The gross receipts from a cabbage patch of 12 acres cultivated by Herman Newbern of Camden County is $6,000. Mr. Newbern has just finished harvesting his crop and estimates his profit at $3,000, and all made between March 27 and July 1, with still time to plant another profitable crop on the land.
Mr. Newbern got 4,000 crates of cabbage from those 12 acres, and says he believes his yield was cut down at least 30 per cent on account of dry weather. His cabbage patch was located on sections of dark and gray soil, and he says the dark soil did best. It was a little heavier and consequently more moist. The land was just “pretty fair land,” says Mr. Newbern.
Mr. Newbern put $800 worth of fertilizer under is cabbages. He finished planting on March 27, and began cutting on May 31. The entire crop was marketed in Norfolk, and on top of the big rush from other truck growing sections farther south. But the North Carolina cabbages went because they had the size and the appearance to make them go.
Those 12 acres are already to be planted in another crop. Mr. Newbern will have his choice of planting soy beans or late sweet potatoes without having to fertilize the ground again this year. And by the use of a little fertilizer, he can use it this fall for Irish potatoes or May peas.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, July 6, 1923
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