hens. bni Sans plan. with which
his mother heartily agreed, was TO re
place the mongrel stock with the thor
~oughbreds. The tirst of these sittings
were Matched while II was yet cold
and before tInime came on. with It's
excessive heat Mnd insect pests. the
WuQiC ltI Ha0 Ut@n HOhEn VI INV
more than 100 thrifty young Plymouth
Rocks were running abont the farm.
The ample range and shade and the
rye sown In the orchard made the in
come from poultry almost clear profit
Chickens require little feed when they
can get green stuff and insects. Be
sides the Plymouth Rocks Mrs. Powell
raised six dozen common breed fryers
which she sold at So per dozen. OF SIS
From the thoroughbred flock. after Sc
lecting seventy pullets and Eve roost
FRS to keep, she sold the culls for SIS
ROSTERS at 81 and pullets at 80 cents.
The egg market was very low during
the summer months. but ever at a few
cents a dozen 500 worth were sold this
year and the family had all they could
at home. Finally, In the fan,
the old flock of common chickens was
sold, bringing % cents each or $12.50
in all. Surplus milk and butter from
the two. cows brought $50 for the year.
But this wasn't all. The acre Of
watermelons. cantaloupes and vegeta-
bles contributed its share. Sans wa.
termelons were a long white variety.
with black seed and blood red meat.
weet as sugar. These melons always
brought something above the regular
market price. In all the young farmer
sold $40 worth of melons and vegeta-
bles.
The June corn made a fair crop. Sam
sold the roasting ears at n cent each.
These brought him $50. Then he cut
and cured the stalks for feed. The
ground being once more cleared, be
plowed. narrowed and planted it in
turnips.
Sam found that a little farm of If
tee acres a keep two or three people
very busy. especially when the farm is
made to hump itself, growing n crop
right after another. Hardly a day
passed that be or his sister didn't have
to drive to town to sell something.