The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-05-26
MILAN EXCHANGE
SATURDAY, MAY IS, 1883.


hard days on fruits and vegetables, as
we'll as cotton.
A large crowd attended the concert /
and strawberry festival at Gadsdens !
last Wednesday night
Since the cold snap, prices for ber- I
ries and vegetables are sitter, and
our shippers are correspondingly hap
py.
Quite 4 number Of our fruit and
vegetable growers went TO the meet
ing at Bells yesterday. We regret
that we we're unable to attend
Ripley News The citizens of Mi
Ian are eating new potatoes, and on
the 18th inst shipped eighty eases of
strawberries and ten cases of peas to
market by express. So much for in
dustry aud enterprise.
The frost last Wednesday morning
in Illinois ruined fruit and vegetables
in some sections and damaged them
seriously in Others. Ice formed in
in many places. Strawberries, toma-
toes, potatoes, corn. etc, are in a
bad shape.
New Orleans Times Democrat; MIR.
McRee, of Lpwdes County, Ga, who
planted cotton for number of years,
and always came out in debt to his fac
tor, has gone into truck farming, and
is acoumulating a fortune rapidly.
His income this year from his crop of
cucumbers, cabbage, poratoes, &c.,
was S2S,000 clear of all expenses.
A st. Louis Dispatch says heavy
frosts occurred Monday and Tuesday
nights throughout the southern part
of central Missouri, and particularly in
that section of Illinois swept by tor
nadoes last Friday night. Early veg
etables are almost entirely destroyed
and fruit and grain badly damaged
Ice from one-eighth to one-fourth Of an
inch thick formed in most localities.
Alamo Sentinel: We understand
that four car loads-2200 crates-of
Strawberries were shipped from Gads.
den last Monday. Over $1,000 was
paid to pickers for that one day.
work, and it is said that the shippers
realized an average of more than
three dollars per crate, which Drought
into Gadsden in one day nearly OF
quite $1,000. We think that beats
cotton.
Washington county, Ark, fruit
men have joined hands, and intend
booming the fruit industry Of that
section. During the season the new
association will ship 5000 barrels APP
pie cider, 5000 barrels green apples
1,500,O00 pounds evaporated apples
100000 pounds evaporated peaches
100000 pounds dried apples, 100000
pounds fruit buffers, 10000 pounds
fruit preserves, 10000 pounds evapo-
rated sweet potatoes, 1000 pounds
evaporated tomatoes, to California
The Illinois Central railroad is nov
doing more to develop the fruit anC
vegetable Interests Of this sectior
than has ever been done heretofore
The very low freight rates for ship
ments on the fast fruit train gives uni
versal satisfaction, and many farmer
are now going to enter more largel
into the business. Hundreds of acre
will be set in fruit trees around Mia
in addition to what we now have
Many additional acres have been sc
in berries this spring, and vegetabl
growing is becoming epidemic. Th
praise of the railroad officials is i
the mouth of all producers, and jus
ly so, too. The company will find
wonderful increase of business neg
year in consequence. Heretofor'
freights and commissions ate up a
the profits of the business, and OF
people were discouraged.