Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-09-14
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the trucking industry than in any other branch
Of soil filling. The fruit grower who has had
any experience comes to expect the inevitable
bad years and to view them with some COM
placency, and even the grain grower does not
look for the same ratio of profit from every
harvest. However, the truckers, particularly.
those operating small farms or patches" are
wont to count upon each years productive
ness at a maximum and are correspondlngly
disappointed when dame nature does not ar
range things to their liking.
One explanation, too, Of the emphatic COM
plants that are heard with reference to truck
ing conditions in an unfavorable year is found
in the number of newcomers in the feld-men
and women who prior to their present venture
had never had experience in farming OF any
kind. The tales told in recent years OF the
profits and delights of trucking, the ease with
which the products can be disposed of, and the
comparatively small outlay required for a five
or ten-acre intensive farm" have combined
to lure into the field many people who, woe
to them, had no fund of experience to draw
upon. Particularly has this been the case
near our large cities where many small truck
farms have been started by city folks, either
as the side line" Of some city occupation or
with a view to obtaining an anchorage that
would later permit migration to the country.
As in poultry raising and other supposedly
get rich quick v~ocations there have been a
number of more or less bitter Establishments
of late years in tn field of trucking, but, by
and large, the industry has developed tre-
mendously. 1t has come to be appreciated by
many of the uninitiated that in truck garden
ing no more than in any other field can re-
wards be obtained without hard work and that
here, as elsewhere, some experience Is neces-
sary and that a man must expect to pay for
such experience If he has not acquired it at
the expense of somebody else before he struck
out for himself. Moreover, the up-to-date
trucker has come to realize that he must de-
wise means to circumvent nature when she
frowns just as the fruit growers have dis
covered expedients for lodging frosts and
other menaces.
One truth that is happily being brought
home to many people engaged in or contem-
plating trucking Is that a little capital is of
immense advantage Just as 1t is in every other
walk Of life. To be sure, the trucker who
leases his holdings or buys ION time" at favor
able terms can set up in business for a sur
prisingly small cash capital and 1t is this pos
sibility which has attracted to the field so
many men with very small bank accounts and
women suddenly thrown on their own re-
sources, AT the same time the new entrant
who starts with a NEST egg" has a tremend-
GUS advantage and, for one thing, he will not
be nearly SO much at the mercy OF the whims
of nature as his fellow trucker who has none
of the modern aids now considered essential
to successful trucking.
The trucker with capital has, 1t goes with
out saying, a full complement Of the tools and
equipment which, in trucking as in more ex-
tensive forms Of farming, save time and labor