Show THREE CROPS IX OXE YEAR Mr Edward Schooley of Irondequoit near Rochester X Y is a gardener who boasts this year that one small piece of ground has paid for itself with the crops of the current seasons growth I comprises only three i quarters of an acre planted last fall with spinach from which last spring I he sold 25 worth of early spinach As j soon as the price declined he plowed j the land manured it heavily and planted j plant-ed with Golden Wax beans From this he sold as string beans 1G5 worth and I if he had waited a week longer might have picked 510 or 515 worth more Instead i In-stead of this he plowed under the beans enriching the land and fitting it admirably for the turnip crop which was sown immediately afterwards The crop grew with amazing luxuriance and Mr Schooley has now nearly com pleted his harvest It will amount to at least 50 the turnips selling at 20 or 23 cents per bushel After the turnips tur-nips are off rye will be sown to make whatever growth it will and be plowed plow-ed under as green manure next spring Here is 240 from threequarters of an acre of land or 320 per acre Mr Schooley nets more profit from this small piece of land than many owners of large farms do from their large acra < American Cultivator |