174 MUCK CROPS 



usually placed in a large size Canastota 

 basket. 



It may be of interest to some growers of 

 muck vegetables to see the trend of the 

 modern methods in shipping the goods to 

 market. A little article found in the Pro- 

 duce News is given here: 



"Some truck growers within 50 miles of 

 New York have made an experiment of 

 moving their quickly perishable stock by 

 automobiles instead of by express. Sam 

 Deutsch, the celery man, who grows celery 

 and lettuce extensively at Chester, N. Y., has 

 put on two automobile trucks which operate 

 a load daily. These trucks gather lettuce 

 and celery as far as Montgomery, N. Y., 75 

 miles from the produce district. They leave 

 New York City at six in the morning and 

 return seldom later than eight o'clock at 

 night, and the celery and lettuce are de- 

 livered early at the docks or to customers 

 who have bought it. The expense of the 

 automobile is a trifle less than the charges 

 of the express company, and the delivery is 

 more certain and more satisfactory. 



"The automobiles are rigged with a rack 

 which carries 300 baskets of lettuce or 80 

 crates of celery. There is now a special 



