The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-01
Carolina Truck.Farming.

"That man." said General Roberts,
pointing out man in The crowd, "sold
$50, 900 worth of Irish potatoes this year,
every one of which he raised on his own
pace" That sounds incredible, and yet
it is true. The man alluded to was Am
brose Lindsay, who lives on the coast
near the Carolina line. Of this enor-
nous crop have no doubt $4,000 was
clear money. Sol Haas told me of a man
at Norfolk who cleared $4,000 raising
potatoes this year, and paid off 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. The
high price of bread and meat increased
the consumption of potatoes,4 and the
heavy crop of this year was taken at high
figures. Potatoes that dragged at So
barrel in New York last year brought
$3.50 barrel on the Carolina coast this
year.
have written good deal about the
truck-farming of that section, but / was
not prepared to see the progress that has
been made. In the Newburn country it
has quadrupled in the past two years,
and every season sees new lands cleared.
Some of the stories of profits would. be
fabulous were they not well avOuched.
Mr.. Joseph Rhene, of Newbern, is an
example. az had OCCASION" said
Mr.. Bryan, an intelligent gentle
man, to look into his accounts five
years ago, and he was then $4,000 be-
hind. He went to truck farming, COM
mencing with about sixty acres. He is
now worth $4,000 besides his farm. He
has increased this to several hundred
acres, and so enriched it that what he
gave $40 an acre for will now command
800 an acre. He raised $4,000 worth
of potatoes this year. The total crop of
truck for the season is worth $4,000,
and it cost him about $4,000 to make
it. His sales for the first five days of
the season weres15, 900, or s3,0O0a day."
eff the profits are so immense why does
not everybody go in?'' "Nearly every
body in this section is going. l planted
about ten acres in potatoes this year, on
which l made $3.50 an acre at the ex-
pense of SO an acre. l shall enrich my
land next year and increase my opera
tions. Every season newpeople come in.
Mr.. Dunn, of our city, who was in the
railroad service, bought sixty acres of
land few years ago and started. He
has made over $4,000, and his farm, for
which he gave almost nothing, would sell
for $4,000 easily. There is an abundance
of similar land to be had cheap, but it has
to be cleared and enriched, and it 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 its present proportions.
We grow everything here, and there are
special farms for tomatoes, berries, onions,
etc. 1t is not unusual for one of our
growers to ship 10000 boxes of straw
berries. The cultivation of these small
crops is godsend to our people, who
have been forced to give up heavy opera
tins in rice and cotton because Cf labor
troubles. 1t is really surplus above
our stable crops anyhow. For when We
raise crop of peas we then pitch in and
raise cotton on the same land.-Morehead
IN. CO Cor. atlanta Constitution.