Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society Volume 41, PT. 1 (Paperback)

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.1911 Excerpt: ... had ten acres I would always want two acres of alfalfa to better the land with, and I think on that acreage my hired help would amount to about between $1,500 and $2,000. We have as high as five men, besides boys. I could have given you the exact figures if I had expected to be called upon, but I have not got them with me. Last winter I think I did state about what it cost to market an acre of tomatoes. This year I have taken two crops, and have kept an account of labor, both men and horses and cost of packages, but it is not far enough along yet to give figures. But on a ten-acre tract that is all garden, it would take $2,000 to hire help, including board. OPPORTUNITIES FOR CITY-BRED PEOPLE IN DOOR COUNTY. By A. L. Hatch, Sturgeon Bay. The continued success of cherry culture at Sturgeon Bay is now attracting wide-spread attention. With a good crop harvested this season and with apples and plums "standing up and doing business," it is evident there is something in Door County quite different from that found in most of the country where fruit growing has fallen down so completely this year. During the last eight years our cherry orchards have produced cherries by the car load, giving good crops every year. When it is known further, that behind this we have a record of forty years more without loss of our orchard fruits by spring frosts the situation contrasts so emphatically with what so often occurs in the rest of the country that many intelligent men who are well informed in fruit growing are not only "sitting Tip and taking notice," but are investing in lands and planting orchards in Door County. What are the conditions that make this region contrast so sharply with the rest of the country" Are they reliable and permanent, and do they constitute "Opportun...