The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-15

a nearer approach 90 a cash baei. tbso, Do.
been The case FOR some time The e,ll III t.l
ING bills ahead. 20 stronrly inveigled against
IN tne iasl trade Review of
the MORNING NEWS, disappeared q, .,,,.,.
extent during the tight times OF he Ias, ~,
months. Jobhcrs were less anNiou. fo ...lF
under the circumstances. and refasl..-.. 80
less anxious 10 buy, hence the Gaffuo. 49,
abuse ~ the credit system fen into 3i.i5s. -,
degree. But the dating ahead OF the bUls -
sun az 700 prevalent. IL Is an eXcresceuco
upon the body OF trade that demands ~
scalpel. II scductiVely leads retailers to No
chase more goods than they need or desirI
and saddles upon the JObber q risk thai bo
should not be called upon TO assume N bpii,t5
up "a tctiOns trade that sooner or later ms
result in crash in which somebody Is su-C
TO get hurt. The details of the system are to-,
wei known TO the trade 70 need eNplanatio,,
here. For general information however l.
may be stated that under the system "A com
try merchant buys blankets and other goods
IN June that he cannot sell until December
because they appear cheap and he gets long
credit upon them. He oyerlOads himself ana
when pay day approaches he finds they must
go at Sacrliice-and frequently 1t occurs tbst
the iObber furnishes the sacrifice This ner
nlctous system is the outgrowth of hot com
petition, 1t was instituted by northern
houses and must be sQueched by them
Southern houses are powerless so long as the
big northern concerns sCour the earth with
drummers and offer to date bills ahead four
months upon thirty days.
Notwithstanding the hard times of the
recent past, collections have been
fair and failure among the merchants
supplied from savannah few and
far between. Some of the interior mer.
chants have hGd to be carried over" but
the number of such instances has not been
greater than the average Generally speak
Ing the country merchants are in a much bet.
ter condition now than they were at the cor
responding period of last year. They owe
less money and have less money owing them
The farmers have made their current crop Of
cotton with smaller advances than
number of years. They have also paid more
attention to food crops; hence, when their
cotton is marketed they will have more
money to spend than they had last year For
this reason the outlook for the fall and winter
in dry goods and notions is bright. Stocks
an hand on Sept. / were very low, hardly
above one third of the. average of stocks at
that season. Owing to the financial condition
Of the country, as well as to the reasons
enumerated above jobber6 permitted their
stocks to run as low as they could and at the
same time be able to meet the demands of the
trade. The prospect Of the repeal of the
Sherman law, however, had the effect Of en-
first of the month. A conservative estimate
of Savannahs wholesale dry goods aud
notions sales for the past year is So 100000
Fruits, Vegetables, Etc.
AS compared with the year previous the
fruit and vegetable business of the year inst
ended shows a slight falling of in the number
OF packages handled. But the decrease was
so slight. and there were so many features
common TO both last year and the year he.
fore that, generally speaking, there was not
a great deal OF difference between them.
Growers were more careful In preparing their
produce for market during last season, hence,
while they sold fewer packages, they goa
more money for them There Is, however,
still room for vast improvement in packing.
AS matter of fact, whether a grower makes
money or not depends in a great measure
upon his packing. Carelessly packed fruits
and vegetables become bruised in transporta-
ton and deteriOrate rapidly, whereas, we'll
packed produce not only keeps longer but,
presenting better appearance to the pur-
chaser, commands greater price. The ore
ange crop, as regards production and prices,
was about the same as last year. For the
current year an increase Of at least one-third
In production Is looked Tor ibis increase
however, will not mean lower prices or
glutted markets for the reason that the next
crop viii he better packed better selected
and better distributed than any crop in tho
history of orange growing in Florida. The
growers have formed themselves into an as
SOc1ation for mutual protection and will take
care that every city has its supply but none
more than it can use. Pineapples have taken
rank as Florida fruit produce hardly
second to oranges. And, from a dealers
point OF view especially, they are the best
IN the world. Last seasons output OF
pineapples was greatly in excess of that OF
the year before. and the current season Will
see the product still further increased by prob
ably onethird. New acreage has been given
over pineapples along the Indian river, and the
old plantations are expected to give a larger
and better yield. Improved systems of So
lect1ng and packing are also being employed,
which will have the effect of making prices
better The last melon crop was not salts
factory, though Southwest Georgia got the
best OF what was going, Cold weather re-
tarded the crop in Middle Georgia, so that
the Southwest Georgia crop had two weeks
the advantage of il. When the crop of Mid
die Georgia finally got to market glut was
produced which smashed prices. However,
some melon dealers made money. It is hard
10 estimate the next seasons watermelon
acreage. The acreage of the season just
ended was somewhat larger than the one be-
fore it, The next will be quite as large as the
last, if not larger. The pear crop was about
the size Of that of last season, and the prices,
generally speaking, about the same Pro
ducers who selected and packed their pears
carefully have nothing to complain of in the
seasons business A late spring retarded
truck and vegetables, so that when they
started in they all came with rush and over
burdened the market Truck and vegetables,
furthermore. suffered heavily from the
financial stringency. They came in
at a time when money was at
its highest New York and the western
cities were literally foundered upon a guam
tlty of truck and vegetables that they would
have dlgeSted under normal conditions and
called for more. For this branch of industry,
therefore, the season was not satisfactory.
However, in this branch, as in others referred
10 ABOVE the producers who paid the most at
tentlon to selection and packing were the ones
who got the cream of prices. And some OF
them did very well There is not a dealer in
full truck and fruit producing in this section is
the careful preparation of the stuff for mar
ket. The fact that the truck producing bust
ness of Chatham county alone amounted to
more than 81 100000 during the past season is
proof that this section of Georgia has nothing
to fear from the competition of other early
truck producing sections. The Transports
ton facilities at this port and in this section
are so advantageous that the production Of
fruits and vegetables is sure to continue to
increase rapidly for years to come. Last
years business in these lines, il is estimated,
was not less than S3,000,OO0 How this was
divided is shown by the table following:
Appended is a statement of the exports by
the water route of fruits in packages, number
OF melons and vegetable in packages to the
different coastwise ports. There is a cOnsid-
cradle quantity going inland by rail, of which
1t is impossible to give an accurate state
ment:
Oranges s. Vege-
other fruits tables Melons.
To New York. -. 720531 392911 795 322
To Boston ....... 126 1873 1853 2l7 $50
To Philadelphia. 1892 1lO5S 1925
To Baltimore. TO-. 224 O9O 490O2 $50.
Total.......... 1,1O29O1 4S6,424 1,O16lSs
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