The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-26

small mammals there are not n few. An eb-
server OF long experience. has seen four kinds
OF Sra S"t tSs sI Sis ssna and p' the moi strip sd" sa 1aH r tIs' rune sno
ming wild. The kangaroo mouse may be found
SO can the woodchuck; so can the skunk and
the muskrat. The fox has not yet been exter-
minated, nor has the weasel. More remarkable
ttlll tho sly mink still peers with his black bead
eyes from the haunts along the streams as he
searches for metropolitan wild fowl and fish,
while the hair seal has been seen rearing his
head from metropolitan brine within recent
For fshing let the angler try the waters back
of kocka way Beach. when the sheepshead run
or the bluciish are coming in, or he can cast his
hook over the grass into the lagoons when the
bass art biting. or he may 60 Tor the bass to
Sound. He can try for blackfish in II variety OF
places in the bay-try with success, and there are
men q eSperienGe who !. VII, recon nn mend 's srt,G a
may be had with hook and line within the limits
OF New York. But one VINO knows the trout OF
the Adirondncks cannot recommend the fat and
lazy, il beautiful. speckled fellows that inhabit
the too warm streams OF the second city of the
world.
examine the farms. One read, Of the products
pleasure, too; but the farmers Of southern Cali
fornia and Of Arizona and OF Idaho ought to see
the farms o. the metropolis II they wish to
learn how to get tho greatest product from the
smallest area of land. California may excel us
the matter OF prunes, and Idaho in wheat. oats.
and alfalfa, but when II comes TO garden truck;
one must search far anu VIDE TO ma
any one Who can begin hoeing earlier or gather
u crop later and get more money for tho crop
when it Is in market tiian the farmer living in
Greater New York. And lest this seem to DO
vain glorious let the fnct, be cited that these
farmers have land worth 81 900 an acre, but are
nevertheless able to pay taxes. earn interest.
live well. and lend money OF, Western mort
gages all out OF their garden truck.
More interesting still is the farm land under
water. Here the farmers plant oysters bought
in Connecticut and brought to their farms in
tiny sloops and schooners: One hnndre dollars
an acre is q fair annual yield Of these UNDER
water farms. and the owners do not have to
work too hard to get il, either.
From the year 1918 to the year 1895 Is a Tar
cry. The site OF the Greater New York was In
1913 first settled by the thrifty Dutch. 1t was
a wilderness that echoed only to the howl OF the
wild beast and the shout OF the aborigines. but,
as Henry Hudson said. IL was the hand
soonest and most pleasant country that man
can behold.' In the 2S3 years that have
passed, the quaint little homes that the Dutch
erected with brick and tiles brought from the
that tower twenty times higher IN air. and are
built Of steel dug from the hills of the new coun-
try. The queer old ships with but two or three
sails to tho nnst aid II cargo capacity OF a nun
cred tons or so, ships that required months
for a passage across tn" western ocean,
could carry Hudson's ship on deck and
1000 tons OF cargo besides ships that can cross
tho ocean In days where the OLD ships some
times required months. The handful OF Dutch
traders, IN fear OF their lives from assaults Of ILL
used wild men have increased to a city OF 5000.
600 souls living In security under the flag OF
freedom in "a mart OF nation tho
whose traflckers are the honorable OF the
enrth.'