Connecticut western news., 1882-08-23
Truck Farming in Carolina,
ANOTHER ENTHUSIAST SETS FORTH THE
 PROFITS THEREOF.

A correspondent of the Atlanta Con. stitutio1s, writing from Morehead Oity. N. O., says:-" That man," said Gen. Roberts, pointing out 8 man in the crowd, "sold $s0,0OO worth of Irish potatoes this year, every one of which he raised himself on his own place." That sounds incredible, and yet it is true. The man alluded to was Ambrose Lindsay, who lives on the coast near the Carolina line. Of this enormous crop have no doubt $50, 900 was clear money. Sol Haas told me of man at Norfolk, who cleared $35,O0O raising potatoes this year, and paid off a debt that had accumulated in business and threatened to ruin him. This is the best year for potatoes ever known. The last crop was short and poor, and there was no stock to start the season with. Tho high price of bread and meat increased the consumption of potatoes, and the heavy crop of this year was taken at high figures. Potatoes that dragged at $2 8 barrel in New York last year brought $6 50 barrel on the Caro. lima coast this year.
 I have written good deal about the truck farming of this section, but I was not prepared to see the progress that has been made. In the Newborn country it has quadrupled in the past two years, and every season sees new lands cleared. Some of the stories of profit would be fabulous were they not we'll avouched. MT. Joseph Rhene, of Newborn, is an example.
 "I had occasion" said MT. Bryan, an intelligent gentleman, "to look into his accounts i've years ago, and he was then $2O,O behind. He went to truck farming, commencing with about sixty acres. He is now worth $8O, 900 besides his farm. He has. increased this to several hundred acres, and so enriched it that what he gave $1O an acre for will command $100 an acre. He raised $3O, ,O0O worth of potatoes this year. The total crop of truck for the season is worth $65, ,000, and it cost him $14, 900 to make 1t. His sales for the first five days of the season were $15,OOO, or $5, ,oOO day."
 elf the profits are so immense why does not every body go in p
 ''Nearly every body in this section is going in. I planted about ten acres in potatoes this year, on which I made $!3O an acre, at an expense of $22 an ao-e. shall enrich my land next year andlncrease my operations. Every season new people come in. Mir. Dunn, of our city, who was in the railway service, bought sixty acres of land few years ago and started. He has made over SIG, ,O0O, and his farm, for which he gave almost nothing, would sell for 5000 easily. There is an abundance of simi- lar land to be had cheap, but it has to be cleared and enriched, and is often out of the reach of market. In spite of everything, however, the truck business of the Carolina coast, already enormous. is destined to double and quadruple even it's present proportions. We grow everything here, and there are special farms for tomatoes, berries, onions, etc. It is not unusual for one of our growers to ship 30, 1000 boxes of strawberries. The cultivation of these small crops is Godsend to our people. who have been forced to give up heavy operations in rice and cotton because of labor troubles. It is really surplus above our staple crops anyhow. For when we raise crop of peas we then pitch in and raise cotton on the same