This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...(The returns average about $200 to the acre. Before the severe freeze of 1895 oranges were almost the only crop grown in Orange County, Florida. Celery growing has since developed and is becoming more general every year. Twelve hundred crates to the acre is considered a good yield, the income therefrom being $1680. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...(The returns average about $200 to the acre. Before the severe freeze of 1895 oranges were almost the only crop grown in Orange County, Florida. Celery growing has since developed and is becoming more general every year. Twelve hundred crates to the acre is considered a good yield, the income therefrom being $1680. This is net income at point of shipment. AND A LIVING The possibilities of onions as profit makers are only now becoming known. Referring to his success in raising Bermuda onions on his farm in Texas, Mr. E. L. Hoffman writes: "The statement in the land advertisement that we cleared $10,000 net profit from 20 acres of Bermuda onions is not exactly correct. We, however, did clear a net profit of $500, after paying freight and commission, from one single acre of onions, but the whole 20 acres did not average us quite $300 an acre. In rough figures I could say that last year's crop ran about 18,000 lbs. to the acre." Mr. John Closner, of Hidalgo, Texas, says he made a net profit of $11,000 on 33 acres of onions. The yield was 36 car-loads. The average onion yield in the United States is 200 bushels per acre, although in Connecticut it runs from 350 to 500 bushels. E. N. Foote, of Northampton, Mass., has made a specialty of onion-raising and this year has averaged 800 bushels per acre, with some acres yielding 1000 bushels. Formerly his highest yield has been 910 YIELDS bushels, but he expects to get 1200 from some of his acres later on. His crop this year, covering 25 acres, brought from $12,000 to $14,000. Corn is the staple American product, but there are many other things that give larger returns for time and labor expended. The yield of corn per acre for 1906 was 31 bushels; this is the general average. The prize offered by the America...
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Very Good. No Dust Jacket Present. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The third edition, 287 pages. "A money panic does more than scare peopel-it sets them thinking how they can protect themselves against a recurrence of this thing. That necessarily turns their thoughts to the land as the source of wealth and independence It is because of this growing desire on the part of the people to know what can be done with small areas, that the author has written this book." VERY GOOD HARDCOVER. Green cloth covers, lettering is bright on the spine and cover.
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