This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... are of secondary importance; e. g., near Edenton, N. O., where cotton and peanuts are the staple agricultural 1products. South of the Dismal Swamp region, near Newbern, N. O., is another of the most important and best known trucking areas along the coast. Here most of the crops mature about ten days earlier than ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... are of secondary importance; e. g., near Edenton, N. O., where cotton and peanuts are the staple agricultural 1products. South of the Dismal Swamp region, near Newbern, N. O., is another of the most important and best known trucking areas along the coast. Here most of the crops mature about ten days earlier than around Norfolk. The well-drained, warm, loamy lands lying between the N euse and Trentrivers, immediately west of this town, are almost entirely devoted to crops of garden vegetables. The sandy or light loamy soils of the plain about Norfolk are not naturally very fertile, but they are warm and easily worked, which makes them eminently fitted for bringing crops to early maturity. Their original poverty in various elements of plant food is compensated by the use of enormous quantities of fertilizers, and this is a source of great expense to the trucker, whose initial outlay is much more considerable than that of other farmers. The method of cultivation of most truck crops is highly intensive. In addition to heavy fertilizing, much time and labor must be spent upon most of the crops. Moreover, the gathering of them requires the employment of many laborers, as the work is slow and the crop can not be allowed to stand upon the ground after it has matured. This is particularly true of strawberries, but applies to all the truck crops. The principal garden vegetables grown in the country about Norfolk are, in about the order in which they mature, kale, spinach, lettuce (these three marketed in winter), radishes, asparagus, strawber LIBRARY OF THE UN!)/ERSITY OF lLLlN01b NOTES 0N TRUCK onors. 465 ries (these three are spring crops), peas, beans, squash, cabbage (these four are marketed in early summer), cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes, watermelons, cantaloup...
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