Port Tobacco Times, And Charles County Advertiser

WHAT CAN BE DONE ON ONE ACRE OF Ground.—The editor of the Maine Cultivator published, a few days ago, his management of one acre of ground, from which we gather the following results: One-third of an acre of corn usually produces thirty bushels of sound corn for grinding, besides some refuse. This quantity was sufficient for family use, and for fattening one large or two small hogs. From the same ground he obtained two or three hundred pumpkins, and his family supply of beans. From a bed of six rods square he usually obtained sixty bushels of onions; these he had sold at one dollar per bushel, and the amount purchased his flour. Thus, from one-third of an acre and an onion bed, he obtained his breadstuffs. The rest of the ground was appropriated to all sorts of vegetables, for summer and winter use; potatoes, beets, parsnips, cabbage, green corn, peas, beans, cucumbers, melons, squashes, &c.; with fifty or sixty bushels of beets and carrots for the food of a cow. Then he had also a flower garden, raspberries, currants, and gooseberries, in great variety; and a few choice apple, pear, plum, cherry, peach and quince trees. If a family can be supported from one acre of ground in Maine, the same can be done in every State and county in the Union.