figure out for yourself what you can make your a

riments, made mostly by uninformed and untrained men. What m

advances have been

d market gardeners. No class of the rural population is more alert in utilizing the newest researches and discoveries in all lines of agricultural scie

, to cast himself upon a small patch of ground for a living; but if he can give it most of his time mornings and evenings, or if he sees,

ould till in conjunction with their other labor. If time and change 90 works upon society as to put the

vate an acre is much less

n 61, by J. W. Lloyd, at the rate of 140 hours (say 14 days) with one horse and 250 hours (say 25 days) for hand lab

e of fifty to seventy five cents per bushel, which wholesale, at those figures much below present

otatoe

l Fertili

r blight an

L $2

g at the minim

cash ou

grower from

more cash outlay per acre, while th

ail and consigned, it would cost $40 to $50 to pay selling charges, leaving you a profit of about $30 per acre on this crop. Other crops in the rotation might not be so profitable, he

ar if devoted t

t., which at 7 cent a

0 qt., say at 7

250 bu. at $2.

,000 qt. at 5 c

plants yield

per acre 20

r acre 200.

acre 200.

acre 100.0

es 1

will give a good living if

produce in ve

hes at 20 cent a bun

to 300 bbl. at

u. at 75 cent

000 lb., at 40

, 3000 qt. at 10

nches at 5 cen

0 bu. at 1.0

heads at 3 cen

0 bu. at $5.0

et from an acre,

at 75 cent a bu,

tons at $10.0

eets, 200 to

rates at 75 cen

0 bu. at $200

bu. at 25 cen

bbl. at 50 ce

rth is given on a later page, has since moved

on of circumstances it produced, I think, the largest value per area of any crop

fifth acre. Total yield, 2295 qu

2nd; last berries picked Ju

107 quarts per acre worth

r quart. My ordinary average yield is less than half of this yield or about 5000 quarts per acre, and that is much above the average of most yields of other growers. The crop was started with northern plants, set just as for matted rows in the North, t

of November 1st as here, since I would expect them to grow larger and of course I would plan to mulch them during the winter. It would take a lot of planting but I thi

nless you learn as much as he has learned; he has succeeded

und, by intensive culture and with irrigation. The Eastern and Middle States can present just as good,

ears ago was pronounced a failure under Western competition there has sprung up this intensive cultivation. Violets are grown in one place and tuberoses by the acre in another. Celery is making on

m contains 3-1/2 acres, only 2-1/2 of which are cultivated, but they yield the owner annually from $1200 to $1500. From the profits of his intensive farming, Mr. Shearer has paid $3800 for his property,

ons, the application of common-sense methods and untiring energy, he asserts, will enab

about the same amount to start with. He is near a good market, and in five years has paid off the debt, and has been getting ahead ever since. He raises poultry and small fruits, and says that it is a good combination, as most of the work with poultry comes i

s Talism

market. He was two weeks late in getting them on the market. He says those two weeks would have meant nearly

s kept a family of six matured persons abundantly supplied with vegetables all the year, with the exception of potatoes, celery,

bushels of onions per acre, 400 bushels of tomatoes, 700 bushels o

iples of Vegetable Gardening"

rop is 300-400

op is 200-300 b

000 heads

forethought and good tillage and some fertilizer the yield should run from 2

in a bunch for market, and an acre

rop 200-300 bu

0 bushels to the acre, but 600-800 are

om two to four tons should be raised on an acre, the latter quantity when

dren. The schoolmaster who had $20 asked what was the average wealth of each, if the total wealth of the class was $20. The brightest boy answered, "One dollar

elds. The following are actual averages in the United St

cre) and $175; sweet potatoes, $37 (79 but per acre) and $55; hemp, $34 (794 lb. per acre) and $54; potatoes, $33 (96 bu. per acre) and $45; sugar beets, $30 (7 tons p

, in Farmers' Bulletin No. 60, United States Department of Agricultu

to buy the roots, and upon other matters. Where growers usually grow roots for their own planting the cost is

a bed can only be estim

ied in the s

cultivating, h

and bunc

pplied after

l $1

cared for should, for the next ten or fifteen years, yield from 1800 to 200

ts at $100 per ton, on the farm, the profit is $100 per acre. If we get six tons at $100 per ton, the profit,

ming line. A good deal of the seed is made into condition powder for stock, occasionally some is made into so-called "olive oil" which is said to surp

y adjoining farms in one neighborhood in western New York, the report gave an average annual return of $85 per acre at the orchard, covering a period of five years. Anothe

t injuries, and the soil well cultivated and properly fertilized, gave a return in

cres, paying $5000 for the whole. He cultivated the orchard, pruned and sprayed the trees thoroughly

dy in Farmers' Bulletin No. 25 of the Uni

uncommon yield. Fair peanut land properly manured and treated to intelligent rotation of crops should produce in an ordinary season a yield of 50 bushels to the acre and from 1 to 2 tons of excellent hay. (Of course better land with more liberal treatment and a favorable season will produce heavier crops, the reverse being true

raised on favorable sites. Connecticut tobacco brings, in ordinary times, from twenty

cco can be closely approximated in Pennsylvania and Ohio. But it must be remembered that the soil is of paramount importance in tobacco raising. The Department has prepared soil ma

ying to me, because larger than anticipated; but much greater values can be and are produced. In fact, the limit of value that may be grown on an acre of land no one can tell. I have a small plot of ground containing less than one sixth of an acre, planted one year with radishes and lettuce, followed by eggplant and cauliflower, and the next year to radishes alone, followed by egg-plant, and each year the total sales amounted to over $200, at the rate of $1200 per acre. Greatly exceeding even this was a smaller plot, measuring 20 X 65 feet, last year, planted first to pansies, plants s

ates commodities which the farm and household require. The club does a large business, and has a high rating in the commercial agencies. In another instance

savings banks with deposits of $4,000,000 each, and five business banks which are doing a thriving business.

its bays which furnish open ways for transportation and an unowned fie