Bridgeton pioneer., 1916-06-08
BRlDGETON, N. j., THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1916

porter stopped and unfortunately
turned over a single Chesapeake
plant. Upon it were twenty-seven de-
veloped Strawberries. All of the OH
er plants were in the same, healthy.
proiihc condition. The reporter gath
cred from this bed box of ripened
berries. Heaping full it contained Just
thirty-six berries.
This year the berry pickers will re-
ceive two and a half cents per box
for harvesting the crop. The addi-
tional half cent paid this year will in
crease the expense $2500. To gather
the great crop of Strawberries the
Seabrook management will pay out to
the plckers alone a sum in excess of
$4,000. On Monday next, the people
enjoying the automobile run will see
a shipment of probably $4,000 boxes
of berries leaving the farms, the most
of them going to New York City
One hundred acres of growing pota-
tees will be seen by those who go out
over the we'll titled fields.
Acres and acres of onions, acres and
acres of rhubarb, acres of lettuce.
acres of asparagus, acres of carrots
will spread out before the eye. Con-
ditions will probably be such that the
irrigation system will be seen in op-
GRAFTON. 1t is remarkable to see this
fine spray, falling upon the growing
, crops like a gentle rain. Here the
rain fall comes at the nod of the farm
management. Nature cannot rebel.
Seabrook is a rain maker at any or
all times. He figures that he can
have an inch of irrigation rain fall
at cost of 40 cents per acre. How
, many farmers, at some time in a sea-
son of draught, would gladly pay $40
, an acre for such a rain fall.
The participants of the auto run
will have opportunity of going
through the three great green houses
which are now upon the place. They
. will have opportunity of seeing in one
growing cucumbers, the vines coming
up from the ground and supported
, upon cords, standing six or eight feet
high. Here the cucumbers develop
into great, firm, weighty vegetables,
and thei shipping is constant. The
SeabrooRe Farm Company is getting
81 dozen for all of these green house
cucumbers. They find a better recep-
ton in the metropolitan markets than
any that come from the South or
California. And there is no scarcity
of these cucumbers. In this one
great house there are 5000 separate
vines and upon each vine will aver
age 80 cucumbers. Simple mathema-
tics figures that crop at 100000 Gu
cumbers, 12,500 dozen and they sell
for 81 a dozen. A crop that will bring
in something more than $4,000.
In an adjoining green house are
acres of red ripening tomatoes grow
ing upon vines that are held high by
cords. There is tomato picking every
day. The tomatoes are sorted in two
grades and packed in cartons, each
one carefully wrapped in tissue paper.
All Of these tomatoes are sold by the
pound, and bring in to the Seabrooks
Farm Companys treasury at the rate
of $500 to $500 per ton.
The entertainment and luncheon
will be a most pleasant feature of
the occasion, and the League House
Committee has urged Mr. Seabrooks
to provide large quantity of luscious
berries in packages so that they may
be sold to those participating in the
lun. Everyone will want to bring back
from the farm souvenir in the form
of box or two of these selected ber-