The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-05
PREPARING TO REPLANT.
FARMERS BUSY GETTING READY
FOR NEW CROPS

HO6 NEW ChOE6
The Seed Dealers Overrun With
Orders-The Supply Of Seed Short
and the Northern Seedsmen to Fill
the Demand-The Disastrous Effect
OF the Freeze on the Small Farmers.
To-day will be good deal warmer than
yesterday was The thermometer recorded
34a yesterday morning, but it is not ex-
pected to be lower than 400 this morning.
During the day the temperature will be
about 500 or 65'.
The cold wave has passed out over the
Atlantic. The north is inflicted by an
other bowling blizzard which began yes
terday in the northwest, but the signal
observers here do not apprehend eny
unpleasant effects from it. The wave is
passing easterly over the north. The tenn
perature is at zero throughout good por
ton of the northwest and over the lakes.
It was showing in Western Pennsylvania,
New York, and on the eastern lakes at 8
O'Clock last night. At Chicago the tenn
perature got down to ~. Killing frosts
were reported yesterday from nearly every
section Of Georgia.
The truck farmers, in many instances,
were busy pulling I'D their pea vines yes
teruay and preparing to replant. Some of
the farmers will plant neas, others will put
in beans, cucumbers ard potatoes. The in
stances are rare where the farmers are
trusting to the pea vines putting out suckers
and bearing early peas.
THE RUIN GENERAL.
A MORNING NEWS reporter visited some
of the truck farmS on the Middle Ground
and Thunderbolt roads yesterday afternoon
and found the farmers lamentiug the loss of
peas, young spinach, and lettuce. The
latter, which is extensively grown on Col.
WV. Gordon's place lfoIs lorbhern markets,
has turned as black as ink.
A call was made at Maj. Rutherford's
place and an examination was made of his
potato patches. Maj. Rutherford removed
some three inches of dirt from the tubers
when he found that they had sprouted and
the sprouts were nipped by the frost. He
the growth of the plants, it will work no
material injury to the crop. He
had five acres of peas killed. He
had engaged pickers to gather
for northern shipment, but the peas were
frozen and worthless He will have the
vines pulled up to-day and will plant beans
and cucumbers in the place Of the peas. His
tomato plants were killed under glass, and the
fohage OF his fig trees and a most promising
cluster OF banana treeg, which ripened sew
eral fine punches last season, was killed.
Maj. Rutherford estimates his loss at 81, 900.
THE FRUIT MEMS ADvIcEs.
Mr.. Purvis, Mr. Durling's New York
agent, who is now stationed here to trans
fer the Florida Strawberries from train to
steamer for the northern market, received
dispatch yesterday from their Florida
agent Mr.. Miltier, located at Gainesville.
that he will not want any more cars for
the present, as the berries and vegetables
are all frozen out.
Mr.. Purvis informed MORNING NEWS
reporter last night that it will be fully four
to i've weeks before they can resume car
load shipments of berries, and if the steam
ships will not permit his refrigerators to
remain on board without cost until the
berry season again opens he will take them
OF and then return to New York. If thew
are to remain on the vessels he will 90
north and remain until the second crop of
berries begins to come in.
The destruction of the vegetable and
berry crops of Southern Georgia and Flor
ida will be seriously felt by the railroads
and steamship lines, as they had been count
ing on heavy shipments for the next three
mouths.
SMALL FARMERS RUINED.
Hart Bros, who handle the truck crops
OF very large number of the smaller
farms, say that many of the poorer truck
ers have ventured all and lost all, and will
not be able to get new stocks of seed.
and that in fact the wholesale de-
struction of peas from South Florida to
to Norfolk has created such a demand for
seed that those who have not telegraphed
their orders to seedsnen will find the DELAY
VnYat1Onz If fbau ha 4
at ALL
The disappointment and grief OF one poor
colored woman on the DeRenne planta-
ton, south of the city, is a fair sample of
how the truckers among the poorer classes
feel
DE FRoZE DONE KILL I'M.
A MORNING NEWS reporter drove I'D to
the fence and, noticing a colored woman
weeping, asked her what was the matter.
TIE woman, between paroxysms of grief,
replied: matter cuff, boss. Use done ruin
ated for shuah. De froze come an knock
him all down. | hab dis heah acre in peas
an gwine to pick him to-day. 1 wucks
him all myself an dab he is: all
done GAVIN and de good Lawd only knows
whah | gwlne to do now. De froze done
knock him all down sames you see him,
and wbah is gwine to get some mob trust
to plant him obah agin? Ise done ruinated. u
The condition Of the peach crop along the
Central and branches has not yet been
learned. but Mr.. Purvis, who shipped
peaches here for two months last season,
says that he has man investigating the
orchards, and he expects to receive g
report from him to-day, and fuller report
as to the condition Of the orange, berry aud
vegetable crops of South Florida frem Mr..
Miltier by to-day's mail Mr.. Purvis does
not think shipments of berries and vegeta-
bles can be resumed before the middle or
latter part Of April.