The Semi Weekly Leader

Vegetable Shipment Heavy for Crystal Springs.

Crystal Springs, Miss., May 18.

Truck growers of this section are reaping good returns from the heavy shipments of vegetables which are being made daily from this place. The yield of all vegetables planted is increased over last season and prices as a whole are desirable.

The pea movement this year has proven to be the largest in the history of the business. Indications are that late peas are yielding a full crop and it would seem at this time that the crop will foot up to 75,000 hampers.

The first pea shipments brought high prices. The movement is increasing with each passing day. Thursday 18 cars were shipped containing 4803 hampers of peas and 2122 crates of cabbage, 10 hampers of carrots and 25 of beets. Scattered pea shipments footed up 248 hampers raising the total to 5051 hampers for the day. Of Thursday's shipment there were 11 solid car loads of cabbage. On Friday 18 cars were shipped containing 1749 hampers of peas 23 of beans 14 of carrots, and 3257 crates of cabbage. The scattered pea shipments totalled 137 hampers. Of this shipment 3 cars went out by express and 15 by freight. Sixteen hampers of beans were sold Friday at $3.75 per hamper.

The carrot crop is a rival of the pea this season with prices climbing skyward. They were selling on the curb this week at $2.30 per hamper.

Twenty-two cars were shipped Saturday of which 21 went by freight and one by express. These cars contained 2142 hampers of peas, 95 hampers of beans, 661 hampers of carrots, 25 hampers of beets and 3039 crates of cabbage.

With the opening of the market Saturday morning the cabbage quotations showed a falling off in price and shippers were billing them out at $3.50 to $3.85 per crate. The drop in the price is thought to be due to a flooding of the market by the Texas growers.

R. B. Thomas and Company shipped cabbage extensively last week from Gallman. The firm is selling a goodly portion of its output on the platform here and at Gallman.

The tomato crop is growing rapidly and developing fruit liberally and it is thought by many experienced growers that they will begin to come into the market in generous quantities by the last of the present month.