The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-17
THE BEST WE EAT
GROWN IN SOUTH.
Truck Growing Industry Bccom.
ing Great Factor in Standard
ization OF Nations Diet.
CROPS LARGER EACH YEAR
Increasing Importance OF Fruit
and Vegetable Culture in Viz
ginia and Other States.
'rsnec,a, 10 Tho r,mes-pi.patch.l

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BALTIMORE, May 16.-Giscussing
the southern truck growing industry as
factor in the Standardization OF the
nations diet the Manufacturers Re
cord says this week:
..Sineteen solid carloads OF straw
berries passed through Rocky Mount,
y. C.. one day last week on their way
10 the Northern markets, seven of them
bound TO New York. six TO PhiladelE 'nia'
four to Boston, and one each TO Pitts-
burg and Syracuse. Atlanta commits
sion men calculate that. barring acct
dents, Georgia will ship this Year at
least 5000 carloads of peaches, valued
q, 100000 a record breaking crop.
Mr ]. N Mallory. the industrial agent
of the Central of Georgia Railroad,
mas recently made public figures snow
ing that in Georgia there are now
s.feS.l55 bearing peach trees, sI5,uSo
peach trees that will come to bearing
this season, s0.3t5 bearing plum trees,
as-tos bearing pear trees, i6oo bear
ing fig trees, 1000 bearing cherry
trees. 3.ei5 bearing ponegranate trees.
500 bearing -,!aDan plum trees, 4,s62
acres planted in rarermelons, i.122
acres in cahtaioupes and sci acres in
potatoes and other vegetables. From
the coast country of Texas there is
now heavy movement of truck, one
road handling 81 carloads In two days
last week. The watermelon movement
from Texas is about beginning, and
from the territory south OF San An
tonic it is expected that at least 1000
carloads of melons will move within
the next two or three weeks.
The Comtry's Market Garden.
These facts are indications OF the
steady expansion of the area In the
South that is rapidly becoming the
great market garden for the country.
and from which thousands of cars are
annually carrying to Northern and
Western markets fruits and vegetables
approaching in value sl00.000,0o0 The
trucking industry, originating in the
Norfolk section of Virginia about halt
a century ago, has within the past
twenty or twenty-five years, and es-
pec!aily during the past ten years, ex-
tended down the coast to the Mexican
border, and is firmly planted in the
highlands of Arkansas, Tennessee and
Virginia. The procession OF early
fruits and vegetables northward anG
eastward now begins TO swell its an.
nual volume from Texas and Irlordf;
IN January or February, and tho
strawberries, watermelons. cantaloupcs
peaches. apples, cabbage, kale, sprouts
tomatoes. yams and other fruits ant
Vegetables not only are striking cyi
dences of the tendency to diversified
ton in Southern agriculture, but ar
s potent contributors 10 the STANDARDIZED
4 ton of the national menu
Source Of Great Profit.
THE growth of the industry ha
had almost dramatic ramificatiors. i
a comparatively small area near VIII
mington. n. c., for Instance land tina
ten years ago was worth hardly SIS a
acre is now held at $3.50 an acre Fro,
u are shipped annually from 10000
to 100000 crates OF berries, the nc
profits from 1883 acres in strawhel
rios in 1907 having amounted TO 1896
s13- Other net profits We're: Lettuc
VI one and one-half acres, sSl2.49 rae
ishcs, one-falf acre. S5i.05 onions TWO
fifths acre, sES.95 cGulflower out
ninth acre, s574oi beets, one half acr
$500; turnips. onc-quarter acre, s35 G
cabbage, one and half acre
$l235S, beans, one acre. s257,2T, c,
cumbers, two-fifths acres, sll457; ep
plants, one-half acre, s392l7; iomatoe
5@ seven-eishths acre. sS637; pepper
one-eighth acre, $1,000.
Secure Large Yield.
Zone county in South Carolina ne
Charleston yields each season $4,000
In cabbages or young cabbage plant
$SS0,001 in irish potatoes, $3.50, 600
cucumbers. 100000 in greens. $3.50
In straw berries 100000 in asparag,
$4,000 In green peas, $4,000 In swe
NJ potatoes, and 100000 In beets, iettu,
radishes. etc. From the Chuttnnoo,
(TeRn.) section increasing shipmcn
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