Conecuh Land is Devoted to Trucking 



Evergreen Farmers are Planting Strawberries, 



Peaches and Vegetables and are Decreasing 



Acreage of Fleecy Staple 



Evergreen is upon the threshold of a new industry — an in- 

 dustry whose prospect ia pleasing and whose future is promis- 

 ing. This is the growing of peaches, first, the production of 

 strawberries second, and the raising of vegetables for North- 

 ern markets third. 



It will be a surprise to the remainder of the State that vege- 

 tables have been grown for shipment out of Evergreen for the 

 past twelve years'. This business, however, assumed no great 

 importance until recently, but what is now only an indication 

 of what the future promises. 



The great Castleberry fields in the past year attracted the 

 attention of the State to the possibilities' of strawberry growing 

 in the section about Evergreen. The strawberry fields of 

 Conecuh County are to-day steadily encroaching upon the old 

 cotton plantation. The cotton plant is giving way to the ad- 

 vance of the strawberry vine and the vegetable plant. 



But peach growing is the latest industrial development here. 

 Ii was inaugurated in fact in 1899, when Col. E. M. Rumph. 

 the famous Georgia peach grower, planted his big orchard of 

 "Slappy" peaches about here. The orchards have expanded 

 around Evergreen and during the coming summer there will 

 be twice as many peach trees in this section than there ever 

 were before. 



Outside of cotton the Georgia peach and the Georgia water- 

 melon are the best advertised agricultural products of the 

 South. The Atlanta papers admit that the Georgia peach, 

 the Elberta peach is the most toothsome fruit in the world. 



Probably it is', but there is something wrong with the mar- 

 ket when the Elberta peach from the environs of Fort Valley 



