The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-21
$4,000 CROP GROWN IN
ONE CABBAGE PATCH
John Squires Achieves Spectacular Re
suits from q 12-Acre Plot at
BENNINGTON

BENNINGTON, Oct 2l--A Vermont
cabbage patch worth $S,000-more than
enough to pay for the 177-acre farm from
which the crop is being harpested-ls a
sight that is attracting considerable atten
ton these days just west of Old Bcnning-
ton. The patch. Il acres of it, is on the
farm of John Squires, who moved back to
Vermont about two years ago from Ska
neateles, n. T.
Cabbages are high this year and the
prices are likely to reach even greater
heights. Mr.. Squires has already sold TWO
carloads of his crop for $3.50 ton. He
says that there isn't an acre in the patch
| that will harvest less than ID tons and
some of them will yield as much as 20
tons. Surprising the patch averages Il II
tons to the acre This would make the
total for the whole Il acres 30 tons. If
cabbage is worth SO ton IN the market it
doesn't take a large amount OF figuring to
show a gross income of better than
IS. 600.
Mr. Squires says that the larger part of
the labor in producing the crop was in the
planting The plants were set with the
aid of machine and all of this work was
done by Mr.. Suuires and his two daugh-
ters Harvesting and hauling to the ear
will involve some labor and expense, but
not much more than would be required in
the handling of other farm crops.
This is not the first time that Mr..
Squires has raised cabbages He was for
merly resident of Manchester, where he
owned a farm which he sold about five
years ago to Robert T. Lincoln and which
is now part of the Lincoln estate. After
disposing of the Manchester property nc
bought the farm on which he is now har
vcsting the big crop OF eabbages and paic
s. 900 for it. There were good buildings
, on the place and the land was in fan
state of cultivation. Because of the dealt
of Mrs. Squires's father at Skaneateles ht
= moved to that town and for nearly tire,
. years carried on farm owned by th'
family.
r Skaneatelcs is in the cabbage belt anC
| tons of the vegetables are raised ther'
= leach year and shipped to nearby sauerkrau
{ factories Like the other farmers in ant
, about Skaneateles, he raised cabbage an'
1 thus acquired a knowledge of the business
Mrs. Squiress mother died about tw,
n years ago, the estate was settled and tn
Q farm sold and the family returned to Ncr
n mont to take up their home on the plac
/ at Old Bennington which had not receive,
J. all the attention it required during thel
f absence, but was still in fairly good shape
= Soon after Mr.. Squiress return to Ben
nington he expressed the opinion that tn
J. soil in this vicinity was far superior t
:. that of central New York state for til
raising OF cabbage. He not only believe
, that natural conditions were better. but h
- was confident that vegetables higher /
quality and more in number could b
: raised here for the reason that the Gro
" was a new one In the Skaneatcles com
try, he said, cabbage has been the mai
farming industry for years and as Il resu
the soil has become infested with the di
eased condition that follows the continue
,e raising of one crop The results attana
prove that his faith in Vermont as a cal
J. hage country has been verified.
Il His cabbage patch is not his first III
O. usual farming exploit. Last year NJ
! Squires planted a section Of land to whea
70 a crop not much raised in Vermont, an
., secured some startling results.