188 THE ALABAiMA OPPORTUNITY. 



"Tliis and the other towns in this section have another great 

 advantage to truck farmers. We are right on the main Une 

 of the Louisville & Nashville, and a score of trains pass each 

 day. Why. last .spring we started to load a car of tomatoes 

 after 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The next morning that car 

 was in Birmingham ready for unloading when the produce 

 houses opened for business. The same afternoon the car could 

 have been put in Nashville and the following morning could 

 have been unloaded in Louisville. And every day the truck 

 farmer along the main line has the same sort of a chance at 

 the more northern markets." 



