The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-12
sBERRI res ND ROSES.
editorial Correspondesce.)

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porous industry in the cultivation 81
strawberries and tube roses. About
Warsaw, Magnolia and Wallace there
are large quantities Of Strawberries rails
cd and shipped at very great profit.
The strawberry crop is largely the mon
ey crop, and almost every plat Of land
suitable for the cultivation Of them,
even up to the very door steps in many
places, is planted and cultivated in
them.
The crop OF course comes off in the
spring, making money more plentiful
and times easier than in the cotton sec
tons. In many cases the farmers real.
ize as much as a hundred dollars on an
acre. The cultivation Of this crop is &c
much moro profitable than cotton that
the latter has been almost entirely
abandoned as money crop.
TUBE ROSES.
It is something new to many of THE
DEMOCRAT readers that in this section
the cultivation of tube roses is q very
profitable business It has been but a
few years since it was learned here that
this crop could be made profitable.
Large quantities of them are raised,
and the farmers realize even greater
profit on them than on the strawberry
Large tracts of lands are cultivated in
tube roses here which are contracted
for by the hundred thousand before they
are planted. The bulbs are shipped
north, and many Of them across the
waters. The farmers realize a fine
profit on them according to the quality
and size of the bulb in many cases as
much as two hundred dollars being
realized from an acre. They sell for
from five to seven dollars a thousand,
and the average yield per acre is worth
about one hundred and twenty-five
dollars.
This crop is very fine one and the
cultivation of it has figured largely, in
connection with the strawberry crop,
in supplanting cotton as money crop.
Also the gladiolus is being cultivated
for the northern markets. These tube
rose and gladiolus bulbs can be raised
here in one season, whereas north it
lakes two seasons to raise crop; and
his partially accounts for the great
,ales in them Men are making for
.unes here and at other points handling
he tube rose and gladiolus bulbs. At
irst they were grown only by contract,
out now farmers grow them and take
chances on them in the market Just as
hey formerly did on bales of cotton,
md they always find profitable sales.
Besides the strawberry, tube rose and
the hucklebery crop brings a
,reat deal of money. Swamps which |
tut comparatively few years ago were
considered almost worthless are now
luite valuable property and the buckle !
'erry crop is as highly prizsd as the
ruit or grape crop in other sections. !
)ne man made three hundred dollars in |
ne month last season handling buckle
erries- This is not hearsay but have
from his own lips.
The production and sale OF these
rops only emphasize the truth that O!
his great and wonderful and beautiful
ountry, the South is in many respects
he greatest and the best and most
romislng section. There are many
Industries which seem small to the
outhern people now, but. when they
nall have been fully developed will
ield large fortunes and help make the
respective developments of this great
,ction 10 longer prospective but down
ght realities in dollars and cents.
Reverting again to some of tho lands
round Hamlet, I recently saw there
md which twenty-five years ago could
ave been purchased for one dollar and
twenty-five cents an acre but now is
orth 6fty-dollars per acre. On these
nds which but few years ago were
orthless men are now making fortunes
grapes and blackberriee.
The people Of the South only need
educate themselves . little better,
arm what they can do, then get up .
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