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T3?UCK GROT;ING AS A QUICK MOREY CRO.?
Its outlook and its Limitations.

By .'H RolfJ.'
t 17.- ., xperiment- Station and agriculturall Zx-
11 ntion Division, Unive-sity of lorida.

I a C tlad to be with -ou thi i morning anli


address 3 ou on oone of the great industries of the south,-


Truck Growing. I shall feel especi-lly grateofl if I


oan say something that will enable the Georgia truck


gro-wrU to escape some of the pit falls that beset us on


all 6ides. If I can brj.g you a message that will en-


able ,ou to escape some of the disappointments that have


beiellen' us. As chairman of the Mxeeutive ao ittee of


tho florida state Horticultural Society, I can assure


you. of a hearty affiliation. Yo-r own grand horticulturist


Sthe ate .-Irosper J. erkim -. honored us, by permittin& us to


enroll hia aiong our honorary members. .,t first sight it


-oalJ (,eem that I was rather far from home, but au a mgntter

of fact, I am fewer miles from Gainesville. rlorida thai I


would be if I were at en aeola or at Homestead.










Finance ally Georgia and Florida are quite inter-

d eendant on one another,- a good price for cotton Pgives


us a good. mir ket .or citrus fruits and mi-dinter track. A


good price for eitrus fruits enables as to buy yonr summer


truck crop.


Twenty years ago cotton was relatively the most,


important crop gr-ow.n on the 2lor'ida farm. Today it is


relatively an unimportant crop. Our tr-uck trop sells for


about three times as much as'our cotton and the fruit er -


for about four times as much.. given corn is worth more"


than-three times a6-much as is our cotton crop.


Georgia is just beginning to.'awaken to the possi- -


billties ,in thc production of trucks :



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On round numbers Georgia has 37 mill ion acres of

land, 12 mi33ion acres are said to be improved 3and'o I

,' farms, according to the Mites States Ceisuis Report for


1910. Assuming that nearly the entire area is capable

of tbein tiJ2e$, we 1,ave uindr nomina] cultivation about

one-third of the entire area. The largest amount of improve-

ment of farm lWids in Georgia has tal:en place outside of

what is popularly kiiown as the'*wire-grass" country. This

corresponded in a general way to t~e area that, is iownM more

correctly as the coastal plains. Or -c 3ootal -2ain-



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of the conditions as they exist, these 3aiAs are capable'

of beirig mTade a i-to the best 6f our agricultural l a~tI in

the S tate, e-eae capable of producing SufIficen tt

amount of farm otops to support a population many times

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larger than is contained in the entire State. It has -

only been within recent years that this region. has been

considered to be attal3 suitable for the white niia to

live In. The numeroTis 133ustrations that may be cited'

of splendid homes and prosperous farms in th 1i region

Show that it has been a 3ong neglected region. The

consta3 plains region of Geotgia, and for that matter the

rest of the Southern States, had to await the advaat of

quicK, transportation and the depletion of the Western

and Nort hern fars. The ploneelsof the West were not

agmieflturlsts but soil robbers. They found a very fer-

tile and productive soil that was called inexhaustible.

After tlhirty or forty years -of soil robbing they were fTa

to face wit "the. fact that their soita had. worn out and

needed 'building up to be mamle again productive. During the

last fifty years, thesUnited States has been an ex-


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We. W haVe constantly been approach-Ing %9a&--

the point where the food products produced

in the thited States were consumed by onU own peop]3.




.f. f. prdto w-r- epotd This consisted mainly

of the small grains and corn and pwAducts from these

-ag.riou.t.u.Tal--rop8. Last year (l3910) we crossed the

line where we became an importing nation of food products.

Thia. does not mean that we did not-export some wheat

and other small grains, but we imported a suffiolent

amount of other food products so that we had no visance In

favo prtatIn f protr tider these eon-

ditions the price of food poot att3ly hafe

risen in the United States and the present outlook i,

that we sa33] hereafter need to either intensify our

methods of farming as malke our farn 1 ands more yproduetive











or else eat less of .z.4_mooo= thtt we caln necessities.




