The herald., 1897-05-25

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miscellaneous vegetables viii come close
to 1000 cars. OF twelve tons each. TO
this are to be added 325 care Of celery.
Just now new potatoes are moving .
little. Probably ten cars will cover this
movement to the end Of last week The
demand has strengthened the market so
that now new potatoes are worth a.
high as $1.25 per Genital. The growers
do not get SO much in the field by the car
load This market has only just opened.
1t is known that the eastern markets
are full of last years potato crop. and
that the prices are very low; but at this
season there ie always more or less de-
mand for new spuds all over the country.
We get all the trade from Denver west
ward, and good deal in Texas. II the
floods have done much damage to
truck gardens along the lower Missis-
sippi the demand for our stuff will be
more active. Thie fact will develop all
through the next six weeks We have
a good crop Of potatoes in the ground.
and could probably spare 400 cars.
1t is difficult to estimate the value Of
these crops. Cabbage has been worth
about rs cents per hundred to the grow
ers. Green peas have been bought as
high as 3 cents per pound. Cauliflower
is worth more than cabbage, and celery
more than caulilower Putting mis-
cellaneous vegetables at 1000 cars, cell
cry at 225, potatoes at 400, and the total
comes to over 1900 cars, or nearly 10000
tons. The truck hae brought good deal
of money into the section.
The small berry crop is now in full
for blackberries, with raspberries still to
come. Take Gardena ae specimen,
and it will appear what can be done on
berries. The whole community there is
engaged in the production of the piquant
fruit, which has held sway over the hu-
man appetite for thousands Of years.
The Gardena people market their crop
by a common plan. One OF the grow
ers. Mr.. Harry Robson, comes into the
city every morning and supplies every
dealer in the city. He returne at night
and pays the growers according to what
each shipped. On Wednesday of last
week he divided up s21S for the days
business
Hay harvest is in full swing, and the
crop ie good. On the river bottoms,
where the crop was put in early, it is
little rank, but that on the mesas and the
later seeding Is fine. clean and bright.
1t is Selling here at $6 per ton, and will
be worth IS when It is cured properly to
feed at once.
These are only few straws, juet those
now actually in the wind.
The nut crops were marketed as sue
cessfully as the orange crop. The bean
crop was pretty. satisfactory in all re-
epects. They are things Of the past.
Deciduous fruits are nearly all making
a fine showing on the trees. and the con-
dition of the eastern markets justifies
hopes of good prices. Vine growers are
in expectancy of getting good crop Of
grapee'. and they look to receive SIS per
ton for the best wine varieties with an
advance for shipping kinds
There are, first and last, $1,000 acres Of
sugar beets in the ground in the south
ern counties, which will pay the farmer
$40 to $50 per acre.
Lambs are worth $3.50 to $1.75 each.
Beef is cents per pound on foot and
hogs have been up to and AZ cents, but
are little cheaner row
When the mild character of the climate
and the amount of work one man can
do in a year, and other factors in the
looks as If there were people on the
earth whose lot is not so happy as that
of the Southern California ranchman,