New-York tribune., 1867-06-18

not yield vcil enough 10 be profitable This grower
The cost o. the cultivation Of plants from pcwins
picking, he estimates at $50 per acre The little
fruit is sent to market cost about Il cents piece Men
women and children engage IN gathering te crop ana
TO 81 Is per baskets The amount or fruit Which each
picker gathers IN day depends somewhat upon h3
ambition to make money From 100 to 200 baskets day
IA the usual result Of pickers effort though an I1sh
girl who threw her sou into the work, gathered 40s
baskets rot long sincethe greatest result Of days
picking on record. The work OF gathering the crop
Is now done principally by women and children. as men
can earn better wages at other employment. bed OF
the fruit be picked 10 advantage once in four days.
profit to Ire prodncer The reenhis vii stand six be-
fore they succumb Complaint was made that the Hol-
bosom OF destruction and always ruined it with one Visit
One grower near Hackensack Mr. jacob Hopper, cele-
tue has gwen up altogether because he could get no
other pickcrs than these destructiyes; -
The opens with due regard TO circumstances.
It expected TO begin during the last week OF May,
weathe! permitting; but this years backward Sp'lng has
its heyday before the Goth OF June. When under
way is expected to run four weeks at least Az whole
those berries which come In boxes are going at nom 10
IS cents per quart Last year the average was greater
for this year have touched bottom and that Strawberries
will be no cheaper this year than they are to-day NJ re-
tail the maximum price at any MARKET stan, or stand
We have il from some OF the dealers through whose
hands large percentage Of the years production passes.
that Staten Island furnishes some OF the incest straw
berries which came TO the GS ana ta avs1
tsements 30 much that they "get the best OF every.
thing Strawberries included carry of the principal
portion OF the Staten Island fruit for the eloes IN the
Hub. The varieties in favor at staten Island are the
Monitor TPph 6d & ds & Gaad o. t9 seSon came from
Charleston; since which Delaware and Maryland nave
% SSxes SS m aSd ub be in early sod at Wholesale ot
81 at first down 70 CSC. quart az the season avaCs
petition with the Deiawares will command price higher,
by per cent in market than the Delawares Inc qure
boxes IN which these berries arrive cost the grower - per
drcd. .aDdt
these boxes take to themselves, beng CIRCULAR square.
2caS9n 10 sdid ars the skeleton, esi
bound baskets which hold the berries securely ana az
nit circulation a Gd a s these evident advantage
do not than tho Others and producers purcS3
them az four cents pnt and Eve cents each fot
quarts Thoy are made Staten Island on the berries
which from South Jersey, most OF them are Pscoa
while those which come from the Northern counties ars
brought in baskets, which cost from OneIonI 70 Ve %
berries the better package readily bring one cent
basket more in market
vast strawberry ed so thoroughly is trayerscd by the
transportation routes TO this city, all OF which engage IN
the bringing % this fruit TO market and dram the
sections through which they respectively pass OF th9
product 10 show something Of the quantity which !.
TO bring them here, these facts appended:
The this year being not only backward Dut ty
backward the strawberry statistics do not require as
heavy figures as they will within the week htpresent,
the steamer Argo makes regular trips to Wasninson
n. j. reaching her dock here at u O'Clock a. m ra1y &
for the morning trade. She now bringing about oS
OF WSssinccn Tho Msteawaa district below Koyport.
in Monmouth County make. GOOD report Two iI
trips bringing upon each boat about % bas or mora
than 5000 quarts. The EewJersey Railroad does not
run trcsG n1S & P5Sdo P6Sd o
light rho receipts both by this road and by tie New
average 5000 baskets day at this time In the full sea-
the amount VIII reach about 5000 baskets. @ Lne
road last week they should want TO put special
train the transportation OF strawberries through 70
heard Of II since The propeller Holmdcil brings nom
Keyport about 50 crates and barrels containing IN ths
neil hhOrhOOd OF 10000 quarts at Tp making she paS
sa{e up al night The Mattawan steamer which leaves
the same port IN the SrnnS we ho s"2S e Psy
arc about 1900 quarts but 1t VIII soon tell nuch oetr
story The country along the Ioa1 an Se uobo3
end sunerDs Is noted for is fruitful vines Mheh ele
trade is iu full blast special train Is run or tne aSt
res this train Consisted q ten and brought from
7So 70 10000 baskets or 5000 quarts Scs y
tbS fields about Lodi Carlstadt Hackensack and Wood
bridge II now brings about 900 quarts day; but in
thess northern counties the crop FAR behind the times
and is just beginning TO come IN Inc hol5hoI
and Closter, carries $500 quarts day, ana
win double tho quantity by the O'h nis, lgst
dTs 70 200 Quarts from Maryland and Delaware Tho
Central Railroad OF New-Jersey does little festerdsy
they opened the season. with one crate; Dut to aOps
Express running the road brought none, ana
herecps from this source will no, be Large sysa aa az sSs
given 70 srawberrying About 1900 quarts come usy
by the RedOank beats So1O 9uarss ~ % c @ ~ ,ro %
staten Island and the United States Express bngs down
the Erie Road about 1000 quarts The Adams Exprees
company mas brought the last three days an average
OF more than % quarts per day. some OF which arrived
from Norfolk. Va, and some from tho Delaware ana
Maryland districts.
Here then we have total Of $4,000 quarts OF straw
berries which reach the city during day, and at
time too when every engaged in the trade either IN
the production or transportation, complains that straw
berries don't begin TO come in yet" what the hgureS
will be whom the season is under full headway may oo
estimated by comparing the present day receipts Oh inc
Eric Road with those OF last year The proportion VII
not be likely hold good all the routes, but Tue Ott
will be surprising during the coming week kepots
from ali quarters promise magnificent CROP now 80 iar
advanced that no accident OF weather VIII De itkey "
interfere Great the supply may be- New 0ik VII VIII
sell them all but the NewEngland states ana OAnsa
will aid In the consumption.