The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-06-24
WHY CAN'T HENDERSON
GET OUT OF THE RUTS!

Humboldt, Tenn, June 17.-Eighty-
eight car loads of cabbage have gone
from Humboldt this season and the
total shipments will run to at least
100 cars. Gibson has shipped 68 car
loads and will have not less than IL
more cars, making total of 180 car
loads of cabbage from Gibson county.
The highest price received by the
growers was 1925 per crate and the
average has been around $1.75 per
crate, or about 5000 per car. This
will make the value of the cabbage
crop of Gibson county run to about
$128,000.
Counting the local shipments,
which We're exceptionally heavy this
year, Gibson county had not less than
$50 carloads Of strawberries, which
brought the growers about $425,000.
The value of the strawberry and cab
bage crop to Gibson county growers
will total over 100000. Heavy local
shipments of beans are being made
every day and four carloads of let
tuce were shipped cary in the spring.
1t is expected that there will be eight
or ten carloads of beans and there is a
good acreage of cantaloupes.
i The tomato crop is heavy and bids
lfair to be one of the best and most
profitable the Gibson county grow
ers have ever made. If anything like
normal conditions prevail, the toma-
to crop will bring half million dol
lars to this county and Gibson county
will again roll up her million dollar
fruit. crop for 1921, just like she has
been doing each year for 20 years and
saying little about it,. -
As a matter of fact, neither the
Gibson county fruit growers (and
Humboldt is the hub of the fruit in
dustry in this section, shipping close
to one-half of the entire carload out
put each year, nor the bankers of
Gibson county believe in the usual
press agent methods in relating the
results attained year after year by
the fruit growers of the county.
For the story of the results tells
only one side of the tale. These an
nual fruit crops are the results of 80
years of practical trucking in a sec
tion exactly suited by soil and eli
mate, in a section where every fruit
grower who succeeds has become an
expert in his line, and in section
known by the commission men of the
entire United States and Gambia to be
a dependable source of supply. Hence
these commission men send their rep
resentatives here and buy this pro-
duce on the tracks.
The bankers of Gibson county and
the fruit growers, who have paid -the
price for their knowledge of this in
dustry, believe that nine out of every
ten new sections of the country which
turn all of their attention to diversi-
fled fruit culture are more certainly
doomed to failure than if they stuck
70 cotton alone.
1t is the consensus of the best opin-
ion in Gibson county that the next
three or four years promise the
toughest sliding that the fruit grow
ers have had for many years. Thous
ands of acres of every truck crop
known are certain to be planted in
many new sections within the next
year or two and the shrewd truckers
of Gibson county are prepared to
weather this storm, just as they have
weathered all similar ones for the
past half century, by overcoming
competition through superior knowl-
edge of the intricacies of the indus
try, marketing facilities, soil and
climate