The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-04
IILL RAISE WATERMEL0NS.
moan MAN SAYS THERE WILL
M WORE THAN LAST YEAR.

.,,+ Rpsiness Is Rather Slow oW-
i inc 70 the Farmers Not Being Able
a INV As HeretofOre-LOw Price
. cottou and the Destruction of
49,, picc Crops to BIame-Farmers
1ooLing About to See What They
con plant This Year to Bring Bet
Cor Returns-WatermeI Will BE
PLANTED More Extensively an Some
acknowledgements Believe, by
C,osa attention, They Can Raise
Them More PrOfitably-Other News
and Notes of the Roads.
ouou, is business?" a Morning News re-
Dorter asked a representative of the freight
E,.n.rtrnent of one of the Savannah lines
Yesterday,
"Weu. it is not so good as 1t might be"
uas the answer. You see, the low price
8sev got for their cotton in one section
and the way their rice crops were knock
I ID out in another has put the farmers
such fix that they can't manage to
buzz very much. The consequence is that
the railroads are feeling it, and the freight
we handle has decreased greatly"
The gentleman talking represented a
road that passes through both sections,
|that where cotton is raised and the other
where rice is grown. He finds that pro-
ducers of the staples are finding it trouble
some to get along, the one about as much
as the other.
i There is one thing 1 have noticed about
The situation, though" the freight man
continued. 1T is evidently the intention
|of some Of the farmers not TO plant so
much cotton this season. 1 have had sew
eTal come to see me here, and when 1 have
|oeen out on the line of our road to see
WEat sort of rates they could arrange for
~ they should decide to put in a different
Fort OF crop This is not infrequently done
When a producer wants to devote his
tlme to some other product that he has
oeeh accustomed to handle or to plant
more extensively than he has been plant
H5' ne often comes to the railroads to
ash them what kind of rates he can make
WIN them to handle his products Some
ulieS the roads make him a special rate
ana sometimes they do not. 1t depends
UPON what their interests may be.
nave mad number tell me they want
70 put more ground in watermelons this
SEASON than last. one section of our line
makes splendid melons, and more than $50
Va ! lodus We're shipped from it last season.
: yupse there will be an increase this
ssaSoh' from what has been told me. The
90 liner. ai nave been asking for special rates
oo,, I,eir melons, saying they thought they
tDulu manage to make them nav better
nan cotton will, and that all thew want
roads '''1ie encouragement from the rail-
He. II seems to be their idea that the
If te markets have been made points
49, W large and frequent shipments of
tho ana that the proper things for
di,.on 9ou'herh growers to do would he 10
NOV ny thelr markets; they want to shin
tororo " tle West this season than here
soo5 1t may be that their Man is n
eo ooa one, and that they will be more suc-
'e ~. than formerly. '-'iS SUI
ere ~ Is also an idea among tbe farm.
NELL - they can make better water
atfent5oi IL 'hey only devote more time and
tbat oa,n. 70 them. They seem 10 be,iave
c, cotton has detracted too orost,'' 1870
othf tbipo. ana mat watermelons. among
have ,',nss' have suffered. Those who
tributa 'i r. oached me in the matter at
ceiyed a. 10" prices that have been re-
the iaf at tunes for carloads of melons -
ped MI. quality that are often shin
rect" - something they want to cor