ROUGH NOTES BY THE WAY.-NO. 1. 
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Grass Seeds. 
Clover, - - - 500 bushels, at $5.00 - $2,500 
Timothy, - - 600 „ “ 2.50 - 1,500 
Herd’s grass (red top), 30,000 bush., at 45 cts. 13,500 
$17,500 
Fruits. 
Apples, plums, peaches, 50,000 bushels, taken 
from Salem wharves, ... $17,500 
Truck , 
In which the people estimate garden and field 
vegetables; also they have included in 
their sales fruits of different kinds. This 
was from the principal truck growers from 
the townships adjoining the river, - - 
$50,475 
Ship plank, - - 
Forest. 
450,000 feet, at $20 - 
$90,000 
Sawed scantling, - 
315,000 “ 15 - 
36,750 
Cord wood, - - - 
12,100 cords, at 3£ - 
42,350 
Staves, - - - - 
35,000 “ 20 - 
700 
Hoop poles, - - 
290,000 “ 35 - 
7,250 
Bark (ground), - - 
260 tons “ 22 - 
5,720 
Market baskets, 
16,000 “ 32 - 
4,960 
Stephen Baldwin, 
Ships Built. 
650 tons. 
$187,730 
Shenango, 
600 “ 
Burlington, - 
600 “ 
Watagee, 
450 “ 
Sarah Hand, - 
Barques. 
350 tons. 
Pons (a slaver), - 
250 “ 
2,900 tons, at $35 per 
ton 
John McKeim, - 
Steamers. 
300 tons. 
$101,500 
Erickson, 
100 “ 
Empress, - 
140 “ 
Cumberland, 
100 “ 
640 tons, at $35 per ton, 
Monmouth, 
Schooners. 
140 tons. 
$22,400 
Emma Louisa, - 
120 “ 
Forrest, 
100 “ 
Barge, 
140 “ 
Sloop Ann, 
60 “ 
Do. 
30 “ 
2 at Pennsgrove, 
200 “ 
790 tons, at $30 per ton, 
7 Canal boats, - 
$23,700 
700 tons, at $15 per ton, 
These vessels were 
built within the last six 
$10,500 
$158,100 
years (as I have understood), and as it 
takes much time in preparing the materi¬ 
als, the labor of building them must neces¬ 
sarily render a length of time unavoidable, 
so as to run into different years. The 
whole amount of their market value as 
above, being divided by 6, the number of 
years, makes the annual surplus - - - $26,350 
There are now on the stocks, building, 4 
schooners, 2 sloops, 5 large canal boats 
(largest size), and 1 line boat of 60 tons. 
Furs and Wool. 
Furs—principally sent to New York, - $7,500 
w ’ 5,500 
$13,000 
$13,000 
4,460 
$17,460 
5,000 
- 1,000 
- 1,000 
- 640 
$7,640 
3,000 
923 
1,000 
1,750 
$6,673 
769,777 
With considerable labor and expense I have ob¬ 
tained the foregoing. I regret that I could not get 
the truck and fruit growers to discriminate the pro¬ 
duce of the different articles raised by them, but I 
am inclined to think that the estimates are fair and 
reasonable. I regret that I could not in any way 
ascertain the value of the different kinds of poultry 
exported. From what I have seen on board the 
steamboats from our town, and have heard from the 
two upper townships, which send a great proportion 
by wagons to Camden, I am inclined to believe that 
we might safely set down our exportation at 
$20,000. Robt. G. Johnson. 
Salem, June 20th, 1846. 
I would remark that most of these products were 
obtained by the actual labor of the inhabitants of 
the county, without the aid of steam, or water 
power, with the exception, perhaps, of one or two 
sawmills. Nor is all the produce of the county 
enumerated in the above tables, as I have found a 
case, in which no mention was made of a large 
number of fruit trees that sold for a considerable 
amount, by Samuel Reeve, a worthy member of the 
society of Friends. On asking him why he was 
not represented in the statistics, referred to above, 
he replied, that he did not wish to make too much 
show of his business. His nursery, though large 
in extent, is not so much so, in its variety of trees, 
having only 47 sorts of apples, 8 of plums, 5 of 
pears, 8 of peaches, 3 of apricots, and 5 of eher 
ries. I remarked that his assortment was not large. 
“ I know it,” said he, “ but when I sell a tree, I 
intend it shall bear the kind of fruit I sell it for.” 
He made no allusion to other nurserymen; but, 
from some experience of my own, I am led to be¬ 
lieve that trees purchased have sometimes been 
taken up promiscously from the nursery, and the 
labels tied to the bundles, corresponding with the 
order; for, after waiting patiently several years for 
the fruit to grow, it turned out to be anything and 
everything but the varieties they were sold for. 
Leather , Soap , Candles , fyc. 
Leather, ------ 
Soap and candles, - 
Castings, - 
Scrap iron, - - - 
Feathers and rags, - 
Cider, vinegar, and bricks 
Carriages, - - - - 
Grain-threshing machines. 
Oil of sassafras, - 
Sumac, 50 tons, at $35 per ton. 
Total exports 
