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planted seven rows, each fifty feet long, from which he gathered forty quarts daily in two [weeks or say 480 quarts as there were no berries picked on Sundays. Now fcthe mathematician in The Carolina Field’s office computes this as one. fortieth of an acre and this is at the rate of 19,200 quarts or 600 crates to the acre, which is a very fine yield indeed, and has rarely been beaten by the best truckers of Chad bourn and Conway.Mr. Tar box is also conducting a very interesting experiment in one of his rice fields. He has put in one-half acre of Yankee beans which are doing well and he hopes for great things from this experiment.He has also planted some wax beans in order to keep the market supplied.His carrots are also doing well but this delicious esculent is not appreciated here.Taking into account his corn and some other things he has fifty acres in all planted and after paying all expenses nets, as The Carolina Field has stated, about $2,000 on his investment.A FINE BEGINNING.Mr. J. P. Workman Secured Land NearGeorgetown Last Year to PlantTruck and Made Money.To give an idea of Mr. J. P. Workman’s activity and energy some notice of his former achievements in this community is in order. Mr. Workman came to Georgetown from Maryland, and was manager of the woodworking shop of the Atlantic Coast Lumber corporation, in which place he won the regard of his employers and the respect of his employees. Last year he secured a small tract of land near Georgetown and put out a little truck. He had to work with land which had been practically abandoned for a number of years, its natural resources dissipated and it was in a general bad condition.He found by experiment that the thin humus on the soil would not take over half a ton of fertilizers, which he put in. He had the ill luck to get a poor stand of Irish potatoes, which resulted in giving him a poor yield of thirty barrels of marketable potatoes to the acre. However, at prices prevailing last year this netted a handsome sum. Mr. Workman had in forty acres. He had planted some other vegetables and with these he did extremely well, considering it was his first attempt in this latitude.This year he has in the same acreage of potatoes, but has planted them j much thicker than he did last year and iis-1 has a much finer stand. All the indica-tions point to a greatly increased yield, de-! He has gathered a few for the local du- trade, but he will dig his potatoes formanyislandhaveto coaboutthey,breezdaintiley’sabunc______1- -i.__lt;VUL
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Georgetown Carolina Field
Georgetown, South Carolina, US
Wed, May 17, 1905
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