Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-06-02
WONDERFUL RESULTS OBTAINED BY
CULTIVATION OF THE STRAWBERRY

market possibility Ia the South, |
am no prophet, hence cannot predict
what legislation will do with tie
ownership of the refrigerator car
But it needs no prophet to under
stand that the refrigerator ear ha,
only begun It's work in this country
1t has made possible an entirely new
bill of fare in every household in the
United States. To say nothing of
providing fresh meats for every quar-
ter of the United States at all sea-
sons, it has made possible also
fruit and vegetable diet nearly every
month of the year, aud at reasonable
prices In fact 1t makes the pllce AT
times So low that the producer is al
most Il philanthrupiSt, unwilling
though he be. For instance, in the
first week of May one shipment of
North Carolina Strawberries put -
ears into Plttsburg. Pittsburg had
not cleaned up the previous ship
mcnt, strawberries sold in that mar
ket. for prime fruit, at 10 cents a
quart. Such things happen quite fire.
quently at the big markets. and while
the producer finds no comfort in II,
the buyer has no grievance. With
out the refrigerator ear limited
shipment of Strawberries might 90
out of the South by express to arrive
in the market, of the North in ques-
tionabe shape, and at prohibltive
prices, With refrigerator ears an
enormous industry has grown up all
over the south, and Is increasing at
an enormous ratio. and the North
sends millions of dollars south each
year for food products that can be
obtained here at low cost, and of ex-
cellent quality,
"The strawberry crop is but one
of the great crops that the North
Carolina garden is sending to the
North-in fact, the movement be-
ginning at the extreme south of
Florida and extends northward with
the season until it has included the
country clear to Lake Ontario and
the Michigan peninsula. Hundreds
Of thousands Of persons derive a
profit from this garden industry of
the south Men, women and children
are employed in field and orchard, on
shipping yard and railroad. and the
VINEYARDS and orchards are wonder
fully busy places, not only at the
shipping season, but long before.
Activity commences as soon as one
crop is ON. Then the vines or gar
dens must he put in shape for the
next crop. Flowing. pruning. train
ing the vines and getting everything
in readiness for the next spring 90
forward until winter, When the
short winter Is over cultivation starts
at once and Is continued until har-
vest arrives, when armies of pickers
20 to the fields. There is one of the
diflicultie. in supplying the North
with cheap food products from the
gardens Of the South. Only those
who have been about the fields and
have seen the large number of har-
vesters employed can realize the diff
ficulty that attends assembling so
many and having them on hand reg
ularly every day throughout the sea
son.
But the result ia = surprising one
in the general prosperity of the
South. Right around Southern Pines,
for instance, the effect Of the fruit
and truck business is seen. Over at
Rilyeu's orchards and vineyards 1t
becomes necessary to run train
out from Aberdeen in the middle of
the season to carry hands enough to
do the harvesting. Approach a col
urpd woman now with a proposition
10 do housework anywhere IN this
neighbolhood and she will tell you
that -'c Is gcttin- ready To- 20 toI
the vineyards. The fruit interests
&C the neighborhood have raised
havoc with the supply oi 'puSe-
wu kers. aud there l. con 'ani
clamnr for women to help i'out
housework. The result is dat all
kinds of hands get better wages IN
the fruit and truck sections, AMI the
whole business of the state and of
the South is decidedly benefited.
Every branch of trade is influenced
and the banks in the interested see /
tions have money to lend.
Further benefit, are seen III the !
employment of that money in build |
ing towns. factories and everything /
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