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e a3] know this is quite unnecessary, as it is

possible for the United States to produce a33 the corn

needed, by our omn people. but the fac t remains that we

do not do it. AS long as prices of food products ranged

very low there was no ,great incentive af- a large aro nt

of Skl33 and energy at-bi-easedIn production of these ar-



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"e'Mtoi. A year or two ago when the prioe of. food pro-

ducts was, increasing very rapid iy, and probably reached

ita maximum, someo.e said racetiously that the necessities

of life ha1 become so expensive that he wou3d have to




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live on the luxuries. There is more sense to this state-

ment than we would at first aoord it. 1We R- find that

the products wJilch we considered -luxuries twenty Ue. rr-

tnlrty-five years ago are considered staple necessities.

of the household of today. Twent~-five years ago it was

considered quite a luxuty to have rIPe tomatoes a* other

fresh vegetables, h Ljg t Chrlstmaatime or at

SKastertide. Now, however, these materla2 are being

prodUeed in such large quantities and. del1vere to the

consumer at such re&a =gab34 prices that they bave become

stale articles of food for almost every month in the

year.

I.rermember iin the spring of 193 seven oaro ats

of tomatoes were placed on the w Yor6c market in a 8thgle

day, and broke the prie's to lew4 than the cost of trairs-.

portation. This was heralded by the Florida papers as a










large over-production of this steptv vegetable. At the

present time it is not an uneomonon thing for an entire

train load of tomatoes, tosnbe thrown on the ew' York mar-

ket without causing even the suspicion of a;!break in

prices. I have seen as many as

forty carloads of cucumbers leaving a single station in-

one day and yet the market was calling for more cucumbers.

am citing this illustration to show how enormously the

triae in vegetablestiaas grown during the 2ast two decades.

I can bring this before you much more cancretely by giv-

ing you statistics in ten-year periods of the rise of

truck growing in Florida; for the sale of the point 2

want to make later in nWr address I am a2so giving you the

rise of the fruit crop in Florida during the same period.




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Rise of Trust Growing Rise of Frult crop,
in Florida 'in F3orida

1890 $900,000 1890 $500,000
2900 2,100,000 (3893 3,2,, 000)
3910 6,820,000 (1 96 650,o00)
/f 'I 1900 1,200,000

"- if6 /, f,- 1910 5,900,000
0 12 8 8,000,000.

I HIave given these tables in round numbers and confined

them 'to the money values of the crops. Should we go more

deeplyy into the statistics we wou3d find there were some.

years during wnich there was a large increase in the

aniount of truck shipped, and then possibly -the next year

the amount shipped slightly decreased, but the, general

tendency has been very strongly upward.. This upward teA-

dency will undoubtedly continue almost indefinitely, -

certalnly Indefinitely so far as It concerns those of us

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With all' of the tremendous amount of tTk ,ic cp

that ar going forward to the market from F rida, we

have under ,actual cultivation in our Sta a only about

one-tenth 0 the area that is being tivated in Georgia.

There is his difference, however Georgia is giving her

main attention the product i ofqifrarm orops -and sta-

pIea while Plorida ia givir much more attention to ths

production of truck op and fruit. In P3orlda the

-ta3ue of the frarm or oduod annually is. decidedly

less than the value of the trucks and fruit crops Combined.

As a matter of act the true crops alone approach nearly

two-third a of the value of ti t 34 Acops.

conditions in Plorlda sucuh, and have been

BRobh f -a number of years that it e an excellent op..

po tity for stuadyi the situation pretty o)osely and

En els us to- formulate much 'more definitely just what















ith all of the tremendous amount, of truck


crops that are going forward to the market from Ylorida,

we h\vr under actual cultivation in our ta;te onl. a-

bout one-twentieth of the area 6f our itate.- Georgla.

. ia oultiva.ting fivo ti;oc as much land .s is l].orida,.


here la this' difference, however, Georgia is giving


her main atten tion to thie production of ,an. c aops. an

staples while Florida is giving much Aore attention to

the production of t ruck orops and, fruit. In Florida

Ahe valne of the :farm,o rops produced ajnuI..1.y Is 4eo

cidedly le~s than the value of the truck aid fruit


crop combined. The trujc cro'Ip" alone approoh nearly


.two-thirds of the value of the field crops










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TRUCK MAEKSTS DEVELOPS? GRADUALLY


'You will-a&ll remember that in the winter of


1894-95 we had'a devastating frost in Florid.a, Thich


destroyed for us about P70,000,000 worth of citrus


trees. The result of this disastrous frost was a tre-


mendous st Imulation for a year in truck production.


