The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-13
CROPS IN NEED OF RA1N.
The Dry Weather Doing Much Injury
on ths Truck Farms.


The truck grove s complain tina the ex
IRENE dry and hot weather Of lat week
and now ev iling. has come at a most in
opoorlune time, when the bean vines were
needing rail- 70 f | out the young ,ds, and
the earl potatoes have had their growth
checked when the tender tubers needed
moisture TO hasten their degel 'pment.
The shipments OF last week were dimin-
is1ed in consequence Of the drought, a d the
usual heavy shipments of the latt r part of
the week were not forwarded. Tne bean
shipping season ought to be at its hight
now, ard larger shipments will be made
his week than las, although hs beans will
not be As large nor a. crisp and tender as
they would nave been II a 20 i shower or
two ID fal.el at any TINA within the last
five or six days The vines will ba less pro-
life, as in drought the tendency of the
plant is not TO put forth as may blooms.
while many of hose that do put out will
snriyel aad drop, or the bean will dwarf.
Some beans were shipped by rail and
steamer last week, of good quality, which
comma ded 50.
Some pota oes were shipped from the
No telth truck gardens last week, out they
were small, and experienced farmers will
OF ship any but cloice potatoes, as few 70
liable commission mercha is enc III aga
early shipments Of i'm maturel potat res. A
better quality will be shipped this week,
and shinpars here saw that next Friday the
shipments of beans and potatoes b : rail and
steamer will be very heavy, probably the
heaviest known to this city. FIRST ship
Ten of beans commanded SO per crate and
potatoes ST per barrel A choice article
would have brought 81 more per barrel
Truckers did not do SO well with their
meas this season They rusbed them, ioto
the northern market { RAPIDLY and
prices broke. 50 they Melted much less an
was exnacsed Ga many shinne rs thoSe
who bon0bt here did not mue5 mo~s t1an
come out even. and some of them only
came ou5 even. During oentenuIal week
yben Vegetables ougnt 10 have o. ma of
rapidlv. t6ev received little attention. a I'd
northern dealers had to let the goods Del ish
in their hands or close them out at small
margin. Business was almost wholly sus-
Dended and. strange toslv. with the ( 1ou-
sands at ra ted 10 New York during their
centennial holiday week. food o oducs suf-
fered a SLACK de nand The shipme ms from
S.van 1ah during that week brought the
most satisfactory returns and mar o we'd the
margins in the pea crop. T ere will be no
second crop, as thew do not do well in this
latitude. and poipts farther north will sun.
NV the northern ade from this tim, on.
Biackberrie, were on the market last
week. but thew ware of an inferior quality.
owing 10 the Drolo ged dry weather. bsing
deficient in sizs and consequently acidulous
and less Juicy than il the vines had a COOL
rain. They have bean retailing all the wav
from 10 ca its t. 20 cents per quart. as TO
quality and season. the finest berries CON
handing 20 ce ITS at the beginning of las5
week hut inferior fruit sold in market
saturday mig L at thre quarts for 25 cents.
There .re fe u. strawberries il the narket,
hut the ouality is good and pg1cas rule at %
TO Is cent, per quart box.
I. Q general vegetable and berry crop
will suffer if the drouth CO IU.nues during the
present we k. ami farmers are nluch Dis
outraged over the outlook. They say that
t1ey could have better stood the dry
weather if it had coma a week or ten DAYS
later.
eve exnect peaches next weak said A
commission merchant Yesterday. He said
that large number Of fruit growers from
10 the lie of the Central railroad and
from dowa on the Savannah. Florida a d
Western rail way were in the city last week,
and they report that the fruit i, raDidly
maturing and ripaning. a d they PREDICTED
that some shin nents will be made thi,
week. All Of the early shipments
will not stop short of New York
The quantity Iof the very early peaches is
Iimited aud the nrices for the fruit are
fancy. The growers saw that a very large
CROP will be gathered The trees are fuller
than they hava hean for several wears
Asa CO saoue zee it il thought that ths
beaches will be- smaller than they were
last wear The merchants saw th1t
the crop is a fe " davs latsr than il was last
year 'Thev q afraid thai thu shipment If
inferior fruit to Savannah will run pr.ces
4 ,yn 50 that good fruit will sail 10 v S4-
yanna1 firms VINO furnish growers witt
baskets bave already sent out as many as