Identifier: buildersofpyrami00will (find matches)
Title: The builders of the pyramid; the story of Shelby County: its resources and developments
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Williams, Joseph R
Subjects: Nashville (Tenn.). Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition, 1897
Publisher: Memphis, De Garis printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ntations been of good quality, nodamage would have resulted except that consequent upon an over-stocked market. Small prices prevailing for truck would have runthe cotton farmer out of the market, and truck gardening wouldhave again become a bonanza for those who followed it for a liveli-hood. When the inferior vegetables from the planters were mar-keted, however, large consumers found them not more desirablethan the best quality of canned goods, and it was due to this thatthe canned goods basis was established, which has worked greatinjury to the truck gardeners throughout the whole country. Inspite of all this, though, trucking in Shelby County pays; for, ex-cept where the crop is a standing one, like asparagus, the truckfarmer can always gather two crops each year from the same piecesof land. In the main, then, this class of agriculturalists is doing verywell, perhaps better than anywhere else in the State. The laboremployed in these higher branches of agriculture is more expensive
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49 than that procured by the common farmers. Gardeners get fromthirty to fifty dollars a month and are lodged and boarded. Labor-ers get from twenty to thirty dollars and findings. STRAWBERRIES AND FRUIT IN SHELBY COUNTY. Prior to the drouths of 1895 the strawberry crop of the Countywas remarkable in more ways than one. The yield per acreamounted to between seventy-five and one hundred crates. In thesummer of that year, however, most of the plants were killed andreplanting became necessary. So profitable had this crop provedto those engaged in it that 1896 found all of the old beds in thrivingcondition and a large increase in acreage. The crop is one easily cultivaed, andj in this County at least,picking the berries seems to be more of a pleasure than labor, and,in consequence, gathering this crop is accomplished without diffi-culty, the hands vying with each other for the work. It is not anexpensive crop, when the profits are considered, it being estimatedthat each crate costs someth

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