Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1874 — Capabilities of an Acre. [ARTICLE]

Capabilities of an Acre.

J. M. market gardener of Green Bay, Wis., furnishes the Horticulturist some interesting statements of his experiments in high Culture. He has found the rule invariable, not a single exception to it, that the more he has spent in cultivating and manuring, the greater have been the net profits per acre. Last season he cultivated fourteen acres, and began with a more thorough and expensive cultivation than ever before. The result was, that although there was a “ terrific drought”—one of the dryest seasons ever known in that region—after spending $3,986, or $384 per acre, he had a better balance than in any previous year. He appears to regard constant cultivation. especially through drought in connection with copious manuring , as all important. Stable manure is the standard; with such use of superphosphates, plaster, lime, ashes and other manures as experience and good sense point out. “After you have learned how to spend money to the best advantage," he remarks, “ a larger profit may be made by laying out S3OO per acre than with less. After the second year, if your land does not pay all its expenses, taxes and 10 per cent, on SI,OOO per acre, there is something wrong somewhere. I have some acres xxf-latnd that did not pay expenses for two years, but for a number of years past have not failed to pay 10 per cent, on at least $2,000 per acre.' I expect my whole garden to do more than that in a short time.” He adds, that he is now aiming at 1,000 bushels of onions per acre, then a crop of carrots or turnips, or 500 bushels of early potatoes; or if strawberries, 12,800 quarts, or 400 bushels per acre. This amount of strawberries is not wholly impossible; as we have known, under our own observation, this rate on two-thirds of an acre.— N. Y. Observer.

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