Richland beacon., 1888-06-30

If tomatoes ever sihplea iJ-A 'A4s
parish left here tbs morsinr. They
we're packed Oh ice il 2 Tairigo'at =
clr anl consisnol &c John o. .;oor"
( < CO, commission mc~riaa;f ir IT,"
..lo of corIy ir.i.s nn.l vegetables j"
.inc;aa.ti. O3i,. Nesns = z.
/ Deu9al, /. =. i;tymrs AMI !. 3c-
/ Donald are ,he consiElurs, and by
.pccial contract Nirh tie laii road
company, they pay 90 cents per hun-
! !ced, estimating siX hoEca 10 tde
ouulrcd pounds. aad furnish their
,wn ite IN preference to paying
, i&3.00 dollars ipr The car and the
,r4i'foad company furnish the ice.
G9}0 ro.A65 OF ice would have boen
,u... ia. ulitr ordinary oircum-
S.. ,;cas hut uu account of Sunday
I Intervening between time Of loading
~ ;,.-;c being 10 freight train the
~ was DELAYED here several days,
."i.,uming mere ice and making the
expenses qrcet-r. though there is no
/ ianScr Of The tomatoes spelling fog
they MI keep ten days packed in
this condition, though 5000 pounds
Of ice will be required.
Tie car contains 1871 boxes Of !
of q busAel each, which according
to late dispatches will bring in Gin
cianati 81 is cents per box, but after
expenses for freight, ice and commis-
sion of 10 per cent for selling, have
been deducted only about 50
cents per box VIII bo tho net pro
coods. Had the tomAoos been plan
ted so rs to have matured two wcck5
ago they would have brought more.
3Ir. J. II. Rhymes shipped 1G boxes
by express two weeks ago and paid
s. 20 charges and received check
f,r $l3 IS as the net proceeds.
The Trouble is that not enough
farmers are engaged in the vegetable
business to load car quick and keep
it going. 1t is to be hoped however,
that the energetic men who have in
an9urated this initiatory step Of
truck farming in this parish will
make it sufficient success to induce
others to undertake it il tie future.
Then q thoroughly organized system
Of production, and method Of ship
met: can be consummated. Those
who ere engaged in this business
here, nigh. have had the Irish
potatoes ready for market two weeks
earlier than the date of shipment,
had they been successful in procur-
ing tue right kind Of seed. They
shipped them on the 23l day of May,
and had they planted the Early Rose
potatoes they would have matured
two weeks earlier when potatoes were
worth in Cincinnati, $6 90 per barrel;
but as it was, they received only
So 90 per barrel for al, except one
car load which was sold to lIr. Tltche
for so cents per bushel. Mr.. Titche
shipped his to II. II. Titche, at Biz
mingham, Ala.
They received for the beans
shipped at the same TING from 81 go
TO 1,70 per bushel as proceeds
The men engaged in this business
here are not tho kind that easily
givo up an Enterprise. Tboy cay
that they have made some money
and have learned enough to know
that hy avoiding former mistakes
they can mako truck farming very
profitable. One Of the main advan-
tagoous features of this business IS
that it provides the farmer with cash
at season Of the year, when he has
no other means of obtaining it except
perhaps to borrow it on his cotton
crop at an enormous interest, and
thereby consuming his cotton crop
before it even matured. by raising
an intermediate crop Of vegetables
and selling them in summer time,
it will enable him TO live until he
can eatEer his cotton ard lie will
then have his cotton for himself in
stead of his merchant.
The old way is not always the
tie best. These new departures
should lie encouraged, and if success
ful the credit system, which so
ruinous to the farmer, will soon be
abolished. The negotiations between
TIE farmer and tho merchant will
then be reduced to a cash basis; and
The sooner this state of affairs is
brought about the better for the
country. j. w. w.
Patents granted to citizens Of the Soul ern
States during the past week, and reported fo-
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