The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-21
VEGETABLES AT GOOD PRICES.
How Peas Are Selling North-A Fast
Express Freight Talked or


Express Freight Talked OF
The shipments of Savannah peas have
been heavy, both by rail and steamer the
last week, and in the main have com
manded good prices The Philadelphia
market broke yesterday. as sales we're re-
ported there 81 80 per crate Friday. and
only 81 80 yesterday.
Telegraphic returns of Fridays sales OF
of Savannah peas in New YORK $40" tnat
they sold a 81 80 to 81 Is. Rail peas sold
in Philadelphia at 81 80. but heavy arrivals
Yesterday knocked off 81 on the crate, and
shippers were very much out OF humor at
the drop Sales at Baltimore are reported
at 81 IS per crate.
Better prices are looked for this week, as
the Florida crop is tightening up, and the
bulk of the FIRST Savannah pea crop has
gone forward. Charleston has not done
much so far in peas as they are Later than
Savannah.
Beans are looking weA They are IN bud
end blossom, and viii follow peas between
MAY 5 and 10, as successive pea crops Will
keep up shipments until the beans begin to
20 forward Potatoes are doing well since
the re rent rains, snd digging VIII begin De-
tween May 10 and Is.
Shippers have done well with peas so far
this season, first shipments commanding as
high as Sc per crate, and Yesterdays sales
in Philadelphia and New York at 81 so are
the lowest thus far reached. Slack ship
ments this week Will tend to add bnoyancy
TO the market, and better figures will no
doubt be realized, and especially so as
farmers, under the stimulus Of good prices,
picked close, and shipped rapidly by rail
aud steamer.
Mr. g. ". Shalcross, q vegetable md
fruit merchant of ll3 Warren strest, New
York, is in the city, OF his way home from
Florida, and stopped over here for yester-
day and to-day to take a look over the Sa-
vannah truck gardens. He will leave for
Charleston tonight and after leaving there
will take in the Norfolk section before his
re urn home.
Mr. Shallcros3 was asked how the ship
meuts are being divided between rail and
steamer, and he replied that both are get
ting their shsre. II says he considers the
steamer just as good as the rail for trans
porting fruit snd vegetable. Ii vegetables
and fruit go into the steamer right they will
come out right and if they are not put in
properly they will be unmaTketable,
whether they go by rail- or steamer. MIR.
ShallcroSs says that he finds the truck
farms looking well in this section.
The LeConte pear Of Georgia, Mr.. Shall
cross says, is attracting the widest attention
north, and it is eagerly looked for, as the
fruit is very popular. Houses that have
not handled the LeConte in the past will
look after 1t this year. Hs says that he
himself intends to return south in June for
a trip through the GEAR orchards Of South
eastern Georgia.
A MORNING NEWS reporter learned yes
terday in his rounds among the vegetable
shippers that the fast vegetable trains Of
this season are to be more than distanced
next season. A plan is on foot to build
special aud improved refrigerator fruit and
vegetable cars b handle the garden and
farm fruit and vegetable crops
of Florida, Georgia and the
Carolinas the cars to be built at the
expenditure of 100000 and to be run as
fast express freight trains, putting fruit
and vegetables in bstter condition and
several hours earlier than by the present
fast vegetable trains. These express trains
will be distinct feature, and under the
management of a Superintendent who will
receive heavy salary for devoting all his
time in assuring the success OF a new de-
parture In handling tle products of tho
fruit and truck farms of the south which is
now Recognized industry hardly second to
cotton.
Mr.. Francis Hart, OF James Hart & Bro,
who have been heavy shippers OF Savannah
vegetables for the past SIX years, in an
answer to the Inquiry of MORNING NEWS
repor er as to how the bulk OF tho vegeta-
bles are going this season, replied that it is
hard to say, as shipments have been heavy
both by rail and steamer. Mr.. Hart gives
an interesting statement Of the beginning
of the shipping season at Savannah
since 1888. Peas began to 60 forward the
first week in April, 1888; Marco 80, in 1884;
April II, 1885; April Is, 1886; March %,
1887; April 5, 1888, and April ), 1883. First
peas in 1887, the earliesI season IN the six
years, commanded So per crate. as first
peas did this season.
For the years 1888 20 1887 first shipments
are reported in the following order by
years, beginning in 1888: MAY 5, 10, %, Is,
10, II, and This year they will begin to go
forward alb lut the beginning Of The third
week in Ma. The bean crop is usually ten
days in advance Of the potato crop.