FACTS: Seminole Florida: The Celery County

FACTS: Seminole Florida: The Celery County

Seminole Florida: The Celery County

Seminole County (Fla.)

Agriculture--Florida

Agricultural clubs

Celery

Celery industry

Farming

Farmers--Southern States

A pamphlet produced by the Seminole Agricultural Club and the Oviedo Agricultural Club about the Better Farming Show, which was planned to "promote greater agricultural efficiency in Seminole County." The pamphlet outlines the challenges facing farmers during the Great Depression under four headings: financial, production, transportation, and marketing. Following Stock Market Crash of 1929, the amount of money that farmers could borrow from banks was limited and the majority of growers were forced to give crop liens to banks, co-operatives, and marketing organizations in order to supplement their finances. The pamphlet also states that, despite advances in technique, the cost of producing celery is almost equal to the profit. According to the pamphlet, the increase in freight rates for transportation for celery, despite the decrease in rates for the citrus industry, has also contributed to the problems faced by growers in Seminole County during this time period. Finally, the pamphlet cites the unstable consumer demands for celery size that makes it difficult for farmers to market according to consumer expectations. The pamphlet closes by describing the objectives of the Seminole Agricultural Club and the Oviedo Agricultural Club: to "further the best interests of the [celery] industry and expend every effort to solve the problems of finance, production, transportation and marketing" for the benefit of all citizens of Seminole County, Florida.

Photocopy of original pamphlet: FACTS: Seminole Florida: The Celery County. (Seminole County, FL: Seminole Agricultural Club and Oviedo Agricultural Club): Celery Collection, Agricultural Collection, Museum of Seminole County History.

Seminole Agricultural Club

Oviedo Agricultural Club

ca. 1929-1939

Digital reproduction of photocopied pamphlet: FACTS: Seminole Florida: The Celery County. (Seminole County, FL: Seminole Agricultural Club and Oviedo Agricultural Club).

Celery Collection, Agricultural Collection, Museum of Seminole County History.

Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

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Seminole County, Florida

Oviedo, Florida

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Originally published by the Seminole Agricultural Club and the Oviedo Agricultural Club.

Copyright to this resource is held by the Museum of Seminole County History and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

Cepero, Laura

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Carlson, Charlie. When Celery Was King. Sanford, Fla: Sanford Historical Society, 2000.

Wynne, Nick, and Joe Knetsch. Florida in the Great Depression: Desperation and Defiance. 2012.

Bindas, Kenneth J. Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007.

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