PROFIT AND LOSS, 



Some, from a peculiar know ledge of what ^as required, 

 and others, more by good fortune tha i good management 

 in selecting a hx'ality, have achieved brilliant results ; 1 ut 

 many have failed, and many are now entering the 1)usiness 

 who will be (lisap])ointed. Did we herald the successes, 

 and pass the failures by unnoticed, we would not be doing 

 o\\Y whole duty; yet the failures have not been witliout 

 causes, and the principal of these are ignorance and ex- 

 travagance, 



A New York firm, operating through an agent, we are 

 told, spent twenty thousand dollars in preparing and 

 ])lanting a cedar swamp bottom near Manchester ; we 

 visited the tract in 1S6T, and to us it had the appearance 

 of an entire failure. The trouble seemed to lie in the 

 sand used in its preparation, iron ore being abundant in 

 the vicinity. There are, however, some valuable mea- 

 dows in the neighborhood of Manchester. 



Perhaps one of the most successful meadows in this 

 State is a " little pond " in Burlington Co., containing 

 twelve acres. It has been planted some ten years, and 

 we understand that the original cost of "putting it out" 

 did not exceed five hundred dollars. In 1869, wo saw 

 upon a spur of this pond a patch of vigorous ^ines wliich 

 had been in existence at least thirty years, and the pro- 

 prietor informed us that he had never gathered from them, 

 at one picking, less than one bushel and a half per square 

 rod, and sometimes they yielded two bush.ds per square 

 rod. 



In another instance, one square rod of the best vines in 

 this meadow was staked off, a line drawn around it, and 

 the berries carefully jicked; whereupon it was found to 

 yiehl six bushels and two quarts, or at the rate of nine 

 hundred and seventy bushels per acre. In 1868, three 

 acres of this meadow yielded an average of three hund- 

 red bushels per acre, and one acre produced a net income 

 of §1,800, It is said that $'20,000 have been refused for 