This however, did not- greatly change the egpoeal upwar&;


tendency. There was a qnlok rise bat it subsided and by.


the and of the decade we were probably not shipping muoh


more truck then we wou!d, have if the freezes ha d not


Occurred. It is quite likely





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-the tendency and conditions are, e




To wl33 all remember that in te winter of

1894-95 we had very devastating f- at in Plorida,

wlich destroyed 'fo us about 470 0,000 worth of citrus

trees. The result of this i astrous frost was a tre-

S endous stimulation for th year. in truca production.

Al a whole the State di not,-f e o00 badly from this stta-

ulation, of truck pro tion. Tak the crop as-a whole ,

' ori da marketed unusually 3 large valuable erop of

truck the foZ3 wing spring. Tis, h0oweY r, did not
greatly o0i e trie general.
upward tendency. There was a

quick r se but it subsidedAy the -end of the de ade we


wer ,rob ably not Shipplng awach more truck than we would

have if the freezes ba~ not occurred. It is quite likely
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that tra low prices for cotton wil3 stimulate many of

the farmers of Georgla ,to take up truck growing. this

year. There is no doubt but what a large number of the

cotton farmers can do so very profitably. Truck is a

quick money orop. .For the sale of ooiparison I am

giving herewith1 the length of time necessary, from plant-.

lug to tie time of marketing certain truck crops.

Time from seeding to Marketing
daqs days
Beans (snaps) 50 to 65 / ggfl3ant 120 to 150
Seets 75 90 Lettuce 90 120
Cbantiopes 90 320 2 Tomatoes 90 130
Corn (sugar) 6o O- -o Squash (summer) 50 60
Cabbage 120 -340 6-Radiai 20 35
Cauliflower 120 150 4Peppers 100 0" .'
Cucumbers 60 90 W&ttermeneaus. 100 I* 50
iiv 11stls eas 60 80 Onions 90 0


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T- oc growing, In florida at least, is the poker

gsat in agriculture. To show-exactly what I meaan by the

expression, let me' oite an ill3utration. Mr.s j'ee, a

Mississippi by-, .but truoking In tie Terra Cola section of

i orida in 1893, was willing to sell out his entire hold-

Ings for $40 at the time the tomatoes were beginning to

set fruit. He held about eighty acres of land waichil was

Sortgaged to secure money for fertilizer an4

labor. His nelgibors, Messrs Howard and Kennedy refused

to aioept the proposition, saying that he had entered, tne

-ame with them- and he would have to-stay by fa- and either

sink or swim wi th them. In. July of the same year the mort-

gage was entirely patd off and a suffialent a.mournt of nonen

in the bank to finance -the 94 okropy 'It 1908 a personal

friend of mine, Oho se name I will not give, bouAo t a prop-

erty at SaiaTord for about $7000. o- p3 ated the wMtire
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area to 0ce ery and that year made enagh prof it from ten
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alree of cele to pay for they entire property ad-a ave


money in bank for financing the next crop. During the

summer he prepared for another large aolery crop for the

next year. He and his family were. ,reparng .for,-a trip
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to tour Nurope after the second crop should be turned

into, money. A splendid. crop of celery was raised but

at the time it was sAhpped it would not pay" for trans-

portatlon. As a reau3t sf the second years venture

there, was no trip to Zurope 'ut. on the contrary a heavy -

mortage on the property and teio daughter of the f8amly


weae teaching saotbI1 the naxt year.

STruck growing is the poker game of agricu3 ture.

Last year art ipreeadentedly large of trui


was planted out in extreme Southern -3orida, espepla33y


around ..ort ters and In the 1 EaynO 3y region. rvery-





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thing went a3ong splendidly. There was scarcely a bet-


ter year -.for truck growing, b1ut on the 7th of March a'


frost occurred cutting off a31 the truck : to t*jda about


thirty miles south of 1iami. Two weeks after the froas


,I visited that section and saw Mr. j~e Trs, who had "


750 acres 'of tomatoes south of the region visited by the


frost. He tol2 me aA that the frost was worth


$35,000 to aize, but he greatly under estimated it, since


before the end of the season it proved that itmJwas worth


more tlan 1 00, 000 to him.


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Who Are the SUocestul- Truck Growers?

