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Title: Success with small fruits
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Roe, Edward Payson, 1838-1888
Subjects: Berries
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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per quart. My father was so wellsatisfied with his experiment thathe advised his sons, Alexander,Edward and myself, to extend theculture of this variety largely.We entered into the business, and,pursuing it with diligence, werewell compensated. Our successmade others desirous of engagingin it, and so it spread out intoits large dimensions. Mr. Tabersgraphic picture of Rush for the night boat suggests how extensivethat business became. The line of wagons at Marlboro Landingwas often nearly half a mile long. Mr. Alexander Young estimatesthat in the year 1858 1,000,000 pint baskets, or about 14,700 bushels,23 The Rush for the Night Boat. 1/8 Success with Small Fruits. were shipped from Marlboro; but adds that, since i860 it has decreasedas fast. From present appearances, the variety must become extinct,and I fear will never have its equal. Milton, Cornwall, Newburgh,
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The Approach of the Night Boat. and other points competed in the profitable industry, and now, withMarlboro, are replacing the failing variety with other kinds morevigorous in growth, but thus far inferior in quality. That the great industry is not falling off is shown by the followingstatement, taken from the New York Tribune in the summer of 1879: The village of Highland, opposite Poughkeepsie, runs a berry boat dailyto New York, and the large night steamers are now taking out immenseloads of raspberries from the river towns every evening, having at timesnearly 2,000 bushels on board. From as careful a computation as I have been able to make, throughthe courtesy of the officers of the large Kingston boats, the Baldwin andCornell, I am led to believe that these two steamers unitedly carried to thecity over twenty thousand bushels of berries that same year. The magni-tude of this industry on the Hudson will be still better realized when it is Varieties of the Foreign and Native Specie

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