The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-10-13

for peculiar estimated weight OF 900 pounds
for SO.
o Sold to slsughtsrsr At Bulls Head for cents >
pound, gross. Ssh.
= Brought a. slaughter house. hide sll; DIAL s.;
g. Sold 10 consumers At 20 cents pound.
WHERE OUR VEGETABLES ooxR FROM
New York has for her vegetable gardens two long,
loamy peninsula forty leagues in extent apiece, upon
either side Of her These are New Jersey and Long
Island To the north 10 the hardy apple growing county
golden butter country. How does ali this green and
perishable material reach usf First there eight
hundred truckers and farmers within easy drive OF
Broadway. These, coming into often hailed
on the way BY green grocers hucksers SPECTATORS
and bought out bodily Two thirds Of them come from
hoss OF any other region The next great con,r
button TO our vegetable markets comes from the water
side vllagea Psekskill. for example. sends 70 New
York tvo sloops and two bargss in such manner as 70
achieve six trips week. These bring down cargoss OF
butter. eggs fruit berries and vegetables consigned
either commission dealer or entrusted TO the cap
tain Of tho boat Tue dealer charges from Eve per
cent for enecting SALE The captain has more arbitrary
rates He adds the freight and the commission together
and charges thusFor every pound OF butter one cent
for every dozen eggs one cent for barrel OF apples OF
potatoes, twenty-five cents Al the captains sloop or
boarded By 6ucrstsrs srsshswsy who al their wagons
and dash OF through the town 70 sell out 70 citizens
Is surprising 70 see how soon great cargo Of green
within hundred miles by water Of New York has i1
schooner towboa and the long floats Of bargss that
you - descending the North river every day arc only
ropolA Through the Ra1tan canal and outward BY sea
Norfolk and the lower pennsuas Of Delaware and jersey
So enormous has the aggregate Of this green business
become that hardy specaalors at earliest spring, 90
contracting Tor entire crops in advance They fur
Tho sandy ersst:. The ara q r.si.h.s ..
succession asparagus rhubarb and string beana
There 10 single steamer that brought here this spring
thirty tons OF radishea They were packed in the gar
Middle Connecticut, WetheTsdeld in particular. New
Jersey sxcsls 10 tomatoes. cucumbers waIermeIons,
bages, beets and turnipe.
The petao which the most universal article Of
the Adde States Delaware and Pennsylvania send W
hundred thousand bushels year; Ohio sends two
hundred thousand Inc rest we get from Virginia. New
jersey, and even from Chile, In South America
Vegetable growers are divided into pachers, struck
ers," "gardsDers'' and "farmenn ''patcher'' il
trailing tuDsr up some rock He dsrauds the ground
out OF some few bushels OF MERGERS. or 'mub0nk"
and before they are a. 20 gather generally pedg snem
from private and livery stables Al nom So to sl2
or manure Of human refuse, upon bis
premises and uses sn'. Ssn,%ss Hs
arrangements for drainage and irrigation complete.
He begins At the st suspension Of frost To prepare his
ground FIRST poaghing over, then mbectng Is 70 rake
and harrow until every clod the depth OF foot IL
broken The ground is then parceed having been
previously richly manupd and the best seeds Of Roch
ester or Connecticut are obtained while the hotnouscs
meantime have been preparing tomato plants eabbaSe
settings and every variety Of vegetable Before folks
have we'll begun 70 discard their winter clothing the
trucker 10 the way 10 market His wife, boys and
servants hoe all day pull weeds keep the vines roots
and stalks wateed and free and down 70 tho end OF fall
when the frosts swoop upon the urnips and parsnips
his acre. acres, fifty Of truck give
forth pentifuly. II Is the trucker' TO whom we are
indebted for the Of freshess vegetables Some
Of New Jsrseymen have carried their farming pro.
ceases into tho pennsulas Of Old Point and
Norfolk, and their vessels 70 market
The freedmen around Hampton Roads have
each = little patch OF vegetable ground, and this
year they have been invaded by spectators in truck who
pay them the minimum rates for their little There
are within thirty miles Of New York Twelve hundred
truckers they aAe three thousand Of vegetables
year. The gardener confines himself 70 sensitive vege
table growing like celery, 10 raising hothouse fruit
grapes and produce out Of season. He supplies the fru
stores Broadway chiefly.
Below. from authority already quo!ed We give the re-
latve average prices Of vegetables in silver in the
the several markets Of Europe and America during the
year 1886; per barrel