The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-08-13

earlier than are our own, people get tired Of GER
tain vegetables before the Long Isl nder carts
In bis first load. Particularly Is this the case
with peas, tomatoes, green corn, and other early
farm truck, and the consequence q that II IA no
longer profitable To plant these vegetables. Long
Island peas were 40 cheap this season that acres
Of them were allowed TO spoil unpicked. and
they were finally ploughed under for manure.
New York had hal It's MI OF peas and own
tired Of them, aud II didn't pay the farmer TO
cart them into the city.
The great merit OF Southern produce ia that II
fails to satisfy The palate. southern nv vegetables
are picked green, and ripen on thei' to the mar
ket and, IN const quence. when eaten, are found
To have a nat stale taste. and can no more be
compared to the crisp, sweet, fresh productions
OF Long Island than can a stale salt mackerel to
makes but little the Sontherner makes less vet
Tor after freight and com n issons are paid there
cannot be much left.
GREEN GARDENING uNPRoFTTABLE.
The farmers expenses are heavy. Manure,
which Is the very life Of the land. costs about
SIXTY cents load, and load ia called fourteen
bushels. but Is really not so much. The
engaged In II make great profits II costs them
little or nothing. In some cases they being aotu-
ally paid to remove It.. and, as there IL no COM
petition. they. make their own prices. Various
fertilizers have been tried "a substitutes, but
they fall TO answer the purpose.
Last wear and the year before were great cab
bage Years. The heads grew to an enormous
SIZE and the yield was immense. About $50
or $40 for the farmers produce, time, and
trouble of cartine. IL hardly paid the cost OF
planting. This year, on account Of the drought,
cabbages are so small that II takes from 800 to
loo heads to make a load.
Last season potatoes turned out well, but
prices were low row OF potatoes 0fty feet IN
length, would Yield buabel, while this year. II
the same ground turns out peck tho farmer
Is lucky. Want OF rain and the bugs have al
most made the crop failure. Last year pota-
toes sold as low as 81 bushel, and now they are
worth $3.50.
A garden farm Of nftv acres well worked. will
require the labor Of from ten to fifteen men and
almost as many horses. IL during the
labor was high, and the cost Of production al
most throe times what II Is at present, a good
deal OF money was laid away. and many mort
gage that had been hanging like a milestone
around the farmers neck was paid on. IL was
quite "A common thing then to get "a hundred
dollars Tor load OF truck. whereas now N they
receive twenty-five dollars they are doing well
aud considering that lately highwaymen have
formed an unpleasI habit OF relieving the
farmer OF his money on his road home from
market, not many fortunes are likely to be III ade
by the cOuntrymen this season.
Long Island firm OF ATTY acres Is generally
valued at about tD,OOO and the owner Of It
manages to make "A OnfortaDle living on II and
no more. There Is nothing pOetical about the
farmer. II you speak to him Of his grand old
woods, he tells YOU that ttnUer Amt worth cut
tlnR down, he regards his golden grain with
commercial eve, and MS waving corn nodding
gracefully IN the breeze Is to hun only 30 many
dollars aud cents.
In consequence Of the low prices Of produce
and grain rms and taking horses to board. IL
this becomes general, New York. freshest vego-
tables will be ut least week old when they
arrive. The prospect Is by no means reassuripg.