Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1917-05-03
What One Acre Farming Will Do.

Last year Mr.. john T. Marts. OF
Bridgetou, y. j.. made net profit OF
$4,000 on one acre of Jersey land and
from three acres this year he expects
to reap a clear profit of So,OOO-at
tba rate of little more than $l,666
per acre! That sounds like fairy
tale. but intensive farming tells the
tale. and the facts are borne out in
black and white.
Very few people know the value OF
an acre of land combined with the
knowledge and industry of the man
with the LAND. Soil and sense, energy
and intelligence, unite in creating
value, so Mr. Marts' land would not
have done much except for the man.
However, what one intelligent man
can do another can do. Even II an
acre won't do for everybody What
Mr., Marts' acre did for him when 1t
petted him $4,000, it will do plenty
for most any man, for Mr.. John >.
Ware. a BridgetOn banker, who was
the first one-acre farmer of his town
obtained gross receipts of S2,lOl.6O
from one acre last year and netted
a profit of S72414, after deducting an
expense of $1,377.46 A profit OF
s72414 on an acre of land ought to
be enough to satisfy any man unless
he Just naturally has he instinct OF q
pirate. Nevertheless, it is no sign
that a man is engaged in "hold-up
of his land when he requires 1t to
yield up a profit of $1,000 made
largely by his intensive farm ability
Mr.. Henry Roemar writes III the
New York Tribune OF a recent date
giving an interesting account OF the
intensive farming fad which Mr.. Ware
the Bridgeton banker, pioneered IN
that community. The pioneer cse-
acre farmer is secretary and treasurer
of the Cumberland Trust Compan!
of Bridgeton, in Cumberland county,
DOWN jr little corner If south
wsts~NSw Jersey, where the
Cohansie river meanders along
through acres of fertile land before
il Joints the Delaware river. He
started the movement Two years ago
and. strange as it may seem, :acant
building lots and own amateurs
we're used to demonstrat? It farming
possibility that has made Bridgetcn
famous.
TIE Tribune writer says Bridge
ton is a city of $4,000 DopU!ItlCn ana
Ole of it's livewire bankers has m2cc
il The cauter OF activities that are
revolutionizing farming i'll that com
munity. 1t is now famous for being
the center of intensive farming and
people who are holding down Jcb
in town are farming an acre wAl2n
pays them as much IS their regular
jobs. The possibilities were demon
strated on vacan. building lots, and
tie next results have made people
quite everything else 20 go into farm
ing on scale above t@e one-acre
mark. One-acre ventures have en-
couraged larger ventures, so there
are some 40 and 50-acre intensive
farms Just outside of Bridge'on. They
are all cultivated Oh the intensive
method, and the Tribune's cores
pondent summed up the result and
makes the declaration that with one
acre farms the state OF New jersey
could feed the United States
The particulars are given about
the experiences of a jgrcat many
farmers who are making almost un-
believable profits on small farms.
The secret is in soil preparation,
heavy fertilization, irrigation, crop
rotation that rotateS right along
cultivation Of the proper kind and