Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-04-09
TRUCK FARMERS DOING WELL
Around Hattiesburg, Where There
Has Been a Great Awaken
inp.

Special to the Birmingham News.
Hattiesburg, April 8.-The truck
growing industry is developing very
rapidly in this section. The press of
the city and some of the mot influea-
tial citizens made strenuous efforts
few years ago to induce the farmers of
this county to 60 into the early vege-
table business, but they were slow.
They tried several times TO organize,
but it wouldn't go. Last year they
succeeded in effecting a small organ
ization and few went into the busi-
ness, but had string tied to it.
| The discussion of the subject was
renewed when the railroads took
hand. They had been wantingg to
take hand all along in it, but saw
no room. About that time a board
of trade was organized and through
this the railroad appealed. They
sent speakers here and these speakers
talked vegetables and the cooperation
between the roads and truck growers
and how one could help the other,
and how the roads would meet them
/ half way if not further, and the first
thing any one knew there was an out
burst and sixty acres were put into
vegetables, and now carloads are being
shipped to the northern markets.
Another season hundreds of acres will
be cultivated in early vegetables.
PROLIFIC LANDS.
The lands In this section, by actual
tests, have proved to be the most
prolific and the most adaptable to the
production of early vegetables of any
in the south.
1t is is true the lands here, which
formerly sold at dollar and dollar
and half per acre, are much higher
now, but with hundred dollars
man can get pretty good truck
farm, and with little more money
he can build him nice house out
of the long leaf pine that grows so
abundantly in this section.
l
drouth, all he has to do is to 60 down
into mother earth from three to four
hundred feet and he has an overflow
ing we'll which, with six inch pipe,
will flow over two hundred gallons per
minute of the purest and most whole
some water ever came ont of the
ground. And then he can have his
sheep and sell every lock of wool in
Mobile, distance 96 miles, or New
Orleans distance 10 miles, at fancy
prices, or every egg at twenty and
twenty five cents per dozen or every
chicken he can raise at thirty cents
each. There is no danger of over
stocking the market. New Orleans
spends annually $40, 600, 900 for chick
ems and eggs and butter and milk
and cheese and other such things,
shipped from the west and which
could as we'll be produced in this Sec
tion. Superior molasses can be raised
here to that raised in any part of
Louisiana or in any other part of the
country. The lands here are pecu-
liarly adapted to the production Of
this household article. These things
are begging ''caught onto" and the
time will come when the section be-
tween Mobile, New Orleans and Hat
tiesburg will be solid field of vege-
tables, fuits and sugar cane.
BOARD OF TRADE.
Hattiesburg board of trade is doing
good work for this section. Dan
Mayors is its secretary and he is the
busiest man in the city. He is son
of ex-Judge A. G. Mayors, who fol-
many years was judge of this judicial
circuit. The board is now consider
ing the propsitins for half dozen fac
tories, small and large, now in con
temptation of being established here
at an early day. Each of these would
more than repay the ten dollars o.
membership, but five times that many
are to follow within the next few
years.