Sugar Crane in Cedar Creek, 1857
Ocean Emblem 2 Feb 1857
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News From White Oak Bottom, 1866
NEW JERSEY COURIER 27 SEP 1866 A few days since we visited this locality, which is well known for it's fertility, and fine soil. Accompanied by Mr. John H. Irons, one of the most thorough farmers in thsi vicinity, we commenced observations and taking notes at Mr. Irons' Sarghum Mill. Here is a fine establishment erected for the purpose of enabling farmers to raise their own molasses. We were shown samples of Sorghum Syrup, perfectly free from any rank taste, whatever, and fully equal to the best syrups offered in market. We also saw on Mr. Iron's farm 35 acres of peach blow potatoes averaging 100 bushels to the acres, where six years ago a dense forest grew. Six years ago, he had but eight acres cleared, and under cultivation. To-day, he has 175 acres of beautiful land grubbed, stumped, and nicely covered with grain, corn, potatoes, sorghum, fruit, and grass. This undertaking was deemed by many as a hazardous one, but they knew not their man. Mr. Iron's farm to-day is
Budd's bogs near Bozarthtown, 1875
New Jersey Courier 2 Sep 1875 Theodore and Alfred Budd, it is said, will have one of the largest crops they have ever grown on their bog near Bozarthtown
Potatoes in Bayville, 1879
New Jersey Courier 26 Jun 1879 The first lot of new potatoes was brought to market here [ Toms River ] by Stephen Grant of Bayville