| Show ox OE ACRE Intensive farming is the order the day everywhere the more intensive intens-ive the greater the profit Through UK New England and in other parts of the country the farmers are reducing the cultivated area and concentrating all labor and fertilizer upon it ani the result is that larger product eomfc to make reward The crops referred to below were raised in Massachusette within lifu t n miles of Boston They were not excep tional crops the crops of a series of years might be more and they might be less On one acre were 800 bushels of onions and were sold for a dollar a bushel If they had been kept awhile a-while they might have been sold at 150 a bushel The cost of the crop was 515580 and the profit at 1 a bushel was 64420 Another crop of onions yielded 644 bushels and sere sold for 1 per bushel the cost was 319150 and the profit 45250 On one acre has been raised 16f > 0 bushels of potatoes and a thousand bushels from an acre has been reported report-ed often but such yields are exaerU tional They show however what f be done in spite of bugs When inds try soil judgment fertilizer and cli mate form a practical working com bination One acre produced 3s bush V els of potatoes and they sold for 12J r JT a bushel or for 410 the cost of rats ing was 60 net profit 250 Another crop of potatoes of 502 bushels sold for 80 cents a bushel or 40160 cost of raising 119 net profit 28260 Of carrots 650 bushels sold for ro cents a bushel or 325 cost ot tn t v 109 profit 216 Of parsnips 300 bu < = > tT els sold for a dollar a bushel or SVw cost 133 profit 457 Of cabbc g > 7500 heads averaging six pounds Ahead A-head or 45000 pounds or 430 banMs giving one hundred pounds to the barrel bar-rel When the cabbages were gathered gath-ered the price was 1 a barrel or 4 > o but they were kept and sold later for 3 a barrel or for 1350 The cost of the crop was 102 profit 1248 The cabbage plants were ire rows three feet apart and the plants in the rows eighteen inches apart The man who knows how who has the right kind of soil and uses the right kiml of fertilizer can make every cabbage plant produce a saleable sale-able head A cabbage crop is sure ofc sale especially if near the city Oi one farm where cabbage is a special crap the heads are sold sometimes in the field by the row The Irish part of the population is the great cabbage consumer A family of five put Into the cellar last fall three hundred heads The Irishwomen go to the farm mentioned walk Uip an4 down the rows of cabbage feel of every head and take their choice an 1 the Irishwoman is usually a close buyer or has that opinion of herself never intending to pay the price asked if haggling will reduce it And thus in cabbage time on ithls farm the field resounds with brogue and with denunciation de-nunciation of the cabbages which the buyer declares are the worst they ever saw The bikes av some av which they wouldnt throw to a dacint pig But the farmer gives no heed goej about his work and lets them wal up and down and talk all they wa to knowing that they will come to his twice at last The price includes delivery de-livery in the city Some of the buyers are so careful or suspicious that they demand to see the row of cabbages they have selected on the wagon t They hardly dare take their eyes off it till the wagon comes literally they sit down upon it and wait for the team Then the buyers help load Most of them keep a cow or at least a pig and hence every loose head every stray leaf is gleaned and when the row of cabbages is on the wagon not a bit of cabbage leaf an inch square can be found where the row stood But the crop of an acre squashes In some parts of the country in New especially the firm England anyway flesh hard shell kind like the Hub bard the squash is more and more in favor as an article of food It is served on aristocratic tables in the city in the shell half shell as it with the addition of any spices grew the condiments or seasoning Some of modern cooks proceed to spoil a squash as soon as it Is cooked When to the table no one would It comes know bv the taste what it was the squash flavor has all been knocked out of it it is not squash it is some thinir else On one acre 24210 pounds or 10 tons of sauashes were and 410 pounds raised The cost of raising was o47o The selling price of squash varies ton according to the from 20 to SO a they are now at the season of year 20 a ton but usually before the winter ton Tjh > bring SO a ter is over squashes from the aore in questi4 were sold for 35 a ton An acre tlist yielded 304 worth of early potatoes produced the same season after the potatoes were dug 350 bushels of turnips tur-nips sold at 50 cents a bushel the turnips cost 535 and the profit was 15965 with the potatoes that acre produced 46365 From an acre came 4 613 boxes of strawberries sold for 61560 cost 244 profit 537460 Another strawberry acre produced 46S7 boxes and sold for 5609 cost 244 profit S3R5 Another 4 844 boxes sold for 657 cost 259 profit 39S An acre of raspberries yielded 3314 quarts sold for 53020 cost 144 profit 38620 Blackberries 769 auarts sold for 7670 cost 187 profit 3843 As stated the crops gen wen w-en are not exceptional they are o tamed year after year In the re where they ace specialtl4 r Appleton in Farm and Fireside |
