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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 191 i 



Bleaching boards of pecky cypress cost $14 a thousand 

 An acre needs 25.000 or 30,000 feet 



and last ten years. A thousand crates to the 



acre is the 

 average 



average 

 price 



yield and $1.44 a crate the 



II 



Expenses 



Lettuce crop 

 Celery " 



»i,30o 

 2,250 



Receipts 

 2,000 crate? lettuce at $1.25 

 5,000 " celery at $1.50 



$3,550 



$2,500 

 7,500 



first year. The second year the land is 

 still too sour for celery, but he should 

 be able to pay the year's expenses with 

 potatoes and cauliflower. The third year 

 he should be able to pay for his house 

 several thousand dol- 

 After that he ought 



and land and put 

 lars in the bank. 



Cost of production 



Net profits 



Even if his lettuce 

 can make $4000, a year 



Total $10,000 

 • 3,550 



IS 



he 

 six 



for 



■ *5,4So 



a total loss 

 and have 

 months to loaf and invite his soul. 



He fears no railroad monopoly, 

 he can ship by water. 



He fears no commission man, for he 

 sells his whole product to local brokers 

 f. o. b. Sanford. 



He fears neither droughts, floods nor 

 frost. Frost rarely injures celery there 

 and generally improves it. 



He fears no insects or diseases. All 

 the pests that destroy celery elsewhere are 

 present in Sanford, but they have never 

 become epidemic. Pests 

 spread when plants are 

 weakened in any way. 

 These plants never suffer 

 for water. 



He is not afraid of the 

 business being overdone. 

 Few localities can produce 

 celery in March and sell it 

 in every city east of the 

 Mississippi. Even if the 

 net profits are cut down 

 from $1,000 to $200 an 

 acre he can make a good 

 living by buying more land. 



house, but my ov 

 "and in five years 



says the celery 

 much better one" 



THE BEST FINANCIAL 

 SCHEMES 



I . The man who has sav- 

 ed $5,000 has the propos- 

 ition that looks best to me. 

 He can buy and develop his 

 five acres, as I have shown, 

 for about $2,200. He can 

 build a house for $3,000 

 (most of the Sanford grow- 

 ers have built much cheap- 

 er ones, and of course, he 

 need not pay all of this the 



GUARANTEED CASES OF $1000 AN ACRE PROFIT 



"/« the past three years I have made $30,680 frofn five acres of celery land." 



C. F. Williams. 

 "/ cut from one acre, on Celery Avenue, in igoS, celery amounting to 1,300 

 crates, which I sold in Sanford, for $2,600." 



B. R. Brisson. 

 "/ received $10,700 for the celery and other vegetables grown on six acres of 

 my land on Celery Avenue, in igo8." 



Mrs. B. E. Tackach. 

 "Last year I let out eight acres on shares for a celery crop. I furnished the 

 land, my tenant the labor, and each shared equally the expenses of seed, fertilizer, 

 etc. When the crop was marketed and all expenses paid, we divided $8,400 between 

 us." 



J. E. Pace. 

 "/ cut 820 baskets of lettuce from one and one-eighth acres of land, which I 

 sold for $1,860 net. I make about $1,200 on an acre of celery. I average 115 

 barrels of white potatoes to the acre." 



James Campbell. 

 "/ began growing celery here nine years ago with $500. I would not sell my 

 place now for $30,000, nor a single improved acre of it for less than $1,000. I 

 never did better than $1 ,yoo on an acre of celery." 



A. McDonald. 

 "Last year I shipped 2,330 crates of celery and 300 of lettuce from two acres. 

 I received $4,112.23 for the crop." 



Richard Muse. 

 "/ have been farming eight years. I began with four acres. I have now 21^ 

 acres in cultivation and am taking in more land each year. I would not sell out 

 for $30,000. On seven acres of land I made $3,000 clear profit a year, over my 

 living expenses." 



Joseph Cameron. 



to make $5,000 a year, or 100 per cent, 

 on his entire investment. 



2. The man who has $1,000 and a 

 knowledge of farming would best rent 

 two acres of land worth $1,000 an acre for 

 $200. His expenses will be about $1,000 

 but the pay for his lettuce comes in before 

 he has to pay the heaviest part of the 

 expenses for the celery crop. His gross 

 receipts should be $3,000 and net profits 

 for the year about $2000, but out of 

 this must come his living expenses. 

 Anyone having less than $5,000 must 

 expect privations. 



3. The man who has plenty of money 

 and experience can buy land at $1,000 

 an acre which will yield $1,000 an acre 

 the first year. 



HOW TO INVESTIGATE SANFORD 



The best way is to go and see for your- 

 self. 



The next best plan is to form a club 

 and send a representative. 



If you can do neither just now, read 

 "Where Celery is King" in 

 Country Life in America for 

 January, 1911. Mr. J. A. 

 Dimock spent a week at 

 Sanford getting the pic- 

 tures you see here and talk- 

 ing with growers. 

 I In order to verify figures 

 here given write to Mr. B. 

 E. McLin, Commissioner of 

 Agriculture, Tallahassee.Fla. 

 Local real estate dealers 

 issue booklets which they will 

 be glad to send you. For 

 addresses of leading dealers 

 write to the Peoples' Bank 

 of Sanford or the First 

 National Bank of San- 

 ford. Or ask our Read- 

 ers' Service Department 

 for particulars. Enclose a 

 stamped self-addressed en- 

 velope. 



If there is sufficient de- 

 mand from our readers we 

 will have one of the leading 

 growers tell his methods in 

 detail. (See also page 

 274.) 



