A Disastrous Berry Year.

New York, 1895

This has been a disastrous year for the Long Island strawberry growers who depend upon the Boston market to take their fruit. The crop has been fairly productive and of good quality, but prices have been ruinously low. The berry train which runs between Manor and Greenport conveying the strawberries to a boat chartered for the purpose of getting the fruit to the Boston market was discontinued on Wednesday. One farmer said that for three crates of fine berries sent to Boston he had returned to him as his commission three two cent postage stamps. The average selling price in Boston has been about 4 cents.


The Early Drought Has Come.

The drought has set in and is becoming a serious matter. The roads are like ash beds and lawns are turning brown. The hay crop has already been seriously injured and garden vegetables, particularly potatoes and peas, will not yield more than half a crop. The weather has been exceedingly favorable for corn, beans and melons, but if the drought continues they too will suffer. Small fruits have failed to mature and even the wild huckleberries have shriveled up on the bushes.


An Ax for Mr. Townsend.

In a review of Queens county politics. anent the question of harmony, Tuesday's Brooklyn Eagle said: "One of these Democratic fighters against Mr. Sutphin is now slated as candidate for senator, and if he is nominated, as now seems likely, the Sutphin Democrats in the county will take a good deal of trouble to see that he is buried out of sight."

This must mean Edward N. Townsend of Hempstead.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 21, 1895, p. 1.