The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-07-25
ANTHONY
Results of and Reasons for the Early
Crops of 1910

Crops Of 1910
Anthony, July 25.-After extending
some two weeks over the usual ship
ping time. the shipping season closed
this year with many carloads of wat
ermelons and some fine canIaloupes
left in the fields. This year has been
like the clowns breaches that We're
too long and TOO short and TOO big
and too little. Il has been entirely
too dry and decidedly too wet-too dry
to grow crop and too wet TO ship
what was made in good order. How
ever there has been much greater
yield than was, for some time, eXpec-
ted. Upon the whole the prices OBJ
tanned Were not in keeping with the
high price Of living attached 10 staple
crops. The usual response when a
grower IS asked How did you come
out:' IS: Well, 1 didn't make any
money, but l got out Of the hole" Few
people like TO admit a failure outright
and few also there are who always
make money and don't want to admit
il. The latter class are almost too
few, this year TO make i separate
showing. About two-thirds OF the
watermelon crop sold above average
prices, but the latter part Of the sea-
cantaloupeS as 10 returns. The ship
mentS Of cantaloupes commenced early
and small and ended late and small
small at both ends and mighty big
in the middle-big and no account. In
fact, 1t was the bigness OF things this
year that hurt the growers of fruit
and truck. The year 1910 seems to be
record breaker for the biggest crop
Of al kinds of fruits, perhaps. ever
known. Even the LeConte pear trees
that have failed year after year for
decade are in full bearing this year.
OF course il is possible there may be
big crops of fruit again next year;
but II - not at all probable.
When the wires get hot with mes
SageS reporting the peach crop in
Georgia all killed" in early spring. il
would be wise. perhaps. for Florida
cantaloupe growers TO plant lightly
judging from the past: but sometimes
even without the killing cold, fruit
crops are Very light. in fact. all kinds
OF deciduou> and tree fruits fall very
short, and the markets have TO depend
largely on the ANIMALS and vine crops.
like cantaloupes and watermclonS. to
satisfy the demand for fruit; and It
would not he a bad plan for the Flor
jump too far back when he lays out
his crops for another Year just be-
cause 1910 proved To he below the av
era in profits.
II i just as impossible 20 make sup
ply and demand meet even and there
by regulate profits and prices 1t
would be to regulate the weather or
the waves Of the ocean. The man with
out some nerve and grit need not tao
lile trucking or fruit growing in any
part Of the world. and Florida is no
exception. unless * he that the aver
age chances are Surer here than IN
other states. Peaches and strawber-
ries are choice fruits the world over
Yet the peach and berry growers al
large FLORIDA excepted perhaps have
their times to meet and grapple with
the deductive premises. the more
YOU make the less you get" so ii
Will be. go where you Will and plant
what YOU may.
The shipments from This point this
year included IL cars Of watermelons,
besides quite n number with tomatoes
and other stuff: 12J refrigerator ears
and 10000 crates by express. The en-
tire seasons shipments would make 4
solid train three miles long. every car
loaded To the limit. How many banks
II would take to hold the net proceeds
accruinG TO the farmers has not been
figured out. but II Is certain that II
great part of their output IS still ia
sight-at least. lingering around, hav
ing gone through the hands OF crate
makers. lahorerS. merchants and fertt-
Ii er manufacturers. nearly all OF
which are local or inside the state.
This money has changed hands. some
what, but upon the whole has settled
down IN the same banks and with a
little manipulating can he used again
to make 4 crop of crops that will make
even ugly faces bloom with sweet
smiles. and harsh voices chime must
cally with the song, Florida Is Para
disc.