60 THREE ACRES AND LIBERTY 



But it must be remembered that the soil is of paramount 

 importance in tobacco raising. The Department has pre- 

 pared soil maps of most of the important tobacco districts 

 of the United States. If you think your land may be suited 

 to tobacco, apply there for information. You may make 

 your land invaluable. 



D. L. Hartman, Rural New Yorker, gave the following facts 

 and figures : " During last season the sales from one acre of 

 early tomatoes amounted to $454, and from a trifle more than 

 two and one half acres, including the acre of 'earlies/ the 

 remainder mid-season and late plantings, the total sales 

 amounted to over $900. From a little less than one acre and 

 a half $555 worth of strawberries were sold, while the re- 

 turns from early cabbages during the last few years have 

 been at the rate of about $300 per acre. These statements 

 are not made in the spirit of challenge. The results are 

 gratifying 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, fol- 

 lowed by eggplant and cauliflower, and the next year to rad- 

 ishes 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 sold 

 when in bloom, followed by radishes, of which one half 

 proved to be a worthless variety (it lay idle long enough to 

 have produced another crop of radishes), then half was planted 

 to late lettuce, the other half being sown for winter cabbage, 

 plants yielding no cash return. Yet the total sales for the 

 season from this small plot, less than one thirty-second of an 



