The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-04-16
PUBLIC TO GET
THE BEST END
IN CATION POINT TO
GREAT CROPS THIS YEAR
INCREASE IN ACREAGE
& PAINTINGS MEANS
MUCH TO LABOR
IN GMEN.

If predictions, based on observa.
tions, mean anything and have any
value, 1t is expected that the public
IS going to get all the best of thing:
and the grower Will have to be con
tent with prices made by the buyer
and not by himself. For reports re-
ceived from all over the country, in
cantaloupes, for instance, indicate
that unless there is a radical change
in conditions, an amount such as has
never before been known will be
thrown ON the market. A man who is
in intimate touch with the situation
estimates that the increase in the
cantaloupe output VIII be around 100
per cent. Where all this stuff is to
be marketed it IS hard to tell.
The increase in cantaloupes IS
claimed to be largely due TO the eff
forts of certain large distributing
companies Representatives have
gone among the farmers, called meet
ings and showed them the beauty OF
raising cantaloupes. the big money in
il and the ease in marketing the crop
They sold seed TO the formers and
secured the promise of tn. crop. In
consequence the farmers have been
neglecting the old stapls and have
opne in for the melons with might
and main. Unless people start to eat
ing melons night and day the farmer
will not get near the price he expects.
The increase in the production OF
cantaloupes holds strictly true for
watrme1ons also, although not in the
same great ratio. Unless some gigan-
tic frost comes in the near future this
is going 10 be one of the greatest
fruit ever known
Ge sches are almost out o.
dan, 1ost and it is more than
like cry previous record will
Tt ,ing to be a big apple
year ere frost killed off most
of Z airing trees in the middle
west ia.. year, reports received this
spring indicate thriving condition in
the apple orchards. Remembering the
dolesul experience ON the apple deal
this sSason it is not probable that the
merchants are going TO store apples
at anything like the fancy prices that
were given for them last season. The
increase in apples in expected TO be
about 25 per cent.
Strawberries are going to DE as
plentiful this year as they have ever
been in the biggest years. Alabama,
Tennesses and other strawberry cen
ters report that the pick will be great
and the only difficulty in sight now is
to get the public to call for them in
sufficient quantities.
Another thing that is going TO show
a great increase IS cabbage. All over
the south farmers are putting in acres
of new cabbage and if it comes
through in &C ii shape it will mean an
increase of at least so per cent over
the production OF last year. Big deal
ers figure that this 81 going to mean
loss for the grower as all that cab
bage could by no means be maketed
and would have to be thrown on
sale for anything it would bring This
heavy production means, merchants
declare, consignment rather than a
commission year. There will be plen-
ty of buyers on hand when crops
come due, but they cannot control the
situation this year from the present
outlook In all the farmer looks to
have bountiful crops this -sear. but no
prices to speak of to back him up.