Fortunes of eonaiderable size have been built up

on the truck. growing business in FIorlaa, As ny 13Ius-

trations show. Oere Is no certainty as to whe-ther the

tract grower who plunges;,i iadputs his last do) lar "into the

buslnesse ls going to come out at the end of the season

v .g)e e l1 off or withot ary MFo -- -.-_E G at .

Spare Fromu obaeaexations aiong the truoc growers

in Florida, extending over a score of years, I awa Ine ined

to 'believe that the financial credit of ^true growers

cannot be Wuinedgri matter how wild aiia release a plunger

he it Is almost certain if hA -a grow trc that

sv soonerr or later somebody can be found, who wll3 finance

hiim ao latter It he has credit but=t..

q WL I, Ue WgO These plungers, however, raore3y

make any money for themselves. If they do Ut one year
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they are very sure to oWntinue to pl2Wge until they close

their career as penless as a w;-,en they. began.

In Spite of the Vicissitudes surrounding truck

growing when indulged in on the gambrl er 'p23a, there id

abundant opportunity for making e-at -ef--money in truoc

growing If the grower *plays sate'.o There is no track.

grower who -as the keenness of insight to enable 1hi to

rteo]3) what c eOpS are going to.be successful during tle

suing year. aS ghliere ara~3e who can foretell wiat

either prices or climatic conditions are going to be.

There Is no iVfloiulty about making the a tuff, thle rri-. -

culty comes In marketing it at such a time as prices ar'e

renmmerative. Take 3ast year as an illustration In

F3orida. The front wich I rdfarred ',au off a VOry

large proportion of the *ring orop., so 3arge were the

4IjrWpl antings, however, and so abundant was the crop pM-









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of different kinds of truck /rops



were allowed to rot in the fiel4 for want of a market. And

S ye. last year -wao3s 4w whlh prices general ly prevailed

lig amid the dirficu2 y Was more in the direction of adverse

c) izat.c conditions ta.i- adverse prices'.A An 132ustration of

how fate pays tricks with the trucker I want to cite the

case of Mr. Ke3ay- on -te-Mn~tee. .He was a new comer to th-

tate. co :ing fromiiLo tsianai, I be) ieve ThroMgh illness 1b

was unable to 3ant hisB lettuce crop ar the schedule time


but was about 28 Oays .late in Betting it out. The lettuce

t. at was plante out. t the proper time broulit less than

freight charges. *T. lKelly s lettuew, that by a2 the rules

-- of the game should have been worthless.. brought him about

So000 per acre net. /T nen n )ylor1Ta wbo hare prospered

at tnrci :r .ing axre- t5o0e wlo have p3 ayd 'afew. They


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could determAne would bring reasonably good prices.

In ad ition to this, the amouTi jA- 8at on.e year

In the truck' orop was never so 3 arge a rtion of

tieir capital as to s.riolosly embarrass tolir oper-

atlons a second year in case the. crop was a tota3 failure.

And v i if t7o ya 1 in Cccs3 on ;o .:0d be v roe

they, t I have the personal cred t and a conas d-

era. e .-ouant of re a estate to back them for a "ird



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4.Ued that before the end of the hilpprng season arrlvedm

mo re than a midlon crates of different kinds of truck:


crops were allowed. to 'To in th 'ie a]fl for want of a .r-

let. And yet last year was one in wDicch prices generally


prevailed thigh and the difftlO ty was aore In the direc-

tion of adverse olimatei ondlt oni tian advyer4O prid-es.


The mean in Plorid a whoi bare Fro..spered at truck
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.. growing are tnose Who have a 3aycd lfe '. tliy have


usually put in those crop that so fraas predictions


could d determine Would IM reasonably o prices -


Swiiti't.on to thi-s. the ..ou-nt invested in one y-ear In te


truo orop was noe sol arg -a proportion f their capital

as to seriously atrrass their operations a secondd year*-

A4 e r.n it It6o years in. sucoession lsouJd .e \aelverjle thl


still have thetr personal credit anid e-. a _o-


iclera33 e amount oi real estate to back them tor a th2l .




