Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-05
EARLY VEGETABLES AND FRUITS

Spring stands on tip-toes as the sun shines
with daily increasing warmth; on tip-toes to
visit the lately frozen fields; early buds of red
and brown hang about her forehead, while
rosy smiles light up her lips, and her bosom
palpitates with eagerness to call forth the
sweet flowers, the song Of the thrush, the
COZ of the dove, and the gentle murmur of
flowing streams. This approach should
arouse the ambition of our agricultural popu-
lation to obtain a full share in the trade of
early vegetables and early fruits, the produce
Of which is a welcome addition to the sea-
sons earnings, a useful contribution to the
and the succeeding one. This long interval,
during which nothing used to be got to
market, was always a trying one, an
accumulation of debt. Now, with the
product of early vegetables and
fruits, this interval can well be
bridged over. We observe that the Louisiana
and other papers further south are urging
upon their country readers the utility and,
indeed, the need of raising all they can Of
early crops and getting them off to market in
the north. We also would urge the same
wise proceeding upon our own country read
ers. Get the garden into good condition.
Let the spade aud the rake have good play,
and be generous in the supplies of manure.
1t is not mere rough anyhow" sort of work
that will coax nature to give you those
beauteous treasures of size and quality that
will do you credit and that will pay
Every year the northern markets are over
loaded with trash Poor, little contemplate
stuff that farmer ought to be ashamed for
even a neighbor's eye to see, are packed off
to market and big price ex-
pected for 1t. The grower may make
up his mind to one point as settled
the city people will not think it worth while
to pay well for what he has not thought it
worth while to grow WELL Have your soil
for vegetables well worked and we'll MANFRED,
then put into it the very best seed money
can buy. 1t costs as much to prepare the
ground for bad seed as for good, and every
farmer should do himself the justice to be-
ieve that the labor he has done deserves the
best seed that can be sown. Raise fine,
good, handsome products, then market is
yours, and paying prices are yours. There
is never too much of good products in the
markets, the excess IS always Of the poor,
coarse, puny material that was never worth
growing, and ought never to have been
sent from home when it was grown. 1t
will occur d. sometimes, however, that the
growers will have products on hand
when the north is beginning to
supply its own markets-what is to be done
with the surplusP Every year the export of
canned vegetables and fruits from the United
States is increasing IN amount. Throughout
Europe they are regarded as among the most
desirable luxuries, and the consequence is
that every year the demand increases, for
what have been considered luxurles agreeable
to indulge in are fast becoming necessaries
that cannot be dispensed with. Here, then,
comes the opening our people want for what
remains behind when the northern demand
ceases. If other people can get money out Of
canning, we can; and we can get the fresh
goods earlier in the market each year than the
north. If there be any house which can make
nothing by canning, it can sell its vegetables
and fruits to some enterprising neighbor
who sees which way fortune hes, and has the
energy to pursue it. With good cultivation
OF the ground, and good seed to put into it,
and with good canning trade to finish up
with, money can be made, home comforts
secured, and education given to the young
folks. If the cotton year should be unfavor-
able, and prices for the staple low, there may
be straitness, but there will not be disaster;
the money that came from the potatoes, and
apples, and peaches, and tomatoes, and fifty
things more, will make the inaiction endur-
able; and, when a good, paying cotton-year
does come, then there will be fortunes made,