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portation. Some at least of the truck crops can be 

 grown successfully by proper management under al- 

 most any soil and climatic conditions that permit of 

 agricultural operations of any kind, but they can 

 only be profitably marketed from those points that 

 have the most adequate transportation facilities. It 

 thus follows that the trucking industry has clung 

 close to the Atlantic seaboard within reach of cheap 

 steamer transportation and to certain of the great 

 North and South trunk railroad lines, where the man- 

 agement has been intelligent enough to recognize its 

 importance and to give it the necessary facilities and 

 encouragement. So large has the annual movement 

 become that it now constitutes one of the most im- 

 portant items of business on a number of the leading 

 Southern railroads and of the coastwise steamship 

 lines. 



A large number of vegetables are grown and 

 shipped as truck at different points in the Southern 

 states. The following alphabetical list, while by no 

 means complete, covers all that are of much impor- 

 tance. 



