The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-03
THE FIGHTFOR A MARKET
TRUCK GROWERS WANT BETTER
TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES.

Column bie Likely TO be Put On For
the Washington, Baltimore and Phil
adelphia Msrkets-The Outlook on
the Truck Farms for Good Crops.
Chatham's truck farmers met yesterday
In the county commissioner room hAthe
court house, in response to the call OF Maj.
Ryals, to consider the securing Of better
railroad transportation facilities for getting
their produce to the northern markets.
Among those present were Maj. q. N.
Ryals, DR.. A. Oemler, W. L. Exley, NJ. L.
Exley, F. A. Exley, Lamar Keller, B. s.
Wells, L. M. Ryals, Dr. R, G. Norton. c.
E. G. Fell. J. J. Waldhausr, !. Ii. UImsr
and R. Spear.
Maj. Ryals presided and DIR. Oemler
acted as secretary. The object of the meet
| Ing, the chairman stated, was to have a CO.
| operative movement for better and more
extended transportation facilities. At
present the service by rail to the northern
markets is not satisfactory, and the bulk of
the truck freight. so valuable to the steam
ship companies, is constantly on the In
crease. Vegetables shipped hence by the
Atlantic Coast Line lay over at Charleston
20 await the Carolina consignments, and are
relatively stale upon arrival at their dest-
nation. This, Maj. Royals said. renders the
the unnecessary delay.
WANT NEW ROUTE.
The South Carolina railroad is competing
| for this freight, and trains carry a part OF
| the produce via Columbia promptly and In
| good order. It is highly Important TO open
! up new markets, and II satisfactory railroad
transportation for the truck produced prin-
cipally east Of the city, and including
Effingham county, could be secured a por-
1 Ind Nf1a rvaka At t~hn md md
| at all the larger towns of North Carolina
and Virginia. A part OF the produce might
| also be diverted to various points IN the
east, relieving the heavy pressure on east
ern markets, thus preventing the fall In
| prices from that cause.
Mr.. Fell spoke OF the great benefits he had
| realized by rail shipments TO the west and
of the unsatisfactory nature aud expense Of
| the barge service OF the Baltimore line, il
| being necessary to deliver the goods at the
| Central railroad wharf.
The idea of the farmers is to arrange
| daily vegetable train over theiSouth Bound
road leaving here as late as practicable in
! the afternoon to reach Columbia IN time 20
connect for Alexandria, arriving there the
same time as the Carolina produce. At
Alexandria the Pennsylvania road would
| take the vegetables and place them in the
Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and
New York markets the same day.
CONFERENCE HELD.
Maj. Ryals said he had a conference with
| President Conner aud General Manager
Wadey Of the South Bound some time ago.
aud he believed that il the farmers would
let the road understand that they would
make shs most Of their northern shipments
over IL, the South Bound will give proper
facilities and reasonable rates.
MIR. Barnes, a commission merchant OF
| Philadelphia, who was present. was called
g., Ii H. 4
| rail shipments OF Charleston produce to the
| northern markets are delivered promptly
and in good order. Charleston truck farm
| ers rely chiefly on rail transpor taton
| Considering the schedule which can be
| made over the South Bound TO Columbia,
! Mr.. Barnes thinks train leaving Savannah
| at O'Clock every night will have plenty of
time TO connect at Columbia with the Rich
mond and Danville for northern points.
Maj. Ryais, 9. E. G. Fell, William L.
| Exley and B. 8. Wells were appointed a
| committee to confer with the authorities Of
the South Bound as to facilities. schedules,
rates. etc.. and report back to meeting OF
the truckers to be held next Saturday.
THE Committees PLANS.
The committee met after the adjourn.
| ment OF the regular meeting and mapped
| out programme. All the truck farmers
| of this section Will be invited TO attend the
next meeting and form permanent organs
ization to promote and protect their in
forests.
There was an organization of this kind
here at one time, but for some reason il
went to pieces. This one, however, will be
/ operated on a different basis, and no doubt
| will prove a success,
All the truckers are hopeful about this
| season. The crops are in fine condition and
the outlook is bright. The recent severe
| frost did not do any material damage to any
OF the truck except pease, which
| were totally destroyed. A second
| crop, however, has been planted and will
be up and ready in time for the market.
| The shipment Of spring cabbage has already
| begun. aud for the next few weeks heavy
oargoes will go north.
Maj. RyRls said that the frost did not in
jure his farm at all, and he is looking for
ward to big season. His potato crop will
be unusually fac.
THE POTATO CROP.
Mr.. W. L. Exley said he win have a good
Drop in everything except Early Rose pota-
toes. These will be complete failure be-
cause Of the rotting Of the seed in the
| ground. he claims that the selections of
northern seed potatoes has been of
an unusually poor quality for several
| years and IL pays the farmer in this section
better to make bis own seed. Wherever he
has used the homo product good stands
have resulted. while the effect has been di-
| rectly opposite with the northern seed.
The weather bureau here has proved a
| great blessing to the truck farmers. Just
| before the last freeze the observer notified
| the farmers of what was coming, and they
| covered all their valuable crops In time to
save them. The pease crop was too far ad-
vanced, and necessarily got the full effect.
There hasn't been very large acreage
put in Strawberries this year, but what has
! been will yield good crop. The cold snap
did not injure the fruit as much as was at
first thought
Taken altogether, Chatham's truck farm
ers are looking forward to a prosperous sea-
son. and unless something unforeseen occurs
| their hopes will be realized.
FLORIDA TRUCK COMING IN.
Some small consignments of Florida
truck are now being received in this mar
ket. Reports. however. show that the
| Florida crops were injured by the cold
fully as much as the Georgia drops and that
the season there is little, if any, ahead of
this section. Tomatoes were slmost en-
tirely out of by tue last cold snap, and are
now bringing fancy prices. The cabbage
crop is reported to be small and late, and
| the commission merchants say that the
truck farmers who have good cabbage crops
| will reap fortune this year. The
pea crop around Savannah was not entirely
| killed out by the late freeze and the young