Market gardening, or truck farming, around Montgomery, offers a number of
advantages over other sections. As stated elsewhere, we have a great
variety of soils that are suited to growing fruits and vegetables, while
our climate is all that could be asked, with a mean annual temperature of
64 degrees, the last frost occurring from the 5th to the 25th of
April, and earliest killing frost in the fall, in November, with an annual
mean precipitation of rain of 55 inches. The conditions are therefore
favorable for growing all fruits and vegetables not natives of extreme
northern or tropical climates, and we can have some crop growing all the
year round for marketing.
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With the good railroad connections that we have with such points as
Louisville, Cincinnati and Chicago, and advantage in rates by being two
hundred miles nearer to these markets than the Gulf coast, the Montgomery
gardener is favorably situated to make his business successful.