Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-05-01
BIG PRICES FOR NEW CABBAGE.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA TRUCK FARMERS
FORMED TRUST AGAINST DEALERS.

lesion cabbage kings, shipping cab.
bage now at the rate of hundred
cars day, are smiling in their sleeves
and coming the cash by shifty move
recently by which they boycotted the
New York dealers. selling TO the
Western markets and doomed the
New York quotations sky high.
Therefore, although the local truck
planters have lost heavily in beans
and cuoumbers, the cold following
the spell of hot weather having
played havoc with this part of their
crops, yet they have cause to smile
once more on the cabbage outlook,
and are sending out thousands of
crates of cabbage each day and set
ting top notch prices for them from
domineering New York.
The trick was done this way: New
York commission men got huffy, and
would not pay anything for cabbages;
at least what they offered amounted
to almost nothing, so cents the crate
being smashed into zero when the
freight of 60 cents was paid and other
expenses taken account. And 80 the
Charleston cabbage monarchs got to-
getber and shipped not a cabbage
head to New York. The naughty
consumers of cabbage boiled and
cabbage raw were given the merry
ha, ha, and all Charleston cabbage
were shipped to the Western mar
kets.
The cabbage buyers of the great
West gave Charleston truckers
around $1.2O per crate for cabbage
on the platform here. One dollar and
twenty cents looks mighty good to
the Charleston men and they just lay
back in their Morris chairs and
''larfed" right out at New York
minus cabbages and ready to boost
the price Immediately. What diff
ference between this nice price and
80 cents in New York with the
freight to pay and chance of the
cabbages spelling en- route and being
rejected at that.
And then the New York prices be-
gan to rise. Eighty cents was left
far in the rear, or way down in the
cellar, but the Charleston men put
their feet higher on the mantlepiece
and just smotei good cigars and
"larfed" and sold cabbage 1t fat
profit to the West and watched the
prices at New York soar. They
bided their times, not acting hastily,
when the New York quotations con-
tinued to ascend and reached the
handsome figures of 50 per crate.
Charleston began to take notice.
Their cabbages were far in advance
of the usual time of the year and
were we'll formed and of the best
quality. The hearts of the local
planters began to soften towards
their New York commission friends.
And the stacks of letters that were
previously unopened wero sifted a
bit and now and then one was read.
1t would be wrong and oruel to reveal
the touching appeals that came down
to Charleston from New York for
cabbages, at almost any old price.
"Givc us oabbages." eve must
have cabbages." "What shall we do
for cold slaw, and hot kraut, and
boiled dinners, and table decorations
These were some of the melting
sentences that were slung down here
from the far metropolis. Now, the
Charleston truck farmer is not a
stony hearted man, and 80 they all
took counsel together and said among
themselves "Let us give ear to the
cry of our brethren in New York,
and relieve the cabbage famine, that
the hungry may be fed and the cries
of the afflicted be hushed."
SO it was that the truckers became
soft hearted a ID lent an ear to the
cry from New York. They relented
and shipped their cabbage hence Cat
So per crate) and nov there is much
joy among the cabbage chewers of