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west end of it, raise special crops. Mr. Jaques raises ten acres of 

 cucumbers, wliich pay him from two tliousand to two thousand 

 five hundred dollars an acre, Mr. Eeunett's tomatoes given him, 

 when first come, probably one thousand five hundred dollars a 

 week. Some others of my neighbors sell their crops for from ten 

 thousand to twenty thousand dollars a year. Their gardens are 

 from ten to fifty acres each. The crop at twenty thousand dollars, 

 leaves the gardener some profit, 



Mr. Field — Mr. Barnet Johnson has found his rhubarb so little 

 profitable, that he has plowed up an acre of it to grow something 

 better. 



Prof Mapes — I have sold mine for ten dollars the hundred 

 bunches. 



Mr. Field — A smart and very industrious neighbor of mine 

 pays a rent of twenty-five dollars an acre, for six acres, on which 

 he puts one hundred and fifty dollars wortli of manure, and 

 his variety crop gives him about six hundred dollars an acre. He 

 has from two to three crops a year. 



Prof, Mapes — ^Yes, sir; we supply country towns with vegetables. 

 I believe that fifty wagons loaded with vegetables from the New- 

 York markets, daily, reach Newark and so to other towns in the 

 neighborhood of New- York, where respectable middle men trans- 

 act immense business, between gardener and citizen, and they do 

 it fairly, as merchants do. I receive their checks as readily as 

 those of merchants. The cabbage crop is worth a few words. 

 Few^ persons are aware of the tremendous demand for them south 

 of us, where cabbage does not seem to do so well as here. That 

 southern market has never been glutted by the right sort, tliat is 

 prime heads. I have sold off" my farm, from one acre, twelve 

 thousand heads of Eergen cabbage, in a year. I place them so 

 near together as to lap one another, and thus mulch the ground 

 completely. I got six hundred dollars for them. The cauliflower 

 market is rather overstocked ; they cannot be exported. 



Mr. Lowe— On my late tour I saw, at Caledonia, Canada, cab- 

 bages, brought from Albany, selling at eighteen and three-quarter 

 cents a head. 



