. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 881. Truck crops demand heavy manuring. Manuring land for fall spinacli after harvesting a crop of dill. tables is grown, but the acreage devoted to a sin- gle crop by an individual grower is usually larger in truck-growing than in market-gardening. Often only one or two truck crops are grown in a given locality, and these may constitute the "money crops" in a system of mixed farming, or in excep- tional cases large areas may be devoted to a
. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 881. Truck crops demand heavy manuring. Manuring land for fall spinacli after harvesting a crop of dill. tables is grown, but the acreage devoted to a sin- gle crop by an individual grower is usually larger in truck-growing than in market-gardening. Often only one or two truck crops are grown in a given locality, and these may constitute the "money crops" in a system of mixed farming, or in excep- tional cases large areas may be devoted to a single crop by a person who gives his whole attention to that one crop. The latter condition obtains only in regions especially adapted to the particular crop in question. The extension of vegetable-growing to a dis- tance from market has been brought about by the enormous increase in land values near cities, the demand for products earlier in the season, and the great extension of transportation facilities. The latter cause has resulted in the development of early vegetable-growing at the South for shipment to northern markets, while the former has resulted in the removal of the growing of staple, cool- season, late crops to locations more or less remote from the northern markets though perhaps in the same latitude. It is the purpose of the present article to discuss some of the administration features of the general farm type of truck-growing, rather than intensive and specialized market-gardening [for the latter,. Fig. 882. Loading from field wagons to truck wagon, near Creedmoor, W. T. see Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, and special books]. Statistical data do not follow this more or less arbitrary division, however, and the census figures do not greatly elucidate such a discussion as Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may no
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