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Show GOOD ROADS HELP TO TRUCK GROWER When railroads fail to give satisfactory satis-factory service in handling perishable truck crops, growers find that they an use the good roads of North Carolina Caro-lina to obtain results. Growers of early cabbage and gar j den peas In the territory around New Hern are using trucks to haul their crops inland. Some fanners bring J the crops to New Born where they are loaded on railroad cars for quick shipment ship-ment to Eastern markets, while others rely entirely on trucks to ship their products directly to the consumer. Some of the leading growers of the Xew Bern section state that they can get their crops Into central North Carolina In less time and with more profit by using fast trucks. Several of these trucks loaded high with cabbage cab-bage nnd peas wece observed recently making their way Inland to such towns as Wilson, Rocky Mount, Raleigh Ra-leigh and Durham. Some of the shipments ship-ments have been made even farther west to Greensboro r.'ith profit. A fleet of trucks has been In operation opera-tion out on the Chadbourn strawberry section this spring. One man reported that he was able to leave the vicinity of Chadbourn late in the afternoon and hnve his berries on the markets of Richmond, Washington and Baltimore Balti-more early the next day. In many instances in-stances the buyers paid at least one dollar a crate more for berries so delivered. de-livered. The county agents of the state college col-lege extension service are encouraging encourag-ing this form of quick marketing and they find in many Instances that fnr.,rers are overlooking the good, local lo-cal market which exists for early truck crops right in North Carolina. Harry Shriver of New Bern disposes of nearly all the produce from his 400-acre 400-acre farm by truck shipments. He states that it is more profitable to ship in this way than to depend on carlot shipments to the large eastern markets. Forty-Seven States Plan 26,841 Miles of Road The construction of 20,841 miles of road and the maintenance of 230,847 miles are included in the 1927 state highway programs of 47 states, according ac-cording to reports received by the bureau bu-reau of public roads, United States Department of Agriculture. The programs pro-grams include also the construction of large bridges and the reconstruction of roads previously improved. In carrying car-rying out the' programs it is expected there will be expended under the supervision su-pervision of the state highway departments depart-ments in the 47 states a total of $64S,-4S3.000. $64S,-4S3.000. In addition to the state expenditures ex-penditures approximate estimates indicate indi-cate that counties and other lesser subdivisions of government will expend ex-pend during the year $475,000,000. Of the expenditures by state highway departments de-partments approximately $421,000,000 is the estimated amount for road construction con-struction and, according to present plans, more than $56,000,000 addl- . tional will be spent for new bridges. For reconstruction of existing roads it is estimated that the expenditure will be nearly $27,000,000, and for maintenance main-tenance approximately $126,000,000. |