Archive image from page 723 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 654 TRUCK-GROWIXG TRUCK-GROWING Faciors determining trucking regions. Considerations of soil and climate larp;ely deter- mine the general location of truck-growing areas for given crops. Of these, the climate is the more important except in the case of a few crops requiring special soil conditions for their proper development. In nearly every state in the Union there are regions well
Archive image from page 723 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 654 TRUCK-GROWIXG TRUCK-GROWING Faciors determining trucking regions. Considerations of soil and climate larp;ely deter- mine the general location of truck-growing areas for given crops. Of these, the climate is the more important except in the case of a few crops requiring special soil conditions for their proper development. In nearly every state in the Union there are regions well adapted in soil and climate to the production of some vegetable crop or crops. However, by no means all localities adapted to the production of certain crops have be- come commercial centers for those crops. The exact location of truck- growing areas within a region adapted to the production of the crops is deter- mined by transportation facilities and the inclinations of the inhabitants. New shipping points are continually being developed by reason of the extension of railroad lines to new regions, and the enterprise of a few progressive men in each locality. It is only at points where a sufficient number of men are growing the same crop or crops that are marketed at the same season to enable shipments to be made in car-lots, that good shipping facilities and desirable freight rates can be secured. In the case of some crops, such as watermelons or late cabbage, the individual grower can ship in car- lots; but with many crops, such as asparagus, green peas, muskmelons or tomatoes, an individaal grower would usually be able to furnish only a small fraction of a car in any single shipment. In order, therefore, to develop a new shipping point, it is necessary that the men who wish to enter the trucking business induce a sufficient number of other men to grow the same crops to secure ade- quate shipping facilities. Marketing the product. Usually, the growers at a given shipping poi
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