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.-y~pew A neighbor of iine- who was sald to be without any

o. money tenl' years ago is at the present time estimated to

be wo or~t somewhere &from 00100ooo to $306,000, his surp us

from truck growing having been injested in real estate

and other properties. Yet he is located in a Tugioa that

does not co(e. into the market any earlier than three coast

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regions of Georgia. MUr. a- Jh -to -wiom I referred

S'in a former portion of Iy 4d re ac has been trucking for

over' twenty years an4 has followed this business in ,.e. -

ese-a- region 4 a. -atir-e ta He .has worked aiuler aany

handI gaps and disaedvantages but in now worth froa 100,000

to -200,000 though he began without any money or ar"mT f-

nancial backing,- -


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-See I a cou te mowy ,aores or' 1l2 ustrations ot n-

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SLimitations

Should .you ask mea what is the most serious handi- .

cap to, trac ng in thr extreiae South by whici mean .

Georgia, -Porida and Soutaern Alabama, a id lnie, uding to

greater or less extent South and NOrth Carolina, abould

sa'" it wat the laclt of coordination and organization.

BtTenuoaii attempts are befhg maaUe -in lorlda to correct

this detect. we ha.ve now an active Growers4 & Shippers'

Leagite with many loca3 organizations. This Growers' &

Shippers* League does not conoe0ti Inaelf with tlhe mar-

keting ean of the trx&nag businesss." The Florida pitrus

3cchange conaernyt itself wh6nly witn the marketing of 0 ttat

rriits and oonaines its activities to that ofco.. frvate

enterprise and sixa3l local organizations are all we-hare

in thewvy oat marletiAg orgai tzatioa ior truck orops.

he marketing -and distributing *-- i d* -O Wo 1

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behind the times. To snow hoWthig works, let ae cite an

Illustration that occurred two years ago. 'A neighbor

to th e cperimeit Station. r wy, had teor acras O t

as ine lettuce as "9 4-eer produce(1 outside a greenhouse.

During February so aPu1o lettuce was being kr othe

market that the atuff wou3d. not bring the freight. There

was -nothing for Mr- ury-t do but turn his mij) k oows

into the lettuce fte3d. At the same time tliat the cows

were browsing .on'the Iettu;;e,coqnsumer in Intlianap6l s

were paying 25 cents a head for their lettuce. The-let-

tuce k.B mbyfed to U~~rii2t cowo could have been

ahlipid and marketed in Irlianai 011s very profitably at 5

cents a head, SUaI illustrations might be multiplied

by the hundreds. T. rmowers "cuss "out the comianision pen

SbS5aE. The commission i=a lqUgaO out the grower for

dishonesty and, now aid then takea hlanb a t cussing ,out




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the loca3 distributor, retailer or whatever you may call

htu. And a3 3' of tris gets us nowhere.,, Just as long as

the tlruk r.-rowers make .no effort to combine and oorrect

tnese evils there is no probabi3 ity that they wlfl be die-

continued. During the lst five years we have 'ad

Iittt e troub) e from :rea over production Of truck crops.

Our troub3 e has arisen mainly from the lacR 'of proper diea-

tribution. The d A enters are quickly glutted

and it becomes a3moat iirimpossible to get the stuff satuered

;e oo that it can be used up before it has decayed,, .

proper organization and coordinatt thts stuff woui beo

sent into the proper channels and iopt f rox contesting 1@

the 3arger centers. This is not theoretical and vlsion-

"ry idea at a.., it has been oomplete)3 worked out bay dif-

ferent agencies n d Ifferent (parts o" the United States,

and aa b9e worked out just as readily in Oeorgia and Ilorlda



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re, else. Buat it w1ll not be woaed ou satisfacto-

rmly 11 the main interests, that ts the t ck growers

them~eeves, eha1I recognize the neceesilty or oozdllnation

and proper is ibution. Over jProdic ont Is aike3y. to

occur am year to ear in any cr and in some arop it

w.l3 occur every year. When, ever, over production

oes oour it 3Is ar. che tfor the gr wer to abandon ,

S3is stutf as ithetands t e fleA thari to pysh it forw

ward into the market hd ave it abandoni.ed there.

