The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-12

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Reviews the Situation in the South's
Great Fruit and Trucking District.
Especial to News and Observer
Wilmington, \. c., Jan. 1.-THE
Carolina Truck and Fruit Growers
Association has just taken another
great step forward in the adoption of
plan for using telegraph and tele-
phone service when the strawberry
season opens this spring to keep the
growers and shippers posted ach day
on the carload shipments to North
ern markets. Celebrating on this new
move and editorially reviewing the sit
uation at this time THE Carolina Fruit
and TrCskerscFOsers
and Truckers Journal of this city
Will say in its issue today
Upward and onward is the watch
word of the hour with the Carolina
Fruit and Truck Growers Association
in its efforts to further advance the
best interests of the growers and ship
perS of strawberries and vegetables,
cantaloupeS, melons, &c, throughout
! this territory. At meeting of the
Executive Committee of the assocla-
ton here several days ago the ques-
| ton of telegraph and telephone ser
vice, in addition to the Daily Bulle-
| tin from South Rocky Mount to the
various shipping stations, was taken
up and discussed at great length. The
advantages of such q service are man.
| fold and so apparent that after full
and free expression among those pres
| ent on the advisability of such a move,
| Shipping Master Bauman was in
structed TO put in this service during
| the coming shipping season to such
points as do not receive the Dally
Bulletin before the trains are moved,
for that days forwarding from South
| Rocky Mount. In other words, by
eight o'clock every evening each sta
| ton will know just what has moved
out that day for each market from
all points, through South Rocky
| Mount, and can adJtsuIV
Mount, and can adjust their shipments
| to the various markets for next days
forwarding accordingly The Daily
Bulletin will be posted up at all sta
tons, as usual. The Journal looks
| for the best results from the service
| and we are sure it will be appreciated
! by every shipper
This is distinctiyely one of the great
| est moves yet made by the association
| for expediting the intelligent forward
! ing of berries, vegetables and other
| produce from this territory, and Mr..
| Bauman knows when, how and where
to apply such facilities to the best adj
vantage. He has the whole matter at
| his finger tips, and from South Rocky
!
| Mount, where he is stationed during
| the active shipping season, he directs
| and looks after the transportation and
| forwarding of all this business with
/ the regularity, method and uniform
| ity, success and organization that Pier
] pont Morgan would the stock market
from his palatial quarters on Wall
| Street The distribution, therefore,
the coming season with telegraph,
telephone and daily bulletin service
| should be without flaw, and the ship
! pers and growers are to be congratu-
! lated that these added facilities of the
association for their benefit has been
| mad. To the Executive Committee and
| other officers let due credit be given.
The seasons for strawberry plants
| during the fall and winter months up
! to the present time have been ideal
| in every particular, and ii conditions
continue on through until shipping
| beigns next spring we shall have the
greatest movement o. Strawberries and
| vegetables out of this territory ever
! known in the history of the business.
| The vines have been well cared for
and cultivated thus far, and every
iprecaution possible will be adopted III
| the future TO prevent damage that
might otherwise befall the growers.
! Shipping facilities are therefore being
| planned on scale in proposition to
! the outlook, and up to this time there
{ has ben practically nothing left un-
| done for promoting the best interests
of one and all. Experience has been
a valuable lesson to many of our grow
ers and each season they profit by
| the previous years operations in see
| ing where improvements and better
ments in various ways are TO be made.
/ These improvements come not only in
| the cultivation of the crops, but like.
wise in marketing, handling, grading,
and packing of the fruit after 1t has
| been gathered. In other words, or
der and system now take the place of
| chaos and confusion that too often
existed many years ago.
| From all sections The Journal gets
| most favorable and encouraging re-
ports regarding the outlook for the
| 1905 crop. Joe Brown, Esq, of Chad
| bourn, was in the city last week and
stated that the greatest activity in
strawberry circles of Chadbourn and
vicinity was now going on and prepa-
rations are being made o ma gigantic
| scale for moving the crops next
spring. Mr. Brown estimates the in
crease in strawberry acreage in what
| is known as the ChadbOurn section
and Chadbourn proper. at anywhere
| from 25 to 80 per cent over previous
wears. In other words. he estimates
/ that with favorable seasons next
spring the increase in shipments will
| be fully to 80 per cent over the
shipments of last year He reports
| practically everybody in his neck OF
| the woods as having made good money
| last season and looks for repetition
of the same experience next spring.
only on Il bigger scale. The writer
recently talked with Mr. w L.. Hill,
of Warsaw, Mssrs. Russell, of Teachy $
/ and Rose Hill, Dr. Porter, of Rocky
Point, Mr.. Boney, of Wallace, Mr..
Westbrook, of Mt. Olive, Messrs. Lucas
| and Moore. of the A. & Y. Division,
| all of whom gave very favorable re-
| ports on the outlook concerning their
| respective localities.
! In addition to points along the va
! rious divisions of the Coast Line,
strawberries will be shipped next sea-
son quite extensively from a number
of points on the Carolina Central d.
vision of the eSaboard Air Line be-
| tween Wilmington and Hamlet, such
as Cronly, Councils, Clarkton, Abbotts-
| burg, Bladenboro and Lumberton. The
ISoil at all of the points named above