The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-06-11
REWEWaOF FLORIDA
VEGETABLE SITUATION
Truck Going Out Daily on Heavy Car.
lot Basis But Varieties Are Dimin-
ishing. Situation as to Tomatoes,
Cucumbers, Celery, Watern'elOns.
Etc.
New York Packer.)

Jacksonville, Fla, June Flor
ida is shipping vegetables daily on a
heavy carlot basis. This movement
will keep up at lively rate on de-
ereasing scale during almost the en-
tire month Of June. Shipments now
going forward consist of beans, Gu
cumbers, peppers and elephants most
ly, with scattering lots of okra, green
squash and a few other lesser impor.
can't vegetables
The movement last week was 353
cars. compared with 309 cars during
the corresponding week in 1918. The
supplies are coming from points in
the Central and Northern part of
peninsular Florida with light move
ment from around Lake Okeechobee,
Fort Myers and the Lower East
Coast Some of the more important
shipping points include Sanford,
which is now busy with large acre
age Of peppers and fair acreage of
ether mixed vegetables. The Manatee
section is also shipping peppers and
has fair supply of beans, and some
other lesser truck crops. Plant City
is shipping now lightly Of mixed veg
etables. Cucumbers are moving from
Williston and points further north.
Last week evidently saw the height
of the cucumber movement and this
week the movement is much lighter.
The output last week from May %
to May 20 inclusive was from 10 to
20 cars daily, and up to June l, Will
liston had shipped more than 10000
hampers. All Of last week cars had
been moving over the Atlantic Coast
Line from Williston alone in mostly
solid train loads. Cucumbers are
now moving from the Gainesville Sec
ton at Gainesville, Mcintosh, Mican-
opy and other points in that section.
There is also a mixed vegetable
movement on at Starke and Lawtey.
mostly of beans Beans have been
moving also from the Gainesville Sec
ton but the supply there Is about ex-
hausted
The movement of tomatoes last
week was 571 cars compared with 2S5
cars during the corresponding week
last year. The output Of tomatoes
, at the present time is heavier than
it has ever been before at this sea-
son of the year. Tomatoes will con-
tinue to move from the state on q
very fair basis until about June Is,
after which the supplies will decrease
rapidly. Every section of the state
which has tomatoes to ship is now
moving its crop. There are no more
new fields to pick from. Last week
the output of tomatoes was from the
Lake Okeechobee region Manatee
section, Plant, City and Sanford with
supplies from many shipping points
in both the Ocala and Gainesville
territories. The Manatee section
completed shipping last week. The
heaviest movement this week is from
the Okeechobee region at Moore Ha-
ven and Okeechobee City, Sanford and
Plant City with scattered shipments
at many points in the North Central
and Northern part of peninsular
Florida.
The movement of tomatoes to June
l this year was $3.50 cars compared
with 1861 cars to the same date last
year, an increase of 119 cars over
last year. On May / this year esti-
mates based on acreages compiled by
the various railroads of the state,
placed the total acreages of new
crop at over 10000 acres. The yield,
however, from this acreage does not
compare with the yield on a similar
acreage on the Lower East Coast. so
that although the acreage to move
after May l was heavier than the
acreage moved before May 1, 1t is not
anticipated that the yield will be
nearly so large. The quality of the