The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-10
In AND ABOUT THE CITY.
TRUCK GROWING FINELY.

Shippers Getting Low Prices North,
but the Local Market Better.
The truck farmers will ship no more beans
TO the north. The market has become
demoralized, as North Carolina and Vir-
ginia beans have overstocked the market.
Nomore squash will be shipped, as it does
not bring enough to cover expenses of hand
ling the price having dropped as low as 20
cents per crate.
Potatoes are TOO low to be proftably
Shipped by small truckers. Charleston,
Savannah, North Carolina, Norfolk, and
all been going into the north
ern market together for the last
week, and as a result, to quote the opinion
of shipper, ''there is no money in potatoes
nown
The potato crop is immense. The yield
has been in some instances four times
greater than last year on the basis of seed
planted, and yet the truckers have not
relllzed, In the aggregate, as much for their
crops this year as they had last year. Pota-
toes are down to 81 per barrel for prime.
The only vegetables going forward are
tomatoes, and fancy ripe bring as high as
50 % per crate; fair to good, So to 50 rs.
The Florida crop is being shipped rather
green. All the tomatoes retailed in the
local market have been of am Indifferent
quality, yet they brought from 20 cents to
70 cents per quart. which is at the rate of
50 40 to IS per bushel.
The Savannah crop will begin to go for
ward about the middle of next week. The
crop is looking WELL and the prospects are
favorable for good prices. As a rule, only
those who own large truck farms grow
tomatoes for the northern markets. The
Savannah-grown tomatoes are of finer
flavor and much more salable than the
Bermuda and Florida tomatoes.
Georgia melons will begin to come in
about the latter part of next week in the
local market. The crop is most promising
one in this section, and as there are no
peaches it is believed that fair prices will
be the rule during the season. The local
grown melons will principally supply the
home demand.
In the melon belt melons have begun to
go forward, and it is thought that they will
command good prices, and for two reasons.
One is that the melons will go through
melon exchange, and the other is the fail
ure of the peach crop in the south and in
the north.
A gentleman representing one of the larg-
est commission houses i'm New York informed
a MORNING NEWS reporter last night that
his house will not handle Georgia melons
this year, as the melon exchange has
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cities Of the north, and in the smaller cities
only one house has the privilege. The
melon growers are trying the experiment
this season with the hope that they will
realize more out of the crop this year than
last season.
The LeConte pear crop will soon begin to
move. The commission houses of the north,
west and northwest who have had their
southern agents looking after the berry and
vegetable crops of Florida, Savannah and
Charleston have instructed their repre-
sentatives to go to the pear belt and look
after pear shipments, as there is no
necessity for them to go to Maryland and
Jersey, as they usually do after the berry
and vegetable shipments are superseded, as
there will be no peaches to look after. There
is no pear syndicate to move the crop, and
without there is a break in the market, not
now anticipated, the pear crop of Georgia
will command good prices. The pear crop,
while not large, is said to be fair.
A dull, sluggish, melancholy feeling can
be relieved in few hours with dose of
Smiths Bile Beans-Adr