The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-09
The Trucker and Market Gardeners
List OF Vegetable Crops.


The Trucker and Market Gardeners
List OF Vegetable Crops.
The twelve leading vegetables grown
for market and home use may be named as
follows:
Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, cabbage,
onions, beans (butter and snap, turnips,
tomatoes. beets. English pease, celery, green
corn and asparagus
A secondary list Of twelve may be named
as follows: Lettuce, caulifiower, spinach,
kale, squash, cucumber, satisfy, parsDip,
carrot, eggplant, okra, redish.
While there are q few other vegetables
grown to a greater or less extent in one
section or another of our broad country,
the twenty-four named may be considered
as the stock in trade" of The trucking or
market gardening interest of the United
States.
Some of these are staple articles Of food,
capable in themselves OF sustaining life for
a prOtracted period, others are but amend
ments TO solid food. Salad plants, or what
are termed "relishes" vegetable are always
in demand and extensively grown, but
utterly incapable by themselves OF sustain
ing life beyond very short period. Yet
these very vegetables claim an amount of
care and attention that is not exceeded by
those valued as solid food. How little OF
nutriment and power of sustaining the
physical man is to be found in lettuce or
celery G. redish, a cucumber or tomatoes
Tor for that matter in oKra, or eggplant or
ssparagus), and yet think Of the thousands
and thousands Of acres devoted to the cult
ure of these crops.
There are vegetarIans who claim that
man needs nothing more than a vegetable
diet, and that his demands upon the animal
world are altogether unnecessary. We are a
strong believer in the value OF vegetable
food, believing that it constitutes a very
wholesome and desirable diet in the summer
time especially, but we are not able to go 80
far as to say that the maximum OF physical
development can be- secured aud maintained
by vegetable food alone. We are aware
that a man after full development needs
very little If any animal food TO sustain life
where there is no great demand upon his
physical powers; but we question very
much If the hard worker could maintain
the necessary strength and vigor for ten
hours' daily toll without the aid Of animal
food.
However, we did not start out 10 discuss
tine subject OF vegetables as food, but sim
ply to enumerate the several kinds princi-
pally grown by our home and market gar
deners and truckers, and inquire which OF
these are most profitable to the several
kinds OF growers.
1t is understood that the term trucking
signifies something different from market
gardening. and the difference consists in
this: The truckers raise vegetables to be
shipped to distant points, and not undertake
ing to supply any home market. This being
the case be grows only those kinds on
large scale that are not very perishable,
that allow OF being transported by rail
or water 500 to 1000 miles. and that
remain in merchGntRble condition at least
from one 70 several weeks 1t lie true nearly
every vegetable mentioned is grown to some
extent by one trucker or another, but there
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OF them that their culture has been gener-
ally given up and attention conferred upon
those that are least perighable, and that are
more easily gathered and shipped, such as
potatoes, onions, cabbage, turnips, bets,
celery, spinach, eggplant.
Tomatoes, certainly one Of the most per-
ishable on the list, is very generally grown
by truckers. as well es market gardeners.
but it is a common experience for this crop
to prove losing venture. It requires vi9ls
lance and prom ptness TO make 1T a paying
business. It is only those who can deliver
finely grown vegetables in attractive condi-
ii n in the northern markets that need ex-
pect TO make a success OF trucking in this
day Of competition from so many sections.
The market gardener grows vegetables to
supply the local market, delivering great
portion directly to consumers. The re-
mainder he either sells TO green grocers or
has them sold on commission for him.
Usually he.is warranted in giving a greater
variety than the trucker. He can deliver
the most perishable kinds in a few hours
after gathering them and some OF the vege-
tables OF this character are the most profit
able OF any he grows.
While the market gardener will fiud
profit in growing a considerable variety,
the trucker who makes speciality of only
four or five kinds and understands their
growing and shipping perfectly is more
likely to attain good results than when he
has too much variety. s. A. G.
Care in Marketing Fruit.