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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 4, 
SOME SUCCESSFUL CROPS. 
The most successful crop I remember to 
have raised was one of celery in the year 
1900. This crop for acreage brought the 
most money I ever received for the acre¬ 
age and was four acres grown by myself 
and one acre purchased from a neighbor, 
and consisted of 1,172 crates, 14,3.10 dozen, 
and netted the sum of .$5,167.35. This crop 
was eclipsed by a crop of lettuce in the 
year 1905 which consisted of 2% acres, ami 
produced 649 crates of three dozen each 
and sold for a net sum of $1,451.33 an 
acre and a quarter of this lettuce netted 
over $800. Now these crops are extremes, 
and for fear some will^say that it cannot 
be possible will say that I have the books 
before me, and can show the figures to any 
that doubt, and only give them because 
you asked me to give a statement of the 
most successful garden crops I ever raised. 
The most unsuccessful would be just as 
extreme the other way. D. L. D. 
Arkport, N. Y. 
I once received $250 for a half acre of 
cabbage; but it was a season when I 
chanced to have a good crop and others 
didn’t. I have received as much as $400 
for an acre of strawberries, but that is 
more than usual by at least $100. I once 
received more than $400 for one acre of 
blackberries, but that was before peach 
trains began running from the South to 
Boston. Bator I pulled up my blackberries, 
as I could not make them pay. 
Massachusetts. M. Jf. 
The only special crop that I call to mind 
just now was cantaloupes, Rocky Ford 
variety. I had a contract with the railroad 
hotel system. These people run a system 
of dining cars on two roads. My contract 
called for not less than five crates per 
day nor over 30, 36 melons to the crate, 
at $1.25 per crate. I had five acres of my 
own and had eight acres planted by other 
parties. I furnished seed, they to plant, 
cultivate and deliver to my packing shed at 
45 cents per crate, I to do the packing. 
These parties cleared about $30 per acre 
and had the land back again August 1 
with a heavy coat of crab grass on it for 
hay or pasture. I cleared about $60 per 
acre on my own land. These were grown 
on good land without any fertilizer of any 
kind or irrigation. In order to procure 
good seed I sent to Rocky l ord. Colorado, 
and bought two crates of the best melons 
procurable. They cost me by express here 
$2.90 per crate. I selected my stock seed 
from these melons. This made my seed 
come pretty high, but I could not take any 
chances, as this kind of trade demands a 
fanev article, even size and in prime con¬ 
dition. I never had a crate turned down 
during the season. H. u. DAVIS. 
Texas. 
I think one of the most pleasing crops 
I have grown was a 16-acre field of Winter 
rye, harvested in .Tilly, 1910. The rye part 
was fully 450 bushels and the straw, 24% 
tons, was very bright and five to seven feet 
tall. The rye sold for 75 cents per bushel 
as soon as thrashed from the field, the 
straw (a car of it) at $10 per ton in 
large bales, pressed (tangled). I grow 
rye for a Winter cover crop and usually 
plow it all under for growing cabbage 
plants, potatoes, corn and other crops. But 
this field was so nice that I seeded the 
field to Timothy and clover, which is now 
an excellent stand, and harvested the rye. 
Scipioville, N. Y. F. M. p. 
In the Spring of 1890 we planted a few 
acres of cauliflower and most of it headed 
during the week of the Republican National 
Convention in Chicago. The heads were 
packed in berry cases, eight in a case, 
packed firm and face straight up, and sold 
for $1.75 to $2.25 per case. I think this 
beat all the crops we ever raised. About 
the 1st of May, 1892, a wet spell began 
that lasted till the middle of June, with 
from one to six showers in every 24 hours. 
We had about seven acres of asparagus to 
cut, and bv wearing rubber boots or going 
barefoot and hurrying out between showers 
we managed to keep it cut. The ground 
was a little sandy on top and tiled every 
40 or 50 feet and 3y 2 to four feet deep. 
The bunches were made so that four dozen 
bunches standing on end just filled an 
orange box, and sold that year for $4.50 to 
$5.50 per box, but most of it for $5 per 
box. I think there were two reasons for 
the high price that year, first, the extra 
wet weather hindered other crops (espe¬ 
cially on land not tiled), second, many 
were preparing to put in more acres of all 
kinds of vegetables the next year, expecting 
to get two or three prices then for every¬ 
thing they could grow, on account of being 
World’s Fair year. 
Indiana. louis c. breyfogle. 
The season of 1910 I had one-half acre 
in carrots on newly cleared land of the 
lighter type, a little on the sandy side, and 
the yield was 400 bushels of the short yel¬ 
low type. DATES CLARK. 
Several years ago I plowed a piece of 
old Blue-grass pasture sod that never had 
been planted before; plowed it in late 
Fall, gave the Winter a chance at it and 
in the Spring prepared it for watermelons. 
The seed was planted under glass in quart 
berry boxes with the bottoms let down 
flush with the edge, on the 5th of March. 
When the plants were put out they were 
very large and strong and were planted 
the' middle of May. The soil was the rich, 
black corn soil of Central Illinois. The 
season was exceptionally favorable, and I 
might have put the plants out a month 
earlier had I but known. There were 
three acres in the piece: we began to mar¬ 
ket melons July 20 and they yielded 1 % 
carloads to the acre of very fine largo 
Dixie melons. I have grown many acres 
of melons, but I never had any such yield 
as this, before nor since. Every condition 
seemed just right. L. s. spencer. 
Champaign Co., Ill. 
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