The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-27
NOT A BRIGHT OUTLOOK.
SEASONS SEEM TO HAVE CONsPIRED
AGAINST THE TRUCKERS.

Vegetables in Considerable Guam
tities-SeRsOns Have Been Poor In
Florida and Worse in This Sec
tiOn-AII Crops Are Badly or, ana
the Yield viii he smnlI-Dry
Weather Following the Frost Held
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Production
May Cause bigger Prices.
The Florida railroads are now doing
considerable business in the transportation
of vegetables. The daily movement over
the Plant System and the Florida Central
and Peninsular is above ten cars each,
and il Is constantly increasing.
1t is thought the movement will be at
its hight within three or four weeks. when
there win be some twenty-five or thirty
cars over each line.
The vegetable crop In Florida this year,
as in many other sections, has been in
jured by drought, and the yield win not
be as large as usual.
The growers will have the satisfaction,
however, of knowing that their produce
will bring better prices on account OF
there not being SO much of II on the mar
ket. Crop reports sent out by the commits
sion houses at the North keep the truck
farmers Informed of the conditions of all
the products, and the comparative state
ments given of the effect of adverse cir
cumstances in one section upon the prices
and prospects for the produce In another
give the growers a chance to look ahead
and see what they may expect when their
stuff gets on the Northern markets The
acreage Of different vegetables In Florida.
the effects of the cold snap about April Z
on the crops in this vicinity, and the pros
poets for a yield from all the sections
along the Atlantic coast are given in a
recent circular from one of the New York
houses.
1t looks as II Florida will have the
tomato crop very much its own way this
season, being allowed to sell later than
usual on account of there being a lack OF
competition from Savannah and other re-
gions northward. The frost CT some three
| weeks ago killed nearly all the plants the
| growers had out in the fields, and they
have not been successful in getting as
/. many as they wanted from Florida 10 re-
place them. Nothing like the quantity
usually planted around Savannah is oui
this season.
Some OF the Florida sections have great.
ly increased their acreage in tomatoes
and only drought that has been suffer.
ed will interfere with splendid returns
The Florida growers can continue to shiT
after the time when the nearer Savannah
section usually cuts Off their business by
bod la.4 from
here.
IL is reported that the drought has alst
damaged the cucumber crop In Florida
In this section cucumbers we're protected
in nearly every case from the frost ant
they are now In as good a way, consid
ering the attitudes, as those of Florida
and will, unlike the tomatoes, come In II
due season.
The drawbacks that have been suffere,
by all the Florida crops have also been ex
perienced in this section, the farmers hav
ing suffered considerably from the dr.
weather. While this section and Floridi
are even In this respect, the latter ha
the advantage In not having been hurt b.
the frost Of the first week In April
Potatoes have been planted largely Il
Florida, the crop being the heaviest In tn
history of the state. 1t Is said, however
that the yield will not be more than two
thirds Of a crop. as the drought has hur
the plants The drought In this section
being on at the time 1t came and follow
ing the frost, prevented the potatoes from
rallying from its killing effects, and man,
of those the farmers thought would pn
out again have died down to the ground
Had the rain Of last Saturday came tw
weeks sooner the potatoes Of this sectio
would have realized much better result
for the farmers. u is not believed tn
Weld will be more than tWo-thirds Of wha
il should be-
The circular has It that the damag
TO the Savannah crops on account of tn
frost was as follows: Tomatoes, about
per cent killed, but have been reset; Gu
cumbers ranging from q to 50 per cent
beans. rs per cent; potatoes generally es
tinated at about d per cent. These fig
ures were made up within two or tire
days after the frost, but the damag
shown is perhaps too slight In every in
stance except the cucumbers IL could nc
be foreseen that rain would hold Off 10
another two weeks.
IL Is said the rain that has fallen sine
Jan. / runs far behind the minimum 70
the past thirty years. There has not bee
more than one-thrd the quantity tina
, should have fallen. The crops have a
! felt the need Of II sadly.
, The practically uninjured condition b
frost or drought Of the crops at Charles
TON and the sections northward will hui
Savannah worst Of all. This will cauf
the produce from these sections 20 reac
! the markets fully 20 early and possible b.
, fore those Of this section. which have sul
fered from adverse conditions.
1 The soliciting agents Of the railroads a.
\ getting ia some hard work now with y