Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1904-08-04
TOMATOES IN WINTER.
In Pennsylvania They Are Raised TO
" Perfection Under GLASS and at
Good Profit.


~"The tomato season is nearly over,
said a Washington market dealer, apol-
ogizing for the poor quality of his to-
matoes, says the New York Times.
But it's just beginning in Philadel-
pha," said the customer
Il always heard they were slow down
there replied the dealer, resurrecting
the moth-eaten joke.
"SloW in some things said the for
mer Philadelphian. ''but able to show
New York a thing or two in tomatoes
Down there only the poor people eat
tomatoes in summer Then about
Thanksgiving day the greenhouses Of
Chester and Delaware counties begin
to produce tomatoes such as you sell
dom see in this market.
"They are fine, smooth perfectly
rpened, and without any core. They
are raised under glass, with scientific
care Of the vines, all the superfluONs
leaves being plucked off 50 rs to pu'
all the strength of the stalk into the
fruit.
"Only two vines are allowed to grow
from a single root, and they are sup
ported on trelises. The vines last
about six months, and sometimes reach
a length of 40 or SO feet and become
as thick as grapevines. Branches are
plucked off, and they are kept bare of
leaves back of the point at which the
fruit is forming.
"The earth around the roots is re-
newed from time to time, and the vines
are so trained that the fruit is exposed
to the sun. The result is the prOduc-
ton of tomatoes such as you don
dream of here in New York, and the
supply is kept up until June, when the
outdoor crop begins to come in, and
people who appreciate really hne to-
matOes stop eating them.
Every day from November to June
these tomatoes come in car loads to
the Philadelphia markets, and they are
all disposed Of there at moderate
prices. Twenty cents a pound is the
prevailing cost ~r
"These tomatoes never reach your
New York commission houses. but your
best hotels and restaurants buy them
in PHILADELPHIA and have them sent on
by express.
"Your Long Island and New Jersey
farmers will learn some day that there
is good money in raising tomatoes in
winter under glass"
The recent agitation of the bouil-
10 tn 1ictil e
France, against the proposals of Nj.
Rouvier, the minister Of finance, to
tax their franchise has disclosed the
immense power Of this vested interest
among the peasantry. 1t is estimated
that no fewer than l,OUO,O0O to SEQ, 900
families avail thems elves of the privi-
iegc to dlSUil from the pea rs, apples.
damsons and cherries Of their orchards
spirituous liquors for household con
sumption. says a London paper. But
as every hectoIiter of nonexempt liquor
worth, perhaps. some Si0-is taxed
20 the tune Of Si4, there is every induce
ment to the enterprising peasant to
distill more than his household can
consume, in order to do an Illicit busi-
ness with his neigh Dor, and in this way
some $50, ,0Go. 900 to $4,000, 900 per an
mum escapes the treasury. In the or
chard land Of Normandy the privately
distilled liquor is. indeed. quite rec
ognized medium Of exchange, and the
bouilleur de cru often pays his work
men. his tailor, his butcher, and his
land in terms of alcohol.
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