Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1916-11-09
Descriptive Story Of the
Big Plant.
400 ACRES.
Staff Writer of Vineland jour- q
Tells of Trip Made Over
the Farms.

following very interesting story:
Frequently hearing of the Sea-
brook Farms Company created a de-
sire in the minds of the Journal staff
to see the place that is held up as
model for South Jersey farmers. Ac-
cordingly the good road to Carlls
Corner was taken yesterday afternoon
and in half an hour the party landed
at the farm, which is located on the
State road running from Bridgeton to
Shirley and picked out the first Sea-
brook farm at first SIGHT 1t was easy
picking, for the cultivation of the
land, the vigor of the growing crops
and general appearances indicated
that there was a master hand at the
helm. After autoing through acres
of spinach, lettuce, beets. green -hous-
es and small colony of buildings,
the man office was reached where
Albert M. Seabrook, the secretary and
treasurer of the company, was found
busy as the busiest of men. His greet
ing was most cordial and luckily the
time of day was when he could spare
few minutes for an auto trip over
the 403 acres that belong to the Sea-
brook Farms Company Up hill and
down dale, across a natural water
course and through green fields made
the trip a real treat If the reader
never saw so acres of lettuce growing
on rich land under irrigation then a
very pleasant sight has been missed.
During the ride SO acres of rhubarb
were passed, 60 acres of potatoes, a
field of Chicenese cabbage, SO acres
of Strawberries and so on through the
list of fruits and vegetables. The Sea-
brook Farms Company has been buy
ing farm after farm surrounding the
original Seabrook place and every
farm thus bought shows the Seabrook
stamp more or less according to the
time the property has been under con-
troll. A, high state of cultivation is
the stamp that has given this COM
pany prominence The present COM
pany was organized three years ago
last January with Charles F. Sea-
brook, son of the real founder, as
president and manager, and Albert N.
Seabrook as secretary and treasurer.
The company is capitalized as $780,
600, $25O.00O common and $3.50, 900
preferred stock. The stock has not
been sold as yet up to half the capi-
tallzation. A pretty cottage near the
main office is the home of the presi-
dent and across the way stands the
cozy home of the secretary and treas
urer.
In little village by itself are the
homes OF the Italian laborers and
scattered over the four hundred acres
are the homes of some of the work.
men. In all, or at the present time,
100 workmen are employed. Several
new greenhouses covering % of an
acre each are being constructed cost
ing from $4,000 to $4,000. There
are six of these houses of the same
size. Two of these have thrifty toma-
to plants coming on and the fruit is
expected to ripen about November 1st
when other tomatoes are gone and
before the Southern tomatoes come
into the market One greenhouse is
planted with cucumbers that are
about ready to begin to throw out
vines. 1t is nothing remarkable for
this company to produce six or. seven
thousand dozens of cucumbers. Three
green houses will be sown to radishes
and the rich soil will produce them
by the thousands of punches. These
are heated by steam from
a plant that has three boilers of 1000
horsepower capacity.
The object of the company is to
principally grow the things that will
permit of two and three crops a year
on the same land. They fertilize with
both stable manure and patent ferti-
lizer and perhaps use between $50 and
300 tons a year. The yields vary ac-
cording to weather conditions. The
best potato crop yielded 993 baskets
Of "a pounds each from oQc acre, but