Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — An Immense Celery Farm. [ARTICLE]

An Immense Celery Farm.

About ten years ago J. B. Laßue, of New York, bought several thou-and acres of swamp lanl on the east bank of the Delaware about fi.ty mile; fri in New York. He drained and prepared the land and now has the largest celery farm in thd United States, on which he raised ',501,600 bushels of celery last year, having planted 2,0-30 acres.