The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-16
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TIRE GREEN rRUcK rRAps WITH The soyrHEKs
rokre--IFDEBrEDsEss or TAR ATLANTIC SLAVE
Stairs TO TIKI sORTH--sUAMHR yxtHFABLBS IN
hAhkkT-THK PRICES.
The market Is rapidly filling up with an varieties Of
spring and summer vegetables, nrsch of which comes
from Southern ports
The statistics Of the traffic with Southern ports In market
garden truck would excite considerable establishment
It's extent and importance known. For newly all early
vegetables from Lcss island farmers shere
ainased great wealth by the oxorbi,ans prices thsy
charged for their green truck which from a month
W sss weeks ahesd Of vegetation New York and Jersey
8os the establishments Of steamboat lines the Southern
ports changed eli this, and within few years most i'm
ortan, trade has sprung up, which nures entirely 10 tho
advantage OF the Atlantic slave Statcs exchange their
curly potatoes, peas string beans Tomatoes onions,
Ions, straw berries, &e or hard cash paid by deal
This trade commences early In April, when potatoes,
the first new ones have arrive here In the steamers
FIR IN New Orleans, The New Orleans potatoes are very
ma oDes and readily bring 81 barrel at ths port To.
wards the middle Of Aprt Bermea POTATOES are duo and
command very high price, they by far the 6uest
potatoes sold in this marker, few days since two car
goes arrived. containing IN all 800 barrels which arc
ceiling al retail for 81 80 per barrel most exorbitnt
price Unions and tomatoes also from New Orleans
ana Bermuda, and command very high prices Bermuda
and New Orleans onions are now selling at - per barrel
aud toma'oe: in boxes six quarts each, sell for 81 3D.
The Savannah trade commences Eext out does not amount
Ia much the people DO not understand fa ming well
thcy should In fact this Is the great difficulty
this southern trade, which might be surprisingly extended
did the farmers know their business.
The Charleston, s. C., trade commences next, aud the
truck arrives here in the steamer about the LIST OF May
On OF the late spring the trace has been behind
hand this year and green peas have only just IN In
large quantities. On Thursday SO bbls Of peas arrived
from Charicston and Is expected that tue reamer duc
to-day viii bring $50 bbls. OF peas Thoy soil at $40
per bbL Charleston string boaDs will be In market 10
compare with Norfolk Va trade which s becoming
This tort send green truck to New YORK
than all the other southern ports put together, and this
year il estimated the Norfolk farmers will double II not
treble their usual products especially In potatoes and
strawberries.
u ,cabc fact that this trade almost exclusively
in the hands of Northern Not only New
York Gamers employed, but New York dealers do
nil the ua'.cine. and NorthcEn farmers raise the
produ Property has raised very much In value In tho
vicinity of Norfolk during The past fo years fact due 10
emigration OF smart New Jersey and Long Island farm,
ers who posed in the mcaIs ~ be used " bring
their crops IL New York market Emigration 1, this
part of Virginia has only just coamenced, and year
nearly doubles the Of products sent from Norfolk
to thr muket The yield Of strawberries this year will
bc large.
The Philadelphia trade in green truck succeeds the We
gin aud precedes II IL also very large trade
With the exception OF onions, potatoes and tomatoes
kitchen garden truck will be very cheap in lte while
Asparagus sells at Is cents por bunch, and rhubarb
plant ut cents. Spinage, lettuce &c, all cheap
selling II for IS cents and good butter commands
80 cents per ID.
Fish Is high For the Shad Is cheap
peci them this year, and good he had FOR
80 each. Sturgeon sells for per H. Salmon
il Get, but dear.
There Is but little to meat lamb IL cheap.
cup,stanc, that checks the sale OF beef.