The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-15
MOVING THE VEGETABLES
CLIPPERS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF
THE FAST FREIGHT.

The Pea Crop 10 Begin to Move Rap
idly This Week-The General Crop
Looking WelI-Mr. @. 6. Palmer
Observations From q Visit Among
the Farmers-The Strawb cry and
Pear Growing Industries-TheM Melon
Crop Prospect.
The Savannah pea crop will begin to
move more rapidly to the northern market
this week. The fast vegetable train, which
has been carrying Florida fruits and vege-
tables, has for the last week been taking
small shipments Of Savannah vegetables,
but this week the activity in shipments will
mark the beginning Of the season, and the
all rail daily vegetable train over the At
lantic Coast Line will make a speciality Of
gathering up Savannah vegetables.
The Atlantic Coast line put on it's vege-
table train at Charleston last night, which
proved 80 successful last season. This train
will be daily. The rail service will be much
more satisfactory to gardeners this season,
as the rates to interior cities Of the north
viii not be proportionately greater than to
the seaboard cities, which were the only
markets they could reach last season either
by rail or steamer. There is no advance in
Oho iutoS over laSe yedI'
THE RAINS AND THE CROPS.
The rains of yesterday were refreshing to
crops in this section, which were beginning
to need rain. A visit to the truck farms
southeast of the city found the gardens
looking fairly we'll, although potatoes did
not get as good a stand as last year.
Ragged patches are not an uncommon
sight, and some of the later paintings have
not been doing as we'll as was expected
There are some very fine patches, but the
vines do not show as healthful an appear
ance as they might, and the crop is fully
three weeks behind that of last season.
The rains will stimulate the growing crop,
and early paintings will soon begin to
come in.
The pea vines are loaded with peas, and
the crop gathered during the middle of this
week will be much more marketable than
last weeks shipments, which were forced,
the peas being undeveloped and wanting in
both body and flavor.
Beans show the hardness of the season
even more than potatoes, but as the season
is backward northward along the coast and
in the interior, and the crop is short in
Florida, when the Savannah beans seek a
market it is predicted that they will com
mand better prices than they did last sea-
son, and will be inquired for later in the
season. This was the opinion expressed by
here last week.
MR.. PALMER'S OBSERVATIONS.
In an interview vita Mr.. Palmer he said
that Georgia fruit and vegetable growers
will do well this year. Handling such pro-
duce largely he has made in person, and
through agents and correspondence close
inquiries, upon which he bases his predic-
ton. He expressed great surprise that Sa-
vannah pays 50 little attention to the calti-
walton of strawberries, which could be most
profitably grown here, and would come into
market before the Charleston berry.
''Why," said Mr. Palmer, your people
can grow Strawberries profitably for the
local market to sell at 10 cents a quart, and
III your climate you ought to eat straw
berries. The acid of the strawberry would
do you good. We cannot do without it in
our northern climate in the spring, and as
we can't ripen them at season We have to
come south for them. You can have them
in abundance.
Referring to the steady favor with which
the LeConte pear is received in the north
ern market, Mr.. Palmer said that it is not
likely TO be supplanted by the California
pear, which comes in as the season for
LeConte pears draws to a close "The
LeConte pear" he said, "looks pretty on a
fruit stand, and is little inferior to the Bart
lett pear. The prospect for good crop in
Southwest Georgia is good. The trees
are laden with blossoms"
THE PEAR-GROWING INDUSTRY.
1t was only last season that the people of
the Valdosta and Townsville section began
to ship BY the car load, and General Man
ager Haines of the Savannah, Florida and
Western railway, which handles the greater
part of the pear crop, said, in commenting
on the first car load: at is only the begin
ming of what will be one of the profitable
industries of Georgia"
Mr.. Palmer was asked how the melon
crop will be this year. sit will be very
large" he replied "There have been some
differences between the melon growers and
the railroads, and concessions have
been asked in freight rates, but
do not know what adjustments, if
any, had been effected. | was one of a
committee appointed by the produce ex-
change to seq what could lie done in the
matter, but no agreement had been reached
when I left New York. / think that
spirit of fairness will actuate both the
shippers and the transportation companies,
so that the melon crop may be handled
promptly and profitably to all interested