Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-16
THE SUMMER TRADE
In Fruits and Garden Truck Up to
This Time wsrth Something
Over $s5O,O0O, and
Many Other Productive Fields to be
Heard From Within a Radius
Of Twelve Miles.

The patch-farmers adjacent to Memphis
are rapidly developing their capacities Tor
other and more profitable products than cot
ton. The present season, unprecedented IN
nearly every other particular, Is no less so
in the amount of garden truck, fruit, ETC..
shipped to Northern markets. Hitherto
few thrifty farmers made q specially of these
articles, but the aggregate OF their ship
ments did not amount to a sufficient business
to justify produce merchants to take hold
of it.
POTATOES AND ONIONS
was about all invested in, and those who par
ticipated in the traffic realized handsome
profits on the amount of labor and capital
put into the business. This season has pro-
dueed more Of potatoes than ever before, and
enough to justify between eight and ten OF
our largest commission merchants TO embark
in the business of pscking and shipping.
Up TO date fully 10000 barrels of potatoes
have been shipped from this market, all
raised within radius of twenty miles from
Memphis.
THE PRICE REALIZED
has averaged about 81 80 a barrel, which
and the carrier all handsomely. The aggre-
gate sum realized on potatoes alone foots up
about S135, 900 The yield of the onion crop
has been less than that of former seasons.
but is more than compensated in ether arti-
Giles hitherto not dealt in, such as tomatoes,
beets. roasting-ears, cucnmbers, beans, peas,
ETC., TO say nothing of pears, plums, etc.
ANOTHER PROLIFIC PRODUCT
the present season hiss developed IN the item
of apples. Such quantity OF homegrown
spples was never before seen in this latitude.
Numbers of commission merchants have
been kept busy the past several weeks ship
ping apples brought in from the orchards
just developing within the twenty-mile radius
above uentiened. Front street and portions
of Second street are daily thronged with
wagons loaded with apples, and perhaps a
hundred laborers are constantly employed
packing and otherwise preparing for ship
ment. We yesterday counted up eight BUSH
ness houses that have been thus kept as busy
as bees, and their profits have been hand
some and promise continuance further on
in the season. A canvass of the business
done in apples develops the fact that about
10000 barrels have already been shipped,
yielding on an average s. to 50 so per bar
rel. This aggregates about $4,000, all spent
among our own people. 1t certainly pays
to plant orchards.
VEGETABLES.
Besides potatoes and spples we are daily
shipping vegetables OF all classes, prominent
among which is the item of tomatoes. They
are coming in by the wagon load and being
packed and shipped up The country, yielding |
handsome profits to the producer and paying |
the packer, shipper and carrier we'll for the
investment. Up to yesterday one firm alone |
had shipped North over 600 bushels OF toma- |
toes, 5000 cucumbers, 624 bushels of soup |
beans, SIT bushels of peas, and lots of other |
smaller articles, in addition 10 his heavier
business in potatoes, apples, onions, etc.
THE ADJACENT TOWNS
are opening their eyes to this industry, and I
are resping handsome profits, as indicated in |
the following from correspondent OF the |
Dresden Democrat: "All at once the dis |
covery is being made that vast sums of |
money are annually lost to us and the |
because we Of the South have neg
lected and failed to utilize the small things
about the place or farm, the fruits, etc.
Every day during the past week our streets
have been crowded with wagons laden with |
apples, peaches, plums, potatoes, chickens,
and the thousand and one articles that are
grown ard accumulate on the farm. These
articles were brought here for shipment.
Such things were never done before. Hith-
erto Southern farmers, in this section at
least, have looked upon this kind OF traffic
as being beneath their notice. Leave sucn
as this they said, ito negroes and Yankees
1t was too picsyunish for them. Pride has
ever STOOD in the way OF material advance
nent in the South"