The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24


mullet, herring, blue fish, Spanish mack
eral, and other varieties varies at diff
ferent seasons. The numerous creeks,
rivers and esttYiries form great natural
fish hatchery.
PRODUCTS or THE LAND.
There is no part of the Atlantic coast
where cereals, grasses, vegetables, fruits,
melons, and root crops can be raised
more easily and abundantly than in the
pamlico section. Soils are of great Iii
versity and Of every degree Of fertility.
from the black muck of the drained
swamps to the white sand of the beach
dunes, and not a stone is to be seen any
where Here are stiff lands, producing
wheat, corn, berries and fruits of certain
kinds; loose lands, yielding peas, peanuts,
sweet and Irish potatoes, melons, straw
berries, grapes and garden truck in great
variety; gray sandy clay, which produces
the best cotton; white sandy soil, favor
ing long-straw pine. corn and cotton;
clay loan, very fertile; alluyial soils for
grasses, grain and roots; also very fer
tile low, sandy loan, producing grapes
and peaches; natural swamp lands, af-
fordng cranberries and reeds for cattle
fodder: reclaimed lake and swamp lands,
producing corn, peas and apples of ex-
cellent flavor: peat lands for fertilizer
and fuel; white beach sand yielding
Yopon tea, pine and grapes; black yege-
table mould, richest of all; and so on,
through every grade of admiXture and
chemical combination. Out-croppings of
yellow mari and shell rock often protrude
from river cuts and elevations.
MARKET TRUCK.
No agricultural districts III the United
States are worked with more intelli-
gence and profitable outcome than the
truck farms around Newbern. -Four
thousand acres at least are i'll the highest
state of cultivation, with Il diversity Of
products which covers the entire range
Of the scedsman's catalogue. Most
truckers produce four different crops
from the same acreage every year ag-
gregating in ii good year $500 to the
acre. Cabbage and kaie. are shipped
MI winter Raddishes and lettuce so
out in February, asparagus in March,
shipments reach a quarter of IA million
packages. of which perhaps 100000 are
Irish potatoes, which are dug early in
June Such is the wonderful character
of this industry that great as it already
Is. every year seems to add to its mar
vellous development and expansive area.
In an interview this season Mr.. G. T..
Foy. leading business man Of Newbern
said:
Something more than year
ago. Mr. John s. McGowan bought a
track OF land containing about 1,200
acres from Watson and Daniels. He
had formerly been running the farm
for TIE owners as manager. 1he ta 4
il situated about seven miles south
east Of Newbern Mr.. McGGwaa gave
i'm notes Of ~ 500 each for the payment
of the land. This year he put sixty
acres IN cabbage and struck it rich
From his sixty acres h" has sold twelve
thousand dollars worth of caIbaages
receiving for that crop alone III one
year more than enough money to pay
for the entire 200 acres. That is
what | cal farming that is better than
gold mining.
Mr.. Foy told of another man who
struck it rich on cabbages. Mr.. john
4. Jones. Il livery man of Newbern, OF
fifteen acres planted in cabbages made
$1,000.
The cabbage crop seems to ray thu
best 1t is the easiest truck TO get t