Growers Joining Market Plan for Strawberries, June 18, 1925

Strawberry Cultivation Is Now Practically Certain

Unless something unforeseen happens to prevent it, Carteret county truckers will be shipping strawberries to market next Spring at the rate of a car or more a day. Thirty and a half acres have been pledged, which is sufficient to make the thing a go, and it is considered probable that several others will add their names to the list in a few days. Besides this, some who have signed for half an acre or one acre has said they intend to plant more than they put their names down for. County Agent Hugh Overstreet, who has been working for some weeks to get up the strawberry acreage is very much encouraged now and feels sure of making a success of it. The plants will be ordered as soon as the growers decide when they want to plant them, probably in July some time if weather conditions are favorable. The following is a list of the ones who are interested in growing berries.

We the undersigned hereby agree to plant the acreage in strawberries as set opposite our names and market same according to the foregoing contract:

T.L. Piver, ½ acre

Solomon Willis, 1

S.W. Morgan, 1

E.W. Piver, ½

A.B. Powell, ½

J.S. Fulcher, ½

Gibbs Bros. 1

J.T. Norris, 1

Dora Merrill, ½

A.N. Fodrie, ½

Manly Eubanks, ½

L.L. Springle, ½

Raymond Hunnings, 1

W.P. Smith, 1

J.S. Sabiston, ½

C.T. Eubanks, 1

R.E. King, ½

G.D. Purifoy, ½

W.W. Davis, 1

B.H. Russell, 1

I.W. Russell, ½

J.C. Merrill, ½

Hancock & Huntley, 5

H.F. Carraway, ½

I.T. Fodrie, 1

W.R. Powell, ½

H.W. Peterson, ½

K.A. Merrill, ½

G.L. Cotton, 3

Irvin J. Willis, ½

Dr. E.B. Whitehurst, ½

Jim Morton, 1

James Graham, 2

Sol Wilkins, ½

Lorenza Willis, ½

Lewis Dudley, 1

T.M. Thomas Jr., 1/2

From the front page of The Beaufort News, Carteret County, June 18, 1925. The Carteret county truckers in this story are farmers were truck gardens, not actual truckers. And the strawberries being shipped out “at a rate of a car or more a day” are being shipped out in railroad cars. Today truck farmers grow fruits, vegetables and/or herbs that they believe will sell well locally, but 100 years ago county agents were organizing farmers to grow targeted crops to ship via the rails to the cities.

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