The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-23
PREPARING VEGETABLES FOR
MARKET.
Experience Shows That n Little
Painstaking Pays.

There are a good many crops that are
only adapted to patient careful, pains
taking persons, and that is the reason
why we find foreigners almost monop-
olizing their cultivation in and about our
cities and larger towns. 1t is a fact our
native Americans, and especially is it so
in the south, do not measure up in these
qualifications anything like the Germans
and Swedes that come into this country
and undertake the business or growing
fruits and vegetables Our own people are
not patient. They are not satisfied with
the small profits that the foreigners are
The latter have the advantage seemingly
of having inherited qualities of patience
and economy and perseverance. ObserV-
ers know that this is true, whatever may
be the cause.
Many southern truckers or gardeners
can 90 in and grow potatoes, cabbage,
onions, watermelons and make success
of the business, but when It comes to grow
ing and marketing asparagus, SWISS
chard, straw and raSberrles, grapes, Bur
artichoke celery, lettuce, kaIe and num-
Der of other things, they are almost IN
Variably distanced by their more PAINS
taking German neighbors. Let German
stand for whatever is foreign. Our Ger
man gardner Is almost sure to put upon
the market beans, English peas, lettuce,
kale and the like in more attractive
shane than our native gardner will. The
formers beans Will be young and tender
and of uniform quality. HIS peas Will pc
they are tender and wholesome; all of
the rough outer leaves of the lettuce ana
kale will be trimmed off and made to look
so inviting we just can't refuse to make a
purchase. though we have Just passed by
the very same vegetable that mas been
pulled up and thrown in anyways. The
asparagus are neatly trimmed ana buncn-
ed. And thus on through the whole
list everything was presented in the best
shane possible. The baskets of assorted
vegetables were made attractive by sprlgs
.,f a,-cTax 10 he
there a pepper with its glossy green or red
showed Itself both of which came IN very
nicely as a seasoning for the days dinner;
Our Germans vegetables would Just sell
Themselves We would forget mat We
had decided not to indulge, in but one
vegetable for the day instead of that we
took the whole basket with it's four or five
var eties, and as we set 1t down upon the
table we almost decided not to disar-
range the pretty bouquet that rested so
prettily within the scent basket Now
isn't this so? 1t is quite true this nice
preparation of vegetables involves con-
Siderable labor in the aggregate, but the
question is, if 1t pays why shouldn't 1t be
bestowed? 1 am quite sure 1t pays. l
have had the experience. A person Will
buy a peck of nicely washed and trimmed
turnips when a peck OF unwasheq, W4l4l
leaves covered with dirt and the signs of
insects, will be allowed to pass and per-
haps with snudder.
If necessary a much earlier start must
be made in preparing the vegetables or
fruits for the daily market; an extra hand
or two can be employed Women and chill
dren can do this work as Wen as man.
The trucker or market gardner is called
upon to make a reputation for his goods
as much so as the dairyman is. He can
get people to wait for and be satisfied
only with his own products. The con-
sumner soon comes to remember how free
from grit and decay and the loathsome
insect is our painstaking gardner, and
his trade is assured to HIM. In fact the
consumer will be glad to pay little extra
to get such class of goods and the ven
dor will find that after all he was not
called upon to pay for the extra labor him
self The consumer paid it, and so it re-
solves itself only into a question of a lit
tie patience and painstaking, which is
converted into money in the end.