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Gardening Around Norfolk. 
In his report of a recent southern trip, 
the Editor of the New England Farmer 
gives the following account of a visit to 
the truck farm of Mr. A. J. Newton, one 
of the most enterprising market gardeners 
in this region: Mr. Newton is a New Eng¬ 
land man, but has been farming here the 
past eighteen years. His farm is a small one 
for this section, containing only 45 acres, 
but it is most thoroughly worked. He em¬ 
ploys from 30 to 40 hands in the busy season, 
and raises mainly cabbage, (early and late,) 
beets, squashes, onions, spinage and lettuce 
for the Northern markets, also other crops 
m moderate quantity. Cabbage is sent off 
by the thousand barrels, and manure pur¬ 
chased by the thousand dollar’s worth. He 
brings a great deal in vessels from New 
York City at a cost of about $1.50 a load of 
of 25 bushels. We measured late cabbage 
heads that were 12 inches in diameter, and 
solid enough to split open with a little wet 
weather, which, by the way, is very much 
needed here. It is hard for a Northern man 
to believe that such large drumheads can 
be gathered here by the acre before the 
middle of June, but over 2000 barrels of 
early ones had already been shipped at from 
$2 to $3 per barrel. The east branch of the 
Elizabeth river washes his grounds, and 
most of his stuff is floated down to Norfolk 
in a sloop of his own, thus making trans¬ 
portation expenses comparatively light. 
He is connected by telephone with the out¬ 
side world, and can sit in his parlor and 
receive latest quotations for vegetables 
from the leading cities, and shape his con¬ 
signments accordingly. He is within twen¬ 
ty-four hours by water of New York or 
Philadelphia, thirty-six of Providence, and 
can get his goods into Boston in forty- 
eight hours. A new line of railroad is 
being built that will soon bring him twelve 
hours nearer to the New York market. His 
profits have greatly varied from year to 
year, according to the season and the mar¬ 
kets, varying from $1500 in dull years to 
$5000, and even $7000 in exceptionally good 
years. His help costs from 50 cents to 75 
cents per day for male and female colored 
laborers, who board themselves. The 
freight on a barrel of cabbage to New York 
is usually about 17 cents. He uses some 
200 hot-bed sash for starting early plants, and 
is investing largely in tiles for underdrains. 
Mr. Newton’s farm is a model in its way, 
almost absolutely free from weeds, and is 
so well known here as one of the best, that 
it has been visited by such extensive mar¬ 
ket gardeners from the North as Mr. Bud- 
ling of Providence when making a tour of 
the “trucking” country. I have seen no 
such high farming anywhere else in the 
South, and doubt if there is much to be 
found at present anywhere in the country. 
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