The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1888-06-02
Abbepille @etidional.
Track FarInlns e.

NJOSt people engaged ID
truck farming overlook the vast
amount of work to be accomplished,
the constant care needed for the
young and tender plants, and the
thorough tillage all must have to
make the venture Q success. They
are only the shining dollars in i'm.
sgination, sometimes before the seed
are planted, and even when the
plants are up and high in weeds,
they can sit and dream Of the prob.
able yield of their patches, growl
about the poor land and the lazy
help, and absolutely do noting to
better either.
IN no one enterprise is persever.
ance aud ceaseless watching so es.
sential as in truck farming. Useless
1t is to plant the seed unless the
ground be mellow and ready to
nourish the expanding life, and still
more useless to let the tiny, helpless
plants come up and then he choked
with weeds or shrivel, being unable
to draw sustenance from the almost
unbroken clods around.
Again, one should never work
more ground than they can attend
to in perfection; it is a grand mis-,
take sowing 80 many seed to yield so
slim harvest. One acre BEAUTIFULLY
tended gamers IN ten fold profit Of
ten acres neglected. With the
ground we'll prepared, the vegetables
kept clean and supported when need.
ed with uniformity cut sticks or
bushes, the fruit With their increased
size and 6rmuess, will pay handsome.
ly for the care lavished' upon them.
The packing, too, has much to do
withSuoceessio truck. The boxes
ehouidsbe clean and neatly made, the
vegetable (matured sufficiently to be
ripe on their arrival at deetination)
must be packed honestly. Tomatoes,
especially, should never be put in
specked or decayed. az packing; may
condemn q whole shipment. Pota.
toes sell better sorted ont before they
are barreled; the large ones to them.
selves and the small ones likewise.
Some people vsinly' imagine that to
ell the bottom Of the barrel with
rich, large specimens, the side and
top also With selected potatoes, that
'Cbicagoans will buy without exam.
lining the contents. We know q
farmer who thought to get ahead Of
q 6rm ~up North" BY arranging Sc.
looted esculents around the sides and
'eDds'of his'barrel and packing the
little marbles" in the center, he
failed to'6x them sufficiently tight,
however, and when the shipment
reached market, prestol the little
fellows we're. peeping out atthe side
lights while their larger companions
had been tossed within, and the
whole brought but one dollar and
twenty-five cents per barrel.
Northern buyers pay good prices
for choice things but want inferior
articles at no price. Let us then
mske'erecord for Osyka by gaining
;forjt the name Of "the honest ship.
We will get better prices for
our produce if We seek each thing in
it's perfection. Work the vegetables
and they will we'll repay you with
interest for time and money invested
dn their production. Let your peas
ill out and mature before they are
packed; dsmpen them before send.
ing Of, and il possible, pick early in
tho morning and late in the evening.
Beans must be dry when sent, and If
long keep fresber if packed up and
dow in their boxes, as the air can
oiroulste around them. Money is
what - want for labor, but We must
send merit to tho market before We
can exchange it for the shining
dollars. ..
Don't grambte at the weather and
growl over the labor, abuse the poot
old ground that has had its strength
dragged ont long ago, talk about the
poor stand. and then quit, disguised.
There 10 no such word as fail; work
and sing, sing and work, and thank
the good Lord if he brings the grass
to tell you that the land can yield
q harvest. Work in the morning
when the dew is dripping into the
thSpatv hu1o n.l g.