The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-24
CROPS ARE BETTER
ONE WEEK WROUGHT A DECIDED
IMPROVEMENT IN THEM.
CHANCE FOR GOOD YIELD.
HOLD-UP OF RAINS GAVE OPPoR-
TUNITY TO CHOP GRASS.

WAL ". NJ hyals Reports south
Georgia Crop Conditions rs Much
Superior to One Week AEo-Had
Never Seen Such Improvement in
Short WhiIe-Peach Growers Get
ting Remunerative Returns for
Their Early observation-disclosures
Considerably Later Than Last
Year-Truck ROtting in Fields
Around Savannah Because HucIx-
sters Cannot Buy for Sale on the
Streets.
Crop conditions in South Georgia have
greatly improved within the last week
Maj. Ryals returned las might from trip
to his farm in Worth county, and his OBJ
servation of changed conditions was such
as to impress him strongly with the idea
that there is yet chance for a crop.
Il never saw a week make such a
change" said Maj. Ryals. Fields were
grown up in grass week ago, and water
stood i'll the rows. The weeks relief
from rains, however, enabled the farmers
to get to work on the grass and cut it
out of their crops. The water has disap-
peared, too, and there is now a prospect
for a fairly good yield.
Especially is this true Of cotton. The
plant can look as If nothing could save
it, and yet favorable conditions and
proper work will bring it around all right
and make it produce. A week ago it
looked as If there would be no cotton
crop to speak of throughout a large Sec
ton, but l am glad to say that there
now appears to be a greatly improved
chance. The corn, 1 am afraid, does not
show up as favorably as the cotton, for
corn, unlike cotton, once grass and ID
verse conditions have got in their work,
will not respond so readily when the ef-
fort is made TO counterfeit the effects"
Not only is Mai Ryals' farm largely
productive of cotton and corn, but
| peaches are also grown in quantities. The
| earlier varieties of the fruit are now be-
ing shipped to the markets from this and
| other farms in the state, and Maj. Ryals
says that he understands that the returns
from the commission houses, in cases
where the fruit has proven in good con-
dition, have been very good. They have
meant profit to the growers. In some
| instances the rot has been so prevalent
among the peaches as to impair their
value, but a peach company some few
miles from Maj. Ryals' place was drawn
upon by the consignee for funds with
which TO pay the freight on several cars.
SO adverse were the conditions, that the
company decided it would not continue us
losing game. No more shipments of the
early varieties were made. Two cars
that were on the sidetrack, ready loaded,
. Hon nd
to do its work just where the fruit was.
All peaches this season have been late.
The early varieties, Mai. Ryals said,
were all from ten to fifteen days late, and
| the same will be true of the later peaches.
| The Elbertas, the queen of the orchards,
| will not appear until about July Il or
| July Is, whereas they were on the mar
ket by July last year. This peach forms
| the principal stay and reliance of the
growers, and to it they look for their
| best returns.
Maj. Ryals, who plants extensively in
! truck on his pace near Savannah, was
| asked if ne had noted any effect upon the
local market for vegetables, growing out
| of the citys enforcement of the ordi-
nance against hucksters selling their
! wares on the streets without licenses or
| during market hours. tie said that the
effect has been most decided. as the vege
| tables are rotting in the fields, through
| the hucksterS not appearing to buy them
for retail upon the streets.
| MANY of the hucksters," said Maj
| Ryals, "in fact, nearly all of them, have
little places upon which they raise some
| of the vegetables they SELL but their Gus
| tom is such as to make them have re-
course to the truck planters for their
wears. They appear at the farms late in
! the afternoons and buy enough to sell on
| the streets the next morning. Because they
are cut off from selling, they do not now
| appear, and the truck farmers note that
| their sales at this time are not nearly
what they usually are. The vegetables lie
wasting in the fields"
| In view of the fact that the green gro
GERS and the market supply the vegeta-
| bles, when the hucksters are not allowed
to sell. Maj. Ryals was asked why it was
that the vegetables remain in the fields,
as the green grocers have to have sup
plies for their customers. He answered
that quantities of the green grocers' veg
| etables are received from Florida and
| that they lack the freshness of those pro-
duced around Savannah.
! One point for the hucksters that was
made by Maj Ryals was that there are
| many people in the city who are often
| able to dispose of old wearing apparel
and other articles to the hucksters, in ex-
| change for their wares. The hucksters
either use what they get in exchange or
dispose of it, so that they do not lose by
such transactions. The other parties,
however find them decidedly profitable,
being able to get rid of things that are
no longer useful to them. Such an ex-
| change cannot be made with the green
| grocers.
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