The Dawson journal., 1883-05-10


VIII make the car cost about $50 to $S;
from southwest Georgia to Chicago. Will
l,250 melons to the car, this would be les.
than seven cents freight on each melon.
have the Chicago prices for last season
and the lowest point the Georgia melol
touched was 20 cents Many avei aget
about 20 cents. Deducting the freight anC
commission, say 10 cents at the outside
this would leave Is cents per melon as tn,
net yield. AT 1000 melons to the acre
and the average is nearer / 500, this woulC
give over 5000 to the acre. If the melon.
net 10 cents to the G over, or even cents
they will pay hand ndsomcly.
HUNDREDS OF NEW MARKETS OPENED.
Quite as important, however" said Mr.
Brown, ''as the quickening of schedules
and reduction of rates, is the fact that we
have opened 500 new western markets tc
the Georgia truck farms. You see the
danger of the the situation is that the great
markets, such as Chicago and Cincinnati,
will be overStocked. The commission
merchants would take advantage of the
slightest over shipment to bear the price
and sacrifice consignments.
Heretofore it has been impossible for
the farmer to ship to the Smaller cities,
such as Detroit, indianapolis, etc. All
the fruit was sent to the great cities and
re-shipped to the smaller ones"
'What change have you nader"
"We have established direct schedules
and direct rates to more than 500 cities in
the west, embracing every place of i'm
portance between Buffalo and Vicksburg.
We can give the shipper the exact anount
of freight to any one of these cities, and he
can send.his car load of fruit or truck direct
ly to them:
Nov see how this works. We have
arranged for daily dispatches from each of
the western markets as the price, supply
and outlook at opening of every days
business. These we Will bulletin, with
also the number of cars we then have en-
route to each place. Forexample, suppose
Detroit is quoted dull demand, and there
are three or four cars en-route to Detroit.
They can be changed by wire to some
other point, and shippers can avoid Detroit
for day .or two, If Dayton, Ohio, is
reported bare of melons, and none are en-
route, few cars can be profitabIy sent
there. In short, the truck growers see
| how much opening the large cities of the
west have done. We now open this sea-
son direct to the grower over 500 new
| cities that he has never touched before,
and that have been supplied, if supplied
at all, from the refuse or overplus of the
large markets. believe the territory this
side the Mississippi and between Buffalo
and Vicksburg will take eagerly double
as many melons as are raised in Georgia
this year"
TOUCHING THE VEGETABLE CROPS.
"Mr. Brown said:
II am not so well acquainted with the
progress in that direction as in the melons,
which l have made speciality. The grow
ing of vegetables has increased very heavi-
ly, as l can see from inquiries made fol
rates. We have already shipped few
car loads of truck, and yesterday sent up
about 1900 pounds of berries in the melon
business has been so prodigious that it has
absorbed our attention. Next season We
shall make ready for the berry and vegeta
BILE business. The Illinois Genital road
carries into Chicago 10 car loads daily OF
befties that tome there weeks to month
later than we can ship berriesfrom Thomas
vile. In the one item of Irish potatoes
Davidson City, Tennessee, shipped 100,
600 bushels last year against 500 bushel:
six years ago. South Georgia can raist
better potatoes and ship them earlier. We
shall do the best we can with vegetable:
this year and expect to handle large
4NCAl SCtloOA NC Nlh w ANiA
prepared for it,"
The west has grown so rapidly III favol
as a market for fruit that Mr.: Brown has
received notification from the Soutl
Carolina road that perhaps 400 car loads o.
melons will be shipped west this season
One mdn Oh that line; a Mr.. Nixon, ha'
planted 1000 acres in melons. He hac
300 acres last year, and sold the crop OF
the ground for $4,000.
AS to what is being done In truck il
South Georgia, we must wait till we ge
into the midst of the farms, and then
will write you down what has been done
what is being done and what may be done
I've learned enough already to promis'
that the story will be an interesting oiie.
II. w. &.