Some shipments also go to Canada. Practically all shipments are made in refrigerator cars, which are carefully iced and cooled several hours before being loaded. Entire trainloads of berries are often shipped from Sarcoxie, Neosho, Anderson and other centers. An ordinary yield is from 100 to 200 crates per acre, but very much larger yields are not uncommon. The cost to the grower of a crate is figured at eighty-five cents.
Tobacco growing in Missouri is as old as the history of the state.
The pioneer had his patch for home consumption, and later factories were operated at Boonville, Brunswick, Chillicothe, Liberty and many other points. Following the freeing of the slaves, the industry became less important. Only within the last few years has there been any marked revival in tobacco growing in Missouri. The result was the making of the thousands of new tobacco beds in the early spring and the building of scores of tobacco barns in the early fall. Botanically, the peanut belongs to the same group of plants as the beans and peas, and is a great soil builder.