Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-04

other places in this neighborhood. which
draw from the same forests, shipped about
300 900 900 feet. This brings the exports up
to about S40,00o,O0O feet leaving something
over 400, 100000 feet, which was consumed
in this country.
The small trees are chopped UP into ram
way ties and many of them are shipped
abroad; but Brunswick GA, Is the Dig mar.
ket for that trade. Last year l-4;p 100, 'ao1
ties were shipped from Brunswick. In leoS
the total was 1872, 65S, 247; which, at the rate
of 5000 ties to the mile, will build 44,2lo
miles of railroad.
The river banks in Washington and clark
counties, Ala, furnish the cedar for nearly
all Of the lead pencils and penholders man
ufactured in the United States and Europe.
The supply of soft red cedar required 1or
this purpose in the European forests was
exhausted several years ago, and now the
Faber family of Germany, which manu1ac-
lures more than one-haf the pencns useu
in all the world, gets its cedar near Moplle.
The trees grow scattered and cruisers are
sent out to look for them. When found
they are cut and shipped to mill on Ihree
Mile creek, on the south SIDE OF Moplie,
where the cedar is cut into little strips half
the size of lead pencil and tied In bunches
to be shipped abroad. When they reach the
factories in Germany they are cut INTO
sem-cylinders, or octagonal shape, the
grooves are cut and filled with plumpaso
and the two pieces are glued together ana
polished The same kind of cedar was Tor
merly used for buckets, but has lately be-
come too rare and expensive. A consider
able quantity was formerly used also for
Wardrobes and chests, because the odor
keeps the moths away, and even now you
can buy trunks lined veneered on the inside
with it. The cigarboX cedar comes chiefly
from Cuba and is much coarser fiber and
a different odor
Ten Acres Enough.
A few years ago lands that had been
cleared of timber could not be given away;
but mort hern enterprise has discovered that
they produce all kinds of fruits and staples
and vegetables, which ripen here much ear
lier than they do in the north and hence
bring big profits The region around Mo-
bile, and, in fact, along the entire gult
coast, is therefore becoming thickly set
tied with truck gardeners. These small
farmers creep closely after the saw mills.
The man who owns ten acres of cleared
land and understands how to cultivate
fruit berries and vegetables and is Wiling
to devote the patience and labor that is
necessary, can make ten tunes as mucn
clear profit as he could get from hundred
acres of the best land in the north. The
chemical properties of the soil, the atmos-
pheric conditions, the warm winters ana
early springs favor quick production ana
prolific crops. Three crops of vegetables
can be grown on the same soil and no
where do Strawberries and other small fruit
produce such results.
From seventy five to one hundred carloads
during the season for northern markets.
The railroads run fruit and vegetable trains
on passenger time and are giving low rates
in order to build up the country. Mobile
is 647 miles from st. Louis and S57 miles
from Chicago, but fruit and vegetables can
be delivered at Chicago within thirty hours
of time of picking, within twenty-four
hours to st. Louis and eighteen hours to
Louisville. Comparatively little fruit and
vegetables go east of the Allegheny noun
tains The Mobile and Ohio railroad alone
shipped 1,242 cars last year of fruits and
vegetables, against CO. in 1903. The Louis
vile and Nashville road carried quite as
much and other railroads in proportion
The shipment of cabbages from Mobile in
1904 was 600 cars containing $1,000 crates;
potatoes, 600 cars, containing 41,314 bar
rels; beans, 100 cars. containing $1,000
boxes and other truck In like quantities;
$50 cars of peaches were shipped from a
little village called Fruitdale.
This vast amount of vegetables was pro-
duced upon about $3.50 acres. an average
of twenty-five acres to the farm. There
are now in the vicinity Of Mobile about L.
600 600 fruit trees. An industrious farmer
will get about three crops from his land
every year. The first will be cabbages,
Irish potatoes, onions, radishes lettuce and
other early vegetables, which will all be
harvested and sold in May. The first of
June he will plant sweet potatoes, corn,
turnips parsnips, Irish potatoes and other
fall crops, which will be gathered in Au-
gust or early September, and then he will
have a crop of hay running about two tons
to the acre, to be cut in October, and it will
be worth $40 ton.