The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-16
"Trucking" in the south.

This business has increased to such
an extent of late years that its con-
sideration is of Importance. AS is
we'll known a distinction is made be-
tween trucking and market gar
dening." The former term is applied
to the business of raising vegetables
for shipment in quantity to distant
markets. for the latter we understand
the growing of them for local market.
Near the large towns, and cities
throughout the country many persons
are engaged in vegetable and fruit
growing to supply the demand by those
who are unable to grow them for them
selves. Statistics show a very large
amount of capital invested in this
business. Trucking" may be said to
be a Southern industry. carried on
chiefly in the coast region from Vir-
ginia to Florida, but developed ir,
Southern Georgia and Florida to quite
a distance in the interior During the
past ten or twelve years there has been
a great development of the industry.
Thousands have engaged in it, some
to find it a very profitable and salts
factory bushes, while number have
met with loss and disappointment.
Those who engage in 1t must exhibit
the greatest energy and good Judg-
mept to make it the remuneratiVe
business that ii is very generally be-
lieved to be. 1t is certainly no FOOLS
business. The lazy mantle man who
takes things easy we may call twill
soon find that 1t is not the business for
him to succeed at. Energy and
promptness are here essential requi-
sites to success, and it is only those
who exhibit these qualities who make
successful truckers. The peas and to-
matoes and cucumbers and the aspar-
h.. l. hn az
the proper stage and promptly shipped
else they become a dead loss. The pota-
toes and onions and beans, etc, must
be properly assorted and put in the
most attractive shape possible. The to-
mato, for instance, when cultivated
and shipped properly is one OF the
most profitable OF the truckers crops
but it certainly requires watchfulness
and promptness to put them in the
Northern markets in shape to attract
purchasers. They must not be allowed
to get overripe before shipping, time
having to be allowed for the vegetable
to reach the market. Truckers have to
be very busy this month preparing
cold frames to start their crops
to have early plants OF different varie-
ties, as 1t is the early fruit that brings
the high prices.
II is rather early to begin the SOW
ing for English peas, but the plot
where 1t is intended to grow them
might be prepared to advantage this
month. A broadcast dressing of bone
dust and ashes lightly plowed in or
narrowed in now, will put the soil in
good condition for growing a good
crop. If the soil is naturally fair. Five
to eight hundred pounds of bone dust,
with the same quantity of oak and
hickory ashes per acre, is not very
heavy manuring in market gardening.
Remember, a second crop of some
thing else will follow the peas quite
early in the spring The dwarf peas,
in narrow rows, we believe, are the
best. They should be sown thickly
in the drill. and the cultivation pushed
as soon as the heavy freezes are over.
When one hits the market right the
English pea is a very profitable crop
to grow. as those who have good ship
ping facilities. and have grown the
pea for a market crop. very well know.
TO market them successfully requires.
of course better judgment than is call
ed for in the shipping of onions or
potatoes.