The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-11
THE TRUCKERS OUTLOOK.
SAVANNAH GROWERS BETTER OFF
THAN THEIR NEIGHBORS.

Their Competition in the Northern
Markets with Truck Sections
Further North VIII Depend on the
weather From Now On-savannah
and Florida on the same Basis ns
to Early shipments.
Since the freezing up Of the truck crop
throughout this section and all along the
coast the question arises as to what the
effect viii be on the early markets. The
truckers here assume, and reasonably 50.
that the destruction was Il general one,
and it leaves them all on a similar basis.
The loss 10 the truckers here. as has
been stated amounted 70 no more than
the English pea crop and few eabbages,
which were about everything above the
ground.
So far as the peas are concerned. they
constitute a sort Of a speculative crop
when planted at this time of the year, and
it is hardly once in five years. Mr. NJ. L.
EXiey, secretary Of the Truck Growers
Association, says, that they mature when
planted this early in the season. without
being badly damaged, and it is often
that they are destroyed altogether. This
is a chance crop with the truckers. and
they put it in for the purpose OF getting
little early money, which helps out very
much at the beginning of the season.
For these reasons they do not consider
their loss heavy one by any means.
Charleston usually stands the cold bet
ter than does Savannah territory, so far
as early vegetables are concerned. This
is thought TO be on account of its being
nearer the salt water. 1t is a fact that
cabbage plants grown out Of doors were
shipped to Savannah to be planted after
the December freeze, the cold weather
having killed all the cabbages here that
We're in the ground.
Florida has lost its early crop almost
entirely, and such is the condition of many
Of the truckers in that state that it is
feared some of them will not be able to
get other seed to plant again. The rail
roads have offered to transport the seed
free until March. /. Savannah is thus put
on about the same basis with Florida, so
far as the early crops are concerned. 1t
Is true, however, that the Florida crops
do not cut much figure with the truckers
OF this section. The Florida crops this
year viii be largely tomatoes and cabbage
The soil there is not favorable to the po-
tato, which is one of the largest crops
Of this section, and many of the truckers
prefer 20 have Florida get its crop out OF
the way before they enter the eastern
markets.
The situation, as regards Savannah and
Its competition with the truck growing
centers north of here viii depend very
much on the weather conditions for the
rest of the season. The sections farther
north are more liable to have other severe
weather than this, and as the Savannah
truckers have not as yet put their larger
crops into the ground, there is no reason
why the competition of the sections far
Their north should give them anything to
worry about The cold snap came too
early in the season to have any material
effect on the competition of the sections
with the exception of Florida, to which
it has been decided backset and from
which the truckers OF that state will
hardly recover for some months to come.