The record-union., 1895-09-10
OUR VEGETABLES.
FEATURE OF VERY
GREAT IMPORTANCE.
In Quality and Quantity of Product
We Make the World
Stare.

In all Of California can be found no To-
cality in which vegetables OF all kinds
thrive SO perfectly as in the region round
about Sacramento.
| The shipments of spring vegetables
celery, caulifiower. lettuce, rsdishes,
| green onions, eto.-are enormous in their
proportions. They are regularly shipped
as far East as Denver and Kansas City
and north to Spokane, Wash, and
through the Idaho and Montana sections
north of Ogden.
The yield of asparagus-all raised on
the eastern outskirts of the city of Sacrs-
mento-is very large, and the quality is
simply incompatible. Shipments to the
East commence the first week in Febru-
ary and end about June LIST. Sacramento
asparagus, is renowned throughout the
length and breadth of the land for its
phenomenal size and excellent quality.
1t is shipped hence in any quantity,
from twenty-five pounds to q carload.
with guarantee to hold its prime quail
ity for 6 full week. 1t has far better keep
| ing qualities than are possessed by this
vegetable raised in any other section OF
the State. Il. G.. May, the well-known
| proprietor of the Fulton Market, in this
city, sent asparagus to friends in Boston
daily for considerable time last spring,
and it was received i'll perfect condition
and pronounced very wonder of excel
! lenoe in its line. The same dealer has
also, for several years past, made regular
shipments of asparagus to q leading
caterer OF Chicago, who has paid for it,
r, ,~lx 81. 4,
| pound, and from that price down to %
cents.
| Beginning about the 1st Of April, sweet
peas are ready for the market, bringing
usually 10 cents per pound for the earliest
product down to the vicinity of cents
| by the middle of May.
About the lst of May green and yellow
beans and tomatoes come in abundantly
and they are also shipped in large guam
| titles in the directions named above.
Soon after the 1st of June every vege-
table known to California soil-which
means about every vegetable produced
on the broad surface of the earth-and
many not raised in the United States out
side of California, hourishes luxurIantly
in this vicinity.
The yield of cabbage In this section, as
also through the entire State, has been a
partial failure this year. and at no time
has the producer been obliged to sell for
less than one cent per pound, although in
a normal year he realizes on an average
| forty cents per 100 pounds. Carload after
carload leaves the Sacramento depot from
January until July for points in the east
1 "a =, o,tI, bafora Y,ontj0noJ
The onion supply. beginning with the
reds and followed by the yellow Danvers,
commences in March and continues on
indefinitely. Onions and cabbages are
shipped as far east as st. Paul, Mimi.
During juno and July the Sacramento
! Valley has practically no competition in
the shipment of potatoes. as every sec
ton west of the Miss issippi River calls
on this locality for its local supply.
The lands adjoining Sacramento to the
south, along the river, and the river
raised in the whole of any other State in
the Union. This Is as sure crop as any
grown. Failures have been few, and
when they have occurred they were due
merely to the failure of growers to pro-
tect their lands from overflow. Very
large consignmsnts of beans go east from
here to all points whore green winter
vegetables cannot be raised-and that
takes in almost all the country except
the extreme south and the Pacific Coast.
! The crop OF watermslons and canta-
! loupss Is never failure in this section,
Wherever planted on suitable soil their
! ;e
varieties mature much better here than
in any other part OF the State. This gives
! them solid she'll which insures their
shipping qualities-an advantage of in
estimable value. Cantaloupes are regu-
larly shipped as far East as New York
City. The first dozen of this years ship
ment to that market arrived there about
the 1st of July, and netted the producer
! ssventy-fve cents each. A grower at