4 TYPES OF VEGETABLE GROWING 



The latter cause has resulted in the development of early veg- 

 etable growing at the South for shipment to northern markets 

 while the former has resulted in the removal of the growing of 

 staple, cool-season, late crops to locations more or less remote 

 from the northern markets though perhaps in the same latitude. 



Considerations of soil and climate largely determine the general 

 location of truck-growing areas for given crops. Of these the 

 climate is the more important except in the case of a few crops 

 requiring special soil conditions for their proper development.^ 

 However, by no means all localities adapted to the production 

 of certain crops have become commercial centers for those crops. 

 The exact location of truck-growing areas within a region adapted 

 to the production of certain crops is determined by transportation 

 facilities and the inclinations of the inhabitants. New shipping 

 points are continually being developed by reason of the extension 

 of railroad lines to new regions, and the enterprise of a few pro- 

 gressive men in each locality. 



It is only at points where a sufficient number of men are 

 growing the same crop or crops that are marketed at the same 

 season to enable shipments to be made in car lots, that good 

 shipping facilities and desirable freight rates can be secured. In 

 the case of some crops, such as watermelons or late cabbage, the 

 individual grower can ship in car lots; but with many crops, such 

 as asparagus, green peas, muskmelons or tomatoes, an individual 

 grower would usually be able to furnish only a small fraction of a 

 car in any single shipment. In order, therefore, to develop a new 

 shipping point, it is necessary that the men who wish to enter 

 the trucking business induce a sufficient number of other men to 

 grow the same crops to secure adequate shipping facihties. 



As an adjunct to general farming, truck-growing is becoming 

 an important factor in the agriculture of many localities; and it 

 is on that basis that it is destined to hold a permanent place 

 among the activities of rural people. 



In general, truck crops demand heavy manuring and very 

 thorough tillage. A system of rotation which includes a truck 

 crop every three or four years will usually result in increasing 

 rather than diminishing the productive capacity of the soil. In 

 a sandy region where watermelons thrive and winter w^heat is the 

 staple grain crop, a rotation of wheat, clover and melons is highly 

 satisfactory; or if corn also is grown, the rotation may be extended 

 one year, and the corn planted on the clover sod. In case clover 



