MISCELLANEOUS. 



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trucker raises only one crop, invests heavily and some 

 natural calamity, such as an unexpected freeze or hail 

 comes and destroys it; or still worse, after the crop 

 has been raised, packed and shipped it arrives on a 

 glutted market, and does not sell for freight charges. 



WAX BEANS. 



Southern Conditions. In the far South the truck 

 farmer does not need so much equipment in the way of 

 hotbeds, coldframes and greenhouses as the northern 

 growers. Neither is it necessary to make his opera- 

 tions so intensive. After the truck crops are off in 

 the early spring or summer, some of the staple crops, 

 such as corn, cowpeas, sweet potatoes, etc., can be 

 grown as feed for the live-stock. 



What Crops to Raise. Years ago when competi- 

 tion was not great the problem that confronted the 