'It is not purpose to: t on' the matter or od r

gnizatlon, truok grlero tb tfor the comply etiel.e



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o of I a dres today it ls necessary t mention this apme-

what i thw

.Another limtitat-lon we have In the ct king abusi-

nea ati te present tiin tIs a /.i oi stand nation,

T"is can be overcome on2y br eatablisahing central ptoking



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as anywhere else But it will not be worked out satia"

factorily unt il the main interest, a that is the 'track

growers thomsciyes, shall recognize the eoessity for

S -oordinationd a-d roydr distribution. T-0or2ary over


pIoduction is likely' to occnas irom year to year i ay

oz op, nha;L overx pxrodction' iocur. it is far cheaper for

the grower to aboandonhis stuff aa it stands in the wield

thai to-pu a& it forward into. the market and h~ve it a-

S badoned therCe [Origanizations amoag the truckers i ;.

the only way to prewtpat 'g.itting tk- market It l e not

S. Lrposo' to talk. on the P"atter of- org aization aiong

truok growarsa, 'ut for .the ooipletoness of my addra '

to&agy it is ijeooabary to mention this .omewhat at long -'I

S'other liitation we hie the trouking bus- ."

iness at the present time is & laok -o sta.nardisation..

This ean be ove gime only,by establishing oentar paol kin



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homueqs foor the community, This work is being rapidly

' carried forward in ilorida* The small individual paolk


in hoe each armaer is rapidly loosing favor. The -

central .packnug house gives a mulch bettor opportunity for


Se grading, sizing, 'ad. -arkxeoting the tatcrical.


I hfme already referred to selling organizations.


This, hov.v r,, as in a rather bro :es.- ~einoe -thnx I want

to mention nowv. That I am refe ring to h re is not any

broad scheme .of marketing, -but a local orLanls at n whieh,


runs the central packing house' grading, iMarketin6 anad ,

co llecting the retaras Tfor t he tuok, whether it is Gon-


signed to the hearket, sold to bu y-res or didsosed of in any


other way., A looal 6Xlling orgaisitio ie One of the .


. first steps in the right, direction anad one that is quite

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SORG IA', AVORE G C R A2 .AL A 1T ION.


Georgia isveryj fiv -rab{ located foi remunera-w


,ive trt.uck going. iivuery one in thib, region should ti -

at least in sa s ll way to 1roc-,,C',e the 11rope t- ,aO at the


Proper season oC t he ;earb (ainig this ork tt a side issue'


after havi.aS ` sao-n to it .thut his genia& a fana ork, took,


p poultry and other lines v,'ioh auit him best,, ,are giving"

hi i a suafficierIt remeunration to maue a good living for

,'' himselfad his f.aaily.' .


If you will view the wap of tI ie 'United -6t teas


- with me for a moment yoa 7' ill notice th at IadiaxAapolis is


about in the contb c p pia.on for the Utiite.d States.

S Thia has a -very important bearing o-.the welfare of the.


Industry in, rGeorgia. 6is wvire 8gs poetry is only
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;aboat half as- ar to the great maia2,tuaig anS cons=dming


population aS is 'lorida. t is lessathan one-third


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the distance from'the great bulk of tlhe people, the great

vegetable conawanig population of the United States that

Texas is. The difference in freight rats a 3one is uf-

fioient to maxe a hand some profit to the Georgia farmer,

And with this a et. .&ai'ff r .. ht. rt on the truck

orops (an4 a tariff that can noTer .be removed) there Is

abelt te3y no reason, wly this aeiUre se otion should not

enjoy a very luorative and wholesome trade in thae't-.ue

crops, The time has long since paWed whl f re h vege-.

tabl es n the early spring aonth are regard ed as luxuries.

They are nqw neceasitles, evei among ithe poorer glasses ot

the larger ce.ter's. /




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1. Track can be.-Iatda4, marketed is so


short a tae that it makes at ideal quick-.money .e;op.

S, Truck voting should be carried- on in coa-


junati othi with other intensive farnnig operations.


S-34 The Li 'aokr who is a DpliLt6tr is almost cer-


tain to end a bankrupt.


4+ The t u(ker who plants a limited amount of


Vegetables o~f v.ll chosen kinsi' is almost certain to


succeed.


5* Georgia has an ideal soil and location for


trucking. It, coame.s off aXter the. Plorida, crops and be-


. forethose of the ,arolina&,


/ 6 he most aoriius limitatioas t0" increasi-ng


our truck crops greatly ip due to the lack of pYroper oregani-


.-sations to effect a piop'er dliri]ution


7. Proper organization must come about iy agree


ment of the truck growers.


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8. roper distribution'oan be aided by federal



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