Identifier: historyofqueensc00newy ( find matches)
Title: History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals
Year: 1882 ( 1880s)
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Subjects: Queens Co., N.Y Queens Co., N.Y
Publisher: New York W.W. Munsell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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andproduce various other plants, and two buildings for thepreservation of squashes, with a capacity for holding2,500 barrels. The apparatus for heating, watering, andattending all these establishments has beenmostly theinvention of Mr. Van Siclen. Ditmars Van Siclen,John B. Hopkins, John Selover, James Fredericks, andothers are also engaged in this branch of gardening, andthe markets in New York and Brooklyn are now sup-plied at all seasons with the vegetables that were form-erly procurable only in summer. Fanners Co-o(>erative Union.—In April 1870 a call waspublished for a meeting of the farmers of Jamaica at thehotel of James S. Remsen to take action in referenceto the unjust imposition of a tax upon farmers as pro-duce brokers. This call was signed by Abraham VanSiclen, John ODonnell, and eighteen others. At thismeeting a committee, of which John ODonnell was chair-man, was appointed to wait on the commissioner of inter-nal revenue at Washington, and endeavor to obtain a re- I
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Farmers of Jamaica. ioi dress of the grievance. In this they were successful;and their success led to the organization of the Farm-ersCooperative Union of Jamaica, in May of the sameyear, with Samuel E. Vanderveer president, John ODon-nell and Abraham Van Sicklen vice-president.?, P. W.Remsen secretary, Ditmars Van Siclen treasurer, and82 members. By the action of this union several matters affectingthe interest of the farmers and gardeners of this townhave been accomplished, and the utility and practicabilityof farmers protective associations have been demon-strated. By the action of the union two robbers of a farmer inthe town, on the highway, were captured, convicted, and.punished; the Wallabout market in the city of Brooklynwas projected, and is now in the hands of a commission;the election of town officers in the interest of tax-payersand the removal of corrupt officials have been accom-plished; the remission of fines imposed on farmers andgardeners for selling produce in the str

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