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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
1731 
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Everyone this Fall expected a short 
yield of sweet potatoes, but the harvest¬ 
ing of the crop has revealed the fact that 
the yield per acre is the largest ever pro¬ 
duced in this county. The market price 
is not so high as last year, and the com¬ 
mercial storage houses are buying a large 
portion of the crop. I saw one hill, a 
single plant, which had 14 large potatoes, 
measuring nearly a peck. If every hill in 
that field had been as large, the yield 
would have been over 1,000 bushels an 
acre.. But so far as I can learn the aver¬ 
age yield is nearly 400 bushels an acre, 
and there are crops above that. One field 
of 42 acres made nearly 17.000 bushels 
and all sold for $1 a bushel. The markets 
at different stations varied. At some sta¬ 
tions No. 1 potatoes are selling at 50c 
a % basket, while at other points the 
growers are getting 75c for No. 1 roots. 
Our farmers have had a poor season for 
some of their crops. The tomato crop 
was a dead loss to growers and cannere 
alike. Cantaloupes were late, and ran 
into the South Jersey crop and slumped. 
The strawberry crop was a great success, 
and, taken altogether, our growers are in 
far better shape than the wheat and cot¬ 
ton farmers, and have far less reason for 
complaint, since with the yield of the 
sweet potato crop so good they cau afford 
to take the price, that is very much lower 
than that of last year. 
Reports say that the growers of early 
Irish potatoes on the Eastern shore coun¬ 
ties of Virginia are planning for the usual 
heavy planting this Winter. I fear that 
they may find the market full of the po- 
toes grown North this season, and when 
that is the case, and the old potatoes are 
rushed on the Spring market, it means 
lower price for the Southern crop. But 
the very complete and efficient selling or¬ 
ganization in those counties generally 
brings their growers out whole in the 
worst seasons. The establishment of the 
auction sales here has been a great ad¬ 
vancement, and is educating the growers 
in marketing. As one man sees bis neigh¬ 
bor’s produce selling away ahead of his 
own, he naturally tries to find the reason, 
and the next time he comes to the auc¬ 
tion block he will be in shape for better 
price. I once saw a string of wagons 
coming up. For one man’s berries there 
was a lively competition. Another man 
drives up. “Bill, you cau have that man’s 
berries,” said a buyer without looking at 
a crate. It seemed that every grower had 
made a reputation, either good or bad. 
and the man with a poor reputation for 
picking his berries and growing poor fruit 
found it followed him even when he tried 
to improve. And the most amazing tiling 
about it is that the men whose products 
sell below the average do not seem to 
learn why their neighbors get ahead of 
them at the auctions. It is hardly to be 
expected, when we consider the great 
number of misfits in all lines of human 
business, that we will ever see all growers 
of farm produce in the first class. 
The investigation of the Department of 
Agriculture showed that there were many 
farmers losing money at growing cotton 
for 40 cents a pound while othere were 
making line profits. They found that the 
average cost of producing cotton under 
present conditions was 21) cents a pound. 
Hence, with cotton now at 20 cents there 
is no wonder that there is general loss. 
The beautiful October weather is still 
with us (October 20), and not the slight¬ 
est frost yet. The great sweet potato 
crop is housed or sold, the late Irish pota¬ 
to crop has ripened, and is now going into 
heaps for the Winter, covered with straw 
and earth. Rain is badly needed for the 
Fall crops of lettuce and spinach, etc., but 
such a maturing season has not often oc¬ 
curred. Even the Dahlias have ripened 
and stopped blooming, and are drying up 
in the prolonged drought. But the Fau¬ 
nas bravely try to keep blooming. One 
of the finest Cannas, the largest flowers 
of any, is Fiery Cross. It would be the 
finest of all the scarlets but for one fault, 
the stalks are not stout enough to hold 
the great head of bloom erect. They hang 
over, and that spoils the effect. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
66 
“Marie,” said the dear old lady to 
her maid. “I see that postage on letters 
is to be raised. You had better go 
around to the post-office and get $5 worth 
of stamps before the price goes up.”—- 
New York Globe. 
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