Report of the New Jersey commissioners on the Centennial Exhibition. . far ahead New Jersey improvedland is when compared with other States, and how muchstronger are the inducements for persons in search of per-manent investment to locate in New Jersey than in someother States. A bushel of wheat, corn or potatoes has a money valueof nearly twice the amount in New Jersey that they havein Illinois or Kansas, and this must remain so for years tocome. The farmers of the west have to depend on railroadsrunning long distances to the distributing points and areusually at the mercy of railroad monopol
Report of the New Jersey commissioners on the Centennial Exhibition. . far ahead New Jersey improvedland is when compared with other States, and how muchstronger are the inducements for persons in search of per-manent investment to locate in New Jersey than in someother States. A bushel of wheat, corn or potatoes has a money valueof nearly twice the amount in New Jersey that they havein Illinois or Kansas, and this must remain so for years tocome. The farmers of the west have to depend on railroadsrunning long distances to the distributing points and areusually at the mercy of railroad monopolies. This doesnot enter into the Jersey farmers calculation, for with rareexceptions there is a home market for every article of pro-duce he has to dispose of. The freights on such as he maybe compelled to send to the great distributing points ofNew York and Philadelphia amount to a trifle when com-pared with the market value of the produce. This prox-imity to market gives the owner of the land in New Jerseya choice, if he chooses, to grow a class of crops having a. H pel(J •^1 STATE AGRICULTURAL EXHIBIT. IQl hisjher market value than the ordinary staples, crops that,when they are cultivated as they should be, will bringthree times as much from the same surface than can pos-sibly be realized from grass or grain. There are nowthousands of acres in the State devoted to this sort of farmgardening, as it may be termed, and there will be addedto these more and more each year, until eventually a largeshare of the arable land of the State will be turned intothis kind of tillage. The growth of vegetables andfruits for home markets is a branch of business thatproves profitable when intelligently directed, and thesort that grows in dimensions, as the demands fromthe neighboring cities call for more of this class ofproduce. There seems no longer any doubt amongthose who are familiar with the farming interests of theState that the sooner we accept this inevitable change andprepare for it
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