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Chicory

Chicory image
Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
June
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Chicory.

John de Ronde, with the Ann Arbor Chicory Co., has sowed 20 acre of chicory in Pittsfield and has 10 acres more that he will sow this week. He says that owing to the cold nights and wet weather many farmers who have contracts with the company have waited and will not sow their seed for some days. The company will next week close up all its contracts. Farmers who are thinking of taking advantage of the good offers of the company, must make up their minds at once, or they will be too late. In these contracts the company agrees to buy all the roots raised for $6 a ton. For the last eight years the average crop of chicory in the vicinity of Bay City has been 10 tons an acre. The crop has run from 7 to 12 tons an acre. As the chicory is a hardy plant and after once covering the ground requires no more work until harvested, it will prove profitable. The farmers who have contracts this year will be favored next year. The past experience of the Bay City factory shows that more land will be offered next year than can be taken care of.