The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-16
WHERE THE DAMAGE WAS
GREATEST AND LEAST.
4 Fine Showing for North Carolina as
the Chosen Place for the Growth
and Production of Strawber-
ries and Early Vegetables.

| Especial 10, News and Observer
Wilmington. n. c., Feb. 15.-Re-
viewing the damage wrought by the
| recent cold wave and freeze all over
| the South, the Carolina Fruit and
Truckers Journal Of this city will say
| in it's issue today:
The recent severe cold and freeze
seems TO have spread it's icy wings all
over the South as well as the North
and West, working sad havoc to early
vegetables, orange trees and tropical
fruits generally and particularly so il,
the State of Florida, where the few
strawberries that were in evidence
have been practically wiped out for
the time being. From Florida the
story is Il rather dolefui one, practi-
cally all unprotected vegetables and
fruits being about all killed. The same
sad misfortune seems 20 have over
taken the growers III about all the
other Gulf Coast States all the way
down as far as New Orleans. III
many places the ground was frozen
and the thermometer down 10 3 above
zero.
The work of replanting. however,
has already begun in Florida and else.
where and is being actively pushed,
but we must all concedc shat
the damage is practically irreparablc
Florida and the other Gulf Coast
States will ship great many vege-
tables later on in the spring. but the
crop iyill be so late that the shipments
from that territory are likely TO have
TO compete with shipments from this
State and South Carolina in all the
great markets and consuming centcrs,
and on account Of the freight rates
and differences in cost of Transports
tion the shipments out of Florida this
year will necessarily be very great
~ reduced as compared with whah
would have been shipped had the re.
cent cold and freeze not come along,
Along the East Coast territory il is
said that 90 per cent. of the tomato
crop has been killed, lettuce and cell
cry being seriously damaged. but not
quite so much as tomatoes Cabbage
and radish, lettuce, celery and other
vegetables suffered next iii the order
here given.
In the Charleston section the dam
age is about % per cent. OF the grow
ing crops, while in this territory the
damage was so small as practically
TO amount to nothing. Lettuce was prac
tically all protected, and notWith-
standing the heavy weight the covers
We're subjected to by reason of the
heavy sleet and freeze they wthStood
everything throughout. and the result
is highly gratifying to us ALL While
rejoicing over our good fortune we
nevertheless sympathize and com.
miserate with our less fortunate fellow
workers farther South. 1t now Begins
~ look as though the rest Of the coun>
try must look &C this section, as we
have predicted before, for its straw,
berries and early vegetables OF any
great volume. Of course there viii
ne some more or less shipments from
Florida of early vegetables, but the
strawberry shipments from all ac-
counts will be few aud far between.
and unless something serious happens
from now on the two CarolinaS ana
Virginia will have to supply the world
With the luscious straw berry and the
major portion of early vegetables.
Happily. however. we can do that for
the outlook is particularly altering
now for all abundant yield this spring
The cold weather and freeze have
served the double purpose OF holding
back the budding season hercabouts
until the proper time aud killing the
insects and bugs that have SO serious
~ attacked Strawberries and vcge>
tables at different places each seasou
Of late. Verify we are the people and
this is the country.
Anticipating heavy movement of