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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, ign 
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Paper Crop Profits 
By George Ethelbert Walsh 
r "pHE country boys have always been 
■*- depicted as yearning for city life, 
and unquestionably the trend of our pop¬ 
ulation has been townward, but offset¬ 
ting this in recent years has been the 
growing desire among city-born boys to 
get back to the country. The dream of 
running a Western ranch or owning a 
farm is strong today in the minds of 
thousands of boys who are tired of the 
restrictions of city life. Moreover, a good 
many city dwellers are wearied of the 
"strenuous life,” and when they can lay 
aside sufficient money they purchase a 
country home for pleasure and profit. 
Anything which will induce city boys 
and men anxious for country life to lo¬ 
cate on farms and gardens in a proper 
way should be encouraged, but the condi¬ 
tions should be fairly and squarely under¬ 
stood and faced. The notion that farm¬ 
ing is “dead easy” according to modern 
scientific methods has deceived many. 
“Paper profits” is largely responsible for 
this. It is easy to figure out on paper 
unusual profits from the most common 
crops, and then to multiply them by ten, 
twenty or a hundred to show that any 
man can become wealthy in a short time. 
The full capacity of our soil has never 
yet been definitely measured. Science 
has sought to show that under intensive 
culture and the most favorable conditions 
present-day crops can be doubled and 
trebled. Experimental farms of small 
size have demonstrated that the yield of 
each acre of land under the most ideal 
conditions could surpass anything an¬ 
ticipated today. But we have not yet 
reached the stage of development where 
we can take the ideal experiment farm 
of a few square yards as a standard for 
field culture on a ten or twenty acre 
farm. Those who figure on “paper 
profits,” however, frequently make this 
fundamental error, and then in their dis¬ 
appointment condemn the whole system 
of modern scientific farming. 
For instance, at one of the agricultural 
experiment stations a small test garden 
was planted with Gibraltar onions, a new 
and most excellent variety. They were 
planted three to every eleven inches in the 
row, with rows fourteen inches apart. 
That would make about 12,000 plants to 
the acre, and from the high yield ob¬ 
tained on this small test garden upward 
of 2,000 bushels should be harvested 
from an acre if the high average held. 
These onions sold at the rate of $2 per 
bushel, which would give $4,000 gross 
receipts from an acre of ordinary onion 
land. Had the new Welsh onions, which 
sell as high as $3 and $4 per bushel, been 
planted instead of the Gibraltar, the re¬ 
turns would have been between six and 
eight thousand dollars per acre. 
What a good many may fail to notice 
in this crop report is that the season, soil, 
and culture were all ideal, and that it 
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