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At Irondequoit, Monroe county, is located the largest greenhouse 

 vegetable forcing community in New York State, there being over 

 a hundred growers, each of whom has one or more 1 glass houses. 

 Practically all of these growers look on hotbeds and cold frames 

 as forcing structures not to be considered in their scheme of 

 farming. The Irondequoit growers should be called the New 

 York State advance guard in the most up-to-date lines of forcing 

 vegetables. They raise radishes and lettuce in the fall, some- 

 times also cucumbers or tomatoes, and cucumbers are often grown 

 in the spring. They also grow a great variety of vegetables on 

 the land outside the forcing structures. Their product is sold 

 locally on the public market from their wagons or to special 

 customers such as hotels, restaurants, and stores. When a surplus 

 is found, it is shipped away to other markets. 



Near Buffalo there are a great many market gardeners located 

 at Gardenville, Hamburg, Eden, Sanborn, Lancaster, Jewettville, 

 South Wales, and other towns. Many of these are using the hot- 

 beds and cold frames, and a few have the more modern greenhouse 

 structure. All are intensive growers of vegetables outside as 

 well as inside the forcing structures. The product is carried by 

 wagon to the Elk Street or to the Polish market and is there sold. 

 Some of the vegetables are shipped away either through a local 

 association or through the hands of commission men. 



At Elmira, Ithaca, Cortland, Auburn, Binghamton, Port Jervis, 

 and Middletown are found market gardeners, several being located 

 near each of these cities to supply the local demands. In some 

 eases up-to-date greenhouses are used, supplemented with hotbeds 

 and cold frames, and outside gardening is practiced as well. 



INTENSIVE CULTURE 



The intensity of the operations conducted by the men near the 

 different cities is quite apparent when one understands that from 

 their land they are able in a single season to remove from one to 

 three crops. In some cases, particularly on Long Island, even 

 four crops are removed in some years. It is necessary for these 

 men to reap many crops each year because of the high valuation 

 of the land. Near New York City an acre of land is worth almost 

 any price — $5,000 to $7,500 or even more — while in othei 



