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NORFOLK TRUCKING 



toes, cabbage, kale, spinach, lettuce, radishes, watermelons, 

 muskmelons, peas, beans, cauliflower and onions, in fact, 

 practically everything that is produced in trucking sections 

 anjrwhere. 



Transportation facilities are such that goods packed on 

 the farm one day will reach Washington and Baltimore mar- 

 kets the next morning, and they will reach Philadelphia, New 

 York, and Jersey City, the second morning, and Providence, 

 Boston, and Pittsburg, forty-eight hours after leaving the 

 farm. By shipping through the Association, all producers 

 are enabled to ship at carload rates whether they have a full 

 car or only a small consignment, that is, the Association takes 

 charge of the goods and loads them in such a way as to make 

 carload shipments, giving all of the shippers the advantage 

 of the lower rates and better icing facilities. 



Much of the development depends upon climatic conditions. 

 Ordinarily the winter temperature does not fall below 'six- 

 teen degrees above zero, and frequently it does not go below 

 eighteen or twenty degrees during the entire winter. This 

 enables the farmers to produce large quantities of kale, 

 spinach, and other semi-hardy crops during the winter 

 months. 



Cropping Plans. 



A typical crop rotation usually starts with potatoes, which 

 are planted in February or March and harvested in May or 

 June. These are followed by cowpeas, which are turned un- 

 der in September for improving the soil. The ground is then 

 planted to spinach, which is harvested during the winter 

 months. Garden peas follow the spinach in February, and 

 cucumbers may be planted between the rows of peas in April, 

 the cucumbers in turn being followed by kale in August, and 

 the kale followed the next February by potatoes. For the 

 second series of the rotation, the potatoes are followed by 

 corn with cowpeas sown between the rows of corn during the 

 month of August. The peas and corn stubble are turned un- 

 der in November and the ground planted to cabbage. The 

 cabbage is harvested the following May and June, and a crop 

 of cowpeas is again planted. They are followed by kale, 

 which in turn is followed by potatoes. It will thus be seen 



