The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1903-05-22

SuSA 40 eSpdt 1SuS, lSlluCS, cabbage
or celery. Another finds watermel
ons and canteloupes his most profit
able crop. Each farmer must stud,
the nature of his land and decide in
telligently as to what crop will bes
repay his thought and toll
| The United States Department C
Agriculture In Bulletin No. 21
on 'Rates of Charge for Transporting
Garden Truck, with Notes on the
Growth Of the Industry" include.
what it properly styles the justly re
nowned Georgia peaches. There is
no limit to the growth of the truckinl
business, and its profits are bound tC
increase from year to year. Although
the western end of Long Island is 81
occupied by this industry as to have
the appearance of great truck farm
yet nearly all its products are con
sumed by the millions OF people with
| in the radius of a few miles. The
| great cities of New York and Phila
| delphia not only furnish markets fol-
| the truck farms in their vicinity, but
also purchase largely from the market
| gardens of the south In fact, New
| York city is probably, says the bul
letin, the greatest market in the Unit
ed States for the trucking districts oi
| the south.
A proper fertilization of the soil is
one of the most essential conditions
for success in truck gardening. Lands
| io1,
are rarely found. Some crops re
quire a great deal more fertilization
than others, According to the bull
letin from which we have already
| quoted, the cost of fertilizer per acre
for leading varieties of vegetables in
the Savannah trucking district, which
| embraces the entire coast country OF
Georgia, is as follows: Asparagus
S25; beets, SIG; string beans, SO; cab
bage, S22; cucumbers. $40; kale, S22;
watermelons, IS; peas, $12; irish pota.
toes, S25; sweet potatoes. SIS; spin.
mach, $15; tomatoes, $40
We have the authority of the United
States Department OF Agriculture for
the statement that probably the fin.
est trucking country ID tho wrcld is
located on the Atlantic coast from
Norfolk, Va, to southern Florida, II
embracing the entire Georgia coast
The best soil for trucking is one in
which there is more sand than clay.
because this kind of soil retains less
water, warns up more rapidly and
promotes g quick growth of the crop
during winter and spring.
Many of our farms have moro or less
land OF THIS type, which viii bring its
largest profit when devoted to truck
gardening.
Cotton.
One of the most reliable sources OF
information for the United States cen.
sus Office concerning the production
of cotton is found in the reports of the
cotton ginners.
Many will be surprised to learn that
the cotton ginned from the growth of
1902, exclusive of linters, amounted
to 11,07S, 882 running bales, equivalent
to 10, 020,945 bales of 500-pound stand
ard, or counting round bales, $105SS,
250.
The average crop, exclusive of lint.
ers, for the past four years has been
9,902.277 bales of 500 pounds and the
excess over these figures of the crop
falling off in production west of the
Mississippi owing to crop failures In
Texas, was more than Offset by the
increase in other states, both east and
west of that river. The states show.
ing the most notable increase were
Arkansas, Georgia, Loupisiana and
Mississippi.
The value of the entire crop of 1907
is estimated at $501 ,S97,354 making
it the second crop of the United
States in value, with corn first and
wheat third. The value of raw cotton
exports for the same time is $290,651
819, giving that article the first rank
among American exports. Now here Is
a fact that our farmers should heed
The export price for 1902 was about
one cent per pound less than that OF
1901 This shows the Importance
of guarding carefully against over-pro
duction, Oil, at least the necessity of
having some oyher paying crop 10
come to the rescue. if the price OF
cotton should, by reason of an un-
usually large crop, fall below the point
of profit
1t is to be hoped that the marvellous
growth Of the cotton factories and
cotton seed oil mills of the south will
by their steadily increasing demand
for the raw product of our fields pre-.
vent any possible recurrence in the
future of the ruinous low prices that
once prevailed.
The quantity of short cotton saved
to the commercial world by the regin
ming Of cotton seed for oil extraction
is annually increasing.
The southern farmer can congratu'
late himself that he has ncotton- one
of the greatest money crops in the
world; and the Georgia farmer has adj
ditional reason to be happy in the fact
that his home is in one of the fore
most states of the great south-now
the most progr gressive and rapidly ad
vancing section Of the greatest nation
of the EARTH
o. B. STEVENS, Commissioner