The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-06-13

printed an article entitled. How Truckers Can
Avoid Lean Years." in which the following ap-
peared: IF children eat unripe fruit and suner
pain, We feel that after the pain they suffer and
the bitter medicine they have to take they ought
to know better than TO go back TO the dangerous
unripe fruit again. Truckers are about as bad In
some instances. After going wild on strawberry
growing, making good profit n year or two maybe.
but finally suffering distressingly lean years, they
go wild ON growing cabbage or some other crop
that for a time offers good profits. Lean ycar>
will come to the cabbage grower. The trucker
who lodges from one crop 10 another and does NOT
have a large enough variety in his crops puts him
self in the class of the child that eats green fruit.
suffers aches and bitter medicine. and then goes
back TO eating green fruit
several Market Crop. Are BETTER Than One.
The cabbage market has gone TO pieces: and
the preceding paragraph IL quoted not for the pnr-
pose Of making the cheap rciort OF i told you
So" but for the purpose of emphasizing the
fast that the foregoing argnmtn, Was made
on the basis of history often repeated and
of pointing out that under simsiar circum.
stances like history will repeat itself in tho
future. The former article dwell, on the atsan-
tage OF truckers having a number OF crops tn sell.
The following IL quoted from The article: These
are the advantages the trucker gets from diveEai-
hcaiion of vegetable and fruit, cropa. Oh The
same unfasorahle weather will not iniure them
all. ca The necessary work will not fall 10 much
on the same day. and there will not DO the hoclng
problem that many strawberry growers have had
to face. or the picking problem. "a Tho marko,
price for all kinds of vegetables and fruit ~ill
not be low The same year. 90 Helpful changes
In the crops grown on a given piece of land can
be made from year to year. 40 plant diseases and
inaec; pests ~ill be more easily controlled. 81
The land will respond better Ia In. food demands
Of crops grown in rotation" 1, ~as further stated
In that article that half u dozen erops arc much
Nurer than unet and t.r n r twciyc p testey tha n
Elk.
The Crash In Cabbage.
When that article Was written. IL ~aa feared
that In "a year or tao cabbage would fail ~ much
In price tina, those who were depending very
largely on cabbage for their cash income would
be in diniresn: but tho crash came sooner than
that. ny the las, of May Misainaippi truckers
were very much discouraged. Adsicca from North.
ern markets said atop shipping cabbage. This or
der came when no, halt the crop had been Gu, In
some localities. From some Mississippi districts
the shipments OF truck averaged aeycnty-ayc cars
a day. the bulk OF II being cabbage. Some of the
truckers were very hard hit. They had been sue
ceaaful with cabbage last year. and this year had
put In large acrcagcs. while thousands of other
truckers elsewhere did likewise. Al Cincinnati!
many cars of cabbage had been refused and soid
to cover freight charges by the last OF May. I,
became IA scramble TO ge; rid of tho crop nj any
price. What this break In the market means To
cabbage growers viii be- better appreciated when
1t is known that reports say that us. 900 was ex.
pended at Crystal Springs. Miss. alone for fer
tillz.rs for cabbage.
Some Of the truckers hope To pull through fair
~ well by the aid Of their tobacco crop. Even
their hope In this respect. irrespective OF whether
the hope ever becomes IA reality. shows that the
farmers appreciate that they can often pull through
by having more than one market crop when they
would have IA hard time OF pulling through with
only one.
Rub In the Mchicinc: II VIII DO Coed.
IL looks mean TO kick Il man when he's down:
but II seems best to dwell on thiA subject ill
truckers become convinced once for all that n d.
versity OF crops for market In the only safe plan