240 TRUCK-FARMIKG AT THE SOUTH. 



shipments are also made from Charleston, S. C., to the 

 Eastern markets, and from Mobile to those of the West. 

 In 1879, seven hundred and thirty-four thousand and 

 ninety-three quarts were shipped from Charleston. Ex- 

 tensive plantings for shipment have also been made in 

 Florida and South-western Georgia, one farmer having 

 twenty acres near Thomasville, Thomas County. 



Although there are lands to be had in the vicinity of Sa- 

 vannah, with adequate drainage, and so admirably adapted 

 to the cultivation of strawberries, that the best fruit 

 farms in the country could be established in this locality, 

 not enough are grown to supply the local demand, and 

 supplies for that purpose are procured from Florida and 

 Charleston. In the local market the retail price ranged 

 from fifteen cents to one dollar per quart-basket the past 

 season, averaging thirty cents. The first sales were 

 made February 20th. The first shipments from Florida, 

 about February 1st, that arrive in good order in the 

 Northern market, sometimes bring from three to five 

 dollars. Larger shipments of one hundred quarts and 

 upwards generally bring about two dollars. Heavier, and 

 later shipments, soon reduce the price. 



From Charleston, the first shipments, coming late in 

 March, bring from seventy-five cents to one dollar per 

 quart, but the price drops, as the quantity increases, to 

 from thirty-five to fifty cents per quart. 



The first from North Carolina bring about the same 

 price as Charleston berries. The immense quantities 

 shipped from Norfolk, commencing about May 10th, 

 notwithstanding the fresher state of the fruit, bring the 

 price down to from twenty-five to thirty-five cents, arid 

 sometimes lower still. 



New York is the best market for strawberries. No 

 fancy prices are realized in Baltimore. 



Occasionally we enjoy in the latitudes of Savannah and 

 Mobile a sufficiently protracted period of warm weather 



