The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-09-28
CURB MUST Be
SUPPLANTED BY
A CITY MARKET
TRUCKERS GENERALLY FEEL
CONFIDENT THAT ESTABLISH
MENT Is NEEDED AND DESIRED
BY THE PEOPLE OF PENSACOLA
AND SURROUNDINGS.

During the week I have been in the
| trucking and general farming section
of the county. The truckers are all
looking forward in a hopeful spirit to
the time when a market building is es-
%ablished IN Pensacola, which will
give them an outlet for all the produce
| they can grow; they all feel confident
| that the general public wants a mar
ket, as evidenced by the way in which
all offerings are so quickly disposed of
on the curb market now established,
and the question most often asked is,
When are we to have a regular mar
ket building, SO as to have a place
| that we can call our own?" The only
answer to this question is that the
| Crop Improvement Association will
| take this matter UP withtthe city COM
missioners as soon as possible, and
make arrangements to that end. An
| up-to- date city like what Pensacola
aspires to be, should have a public
! market like other progressive cities
and towns, and 1t is certainly a poor
argument to advance that the people
do not want it. The very fact that
all the produce offered on the days
the present market was opened was
all sold by 10 o'clock. contradicts this
statement.
The cotton growers have been hard
hit by the boil weevi and the yield
of cotton per acre is the lowest on
record for the county.
Other Crops.
To make up for weevil damage to
a certain extent, other crops have been
above the average. The rice crop is
far above the average and there are
some excellent yields recorded. F.. H
Echols, west of Molino threshed forty
four bushels from one acre, and the
balance of his crop was equally good
Sugarcane is doing we'll, and Is now
practically made, promising more
syrup than usual. This is a crop that
puts more money in the growers
pocket than any that he can grow,
providing he uses the proper methods
to make a high grade article and a
great advantage this crop has is that
it is not necessary to market it right
away, like some other crops; If put in
air tight packages when hot, it will
keep indefinitely.
Sweet potatoes are promising well
and where dug the yield has been sat
isfactory. This is another profitable
crop, and If dug when properly ma
tured and stored in the right way dur
ing the winter they will keep until
next spring or summer, when prices
are higher than at digging time.
There is going to be quite an acre
age planted to cabbages; this Is one
Of the crops to which a good deal of
risk is attached in the marketing of it,
but 1t is also a profitable crop, when
the conditions are right.
Members of the Gonzalez and Rob-
erts Farmers and Truckers Association
have planted a few acres IN snap
beans for shipment to northern mar
kets; of those that we have visited,
the majority have a promising outlook.
They are hopeful for good price, ow-
ing to the frosts Of last week cutting
off the northern crop of beans.
Fall and Winter Crops.
Crops for winter use should all be
planted as soon as possible. Among
those most desirable are beets, car
rots, turnips, caulifower plants. Gel
cry plants, brussels sprouts, collards,
English peas, onion sets, bermuda on
ion seed, ka1e, mustard Of the curled
variety, parsnips, radishes of the long
scarlet variety, satisfy, Swiss chard,
lettuce seed and plants, rutabegas,
dwarf Essex rape, and in a sheltered
location, COW peas Of the black eye va
riety.
To get best results from winter